To Quintus Hirpinus (Eugene Field Poems)
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots, Pay them no heed, O Quintius! So long as we From care are ...
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots, Pay them no heed, O Quintius! So long as we From care are ...
Play that you are mother dear,And play that papa is your beau;Play that we sit in the corner here,Just as ...
On afternoons, when baby boy has had a splendid nap,And sits, like any monarch on his throne, in nurse's lap,In ...
Fuscus, whoso to good inclines-- And is a faultless liver-- Nor moorish spear nor bow need fear, Nor ...
The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands;And the little toy soldier is red ...
The fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere, While like winged spirits, here and there,The firelight ...
Last night, my darling, as you slept, I thought I heard you sigh,And to your little crib I crept, And ...
Fuscus, whoso to good inclines, And is a faultless liver,Nor Moorish spear nor bow need fear, Nor poison-arrowed quiver.Ay, though ...
Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,— Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing;And thou, corrosive blasts of time, by ...
'T is when the lark goes soaringAnd the bee is at the bud,When lightly dancing zephyrsSing over field and flood;When ...
Be tranquil, Dellius, I pray;For though you pine your life away With dull complaining breath,Or speed with song and wine ...
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid manyThat loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen Jenney.And ...
Why, Mistress Chloe, do you bother With prattlings and with vain adoYour worthy and industrious mother, Eschewing them that come ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid many That loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time, Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim, On ...
Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"? 'T is a pitiful sound to hear! It seems to chill you ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies, Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies. Their radiant ...
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
Last night, my darling, as you slept, I thought I heard you sigh, And to your little crib I crept, ...
Us two wuz boys when we fell out,-- Nigh to the age uv my youngest now; Don't rec'lect what't wuz ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
(FOR THE FELLOWSHIP CLU Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day, Set out in a great big ship-- Steamed to ...
The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands; And the little toy soldier is ...
'T is when the lark goes soaring And the bee is at the bud, When lightly dancing zephyrs Sing over ...
The fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere, While like winged spirits, here and there, The ...
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