Possum (C J Dennis Poems)
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
Aw, go write yer tinklin' jingle, an' yer pretty phrases mingle,Fer the mamby-pamby girl, all fluffy frill an' shinin' silk.Them's ...
When I'm sittin' in me dug-out wiv me rifle on me knees,An' a yowlin', 'owlin' chorus comes a-floatin' up the ...
BLAZ1N' STAR, from Boston city -- Yankee goods and kerosene; Foreign crew and cook and master; stout, old-fashioned brigantine. Hamburg-built ...
DERE woned once a studente, All in der Stadt Paris,Whom jeder der ihn kennte, Der rowdy Breitmann hiess. He roosted ...
She never nagged; she never said no word; But sat an' looked at me an' never stirred. I could ...
The thrush is in the wattle tree, an', "O, you pretty dear!"He's callin' to his little wife for all the ...
Some I got with amber stems an' some with silver bands,Bent ones an' straight ones an' all sorts o' brands.A ...
It's likely that you can rememberA corral at the foot of a hillSome mornin' along in DecemberWhen the air was ...
Men of the sea (said Bones, A.B.) Is touchy coves and curious,They stands a lot, till some dark plot Gets ...
You are sleepin' in your hot roll when some body kicks your tarp.When you roll out of your blankets why ...
She was nothin' much to look at, that there old fleabitten gray.She'd a cranky disposition, but you liked her any ...
Apples on the table an' the grate-fire blazin' high,Oh, I'm sure the whole world hasn't any happier man than I;The ...
When the cranky German waggon, With its ten or fifteen bag on Comes a-jerkin' and a-joltin' down the dusty, limestone ...
TO DR. M.D. FITCH, Columbus, Ohio. Oh Dahky stop yo' moanin'! Oh Dahky stop yo' sigh! De sun am 'way ...
When I was up the country in the rough and early days, I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's ...
I'm gatherin' flowers by the wayside to lay on the grave of Bill; I've sneaked away from the billet, 'cause ...
When a man gits on his uppers in a hard-pan sort of town, An' he ain't got nothin' comin' an' ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
What have the cavalry done? Cantered and trotted about, Routin' the enemy out, Causin' the beggars to run! And we ...
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
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