Public Domain Poetry And Stories - Nursery Rhyme. XVIII. Historical by Unknown Public domain poetry and public domain stories from the literary greats of yesteryear.
[The following is partly quoted in an old song in a MS. at Oxford, Ashmole, No. 36, fol. 113.]
As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First;
Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!
