What It Comes To (John Hartley Poems)
Young Alick gate wed, as all gradely chaps do, An tuk Sally for better or war;A daycenter felly ne'er foller'd a ...
Young Alick gate wed, as all gradely chaps do, An tuk Sally for better or war;A daycenter felly ne'er foller'd a ...
I've never traveled for more'n a day,I never was one to roam,But I likes to sit on the busy quay,Watchin' ...
"OH, blast all books!" I often sez,. . . An' wot I sez I means,Espeshly when the boss hisselfComes round an' gives me ...
Take a chair by the fireplace, mister. Pull up, s'r, pull up to the blaze!Cheerfuler some than an air-tight, hey? ...
DOLE THE BELL! BELL THE DOLE!Whom can these duds attack?Soapy Sime? Slipp'ry Mac?Naught but a shirt is thereSuch as the ...
Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor, An' struck a light that set the world aflame;Becos ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
Dear Jock, - Like some aul' cairter's mear I'm foonert i' the feet,An' oxter-staffs are feckless things fan a' the ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
(IN THE COLORADO PARK, 1873)Wot's that you're readin'?--a novel? A novel!--well, darn my skin!You a man grown and bearded and ...
I got so down to it last night, With longin' for what could not be,That nothin' in the world seemed ...
Boss Oberseer, Dat BULLUMTIN! Goo' day, boss Plurry 'ot!Bloke tell me writum BULLUMTIN, bin plenty bacca got."You Billy, makum writin'-yabber," ...
Wee tottie's the smile that lichts up oor hearthstane—A dumpy bit thing that can scarce gang her lane;Yet what aul'-farrant ...
He's taken out his papers, an' he's just like you an' me.He's sworn to love the Stars and Stripes an' ...
We used to run a cow-ranch, In all that old term meant,But all our ancient glories In recent ...
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
THE GOSSOON It's bleedin'! It's bleedin'! THE OULD WOMAN An' shure, me lad, 't is bleedin'; But come, ...
A pote is sure a goofy guy; He ain't got guts like you or I To tell the score; He ...
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day Of President Balmaceda and of how he ...
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