Old Spookses’ Pass (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
I. WE'D camped that night on Yaller Bull Flat,— Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me. Right smart at throwin' a lariat Was ...
I. WE'D camped that night on Yaller Bull Flat,— Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me. Right smart at throwin' a lariat Was ...
You've seen his place, I reckon, friend? 'Twas rather kind ov tryin'.The way he made the dollars fly, Such gimcrack things a-buyin'-- He ...
I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years,And the rattle of its boxes still is ...
It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round, For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutchesTheir dollars firm, he wus the boss; An' yet ...
The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime,And galvanized the old bush church at Confirmation time;And all the ...
I ought to do much morein this unwhole worldnot just keep the promiseto a landlordor shriek ata world of horrorsI ...
Once on a time, a party by the name of Mr. BULLDiscovered that with many schemes his hands were pretty ...
There's a breeze about the mountains, it is singin' in the treesA song to mock the little men who chose ...
(As Austin Dobson might have written it)Their pail they must fill In a crystalline springlet,Brave Jack and fair Jill.Their pail ...
'Twas a winter night at the Diamond Bar,The wind was blowin' cold.The Dipper swung 'round the dim North StarAnd the ...
I knew an old philanthropist, a farming man was he,Shrewd at a deal, but still withal a man of charity.He ...
Half a league, half a league, football league, 0nward.In fifteen char-a-bancs rode the 600. This is the tale of a ...
Lady of the ample charms,With a housemaid's hefty arms, Why wave you that fish-bone high 'Gainst Canberra's murky sky?Lady of ...
That Iam much too oldfor youor that youare too young for methese are allhefty argumentsthat would be crucialin the training ...
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three; Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee. ...
Fat lady, in your four-wheeled chair, Dolled up to beat the band, At me you arrogantly stare With gold lorgnette ...
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