On The Landing (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(AN IDYL OF THE BALUSTERS)BOBBY, aetat. 3 1/2. JOHNNY, aetat. 4 1/2.BOBBYDo you know why they've put us in that ...
(AN IDYL OF THE BALUSTERS)BOBBY, aetat. 3 1/2. JOHNNY, aetat. 4 1/2.BOBBYDo you know why they've put us in that ...
Dear Dolly! who does not recallThe thrilling page that pictured allThose charms that held our sense in thrall Just as ...
Oh, say, have you seen at the Willows so green-- So charming and rurally true--A singular bird, with a manner ...
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;I am not up to small deceit or any sinful ...
Crying! Of course I am crying, and I guess you would be crying, too,If people were telling such stories as ...
(A GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY, 1868)Very fair and full of promiseLay the island of St. Thomas:Ocean o'er its reefs and barsHid its ...
I. THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTALAFFECTION'S charm no longer gilds The idol of the shrine;But cold Oblivion seeks to fill ...
DEAD AT PITTSFIELD, MASS., 1876O poor Romancer--thou whose printed page,Filled with rude speech and ruder forms of strife,Was given to ...
(SIERRAS)We checked our pace, the red road sharply rounding; We heard the troubled flowOf the dark olive depths of pines ...
(NEW JERSEY, 1780)Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on the heightLay the Hessians encamped. By that church on the ...
(BEING THE ONLY GENUINE SEQUEL TO "MAUD MULLER"Maud Muller all that summer dayRaked the meadow sweet with hay;Yet, looking down ...
No life in earth, or air, or sky; The sunbeams, broken silently, On the bared rocks around me lie,— Cold ...
They ran through the streets of the seaport town,They peered from the decks of the ships that lay;The cold sea-fog ...
(OPENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD)What was it the Engines said,Pilots touching,--head to headFacing on the single track,Half a world behind ...
The shades of night were falling fast,As through an Eastern village passedA youth who bore, through dust and heat,A stencil-plate, ...
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 ...
(RE-UNION, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 12TH MAY, 1871)Well, you see, the fact is, Colonel, I don't know as I can ...
Here's yer toy balloons! All sizes!Twenty cents for that. It risesJest as quick as that 'ere, Miss,Twice as big. Ye ...
When I bought you for a song,Years ago--Lord knows how long!--I was struck--I may be wrong-- By your features,And--a ...
Two low whistles, quaint and clear: That was the signal the engineer--That was the signal that Guild, 'tis said--Gave to ...
Beetling walls with ivy grown,Frowning heights of mossy stone;Turret, with its flaunting flagFlung from battlemented crag;Dungeon-keep and fortaliceLooking down a ...
(MUD FLAT, 1860)So you're back from your travels, old fellow, And you left but a twelvemonth ago;You've hobnobbed with Louis ...
Who comes? The sentry's warning cryRings sharply on the evening air:Who comes? The challenge: no reply,Yet something motions there.A woman, ...
Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,The river sang below;The dim Sierras, far beyond, upliftingTheir minarets of snow.The roaring ...
SERENE, indifferent of Fate,Thou sittest at the Western Gate;Upon thy height, so lately won,Still slant the banners of the sun;Thou ...
Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain,--A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane:The ...
(AN AERIAL RETROSPECT)What was it filled my youthful dreams,In place of Greek or Latin themes,Or beauty's wild, bewildering beams? ...
Say there! P'r'apsSome on you chaps Might know Jim Wild?Well,--no offense:Thar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!Jim was my chum ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR"I was with Grant"--the stranger said; Said the farmer, "Say no more,But rest thee here at ...
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