Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is probably best-known for his short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical lexicon The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters" and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce".
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Poems
ᐈ A Bad Night
ᐈ A Ballad Of Pikeville
ᐈ A Bequest To Music
ᐈ A Bit Of Science
ᐈ A Black-List
ᐈ A 'Born Leader Of Men'
ᐈ A Bubble
ᐈ A Builder
ᐈ A Bulletin
ᐈ A Caller
ᐈ A Career In Letters
ᐈ A Celebrated Case
ᐈ A Challenge
ᐈ A Cheating Preacher
ᐈ A Commuted Sentence
ᐈ A Controversialist
ᐈ A Coward
ᐈ A Critic
ᐈ A Crocodile
ᐈ A Culinary Candidate
ᐈ A Dampened Ardor
ᐈ A Demagogue
ᐈ A Demagogue
ᐈ A Demand
ᐈ A Dilemma
ᐈ A Fair Division
ᐈ A False Prophecy
ᐈ A Fish Commissioner
ᐈ A Fool
ᐈ A Growler
ᐈ A Guest
ᐈ A Hasty Inference
ᐈ A Hymn Of The Many
ᐈ A Jack-At-All-Views
ᐈ A Lacking Factor
ᐈ A Lifted Finger
ᐈ A Literary Hangman
ᐈ 'A Literary Method'
ᐈ A Long-Felt Want
ᐈ A Man
ᐈ A 'Mass' Meeting
ᐈ A Merciful Governor
ᐈ A Military Incident
ᐈ A Morning Fancy
ᐈ A 'Mute Inglorious Milton'
ᐈ A Nightmare
ᐈ A Paradox
ᐈ A Partisan's Protest
ᐈ A Patter Song
ᐈ A Pickbrain
ᐈ A Poet's Father
ᐈ A Poet's Hope
ᐈ A Political Apostate
ᐈ A Political Violet
ᐈ A Possibility
ᐈ A Prayer [sweet Spirit Of Cesspool, Hear A Mother's Prayer]
ᐈ A Promised Fast Train
ᐈ A Question Of Eligibility
ᐈ A Railroad Lackey
ᐈ A Rear Elevation
ᐈ A Rendezvous
ᐈ A Reply To A Letter
ᐈ A Retort
ᐈ A 'scion Of Nobility'
ᐈ A Serenade
ᐈ A Silurian Holiday
ᐈ A Soaring Toad
ᐈ A Social Call
ᐈ A Society Leader
ᐈ A Song In Praise
ᐈ A Spade
ᐈ A Study In Gray
ᐈ A Vision Of Climate
ᐈ A Vision Of Doom
ᐈ A Vision Of Resurrection
ᐈ A Voluptuary
ᐈ A Warning
ᐈ A Welcome
ᐈ A Wet Season
ᐈ A Whipper-In
ᐈ A Word To The Unwise
ᐈ A Wreath Of Immortelles
ᐈ A Wreath Of Immortelles
ᐈ A Year's Casualties
ᐈ Accepted
ᐈ Ad Cattonum
ᐈ Ad Moodium
ᐈ Adair Welcker, Poet
ᐈ Again
ᐈ Alone
ᐈ An Actor
ᐈ An Alibi
ᐈ An Anarchist
ᐈ An Apologue
ᐈ An Art Critic
ᐈ An Augury
ᐈ An Average
ᐈ An Enemy To Law And Order
ᐈ An Epitaph [hangman's Hands Laid In This Tomb An]
ᐈ An Epitaph [here Lies Greer Harrison, A Well Cracked Louse]
ᐈ An Example
ᐈ An 'Exhibit'
ᐈ An Exile
ᐈ An Explanation
ᐈ An Idler
ᐈ An Imposter
ᐈ An Inscription
ᐈ An Inscription (For A Proposed Monument In Washington)
ᐈ An Inscription (For A Statue Of Napoleon, At West Point)
ᐈ An Interpretation
ᐈ An Obituarian
ᐈ An Offer Of Marriage
ᐈ An Undress Uniform
ᐈ An Unmerry Christmas
ᐈ Another Plan
ᐈ Another Way
ᐈ Arbor Day
ᐈ Arboriculture
ᐈ Arma Virumque
ᐈ Art
ᐈ Arthur Mcewen
ᐈ Aspirants Three
ᐈ Aspiration
ᐈ At Anchor
ᐈ At The Close Of The Canvass
ᐈ At The Eleventh Hour
ᐈ At The 'National Encampment'
ᐈ Authority
ᐈ Azrael
ᐈ Bats In Sunshine
ᐈ Beecher
ᐈ Bereavement
ᐈ Bimetalism
ᐈ 'Black Bart, Po8'
ᐈ Borrowed Brains
ᐈ Business
ᐈ By A Defeated Litigant
ᐈ By False Pretenses
ᐈ Cain
ᐈ California
ᐈ Carmelite
ᐈ Censor Literarum
ᐈ Charles And Peter
ᐈ Christian
ᐈ Codex Honoris
ᐈ Consolation
ᐈ Constancy
ᐈ Contemplation
ᐈ Contentment
ᐈ Convalescent
ᐈ Convalescent ['By Good Men's Prayers See Grant Restored!']
