Down the picket-guarded lane Rolled the comfort-laden wain, Cheered by shouts that shook the plain, Soldier-like and merry: Phrases such as camps may teach, Sabre-cuts of Saxon speech,...
When I bought you for a song, Years ago Lord knows how long! I was struck I may be wrong By your features, And a something in your air That I couldn't quite compare To my other plain or fair...
Oh, you're the girl lives on the corner? Come in if you want to come quick! There's no one but me in the house, and the cook but she's only a stick....
Brown foundling of the Western wood, Babe of primeval wildernesses! Long on my table thou hast stood Encounters strange and rude caresses; Perchance contented with thy lot,...
This is the reed the dead musician dropped, With tuneful magic in its sheath still hidden; The prompt allegro of its music stopped, Its melodies unbidden.
Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee, And drop them books and first pot-hooks, and hear a yarn from me. I kin not sling a fairy tale of Jinnys fierce and wild,...
Name of my heroine, simply 'Rose;' Surname, tolerable only in prose; Habitat, Paris, that is where She resided for change of air; Aetat twenty; complexion fair; Rich, good looking, and debonnaire;...
We hev tumbled ez dust Or ez worms of the yearth; Wot we looked for hez bust! We are objects of mirth! They have played us old Pards of the river! they hev played us for all we was worth! ...
It is the story of Thompson of Thompson, the hero of Angels. Frequently drunk was Thompson, but always polite to the stranger; Light and free was the touch of Thompson upon his revolver;...
Sauntering hither on listless wings, Careless vagabond of the sea, Little thou heedest the surf that sings, The bar that thunders, the shale that rings, Give me to keep thy company. ...