What Chris’mas Fetched The Wigginses (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I'm, Kindo'-like, more subjec' to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks 'at lives in town, I ...
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I'm, Kindo'-like, more subjec' to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks 'at lives in town, I ...
AUGUST 29, 1859I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old ...
I only woke this morning To find the world is fair-I'm going on for forty, With scarcely one grey hair;I'm going on for ...
Who was my teacher at Harvard. Did not wear overcoatSaying to me as we walked across the YardCold brittle autumn ...
Cold winds, dead aft, and heavy running seasThat swung us onward faster than the breeze;Bleak day, and lurid sunsets, and ...
Thou wants my vote, young man wi' t' carpet-bags, Weel, sit thee down, an' hark what I've to say.It's ...
Stormy's dead, I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy ...
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
If you've ever stood a midwatch in the cavern of the night,With the sea wolves racing past you in a ...
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
What says the Lizard, Swinging high his shining spear? . . ."Pass along, my lady, I've known, ye ...
Let me sail to the southward and follow once moreDown the great circle course where the latitudes roar;Where the wind-breasted ...
What is it makes a man follow the sea?Ask me another! says Billy Magee:"Maybe it's liquor and maybe it's love ...
Don't you take no sail off 'er,The Ol' Man said,Wind an' sea rampagin'Fit to wake the dead, — Thrashin' through ...
Here! You sons of the menWho fought with Washington at Valley Forge,And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock,Arise! Do battle ...
There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where ...
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
for Audre Lorde and Sonny Wainwright Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone I loved and I ...
Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Valley Forge, And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock, ...
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