Mr. Hosea Biglow’s Speech In March Meeting (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I don't much s'pose, hows'ever I should plen it,I could git boosted into th' House or Sennit,--Nut while the twolegged ...
Poems about jedge (20 Poems)
Birdofredum Sawin; Esq., To Mr. Hosea Biglow (2) (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I hed it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started,To tech the leadin' featurs o' my ...
Birdofredum Sawin, Esq., To Mr. Hosea Biglow (1) (James Russell Lowell Poems)
It's some consid'ble of a spell sence I hain't writ no letters,An' ther' 's gret changes hez took place in ...
Mason And Slidell: A Yankee Idyll (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLYI love to start out arter night's begun,An' all the chores about the farm ...
A Letter from a Candidate for the Presidency (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Dear Sir—You wish to know my notionsOn sartin pints thet rile the land;There's nothin' thet my natur so shunsEs bein' ...
How Deacon Fry Bought A “Duchess.” (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round, For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutchesTheir dollars firm, he wus the boss; An' yet ...
My Sort O’ Man (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I don't believe in 'ristercrats An' never did, you see; The plain ol' homelike sorter folks Is good enough fur me. O' course, I ...
Down On Wriggle Crick (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Best time to kill a hog's when he's fat." --Old Saw.Mostly folks is law-abidin'Down on Wriggle Crick--,Seein' they's no Squire ...
A Recalled Prayer (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
Sis Hannah May Liza, so Emphraim sayed,Stole out 'neaf a sycamo' tree an' prayedTo de Lawd in Hebbin, an' she ...
The Mystery Of Gilgal (John Hay Poems)
The darkest, strangest mysteryI ever read, or heern, or see,Is 'long of a drink at Taggart's Hall,-- Tom Taggart's of Gilgal.I've ...
The Minister’s Wife (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
She's little and modest and purty, As red as a rose and as sweet;_Her_ children don't ever look dirty, Her kitchen ain't ...
Brer Rabbit You’s de Cutes’ of ‘Em All (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
Once der was a meetin' in de wilderness,All de critters of creation dey was dar;Brer Rabbit, Brer 'Possum, Brer Wolf, ...
Uncle Rufus (Melvin B Tolson Poems)
The Harlem Advocate fell between his legs.The story was incredible!Taking off his glasses,Uncle Rufus rubbed the lenses and thought.though.Yes, his ...
De Innah Part (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
I 'fess Ise ugly, big, an' ruff,Mah voice is husky, mannah's gruff;But, mah gal sed, "Neb mine yore hide,I jedge ...
John Smith (Eugene Field Poems)
To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the ...
De Raddeekayshun Ob Bruddah Jones. (Elliott Blaine Henderson Poems)
To MR. CLAUDE MEEKER, Columbus, Ohio. Yer honor, Jedge an' all de res' Ah rise to exkermunicate, To organize de ...
Luke (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(IN THE COLORADO PARK, 1873)Wot's that you're readin'?--a novel? A novel!--well, darn my skin!You a man grown and bearded and ...
Plaint Of The Missouri ‘Coon In The Berlin Zoological Gardens (Eugene Field Poems)
Friend, by the way you hump yourself you're from the States, I know, And born in old Mizzourah, where the ...
Chiquita (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. Thar isn't her match in the county;Is thar, old gal,--Chiquita, my darling, my beauty?Feel ...
The Jedge Of Bowie County (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
(The same being Maclyn Arbuckle.) HE WAS bo'n way down in Texas, where the sun is allus shinin'. An' a ...