Pains-Taking (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"Take pains," growled the Tooth to the Dentist;"The same," said the Dentist, "to you."Then he added, "No doubt,Before you are ...
"Take pains," growled the Tooth to the Dentist;"The same," said the Dentist, "to you."Then he added, "No doubt,Before you are ...
Young friend! . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus. 'E sees me first, an' 'as ...
Real as a dreamWhat shall I do with this great opportunity to fly?What is the interpretation of this planet, this ...
The conq'rin' 'ero! Me? Yes, I don't think. This mornin' when I catch the train fer 'ome,It's far more ...
"Bill Dwiggins had been Billy thirty years,A boyish name which piqued his clever wife,As if her man were ticketed light-weightOut ...
1white curtains of infinite fatiguedominating the starborn heritage of the colonies of St Franciswhite curtains of tortured destiniesinheriting the calamities ...
"Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave noteAbout his grassy nest, and builders hummed Old songs while sod on sod ...
How thought you that this thing could captivate? What are those graces that could make her dear, Who ...
Not a third that walks beside me, But five or six or more. Whether at dusk or daybreak Or at ...
My father's head has become a mystery to him. We finally have something in common. When he moves his head ...
A woman prepared a mouse for her husband's dinner, roasting it with a blueberry in its mouth. At table he ...
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist's appointment and sat and waited for her in ...
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
How thought you that this thing could captivate? What are those graces that could make her dear, Who is not ...
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
They come on to my clean sheet of paper and leave a Rorschach blot. They do not do this to ...
A-sittin' in the Bull and Pump With double gins to keep us cheery Says she to me, says Polly Crump" ...
Sitting in the dentist's chair, Wishing that I wasn't there, To forget and pass the time I have made this ...
Talent is what they say you have after the novel is published and favorably reviewed. Beforehand what you have is ...
Scarlet as the cloth draped over a sword, white as steaming rice, blue as leschenaultia, old curried towns, the frog ...
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