Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now, Your hand in mine, here from this peak of sand, Under this pine tree, where the wild grapes spill Their fragrance on the lake breeze, from that oak...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it: We bought the farm with what he inherited, And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning His fathers mind against the rest of them....
"Then what is life?" I cried. And with that cry I woke from deeper slumber - was it sleep? - And saw a hooded figure standing by The bed whereon I lay.
I was only eight years old; And before I grew up and knew what it meant I had no words for it, except That I was frightened and told my Mother; And that my Father got a pistol...
Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens, When my estate was probated and everyone knew How small a fortune I left? - You who hounded me in life, To give, give, give to the churches, to the poor,...
Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard For buying an engine so powerful That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder He ran it with. But here is a joke of cosmic size: The urge of nature that made a man...