The Day Is Done (Parody of H.W. Longfellow) (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The day is done, and darknessFrom the wing of night is loosed,As a feather is wafted downward,From a chicken going ...
The day is done, and darknessFrom the wing of night is loosed,As a feather is wafted downward,From a chicken going ...
A Grand attempt some Amazonian DamesContrive whereby to glorify their names,A Ruff for Boston Neck of mud and turfe,Reaching from ...
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face,As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;As in their ...
ServingmanWell met, my brother friend, all at this highway end,So simple all alone, as you can,I pray you tell to ...
The SailorI'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff -Calling out, "Ship ahoy!" in manly tones ...
Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house and I Do equally desire your company: Not that we think us ...
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
A Grand attempt some Amazonian DamesContrive whereby to glorify their names,A Ruff for Boston Neck of mud and turfe,Reaching from ...
GOOD pastry is vended In Cit? Fadette; Maison Pons can make splendid Brioche and galette. M'sieu Pons is so fat ...
AD C. SALLUSTIUM CRISPUMHorace: Book II, Ode 2_"Nellus argento color est avaris."_Sallust, I know you of old,How you hate the ...
I'd like to be a baker, and come when morning breaks,Calling out, "Beeay-ko!" (that's the sound he makes) -Riding in ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
my insanity i waited and watched street wizard glass stone hip idealist smoking their bed time flower beads into sky ...
Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun, The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run, ...
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face, As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright; As ...
Divorced, but friends again at last, we walk old ground together in bright blue uncomplicated weather. We laugh and pause ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
They are, the surfaces, gorgeous: a master pastry chef at work here, the dips and whorls, the wrist-twist squeezes of ...
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