Off the Turnpike (Amy Lowell Poem)
Good ev'nin', Mis' Priest. I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye. Yes, it's all over. All my things is ...
Good ev'nin', Mis' Priest. I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye. Yes, it's all over. All my things is ...
You want to know what's the matter with me, do yer? My! ain't men blinder'n moles? It ain't nothin' new, ...
"Hullo, Alice!" "Hullo, Leon!" "Say, Alice, gi' me a couple O' them two for five cigars, Will yer?" "Where's your ...
The lawyer, are you? Well! I ain't got nothin' to say. Nothin'! I told the perlice I hadn't nothin'. They ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or ...
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
Me that 'ave been what I've been -- Me that 'ave gone where I've gone -- Me that 'ave seen ...
"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?" "Now 'ow in the devil would I know?" "'E's taken my girl out walkin', An' ...
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot ...
I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks ...
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I ...
Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice, An' eatin' an' laughin' with folks of your choice; An' kissin' the girls an' ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
It's June ag'in, an' in my soul I feel the fillin' joy That's sure to come this time o' year ...
Wintah, summah, snow er shine, Hit's all de same to me, Ef only I kin call you mine, An' keep ...
Sence fair Jessica hez left us Seems ez ef she hed bereft us, When she went, o' half o' livin'; ...
I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son, easy be not to see anyone, combers out to sea know they're ...
AULD NEIBOUR,I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor, For your auld-farrant, frien'ly letter; Tho' I maun say't I doubt ye ...
KIND Sir, I've read your paper through, And faith, to me, 'twas really new! How guessed ye, Sir, what maist ...
Some clichty folks don't know the facts, posin' and preenin' and puttin' on acts, stretchin' their backs. They move into ...
O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
Now look, you see, it's this way like, You cross the broken bridge And run the crick down till you ...
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, And Ikey Chambers ...
I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Us five got talking, -- we was in the know, "Over ...
"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the ...
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And ...
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