Introduction: Rose of Spadgers (C J Dennis Poems)
I've crawled; I've eaten dirt; I've lied a treat;I've dodged the cops an' led a double life;I've readied up wild ...
I've crawled; I've eaten dirt; I've lied a treat;I've dodged the cops an' led a double life;I've readied up wild ...
A month ago the world grew grey fer me; A month ago the light went out fer Rose.To 'er they ...
'E sez to me, "Wot's orl this flamin' war? The papers torks uv nothin' else but scraps.An'wot's ole England got ...
It was up in the Bad Lands, I was rangin' alone,I first heard of this cayuse, The Ridge Runnin' Roan.He ...
They were a' roun' aboot us, their hearts licht wi' glee,An' the pride an' the talk o' their faither an' ...
Dow's Flat. That's its name; And I reckon that youAre a stranger? The same? Well, I thought it was true,--For ...
I ken'd Maggie weel ere she grew to a wife,An' smiled in the sunshine o' a' its sweet life;But, wae's ...
I got dreamin' that a message come in some mysterious way From one ole pal of mine, gone West this ...
REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMESIt was Andrew Jackson Sutter who, despising Mr. Cutter for remarks he heard him utter in debate ...
(WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1884)No, I won't,--thar, now, so! And it ain't nothin',--no!And thar's nary to tell that you folks ...
Fieldfares, bonny fieldfares, feedin' 'mang the bent, Wheer the sun is shinin' through yon cloud's wide rent, ...
There on the quay sobbed Bones, A.B., And he took me by the hand.Says he to me, "I've quit the ...
Down here in Cactus Center we believe in savin' time;Unlike the waste of powder, wastin' daylight is a crime;So we ...
When I was a lad No more than a nipper ...
I'm jest a old hard and fast "Rimmy"That's allus worked one certain way.I was talkin' to Eddie and Jimmie,And it's ...
A lark lap up frae the daisied field, An', O, but his sang was sweet;His wee wings shook till the ...
The corn was turnin', hairs t was near,But lang afore the scythes could startA sough o'war gaed through the landAn' ...
Things mostly happen for the best.However hard it seems to-day,When some fond plan has gone astrayOr what you've wished for ...
I reckon (said Dad) that the country's pestsIs this here wireless an' these here Tests.Up to the house and around ...
THER isn't wark enow these daysFor all, an' chaps like meAre told to seek for jobs in landsFar ower t' ...
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