Song Of A Lighter (John Joy Bell Poems)
Some folk calls me a gabbart, they do, - My owner calls me a lighter.There's many a craft wi' a bigger ...
Some folk calls me a gabbart, they do, - My owner calls me a lighter.There's many a craft wi' a bigger ...
Where the violet shadows brood Under cottonwoods and beeches, Through whose leaves the restless reaches Of the river glance, I've stood, While the red-bird ...
1 You can pass on de worl' w'erever you lak,2 Tak' de steamboat for go Angleterre,3 Tak' car on de ...
Big John HenryThis here's a tale of a sho-nuff manWhut lived one time in the delta lan'His hand was big ...
ON CROSSING LAKE CHAMPLAIN IN THE STEAMBOAT PHONIX,(Written in her fourteenth year.)Islet 1 on the lake's calm bosom,In thy breast ...
Through wild and tangled forests The broad, unhasting river flows— Spotted with rain-drops, gray with night;Upon its curving breast there goesA lonely ...
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics-each one singing his, as it should be, blithe ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture ...
THIS is the song I rested with: The right shoulder of a strong man I leaned on. The face of ...
Momus is the name men give your face, The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle Finding ...
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
DRUM on your drums, batter on your banjoes, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. ...
Now when I have a cold I am careful with my cold, I consult a physician And I do as ...
Ancient town of Leith, most wonderful to be seen, With your many handsome buildings, and lovely links so green, And ...
"I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid". Hattie McDaniel. I'm ...
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines -- a surf asleep on ...
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...
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