Chanticleer (John Chipman Farrar Poems)
High and proud on the barnyard fenceWalks rooster in the morning.He shakes his comb, he shakes his tailAnd gives his ...
High and proud on the barnyard fenceWalks rooster in the morning.He shakes his comb, he shakes his tailAnd gives his ...
YOU ruffled black blossom,You glossy dark wind.Your sort of gorgeousness,Dark and lustrousAnd skinny repulsiveAnd poppy-glossy,Is the gorgeousness that evokes my ...
It is the story of Thompson--of Thompson, the hero of Angels.Frequently drunk was Thompson, but always polite to the stranger;Light ...
Why are you running so fast hither and thitherChasing midges or butterflies?Some of you are standing solemnly scratching for grubs;Some ...
The path o' little children is the path I want to tread,Where green is every valley and every rose is ...
White are the far-off plains, and whiteThe fading forests grow;The wind dies out along the height,And denser still the snow,A ...
Should painter attach to a fair human head The thick, turgid neck of a stallion,Or depict a spruce lass with ...
'Twas long ago,--a year or so,-- In a barnyard by the sea, That an old hen lived whom you may ...
(or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy) I was born in Mississippi; I walked barefooted thru the mud. Born black ...
When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm Across green fields and yellow hills of hay The little twittering ...
Life is real, life is earnest, And the shell is not its pen - "Egg thou art, and egg remainest" ...
After the cutting before the baling a working field waits for the late harvest Narrow rows of green, turning to ...
Whene'er I feed the barnyard folk My gentle soul is vexed; My sensibilities are torn And I am sore perplexed. ...
The brown enormous odor he lived by was too close, with its breathing and thick hair, for him to judge. ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
When I was daft (as urchins are), And full if fairy lore, I aimed an arrow at a star And ...
'Twas on an iron, icy day I saw a pirate gull down-plane, And hover in a wistful way Nigh where ...
COOL your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an ...
I shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles Proceed from ...
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
Why are you running so fast hither and thither Chasing midges or butterflies? Some of you are standing solemnly scratching ...
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