Jap Miller (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,Forget their ...
Not till the freezing blast is still,Till freely leaps the sparkling rill,And gales sweep soft from summer skies,As o'er a ...
This is the tale that the howlers tellAt the end of the hunting weather,When the quick rain rillsOn the bare, ...
Air — "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys"We will rally in the city, We will gather from the farms,Shouting equalization, Greenbacks a legal ...
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
While blooming youth and gay delightSit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,Thou hast, my dear, undoubted rightTo triumph o'er this destined ...
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
What of these tender feet That have never toddled yet? What dances shall they beat, With what red vintage wet?In what wild way ...
Oh, not for me will be a graveWith cross-marked stone to view!I die upon the field of death;My name will ...
TRIUMPHANT arch! that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art:—Still seem, ...
Alone, and unwitting, we spring into birthTo battle the battle of life upon earth;Alone, and unwilling, we drop from the ...
Within the silver bowl beholdThe golden vintage of all friendly cheer,Fresh from the wine-press of our Merriewold,And not a drop ...
Many their language labour to correct, And for to speake in the best dialect, But few, or none contend Their lives t'amend. Logicke, the ...
"You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on ...
When summer days have gayly passed away,And winter months have darkly come again,And when sweet spring does bring the laughing ...
GOD bless ye, brothers! in the fightYe 're waging now, ye cannot fail,For better is your sense of rightThan king-craft's ...
Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathersand mothers came from Cordova and Vitepsk and Caernarvon,and though I am a ...
I stood upon the slender link That joins two cities into one, And saw from thence the storm-clouds drink Their moisture from the ...
Rise Ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel!Rise ye! for the cursed tyrants crush ye ...
We, three men of commerce, Striving wealth to raise,See but little promise In the coming days;Though our hearts are brittle, Hardened near to ...
BECAUSE it cometh up, a heavenly flower,Out of the earth, divinely sown therein,To gather grace from shadow and from shower,And ...
OH, not for me will be a graveWith cross-marked stone to view!I die upon the field of death;My name will ...
I.The billows on the beach are leaping around it,The bark is weak and frail,The sea looks black, and the clouds ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
" YOU have been kind to me, I give you allI have, my gratitude, and now I goWith this my ...
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
If you can hit the trail in zero weather And laugh at frozen hand, or foot or face;If you can eat ...
UP a dark and fetid alley, where the offal and the slimeOf a brave and blusterous city met its misery ...
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