John Leighton: 9 books

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A Book of Poems I have no place to go except by foot I have no secrets. In a listening ear Every sentence sounds what its about Just out of frame. As a photographer Can break hearts simply by showing you young Handsome, strong, and on a mountain bike The band plays and you wonder if...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Near where St. Abb stretches, in massive strength, into the sea, still terrible, even in ruins, may be seen the remains of Fast Castle, one of the most interesting in its history – as it is the most fearfully...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There was a criminal in a cart Agoing to be hanged – Reprieve to him was granted; The crowd and cart did stand, To see if he would marry a wife, Or, otherwise, choose to die! 'Oh, why should I torment my life?'...

The sources of legends are not often found in old sermons; and yet it will be admitted that there are few remarkable events in man's history, which, if inquired into, will not be found to embrace the elements of very impressive pulpit discourses. Even in cases which seem to disprove a special, if not...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Come, sit thee by me, love, and thou shalt hear A tale may win a smile and claim a tear – A plain and simple story told in rhyme, As sang the minstrels of the olden time. No idle Muse I'll needlessly invoke –...

On looking over some Session papers which had belonged to Lord Kames, with the object, I confess, of getting hold of some facts – those entities called by Quintilian the bones of truth, the more by token, I fancy, that they so often stick in the throat – which might contribute to my legends, I came...