To Be Amused (Henry Lawson Poem)
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment. Forests ...
They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold In glittering flood has poured into thy chest; Thy flocks and ...
Where bells no more affright the morn -- Where scrabble never comes -- Where very nimble Gentlemen Are forced to ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
AMONGST THE HIGHLY PLACED It is considered low to talk about food. The fact is: they have Already eaten. The ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I'd feel among the lettuce- pickers of Salinas? I think of the ...
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores I always had this certain ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
THE working girls in the morning are going to work-- long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and ...
SMASH down the cities. Knock the walls to pieces. Break the factories and cathedrals, warehouses and homes Into loose piles ...
Filaments of light slant like windswept rain. The orange seller hawks into the sky, a man with a hat stops ...
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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