Sweeney (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dost ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
we say blame the teachers don't we send our young to school to be taught the simple rules for decent ...
Like us, sometimes, meager resources They like him, no alms to give Itinerant preachers, lay witnesses to Christ servant savior ...
Wow! Can you imagine graduation day just like that! Flames of the Spirit piercing you, giving you power, authority Tongues ...
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given ...
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their ...
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ...
Heaven's mighty sweet, I guess; Ain't no rush to git there: Been a sinner, more or less; Maybe wouldn't fit ...
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
Good people of Dundee, your voices raise, And to Miss Baxter give great praise; Rejoice and sing and dance with ...
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him For the sake of the children, And Judge Somers advised him the ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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