The Natives Of America (Ann Plato Poems)
Tell me a story, father please,And then I sat upon his knees.Then answer'd he,-"what speech make known,Or tell the words ...
Tell me a story, father please,And then I sat upon his knees.Then answer'd he,-"what speech make known,Or tell the words ...
On yonder banks a palace, lo! upshoots, The tender blue of southern hill behind; Firm-founded, like the bamboo's clamping ...
Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That ...
Now, you wouldn't imagine, to look at me, That I was a racehorse once.I have done my mile in - ...
ONE evening 'mid the summer flown Has stamp'd my memory more than any; It pass'd us by among the many, ...
I've seen her pass with eyes upon the road --An old bent woman in a bronze-black shawl,With skin as dried ...
Unto a Yorkshire school was sent A negro youth to learn to write,And the first day young Juba went All ...
Surely before the time my Sun has set:The evening had not come, it was but noon,The gladness passed from all ...
HE sits in bivouacke, By fire, peneat' de drees; A pottle of champagner Held shently on his knees; His lange ...
On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, ...
The pale young man he comes to me, An' chats me good an' fair;"The langwidge that you use," ses he, ...
Within the precincts of this yard,Each in his narrow confines barred,Dwells every beast that can be foundOn Afric or on ...
EV'N like two little bank-dividing brooks, That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,And having rang'd and search'd a ...
In such a Night, when every louder WindIs to its distant Cavern safe confin'd;And only gentle Zephyr fans his Wings, ...
Gentlemen! a politician,One who values his position,Stands, with easy confidence,Here before you on the fence.For he knows full well, good ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
What is it now? More trouble?Another Jew? I might have known it.These Jews, they buzz around the tail of troubleLike ...
I.Back shining from the pane, the fireSeems outside in the snow:So love set free from love's desireLights grief of long ...
I love (and have some cause to love) the earth;She is my Maker's creature, therefore good:She is my mother, for ...
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately ...
I do not fear thee, Death!I have a bantering thought!—though I am toldThou art inflexible, and stern, and bold;And that ...
IN earnest expectation the sons of God remain,While all Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain;Then shall not man, with deepest ...
A capital ship for an ocean tripWas the Walloping Window Blind.No gale that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captains ...
Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise To watery altitudes as vast as those ...
Mr Jeremiah JeffersOwned a pair of spotted heifersThese he sold for two pounds tenTo Mr Robert Raymond WrenWho reared them ...
An ancient ape, once on a time,Disliked exceedingly to climb, And so he picked him out a treeAnd said, "now ...
I kening through Astronomy Divine The Worlds bright Battlement, wherein I spyA Golden Path my Pensill cannot line, ...
The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs; The salt rock-pools lie still in the sun, Except for ...
Dear Sir of late delighted with the sightOf your four Sisters cloth'd in black and white,Of fairer Dames the Sun, ...
Beauties, have ye seen this toy,Called Love, a little boy,Almost naked, wanton, blind;Cruel now, and then as kind?If he be ...
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