To My Old Friend, William Leachman (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me,Through days of sore afflictions and dire adversity,You allus ...
Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me,Through days of sore afflictions and dire adversity,You allus ...
When we've arrived by boat or rail, and feeling pretty well, And humped our heavy gladstones to the Great Norsouth Hotel; And ...
As when a beauteous nymph decays,We say she's past her dancing days;So poets lose their feet by time,And can no ...
Air — "Lucy Long"My friends, I pray you listen, I'll sing a little song,About the village of Rockford, It will not take ...
Fields of lucerne and waving wheat,White-washed sheds, and cottage neat,Nesting orchards and mulberry trees,Scented flowers round hives of bees,With the ...
In dreams the same bad dream goes on. Like some gigantic German toy the house has been rebuilt upon its ...
A BLISTERED span of blazing sand, A burning arch of sky . . . Despair and Death on either hand ...
It starts with the picture of my grandfather,machinegunned in his car, Packard De Luxe, 1923.A snapshot with poor composition, slightlyout ...
It was an' aboot the Lammas time,In sixteen forty-three, sirs,That there fell oot the awfu' fecht'Twixt Macfadden an' Macfee, sirs.Macfadden, ...
"You do not know it, little man,In your summer coat of tanAnd your legs bereft of hoseAnd your peeling, sunburned ...
My mother she had children five and four are dead and gone; While I, least worthy to survive, persist in ...
How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task; For ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a harrowing ...
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