Call me not back, O cold and crafty world: I scorn your thankless thanks and hollow praise. Wiser than seer or scientist content To tread no paths beyond these bleating hills,...
"We've had a brush," the Captain said, "And Rebel blood we've spilled; We came off victors with the loss Of only a private killed." "Ah," said the orderly "it was hot," Then he breathed a heavy breath...
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst, they said unto him "Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us ...
Old Deutchland's the country for sauerkraut and beer, Old England's the land of roast beef and good cheer, Auld Scotland's the mother of gristle and grit, But Ireland, my boy, is the mother of wit....
"Captain, I hear the cheers. My soul is glad. My days are numbered, but this glorious day Like some far beacon on a shadowy cape That cheers at night the storm-belabored ships...
I had rather write one word upon the rock Of ages than ten thousand in the sand. The rock of ages! lo I cannot reach Its lofty shoulders with my puny hand: I can but touch the sands about its feet....
Now a light rustling wind from the South shakes his wings o'er the wide, wimpling waters: Up the dark-winding river DuLuth follows fast in the wake of Tamd'ka. On the slopes of the emerald shores...
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk," And Satan struck a bargain with the monk, Whereby the Devil's crew was much increased By penceless poor and now and then a priest...
Old Father Abe has issued his "Call" For Three Hundred Thousand more! By Jupiter, boys, he is after you all Lamed and maimed tall and small With his drag-net spread for a general haul...
All-day-long the crash of cannon Shook the battle-covered plain; All-day-long the frenzied foemen Dashed against our lines in vain; All the field was piled with slaughter; Now the lurid setting sun...
In pronouncing Dakota words give "a" the sound of "ah", "e" the sound of "a", "i" the sound of "e" and "u" the sound of "oo;" sound "ee" as in English.
On an arm of an oak hangs the prize for the swiftest and strongest of runners A blanket as red as the skies, when the flames sweep the plains in October. And beside it a strong, polished bow,...
Tall was young Wan'ta, stronger than Hey'ka's [16] giant form, Laughed at flood and fire and hunger, faced the fiercest winter storm. When Wakinyan [32] flashed and thundered, when Unkt'hee raved and roared,...
"What hear I at the gateway ringing? What bard upon the drawbridge singing? Go bid him to repeat his song Here, in the hall amid the throng," The monarch cried; The little page hied;...