Tell it to the locked-up trees, Cuckoo, bring your song here! Warrant, Act and Summons, please, For Spring to pass along here! Tell old Winter, if he doubt, Tell him squat and square, a! Old Woman!...
Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide, By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; Log in the plume-grass, hidden and lone; And where the earth-rat's mounds are strown;...
Singer and tailor am I, Doubled the joys that I know, Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew, Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that I sew. ...
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar, Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep,...
Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order (Violet peaks uplifted through the crystal evening air?) And the clink of iron teacups and the piteous, noble laughter,...
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man. Flesh of the flesh that I bred, bone of the bone that I bare;...
Old Horn to All Atlantic said: (A-hay O! To me O!) "Now where did Frankie learn his trade? For he ran me down with a three-reef mains'I." (All round the Horn!)
Gow. Had it been your Prince instead of a groom caught in this noose there's not an astrologer of the city, Prince. Sacked! Sacked! We were a city yesterday....
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them,...
All day long to the judgment-seat The crazed Provincials drew All day long at their ruler's feet Howled for the blood of the Jew. Insurrection with one accord Banded itself and woke,...
That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend, Nor water out of bitter well make clean; All evil thing returneth at the end, Or elseway walketh in our blood unseen....
Imprimus he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his friends, "Went Fantee", joined the people of the land,...
I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in Most wise tones, "Let us melt into the landscape,just us two by our lones." Peoplehavecome,inacarriage,calling. But Mummy is there.......
This Uninhabited Island Is near Cape Gardafui; But it's hot, too hot, of Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go in a P. & O. To call on the Cake Parsee.