Hezekiah’s Art (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
My son Hezekiah's a painter; yes, that's the purfession he's at;An artist, I mean,--course he ain't a whitewasher or nothin' ...
My son Hezekiah's a painter; yes, that's the purfession he's at;An artist, I mean,--course he ain't a whitewasher or nothin' ...
We's invited down to brudder Browns,On a Krismas day,To an ol' time Krismas dinnah,So de imbertation say.De deacons en der ...
The gallows in my garden, people say,Is new and neat and adequately tall;I tie the noose on in a knowing ...
Pavements a-frying in street and in square,Never a breeze in the blistering air,Never a place where a fellow can runOut ...
Terence, this is stupid stuff! You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
this South American up here on a Gugg walked in with his whore and she sat on the edge of ...
I.—TO MISTRESS BARBARAThere were three cavaliers, all handsome and true,On Valentine's day came a maiden to woo,And quoth to your ...
WHEN we wuz kids together, an' we didn't have a care,In the lazy days of summer, when our feet wuz ...
If we were all alike, what a dreadful world 'twould be!No one would know which one was you or which ...
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
I.--TO MISTRESS BARBARA There were three cavaliers, all handsome and true, On Valentine's day came a maiden to woo, And ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in ...
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning.I was ten, skinny, red-headed, Freckled.In a big ...
THEY were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of "lilacs." And another manner of beard assumed in their ...
I DON'T know how he came, shambling, dark, and strong. He stood in the city and told men: My people ...
it came today to visit and moved into the house it was smaller than an elephant but larger than a ...
All afternoon my father drove the country roads between Detroit and Lansing. What he was looking for I never learned, ...
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
In silence the heart raves. It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed, Freckled. ...
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