Mason And Slidell: A Yankee Idyll (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLYI love to start out arter night's begun,An' all the chores about the farm ...
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLYI love to start out arter night's begun,An' all the chores about the farm ...
Texas Jack, you are amusin'. By Lord Harry, how I laughedWhen I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks ...
Go 'way, fiddle! folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin'. Keep silence fur you' betters! don't you heah de banjo ...
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
_We'd_ never thought of takin' 'em,--'t was Mary Ann's idee,--Sence she got back from boardin'-school she's called herself "Maree"An' scattered ...
(Written on seeing a wealthy townsman rudely pusha poor little girl off the pavement.)Gently, gently, shoo's thi sister, Tho' her clooas ...
Sun like a furnace hung up overhead,Burnin' and blazin' and blisterin' red;Sky like an ocean, so blue and so deep,One ...
Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor, An' struck a light that set the world aflame;Becos ...
Ah, wot's the use? she sez. "Lea' me alone! Why can't I go to 'ell in my own way?I never ...
'Er name's Doreen…Well spare me bloomin' days!You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick! Yes, me, that kids ...
I wus pickin' gipsy vi'lits fer to try an' square Doreen.We 'ad words . . . about pianners - fer ...
Dreamin'? I sez to Digger Smith. "Buck up, ole sport, an' smile.Ain't there enough uv joy to-dayTo drive the bogey ...
As I was walking beside the docks I met a pal o' mineI sailed with once on the Colonies' run ...
"We sweep a bit and we fight a bit—an' that's what we like the best— But a towin' job ...
Some likes pictures o' women, said Bill, "an' some like 'orses best,"As he fitted a pair of fancy shackles on ...
We was speakin' of folks, jes' common folks, An' we come to this conclusion, That wherever they be, on land ...
Not that I'd quarrel with the way They celebrates their hundredth yearIn town (said old Pete Parraday), But that don't ...
The sea's a place for sailormen in fair or stormy weather;'Round the world and back again they're all good mates ...
What to doNow that she doesn't want meThat's what haunts meWhat to doWhat to doTo keep from being lonelyWant her ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind." Says she: "You are right, ...
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