The Bay-Fight (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
"Call that a yarn!" said old Tom Pugh, "What rot! I'll lay my hatI'll sling you a yarn worth more nor ...
First Canto"He took in one hand an enormous railand pointed at the road to Buda."IlosvaiThe sun shrivels up the sparse ...
Once more the June with her great moon Poured harvest o'er the golden fields; Once more her days in hot, bright shields She ...
Three jolly, old huntsmen, Joe, Jerry, Jim,Took lunch at "The Three Cornered Hat";Now Jerry was lanky, but Joe wasn't slim,And ...
On a log behind the pigsty of a modest little farm,Sits a freckled youth and lanky, red of hair and ...
Short space shall be hereafterEre April brings the hourOf weeping and of laughter,Of sunshine and of shower,Of groaning and of ...
Young Jockey he bowt him a pair o' new shooin, Ooin, ooin, ry diddle dooin!Young Jockey he bowt him a pair ...
THE lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass ...
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over thereNearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
(REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMES)Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee,And drop them books and first ...
Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise. I know enough to know I'll never knowThe 'uman female ...
A parody of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," wherein characters from famous poems and novels recite their own epithets.ANNABEL ...
In GaryThe Millsfeaston ore and men . . .Like potbellied hoboesthe mills snorelying face upwardon the north horizontheir breathlike winter ...
THERE'S lots of refusing and falls and mishaps.Who 's down on the Chestnut? He 's hurt himself p'raps.Oh, it 's ...
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer, I've been abroad for over a year; Seen a helluva lot since then, ...
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