John Smith (Eugene Field Poems)
To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the ...
To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the ...
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,When the money flowed like likker, 'nd ...
(The exile Meliboeus finds Tityrus in possession of his own farm,restored to him by the emperor Augustus, and a conversation ...
I'm weary of this weather and I hanker for the waysWhich people read of in the psalms and preachers paraphrase--The ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night,To visit with my honest, genial friends, 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 ...
My books are on their shelves againAnd clouds lie low with mist and rain.Afar the Arno murmurs lowThe tale of ...
'Twas in the Crescent City not long ago befellThe tear-compelling incident I now propose to tell;So come, my sweet collector ...
Of all the gracious gifts of Spring, Is there another can safely surpass This delicate, voluptuous thing-- This ...
In the market of Clare, so cheery the glareOf the shops and the booths of the tradespeople there;That I take ...
When the world is fast asleep, Along the midnight skies—As though it were a wandering cloud— The ghostly ...
Sing, Christmas bells!Say to the earth this is the mornWhereon our Saviour-King is born; Sing to all men,—the bond, the ...
(HORACE'S ODES, III, I)I hate the common, vulgar herd! Away they scamper when I "booh" 'em!But pretty girls and nice ...
Come, brothers, share the fellowship We celebrate to-night;There's grace of song on every lip And every heart is light!But first, ...
Little Miss Brag has much to sayTo the rich little lady from over the wayAnd the rich little lady puts ...
There are two phrases, you must know, So potent (yet so small)That wheresoe'er a man may go He needs none ...
I am not rich, and yet my wealth Surpasseth human measure; My store untold Is ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
There are two phrases, you must know, So potent (yet so small) That wheresoe'er a man may go He needs ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
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; ...
Little Miss Brag has much to say To the rich little lady from over the way And the rich little ...
Come, brothers, share the fellowship We celebrate to-night; There's grace of song on every lip And every heart is light! ...
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