Down On Wriggle Crick (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Best time to kill a hog's when he's fat." --Old Saw.Mostly folks is law-abidin'Down on Wriggle Crick--,Seein' they's no Squire ...
"Best time to kill a hog's when he's fat." --Old Saw.Mostly folks is law-abidin'Down on Wriggle Crick--,Seein' they's no Squire ...
(Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to The White Man's Committee of SpunkyPoint, Illinois.)I reckon I git your drift, gents,-- You 'low ...
1 De Camptown ladies sing dis song -- Doo-dah! doo-dah!2 De Camp-town race-track five miles long -- ...
IN Undine's mirror the cutpurse foundFive candlesticks by magic drowned,Like boughs of silver . . . and pale as death,Biting ...
De Camptown ladies sing dis song -- Doo-dah! doo-dah!De Camptown racetrack five miles long -- Oh! doo-dah day!I come down ...
A tumbledown old house I know -Beside its doorstep burdocks grow;Its narrow windows seem to winceAs if it grieves and ...
To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er;The wanton water leaps in sport,And rattles down the pebbly shore;The dolphin wheels, ...
1.-THE NOMINATIONVHEN ash de var vas ober, und Beace her shnow-wice vings Vas vafin' o'er de coondry (in shpodts) like ...
If ole Pharaoh, King of Egyp', 'ad been gazin' on the scene 'E'd' ave give the A.I.F. a narsty nameWhen ...
"The brimming bucket at my mouth -Coolness of water! In all my veins the heat, the drouth, - O, the ...
Dow's Flat. That's its name; And I reckon that youAre a stranger? The same? Well, I thought it was true,--For ...
Oh my heart beat high with joy elate,When Danny rode in the Hunters' PlateOn Enniskillen, the raking grey-A mighty jumper, ...
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;I am not up to small deceit or any sinful ...
They got me into the Sunday-schoolIn Spoon RiverAnd tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus.I could have been ...
For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, Ruinous arms; being fired, and for good, To sound the constitution ...
The children are back, the children are back- They've come to take refuge, exhale and unpack; The marriage has faltered, ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
I to a crumpled cabin came upon a hillside high, And with me was a withered dame As weariful as ...
You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line, Of our thin red kharki 'eroes, ...
(1) The day she visited the dissecting room They had four men laid out, black as burnt turkey, Already half ...
They got me into the Sunday-school In Spoon River And tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus. I ...
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