An Idyl Of The Road (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(SIERRAS, 1876)DRAMATIS PERSONAEFirst TouristSecond TouristYuba Bill, DriverA StrangerFIRST TOURISTLook how the upland plunges into cover, Green where the pines fade ...
(SIERRAS, 1876)DRAMATIS PERSONAEFirst TouristSecond TouristYuba Bill, DriverA StrangerFIRST TOURISTLook how the upland plunges into cover, Green where the pines fade ...
MY canty, witty, rhyming plughman,I haftin's dout, it is na' true, man,That ye between the stilts was bred,Wi' plughman school'd ...
(BIG PINE FLAT, 1871)"Something characteristic," eh? Humph! I reckon you mean by thatSomething that happened in our way, Here at ...
I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Old times dar am not forgotten; ...
. I came up to-night to the station, the tramp had been longish and cold, My swag ...
REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMESWe hev tumbled ez dust Or ez worms of the yearth;Wot we looked for hez bust! We ...
The king sits in Dumferling toune, Drinking the blude-reid wine: "O whar will I get ...
AIR--_"Kellyburn Braes."_ Hech! what a change hae we now in this town! The lads a' sae braw, ...
De Injun summah's comin', De bees is all froo hummin', De watah-mellon thumbin' ...
(The same being Maclyn Arbuckle.) HE WAS bo'n way down in Texas, where the sun is allus shinin'. An' a ...
Didn't know Flynn,--Flynn of Virginia,--Long as he's been 'yar?Look 'ee here, stranger,Whar HEV you been?Here in this tunnel He was ...
I His hoss went dead an' his mule went lame; He lost six cows in a poker game; A harricane ...
Mah Mammy's haid am whitah dan de snowDat falls so lightly on de rivah sho';Mah Mammy's eyes am tiahed ob ...
THY lovely laughing twa black een,Sae sweet a face adorning,Hae stown my heart, my bonny JEAN !I sigh frae night ...
DERE was an old nigger, and him name was Uncle Tom,And him tale was rather slow;Me try to read de ...
Air — "Bess the Gawkie."Bess is young, and Bess is fair,Wi' light blue e'en, and yellow hair; And few there ...
I was drivin' my two-mule waggin, With a lot o' truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin' (Which ...
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And ...
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines -- a surf asleep on ...
That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, He had this pint about him: He'd swear with a hundred sighs ...
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...
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