Crime Is Merely A Disease (George Ade Poems)
The criminal of other daysWas tortured in outlandish ways;Upon the rack they'd break his backOr at the stake they'd burn ...
The criminal of other daysWas tortured in outlandish ways;Upon the rack they'd break his backOr at the stake they'd burn ...
That was the day they killed the Son of GodOn a squat hill-top by Jerusalem.Zion was bare, her children from ...
We are as mendicants who waitAlong the roadside in the sun.Tatters of yesterday and shredsOf morrow clothe us every one.And ...
(MUD FLAT, 1860)So you're back from your travels, old fellow, And you left but a twelvemonth ago;You've hobnobbed with Louis ...
When Ugli, son of Wampus, of a pre-historic date,Built himself a country villa out of mud and sticks and slate;Tribal ...
Ah! the poor little blackamoor, see there he goes,And the blood gushes out from his half frozen toes,And his legs ...
Once there was a Pirate Poodle, And he sailed the briny seas From the land of Yankee Doodle Southward to ...
I joy, dear mother, when I view Thy perfect lineaments, and hue Both sweet and bright. Beauty in thee takes ...
Lord, how couldst thou so much appease Thy wrath for sin, as when man's sight was dim, And could see ...
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah. I wonder they never gave it to a boy (Hal for short) boy with ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...
HERE Stuarts once in glory reigned, And laws for Scotland's weal ordained; But now unroof'd their palace stands, Their sceptre's ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked1 of his country and its people, ...
'I am of Ireland, And the Holy Land of Ireland, And time runs on,' cried she. 'Come out of charity, ...
They are always with us, the thin people Meager of dimension as the gray people On a movie-screen. They Are ...
Blameless as daylight I stood looking At a field of horses, necks bent, manes blown, Tails streaming against the green ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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