Birdofredum Sawin; Esq., To Mr. Hosea Biglow (2) (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I hed it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started,To tech the leadin' featurs o' my ...
Poems about actin (21 Poems)
Sunthin’ In The Pastoral Line (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Once git a smell o' musk into a draw,An' it clings hold like precerdents in law;Your gra'ma'am put it there,—when, ...
Feedin’ The Stock (Holman Francis Day Poems)
Hear the chorus in that tie-up, runch, ger- runch, and runch and runch!---There's a row of honest critters! Does me good to ...
The Rivals; Or The Showman’s Ruse (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A TRAGI-COMEDY, IN ONE ACT. PERSONS REPRESENTED. BILLY MILLER ) The Rivals JOHNNY WILLIAMS ) TOMMY WELLS Conspirator TIME--Noon: SCENE--Country Town--Rear-view of the Miller Mansion, showing Barn, with practical loft-window opening ...
The Sunday-School Picnic (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Oh! the horns are all a-tootin' as we rattle through the town,And we fellers are a-hootin' and a-jumpin' up and ...
Speakin’ At De Cou’t-House (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Dey been speakin' at de cou't-house, An' laws-a-massy me, 'T was de beatness kin' o' doin's Dat evah I did see. Of cose I ...
Possum Song (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
(A Warning)'Simmons ripenin' in de fall,You better run,Brudder 'Possum, run!Mockin' bird commence to call,You better run, Brudder 'Possum, git out ...
Thomas The Pretender (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Tommy's alluz playin' jokes, An' actin' up, an' foolin' folks; An' wunst one time he creep In Pa's big chair, he did, one ...
Rose (C J Dennis Poems)
Ah, wot's the use? she sez. "Lea' me alone! Why can't I go to 'ell in my own way?I never ...
Casey’s Table D’Hote (Eugene Field Poems)
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,When the money flowed like likker, 'nd ...
The Also-Ran (C J Dennis Poems)
I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.I don't arst for bokays: ...
Narcissus (C J Dennis Poems)
A man's a mug. I've worked the 'ole thing out To-day, down in the orchard where I sat ...
Old Bob Blair (C J Dennis Poems)
I got so down to it last night, With longin' for what could not be,That nothin' in the world seemed ...
When They’ve Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Though you're not exactly blue,Yet you don't feel like you doIn the winter, or the long hot summer days.For your ...
The Disagreeable Musician (C J Dennis Poems)
'E wouldn't play the flute; the sulky cow. An', after all the trouble that we tookTo try an' cheer,'is spirits ...
When John O’Dick Comes A-Courtin’ (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
When John o' Dick comes a-courtin',We sit togither on t' lang-settle;John watches me, an' I watch t' kettleBoilin'; I can ...
The Ladies (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
Cholera Camp (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights; We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as ...
Weekend Glory (Maya Angelou Poem)
Some clichty folks don't know the facts, posin' and preenin' and puttin' on acts, stretchin' their backs. They move into ...
Mike (Robert William Service Poems)
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
The Silent Shearer (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Weary and listless, sad and slow, Without any conversation, Was a man that worked on The Overflow, The butt of ...