Grand Rapids (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "Bright Alfaretta"Wild roved the Indians once On the banks of Grand River,And they built their little huts Down by that ...
Air — "Bright Alfaretta"Wild roved the Indians once On the banks of Grand River,And they built their little huts Down by that ...
We lads that live up in the nobs,Tho' our manners might yet bear a rubbing,We're handy at neat little jobsSuch ...
You kin boast about yer cities, and their stiddy growth and size,And brag about yer County-seats, and business enterprise,And railroads, ...
In times of swollen cheeks, when the clay bugles roar,the little railroads of gold coins run, in festoons,around the country.Oh ...
To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the ...
You may tinker with the tariff and make some simple gains, You may put on tolls or take 'em off, ...
Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out, The ships all sunk among the coral strands. I am so ...
I looked like Abraham Lincoln.I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,But standing for the rights of property ...
Here! You sons of the menWho fought with Washington at Valley Forge,And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock,Arise! Do battle ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
HUNTINGTON sleeps in a house six feet long. Huntington dreams of railroads he built and owned. Huntington dreams of ten ...
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, ...
MAMIE beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana town and dreamed of romance and big things off ...
THIRTY-TWO Greeks are dipping their feet in a creek. Sloshing their bare feet in a cool flow of clear water. ...
In flat America, in Chicago, Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. Forty feet of Corinthian candle celebrate Pullman embedded ...
Oh, mighty city of New York, you are wonderful to behold-- Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told-- ...
Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Valley Forge, And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock, ...
I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship, But standing for the rights ...
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