Cadet Grey – Canto II (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
I like Artemus Ward, that quaint Rough, sturdy, antiquated Showman,Who travell'd Yankee-land to paint The social ills in man and ...
CHLORINDA in the slipping gown Unblushingly parades her soul For clinical inspection as Example of the Sapphic r?le;While Doris shudders ...
In Vanity Fair, as we bow and smile,As we talk of the opera after the weather,As we chat of fashion ...
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Above the ocean. I saw through ...
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and ...
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
OF all the beauteous wares Exposed for sale at fairs, None will give more delight Than those that to your ...
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
This Dust, and its Feature -- Accredited -- Today -- Will in a second Future -- Cease to identify -- ...
An ignorance a Sunset Confer upon the Eye -- Of Territory -- Color -- Circumference -- Decay -- Its Amber ...
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
DWELLER in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation! mark, Who in widow-weeds appears, Laden with unhonour'd years, Noosing with care ...
May-, 1786.I LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither ...
My doc announced yesterday : "You may have talent, though it's hidden, your beak, however, is frost-bitten, so stick at ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind." Says she: "You are right, ...
You came - determined, because I was large, because I was roaring, but on close inspection you saw a mere ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...
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