The Rivals (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
'TWAS three an' thirty year ago,I When I was ruther young, you know,I had my last an' only fightAbout a ...
'TWAS three an' thirty year ago,I When I was ruther young, you know,I had my last an' only fightAbout a ...
WHEN the war-drums beat and the trumpets blare,When banners flaunt in the stormy air,When at thought of the deeds that ...
On the death of Captain Hiram A. Coats, my old schoolmate and friend.Dead? or is it a dream--Only the voice ...
On a log behind the pigsty of a modest little farm,Sits a freckled youth and lanky, red of hair and ...
I remember, when a youngster, all the happy hours I spentWhen to visit Uncle Hiram in the country oft I ...
"Corporal Green!" the Orderly cried; "Here!" was the answer loud and clear, From the lips of a soldier who stood near,—And "Here!" ...
Air — "Three Grains of Corn"Once was a boy, age fifteen years, Hiram Helsel was his name,And he was sick two ...
1.-THE NOMINATIONVHEN ash de var vas ober, und Beace her shnow-wice vings Vas vafin' o'er de coondry (in shpodts) like ...
YOU say you envy in your calm retreatOur social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.In these our parties you are pleased ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Vide licet. Dere vas a fillage whose vote alone vouldt pe Apout enof to elegdt a man und give a ...
POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner, Pork and beans for captain's dinner --Pass ...
Here is a tale of the Rockies,And of Rockies I know quite a few;There's the mint rock, the flint rock, ...
DERE'S a liddle fact in hishdory vitch few hafe oondershtand, Deutschers are, de jure, de owners of dis land, Und ...
Archaeologists have discovered a love-letter among the ruins of Babylon. -- Newspaper report.The world hath just one tale to tell, ...
Good ev'nin', Mis' Priest. I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye. Yes, it's all over. All my things is ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
"ONCE in so often," King Solomon said, Watching his quarrymen drill the stone, "We will curb our garlic and wine ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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