Old Spense (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
You've seen his place, I reckon, friend? 'Twas rather kind ov tryin'.The way he made the dollars fly, Such gimcrack things a-buyin'-- He ...
You've seen his place, I reckon, friend? 'Twas rather kind ov tryin'.The way he made the dollars fly, Such gimcrack things a-buyin'-- He ...
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I'm, Kindo'-like, more subjec' to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks 'at lives in town, I ...
Did you ever meet Miss Pixie of the Spruces, Did you ever glimpse her mocking elfin face,Did you ever hear her ...
I am a jolly tree toad, upon a chestnut tree;I chirp, because I know that the night was made for ...
By her white bed I muse a little space: She fell asleep--not very long ago,-- And yet the grass was here and ...
Ah, could I lay me down in this long grassAnd close my eyes, and let the quiet windBlow over me—I ...
The softest whisperings of the scented South, And rust and roses in the cannon's mouth; And, where the thunders of ...
Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow ...
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