A Legend Of Cologne (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Above the bones St. Ursula owns,And those of the virgins she chaperons; Above the ...
Above the bones St. Ursula owns,And those of the virgins she chaperons; Above the ...
(NORTHERN MEXICO, 1640)As you look from the plaza at Leon westYou can see her house, but the view is bestFrom ...
(A CHEMICAL NARRATIVE)Certain facts which serve to explainThe physical charms of Miss Addie De Laine,Who, as the common reports obtain,Surpassed ...
(IN THE COLORADO PARK, 1873)Wot's that you're readin'?--a novel? A novel!--well, darn my skin!You a man grown and bearded and ...
And you are the poet, and so you want Something--what is it?--a theme, a fancy?Something or other the Muse won't ...
Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg?-No? Ah, well, Brief is the glory that hero ...
(REFECTORY, MISSION SAN GABRIEL, 1869)Good!--said the Padre,--believe me still,"Don Giovanni," or what you will,The type's eternal! We knew him hereAs ...
(SEPTEMBER, 1779)I"Have a care!" the bailiffs cried From their cockleshell that layOff the frigate's yellow side, Tossing on Scarborough Bay,While ...
Name of my heroine, simply "Rose;"Surname, tolerable only in prose;Habitat, Paris,--that is whereShe resided for change of air;Aetat twenty; complexion ...
Don't mind me, I beg you, old fellow,--I'll do very well here alone;You must not be kept from your "German" ...
We meet in peace, though from our native EastThe sun that sparkles on our birthday feastGlanced as he rose on ...
I read last night of the Grand Review In Washington's chiefest avenue,—Two hundred thousand men in blue, I ...
This is the tale that the ChronicleTells of the wonderful miracleWrought by the pious Padre Serro,The very reverend Junipero.The heathen ...
(REFUGIO MINE, NORTHERN MEXICO) Drunk and senseless in his place, Prone and sprawling on his face,More like brute ...
An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,A bare, bleak shed in blackest silhouette,Twelve years of platform, and before them ...
(WAR OF THE REBELLION, 1884)No, I won't,--thar, now, so! And it ain't nothin',--no!And thar's nary to tell that you folks ...
Why, as to that, said the engineer,Ghosts ain't things we are apt to fear;Spirits don't fool with levers much,And throttle-valves ...
(SEQUOIA GIGANTEA)Brown foundling of the Western wood, Babe of primeval wildernesses!Long on my table thou hast stood Encounters strange and ...
(YREKA, 1873)Which it is not my style To produce needless painBy statements that rile Or that go 'gin the grain,But ...
DEAD AT PITTSFIELD, MASS., 1876O poor Romancer--thou whose printed page,Filled with rude speech and ruder forms of strife,Was given to ...
(OPENING OF THE CALIFORNIA THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 19, 1870)Brief words, when actions wait, are well:The prompter's hand is on ...
Who comes? The sentry's warning cryRings sharply on the evening air:Who comes? The challenge: no reply,Yet something motions there.A woman, ...
SERENE, indifferent of Fate,Thou sittest at the Western Gate;Upon thy height, so lately won,Still slant the banners of the sun;Thou ...
(SIMPSON'S BAR, 1858)So you've kem 'yer agen, And one answer won't do?Well, of all the derned men That I've struck, ...
High on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover,Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian ...
By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting,By furrowed glade and dell,To feverish men thy calm, sweet face uplifting,Thou stayest them ...
(CEMETERY, SAN FRANCISCO)This is that hill of aweThat Persian Sindbad saw,-- The mount magnetic;And on its seaward face,Scattered along ...
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