The Pessimist (Benjamin Franklin King Jr Poems)
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes ...
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes ...
Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires,Shall the blind horse sing sweeter?Convenient bird and beast lie lodged to sufferThe ...
I was just turned twenty-one,And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent,Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House."The honor of the flag ...
We've got another mouth to feed,From out our little store;To satisfy another's needIs now my daily chore.A growing family is ...
The nation is the unit. That which makesYou an American of our Today,Requires this nation and its history,Requires the sum ...
High and compressed, the Southern trees No shelter from the sun afford. The girls free ramble by the Han, ...
How soon the servant sun,(Sir morrow mark),Can time unriddle, and the cupboard stone,(Fog has a boneHe'll trumpet into meat),Unshelve that ...
Anna was always full of thought As if she'd many sorrows known,Yet mostly her full heart was fraught With troubles ...
Look at 'em! Toffs with their big cigars,Drivin' along in their motor cars.Nothin' at all like the olden daysWhen the ...
A noble heart is sleeping here,Beneath this lowly mound;With reverence let us draw near,For this is holy ground.The mortal frame ...
Grandmother says when I pass her the cake:"Just half of that, please."If I serve her the tenderest portion of steak:"Just ...
O mother who sips sweetened liquors!Look down at the child on your breast;Think, think of the rough path before him,And ...
There are so many things I have forgot, That once were much to me, or that were not, All lost, ...
(With the usual.)IIn winter I get up at night,And dress by an electric light.In summer, autumn, ay, and spring,I have ...
TO dwell all day upon the mountain height,And ride all night upon the rifted cloud;To watch the earliest arrow in ...
Whether beneath sweet beds of roses,As foolish little Ann supposes,The spirit of a babe reposes Before it to the body ...
Here now forevermore our lives must part.My path leads there, and yours another way.What shall we do with this fond ...
If with civility you can, declineAll public feasts, and learn at home to dineWith sober food, at your own charge ...
Last night they came across the river andEntered the city. Women were awakeWith lights and food. They entertained the band,Not ...
Here will be echoes in the mountains,The distant landslides' rumbling boom,The rocks, the dwellings in the village,The sorry little inn, ...
Sweet evening hour! Sweet evening hour!That calms the air and shuts the flower,That brings the wild bee to its nest,The ...
Now O Lord please lend thine ear,The prayer of the Cattleman to hear;No doubt many prayers to thee seem strange,But ...
The worlds are breaking in my headBlown by the brainless windThat comes from afarSwollen with dusk and dustAnd hysterical rainThe ...
Oh come and live with me, my love,And share my war-time dinner,Who eats the least at this our feast,Shall make ...
If you have learn'd to live on homely food,To feed on roots, and lupines, be not proud,Since ev'ry beggar may ...
Yersel' is't? Imphm! Man that's bad!A kin' o' thinness o' the blude?Gaed aff las' nicht intil a dwam?Keep's a'! But ...
O, why do they hunt so hard, so hard, who have no need of food?Do they hunt for hate? --- ...
The mitherless lammie ne'er miss'd its ain mammie,—We tentit it kindly by nicht and by day;The bairnies made game o't, ...
I saw a boy with eager eyeOpen a book upon a stall,And read as he'd devour it all:Which when the ...
ADDRESSED TO THE PARENTS. THIS happy change will teach the pious mindWhat all should own, that GOD is ever kind!How ...
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