The Charter Oak (Hattie Howard Poems)
I seem to see the old tree stand, Its sturdy, giant form A spectacle remembered, and A pilgrim-shrine for all the land Before it ...
I seem to see the old tree stand, Its sturdy, giant form A spectacle remembered, and A pilgrim-shrine for all the land Before it ...
Here's his ragged "roundabout";Turn the pockets inside out:See; his pen-knife, lost to use,Rusted shut with apple-juice;Here, with marbles, top and ...
Heaven save ye, gallants, and this hopeful age!Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage.The fools have laboured long ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
'Ere! 'Ave a 'eart! 'e sez. "Why, love a duck! A 'uman bein' ain't a choppin' block!There ain't no ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
Phyllis, if you will not agree To give me back my liberty, In spite of you I must regain My ...
'Twas the night before the Fourth of July, the people slept serene; The fireworks were stored in the old town ...
I The coltish horseplay of the locker room, Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, With shameless blends ...
Have you ever mused in silence upon a summer's day And let your thoughts run riot and your ...
OTHERS may laugh at my feeble endeavorTo capture life's prizes, and others may sneer;The whole world may loudly declare I ...
When simple Macer, now of high renown,First fought a Poet's Fortune in the Town,'Twas all th' Ambition his high soul ...
The sickness hot, a master quit, for fear,His house in town, and left one servant there;Ease him corrupted, and gave ...
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I ...
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
But yesterday I banked on fistic fame, Figgerin' I'd be a champion of the Ring. Today I've half a mind ...
Bob Briggs went in for Government, And helps to run the State; Some day they say he'll represent His party ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
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