From “What Is the Use?” (Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth Poems)
"I SAW a man, by some accounted wise, For some things said and done before their eyes, Quite overcast, and, ...
"I SAW a man, by some accounted wise, For some things said and done before their eyes, Quite overcast, and, ...
In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a planThat was large as it ...
If I'd got to choose aloneOne of all the freights I've known —All my cargoes live and dead,Bacon pigs and ...
It's tough when you are homesick in a strange and distant place; It's anguish when you're hungry for ...
Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure ladenAll in vain the law beseeches ...
LITTLE Miss Laugh-a-Lot, Saucy the way you've got, Dancing with glee are the bright eyes of you; Lips like the ...
Dear son I have to explain some things first of all I am not crazy but you would have me ...
drinking the opiate of wealth the self-made man philosophy Horatio Alger story of our age a lie, a false idol, ...
No longer the same little girl or is she, the same, really? An impish grin, cunning, negotiating a better deal ...
What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he ...
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Where the path to the lake twists out of sight, A puff of dust, the kind bare feet make running, ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
It's fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant, With terrapin and canvas-back and all the wine you want; ...
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...
I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And ...
THERE was a high majestic fooling Day before yesterday in the yellow corn. And day after to-morrow in the yellow ...
I Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers ...
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