Writ in between the lines of his life-deed We trace the sacred service of a heart Answering the Divine command, in every part Bearing on human weal: His love did feed...
The world is turned ag'in' me, And people says, "They guess That nothin' else is in me But pure maliciousness!" I git the blame for doin' What other chaps destroy, And I'm a-goin' to ruin...
Just to be good - This is enough - enough! O we who find sin's billows wild and rough, Do we not feel how more than any gold Would be the blameless life we led of old...
Ay, thou varlet! Laugh away! All the world's a holiday! Laugh away, and roar and shout Till thy hoarse tongue lolleth out! Bloat thy cheeks, and bulge thine eyes Unto bursting; pelt thy thighs...
Leedle Dutch baby haff come ter town! Jabber und jump till der day gone down - Jabber und sphlutter und sphlit hees jaws - Vot a Dutch baby dees Londsmon vas! I dink dose mout' vas leedle too vide...
POOR victim of that vulture curse That hovers o'er the universe, With ready talons quick to strike In every human heart alike, And cruel beak to stab and tear...
A corpulent man is my bachelor chum, With a neck apoplectic and thick - An abdomen on him as big as a drum, And a fist big enough for the stick; With a walk that for grace is clear out of the case,...
O soul of mine, look out and see My bride, my bride that is to be! Reach out with mad, impatient hands, And draw aside futurity As one might draw a veil aside - And so unveil her where she stands...
There are many things that boys may know - Why this and that are thus and so, - Who made the world in the dark and lit The great sun up to lighten it: Boys know new things every day -...
Another hero of those youthful years Returns, as Noey Bixler's name appears. And Noey - if in any special way - Was notably good-natured. - Work or play He entered into with selfsame delight -...
Old Bob White's a funny bird! - Funniest you ever heard! - Hear him whistle, - "Old - Bob - White!" You can hear him, clean from where He's 'way 'crosst the wheat-field there,...
On the banks o' Deer Crick! There's the place fer me! - Worter slidin' past ye jes as clair as it kin be: - See yer shadder in it, and the shadder o' the sky,...
Ho! I'm going back to where We were youngsters. - Meet me there, Dear old barefoot chum, and we Will be as we used to be, - Lawless rangers up and down The old creek beyond the town -...
What makes you come HERE fer, Mister, So much to our house? - SAY? Come to see our big sister! - An' Charley he says 'at you kissed her An' he ketched you, th'uther day! -...
What intuition named thee? - Through what thrill Of the awed soul came the command divine Into the mother-heart, foretelling thine Should palpitate with his whose raptures will...
Most-like it was this kingly lad Spake out of the pure joy he had In his child-heart of the wee maid Whose eerie beauty sudden laid A spell upon him, and his words...
Thou dread, uncanny thing, With fuzzy breast and leathern wing, In mad, zigzagging flight, Notching the dusk, and buffeting The black cheeks of the night, With grim delight!