Rhyme of the Rail (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
SINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges,Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges,Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale,—Bless me! this is pleasant, Riding ...
SINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges,Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges,Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale,—Bless me! this is pleasant, Riding ...
TELL me, ye Zephyrs! that unfold,While fluttering o'er this gay Recess,Pinions that fanned the teeming mouldOf Eden's blissful wilderness,Did only ...
A raven, while with glossy breastHer new-laid eggs she fondly press'd,And, on her wicker-work high mounted,Her chickens prematurely counted(A fault ...
O, insatiable monster! Could'st thou notIn pity turn aside thy venomed shaftFrom her my gifted, darling friend?Has sympathy within thy ...
From the bitter fight I have made my wayTo the peaceful crest of a lonely hill,But the noise and heat ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
If we but knew what forces helped to mold The lives of others from their earliest years- Knew something of their background, ...
In this room I'm finally at home.Never again shall I write a verse that tearsmy life apart in order to ...
The angle of delight is bestachieved while rubbingthe pluperfect buttonin tiny syllabic circleswhile the glottal stop needsfirm accentual strokesfor copulative ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
WAINAMOINEN FINDS THE LOST-WORD.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,Did not learn the words of magicIn Tuoni's gloomy regions,In the kingdom of Manala.Thereupon ...
Ye dear stars of the Bear, I did not think I should again be turning, as I used, To see ...
We had many problems set us when Coolgardie was a camp,When the journey to the goldfields meant a coach-fare or ...
Mothers of America let your kids go to the moviesget them out of the ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
We must not force events, but rather make The heart soil ready for their coming, as The earth spreads carpets ...
Bob Briggs went in for Government, And helps to run the State; Some day they say he'll represent His party ...
Oft have I seen yon Solitary Man Pacing the upland meadow. On his brow Sits melancholy, mark'd with decent pride, ...
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