A College Training (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Home from college came the stripling, calm and cool and debonair,With a weird array of raiment and a wondrous wealth ...
Home from college came the stripling, calm and cool and debonair,With a weird array of raiment and a wondrous wealth ...
Ef dey 's anyt'ing dat riles me An' jes' gits me out o' hitch, Twell I want to tek my coat off, So ...
Once der was a meetin' in de wilderness,All de critters of creation dey was dar;Brer Rabbit, Brer 'Possum, Brer Wolf, ...
Folks has be'n to town, and SahryFetched 'er home a pet canary--,And of all the blame', contrary,Aggervatin' things alive!I love ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Now lithe and listen, gentles all, Now lithe ye all and harkUnto a ballad I shall sing About Buena Park.Of ...
DRAMATIS PERSONAEPoet. Philosopher. Jones of Mariposa.POETHalt! Here we are. Now wheel your mare a trifle Just where you stand; then ...
(IN THE COLORADO PARK, 1873)Wot's that you're readin'?--a novel? A novel!--well, darn my skin!You a man grown and bearded and ...
To town one day rode Solon Stiles,O'er weary roads and rocky miles,And thro' long lanes, whose dusty breath,Did nearly smother ...
(SIERRAS, 1876)DRAMATIS PERSONAEFirst TouristSecond TouristYuba Bill, DriverA StrangerFIRST TOURISTLook how the upland plunges into cover, Green where the pines fade ...
To MR. E. H. SHARP. Blue bird an' de killdee Am er flittin' by! Spring time chillun! An' de fishin' ...
The pleasant recollections if the ones that mostly last,But there's sometimes other memories come a creepin' from the ...
Most all of your boys have rode horses like that.He wasn't too thin but he never got fat.The old breed ...
I'm jest a old hard and fast "Rimmy"That's allus worked one certain way.I was talkin' to Eddie and Jimmie,And it's ...
The old long horn looked at the prize winning steer,And he grumbled, "What sort of thing is this here?He ain't ...
When my trail stretches out to the edge of the skyThrough the desert so empty and bright,When I'm watchin' the ...
(SIMPSON'S BAR, 1858)So you've kem 'yer agen, And one answer won't do?Well, of all the derned men That I've struck, ...
You have heard of cuttin' hosses and all the things they knew,But there's lots of ropin' hosses that is plenty ...
When camp is moved, at break of day,Then comes old Packer Bill--a kingWho rules, with most despotic sway,The while he ...
They'd make a rattlin' roundup, sure,The troubles known to man,If we could gather all the kindsSince this old world began. ...
This is the day His hour of life draws near,Let me get ready from head to foot for itMost handily ...
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