Bridegroom Dick (Herman Melville Poems)
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLYI love to start out arter night's begun,An' all the chores about the farm ...
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;The time - oh, any time of the yearWill do as well as another; say ...
This is the tale that was told to me,By a battered and shattered son of the sea-To me and my ...
The North-east Trade blows and you cross the LineAnon. There Neptune boards your bark to shaveAll the green-horns. Miss Fanny ...
Jack M'Camley,Lank and long,Ox-persuader,Billabong.Bluff and heartySort o' party,Got the 'blanky' habit strong!Says the parson,Bright old bird,'Why'd you use thatHorrid word? ...
YOU say you envy in your calm retreatOur social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.In these our parties you are pleased ...
Home, Sweet Home. I'm a Bedfordshire Chap, and Bill Stumps is my name, And to tell it don't give me ...
Wot's in a name? — she sez . . . An' then she sighs, An' clasps 'er little 'ands, an' ...
HERE ain't a lavender ditty, Sung by a sweet-scented cove; Here ain't no wine-inspired, witty Story of Honour and Love. ...
WE have other tales for telling, we have other songs to sing, Who have looped the planet's waters in a ...
Bill Barcoo was a station 'and - 'e was a station 'and, And grafted all the year like Pharaoh's Jews.But ...
Why stone the crows! 'e sez. "I like 'er style, But alwiz, some'ow, women 'ave appearedSet fer to 'old me ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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