Tom Johnson’s Quit (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A passel o' the boys last night-- An' me amongst 'em--kindo got To talkin' Temper'nce left an' right, An' workin' up "blue-ribbon," _hot_; An' ...
A passel o' the boys last night-- An' me amongst 'em--kindo got To talkin' Temper'nce left an' right, An' workin' up "blue-ribbon," _hot_; An' ...
He was jes a plain ever'-day, all-round kind of a jour.,Consumpted-Iookin'-- but la!The jokeiest, wittiest, story-tellin', song-singin', laughin'est, jolliestFeller you ...
ONCE more the swift wheels of old Time's rapid chariotHave hastily roll'd months and seasons away;Once more we take leave ...
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
By none but me can the tale be told,The butcher of Rouen, poor Berold.(Lands are swayed by a King on ...
UNFERTH spake, the son of Ecglaf,who sat at the feet of the Scyldings' lord,unbound the battle-runes . — Beowulf's quest,sturdy ...
Tell me, Silvia, why the sigh,Heaves your bosom? why the tearSteals unbidden from your eye?Tell me what you wish or ...
Come, Friendship, with thy sweetly-pleasing pow'r,Teach me to calm my dear-lov'd Silvia's breast:Shed thy kind influ'nce o'er the gloomy hour,And ...
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