Miss Blanche Says (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
And you are the poet, and so you want Something--what is it?--a theme, a fancy?Something or other the Muse won't ...
And you are the poet, and so you want Something--what is it?--a theme, a fancy?Something or other the Muse won't ...
(SEPTEMBER, 1779)I"Have a care!" the bailiffs cried From their cockleshell that layOff the frigate's yellow side, Tossing on Scarborough Bay,While ...
Don't mind me, I beg you, old fellow,--I'll do very well here alone;You must not be kept from your "German" ...
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
(OPENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD)What was it the Engines said,Pilots touching,--head to headFacing on the single track,Half a world behind ...
Bunny, lying in the grass,Saw the shining column pass;Saw the starry banner fly,Saw the chargers fret and fume,Saw the flapping ...
(OPENING OF THE CALIFORNIA THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 19, 1870)Brief words, when actions wait, are well:The prompter's hand is on ...
We know him well: no need of praise Or bonfire from the windy hillTo light to softer paths and ways ...
(BY A COMMUNICANT OF "ST. JAMES'S")He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met;A stole and snowy ...
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