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 ...
I hed it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started,To tech the leadin' featurs o' my ...
It's some consid'ble of a spell sence I hain't writ no letters,An' ther' 's gret changes hez took place in ...
I thank ye, my frien's, for the warmth o' your greetin':Ther' 's few airthly blessin's but wut's vain an' fleetin';But ...
Some peoples thinks they ain't no Fairies _now_No more yet!--But they _is_, I bet! 'Cause efThey _wuzn't_ Fairies, nen I' ...
Thrash away, you'll _hev_ to rattle On them kittle-drums o' yourn,--'Taint a knowin' kind o' cattle Thet is ketched with mouldy corn;Put ...
Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Doc Sifers is my favorite, jes' take him up ...
I. Tugg Martin's tough.--No doubt o' that! And down there at The town he come from word's bin sent Advisin' this-here Settle-ment To kindo' _humor_ ...
Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere,I reckon my old ...
Jes' a little bit o' feller--I remember still--Ust to almost cry fer Christmas, like a youngster will.Fourth o' July's nothin' ...
What makes you come HERE fer, Mister, So much to our house?--SAY?Come to see our big sister!--An' Charley he says 'at ...
Had a hare-lip-- Joney had:Spiled his looks, and Joney knowed it:Fellers tried to bore him, bad--But ef ever he got ...
Noey Bixler ketched him, and fetched him in to me When he's ist a little teenty-weenty baby-coon'Bout as big as little ...
Awf'lest boy in this-here town Er anywheres is Elmer Brown! He'll mock you--yes, an' strangers, too, An' make a face an' yell at ...
Take a feller 'at's sick and laid up on the shelf, All shaky, and ga'nted, and pore-- Jes all so knocked out ...
Me an' Bert an' Minnie-Belle Knows a joke, an' we won't tell! No, we don't--'cause we don't know _Why_ we got to laughin' ...
Nothin' to say, my daughter! Nothin' at all to say!Gyrls that's in love, I've noticed, ginerly has their way!Yer mother ...
HER sails are furled and her anchor's down. The lamps are lighted in Melbourne town; I'll spend my money on ...
Good ev'nin', Mis' Priest. I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye. Yes, it's all over. All my things is ...
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