A Bunch Of Trout-Flies (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
FOR ARCHIE RUTLEDGEHere's a half-a-dozen flies,Just about the proper sizeFor the trout of Dickey's Run,-Luck go with them every one!Dainty ...
FOR ARCHIE RUTLEDGEHere's a half-a-dozen flies,Just about the proper sizeFor the trout of Dickey's Run,-Luck go with them every one!Dainty ...
Big John HenryThis here's a tale of a sho-nuff manWhut lived one time in the delta lan'His hand was big ...
Brave Grant, our wise and noble foe,Found fighting Dixie fraught with woe.He picked up Lee, exhausted, bled,As hunters pick up ...
The shepherd-king of Judah's olden days,Waked his sweet harp to sing Jehovah's praise,Then this his theme was in his happy ...
TO DR. E.A. WHITMIRE, Columbus, Ohio Mah frens an' fellah trabblers, Ah rise tonight to say, Dat ah feels mos' ...
'Or How the Brigadier Got the Order of the Nile and the Servian White Eagle'"I write that he who reads ...
Parson says I'm to make 'im a crossTo set up over his grave,'E's buried there by the Moated Grange,And I ...
I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Old times dar am not forgotten; ...
To DR. SHERMAN LEACH, Columbus, Ohio. Was yo' at de dance an' 'sepshun? At siss Poodle's Chewsday night? Didn't git ...
Southrons, conquered, subjugated, Mourn your country devastated! Mourn for hapless, hopeless Dixie! Homes once happy, desolated, Church and altar desecrated; ...
Southrons, hear your country call you! Up, lest worse than death befall you! To arms! To arms! To arms, ...
It shall be a royal mansion, A fair and beautiful thing,It will be the presence-chamber Of thy Saviour, Lord and ...
"It shall be a royal mansion,A fair and beautiful thing,It will be the presence-chamberOf thy Saviour, Lord and King."Thy house ...
WE often sit upon the porch on sultry August nights,When fireflies out upon the lawn are soft enchanted lightsFrom Fairyland; ...
Away down South in the land of traitors,Rattlesnakes and alligators,Right away, come away, right away, come away.Where cotton's king and ...
Our flag is proudly floating On the land and on the main,Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom! Beneath it ...
The Old Soldier Speaks.I fought under Lee and Stonewall,And I hated a Yankee like sin,But gimme my uniform, sergeant,I'm going ...
Now our night of terror endeth, God his Rose of Dawn now sendeth, Giving life and light to Dixie: Arms ...
Though Prison Bars my Freedom mars,and Glittering Bayonets Guard me round,My Rebel soul Scorns such Control,and Dwells with Friends on ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
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