The Discreet Collector (Eugene Field Poems)
Down south there is a curio-shop Unknown to many men;Thereat do I intend to stop When I am south again;The ...
Down south there is a curio-shop Unknown to many men;Thereat do I intend to stop When I am south again;The ...
FLY, fly, my pretty pigeon, fly! And see if you can find him; He has blue eyes--you'll know ...
(In the manner of Ezra Pound)Will people accept them? (i.e. these bargains)O dainty colorings and range of prices!Gowns of ...
I went to an auctionTo bid for a chair;I bought a stuffed pheasantBecause it was there.I went to an auctionTo ...
A LITTLE the best of it,Allus he prayed for,All th' time lookin'Per more than he paid for,Had an idee, that'sWhat ...
Why should we tell the HunWhat happens when we've won?You do not tell the snakeWhat form his death will take,Or ...
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see You walking down ...
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
The season corrupted misdirected frenzy chasing for bargains to have this or that All of it a distraction a temptation ...
Down south there is a curio-shop Unknown to many men; Thereat do I intend to stop When I am south ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
MY curse upon your venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang, An' thro' my lug gies mony a twang, ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here's a good place at the corner-I must stand ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
1 BEAT! beat! drums!-Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows-through doors-burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter ...
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
In an immense wood in the south of Kent, There lived a band of robbers which caused the people discontent; ...
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