The Peter-Bird (Eugene Field Poems)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,When the money flowed like likker, 'nd ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.His ...
I'm weary of this weather and I hanker for the waysWhich people read of in the psalms and preachers paraphrase--The ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;Nay, I'll ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea;They clambered and rollicked in ...
This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh,We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O gosh!He ...
There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago,And he was ...
IOnce a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came;Full of skill was he and heartless In pursuit of ...
I used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck--It made no diff'rence how or when or ...
When, to despoil my native France, With flaming torch and cruel swordAnd boisterous drums her foeman comes, I curse him ...
I'm a beautiful red, red drum,And I train with the soldier boys;As up the street we come,Wonderful is our noise!There's ...
The gingham dog and the calico catSide by side on the table sat;'T was half-past twelve, and (what do you ...
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots, Pay them no heed, O Quintius! So long as we From care are ...
Young Lochinvar came in from the West, With fringe on his trousers and fur on his vest; The ...
Maecenas, I propose to fly To realms beyond these human portals;No common things shall be my wings, But such as ...
Some men affect a liking For the prim in face and mind,And some prefer the striking And the loud in ...
As forth he pours the new made wine, What blessing asks the lyric poet-- What boon implores in this ...
When our babe he goeth walking in his garden,Around his tinkling feet the sunbeams play;The posies they are good to ...
Why, Mistress Chloe, do you bother With prattlings and with vain adoYour worthy and industrious mother, Eschewing them that come ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
I'm a beautiful red, red drum, And I train with the soldier boys; As up the street we come, Wonderful ...
The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on the table sat; 'T was half-past twelve, and (what ...
The women-folk are like to books,-- Most pleasing to the eye, Whereon if anybody looks He feels disposed to buy. ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh, We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O ...
When our babe he goeth walking in his garden, Around his tinkling feet the sunbeams play; The posies they are ...
There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago, And he ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories