A Fair Spin (C J Dennis Poems)
Righto!I'll give the game a go.They say I should be circumspect; but I don't care a hang.I'll bangThe cows in ...
Righto!I'll give the game a go.They say I should be circumspect; but I don't care a hang.I'll bangThe cows in ...
FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS. Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and ...
You doubtless read the papers,And as men of observation,Of course you watch the progressOf Chinese immigration—For thousands of these pigtail ...
The fruits are ripe, dipped in fire,Cooked and sampled on earth. And there's a law,That things crawl off in the ...
I SING the family party that once we used to know, The old time family parties we gave so long ...
"Who are the banded? Gather from the fourBroad winds one hundred strangers varyingIn tongue, age, disposition; set them downOn the ...
A mysterious cove in the Customs -- The boss, so to speak, of the Ban --I have blamed a good ...
Enlaced with gardened jewelryMy basking villas nestWhere sifted sunshine soothes the eyeAnd cosy hillocks rest.Convention's fronds here screen from viewImmodest ...
Where are the temperance people?Well, scattered here and there:Some gathering in their produceTo show at the autumn fair;Some threshing wheat ...
"Oh! I shall ne'er forget thee, wretched wight! While memory holds forget thee shall I never; Thy conscious form, that ...
Let there be light. Light to the darkened mindBear, like the sun, the world's wide circle round,Bright messengers ...
The stick-together families are happier by farThan the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.The gladdest people living ...
From early dawn the thirtieth of AprilIs given up to children of the town,And caught in trying on the festive ...
Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure ladenAll in vain the law beseeches ...
There you have it, Art is Culture, so we're cultured head to toe,For our ads do bring us learning sealed ...
Dear Father, he wrote me from Somewhere in France, Where he's waiting with Pershing to lead the advance, ...
I saw him in the distance, as the train went speeding by,A shivery little fellow standing in the sun to ...
When I was but a little lad of six and seven and eight,One joy I knew that has been lost ...
As an American traveler I have to remember not to get actionably mad about the way things are around here. ...
First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses or falling away or ...
Avoid, if possible, th' impertinenceOf those who prostitute their eloquence:Who with a long harangue from desk or stageBoth the rich ...
When you come in, it seems a brighter fireCrackles upon the hearth invitingly,The household routine which was wont to tire ...
There is a cliff, no matter where, Which softened by the agenciesOf rain, exposure to the air, And alternating thaw ...
(_Naples-on-the-Gulf_) On the green floor of the Gulf the wind is walking, Printing it with invisible feet; ...
Oh, was it a death-dream not dreamed through,That eyed her like a foe?Or only a sorrow left over from life,Half-finished ...
Up from the prairie and through the pines,Over your struggling headboard linesWinds of the West go by.You must love them, ...
IN a rough little nook stands my weatherboard shed,But its curtains of living green,And the lamps of lustre that hang ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,I was ashamed of you. I despised youAs the place ...
Here, through the ages old, the desert slept In solitudes unbroken, save when passed The bison herds, and savage ...
Aye! I am a poet and upon my tombShall maidens scatter rose leavesAnd men myrtles, ere the nightSlays day with ...
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