De Fust Banjo (Irwin Russell Poems)
Go 'way, fiddle! folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin'. Keep silence fur you' betters! don't you heah de banjo ...
Go 'way, fiddle! folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin'. Keep silence fur you' betters! don't you heah de banjo ...
On the silver edge of a vacant star near the trembling Pleiades,A Hobo, lately arrived from earth sat rubbing his ...
Don't you see de black cloudsRisin' ober yonder,Whar de Massa's old plantation am?Neber you be frightened,Dem is only darkies,Come to ...
Bonny lassie, come thi ways, An let us goa together!Tho' we've met wi stormy days, Ther'll be some sunny weather.An if joy ...
Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright, An' the dicky birds is singin' over'ead,An' ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
So they won't ship me over today, eh?Too old, did you say, an' too lame?It's a hard knock, Cap'n, t' ...
Fields of lucerne and waving wheat,White-washed sheds, and cottage neat,Nesting orchards and mulberry trees,Scented flowers round hives of bees,With the ...
There on the quay sobbed Bones, A.B., And he took me by the hand.Says he to me, "I've quit the ...
Where have the old accorjins gone? I was askin' the coves at the Show;Matt from the Mallee an' Dandenong Don, ...
TO DR. JOHN DUDLEY DUNHAM AND WILBUR DUNHAM, Columbus, Ohio. De li'l brac' sheep Tromp 'roun' all day, Way in ...
'There's a deal o' ports,' said Murphy, 'an' I guess I've sampled most,Round about the Gulf o' Guinea, and up ...
She'd carried coal on her last voyage,So she was thick wi' fleas;An' there was cockroaches in every crevice,An' them small ...
Could you give me a bite to eat? said he, As he tarried by my back door.And I thought ...
GIVE me the prettiest valentineYou've got in the shop, said he, "One with the tenderest sort o' line, In type ...
That old bunk house mirror that most of us knewI remember it yet, and I know that you do.One corner ...
There's a wondrous smell of spices In the kitchen, Most bewitchin'; There are fruits cut into slices That just set ...
DOT vos a schwartz ZigeunerDot on a viddle played, Und oonderneat' a fenster He mak't a serenade. Dot vos a ...
(Uncouth-and-not Anthem of the Particular and General Unconscious) Must I wait all my life for a certain thing to happen? ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
"Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? It fair maks me hamesick," says Private McPhee. "And whit ...
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