The Constitution (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew-Constitution, where ye bound for?Wherever, my lad, there's fight to be had,Acrost the Western ...
A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew-Constitution, where ye bound for?Wherever, my lad, there's fight to be had,Acrost the Western ...
Br-r-ram-m-m, rackety-am-m, OM, Am:All-r-r-room, r-r-ram, ala-bas-ter-Am, the world's my oyster.I hate plastic, wear it black and slick,hate hardhats, wear one ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
Bing, Bim, Bang, Bome!Sang the Bell to himself in his house at home,High in the church-tower, lone and unseen,In a ...
STUDY IN WHITES Wax-white- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. The ...
The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul's,That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls,The pearl-grey ...
Study in Whites Wax-white -- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. ...
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
Back from the line one night in June, I gave a dinner at Bethune- Seven courses, the most gorgeous meal ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile, Spreads its curious opinion To ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
One pearly day of early May I strolled upon the sand, And saw, say half-a-mile away A man with gun ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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