ᐈ Convalescent [what! 'Out Of Danger?' Can The Slighted Dame]
ᐈ Cooperation
ᐈ Corrected News
ᐈ Couplets
ᐈ Creation
ᐈ De Young-A Prophecy
ᐈ Decalogue
ᐈ Democracy
ᐈ Dennis Kearney
ᐈ Detected
ᐈ Diagnosis
ᐈ 'Died Of A Rose'
ᐈ Dies Irae
ᐈ Disappointment
ᐈ Discretion
ᐈ Down Among The Dead Men
ᐈ Egotist
ᐈ Election Day
ᐈ Elegy
ᐈ Elixer Vitæ
ᐈ Emancipation
ᐈ Exoneration
ᐈ Expositor Veritatis
ᐈ Fallen
ᐈ Fame [he Held A Book In His Knotty Paws]
ᐈ Fame [one Thousand Years I Slept Beneath The Sod]
ᐈ Famine's Realm
ᐈ Fate
ᐈ Finis Aeternitatis
ᐈ Fleet Strother
ᐈ For A Certain Critic
ᐈ For Mayor
ᐈ For Merit
ᐈ For President, Leland Stanford
ᐈ For Tat
ᐈ For Wounds
ᐈ Foresight
ᐈ Foundations Of The State
ᐈ Four Candidates For Senator
ᐈ Four Of A Kind
ᐈ France
ᐈ Francine
ᐈ Freedom
ᐈ From The Minutes
ᐈ From Top To Bottom
ᐈ From Virginia To Paris
ᐈ General B.F. Butler
ᐈ Genesis [god Said, 'Let There Be Crime,' And The Command]
ᐈ Genesis [god Said: 'Let There Be Man,' And From The Clay]
ᐈ George A. Knight
ᐈ Geotheos
ᐈ Haec Fabula Docet
ᐈ Hell
ᐈ History
ᐈ Homo Podunkensis
ᐈ Hospitality
ᐈ Humility
ᐈ Ignis Fatuus
ᐈ In Contumaciam
ᐈ In Defense
ᐈ In High Life
ᐈ In His Hand
ᐈ In Memoriam
ᐈ In The Binnacle
ᐈ In Upper San Francisco
ᐈ Incurable
ᐈ Indicted
ᐈ Industrial Discontent
ᐈ Inspiration
ᐈ Invocation
ᐈ J.F.B.
ᐈ James L. Flood
ᐈ Johndonkey
ᐈ Judex Judicatus
ᐈ Judgment
ᐈ Justice
ᐈ L'Audace
ᐈ Laus Lucis
ᐈ Liberty
ᐈ Llewellen Powell
ᐈ Lucifer Of The Torch
ᐈ Lusus Politicus
ᐈ Mad
ᐈ Magnanimity
ᐈ Master Of Three Arts
ᐈ Matter For Gratitude
ᐈ Mendax
ᐈ Metempsychosis
ᐈ Metempsychosis [once With Christ He Entered Salem]
ᐈ Montague Leverson
ᐈ Montefiore
ᐈ Mr. Fink's Debating Donkey
ᐈ Mr. Sheets
ᐈ My Lord Poet
ᐈ My Monument
ᐈ Nanine
ᐈ Nimrod
ᐈ Not Guilty
ᐈ Novum Organum
ᐈ Omnes Vanitas
ᐈ On A Proposed Crematory
ᐈ On Stone
ᐈ On The Platform
ᐈ On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut
ᐈ One And One Are Two
ᐈ One Judge
ᐈ One Mood's Expression
ᐈ One Morning
ᐈ One Of The Redeemed
ᐈ One Of The Saints
ᐈ One Of The Unfair Sex
ᐈ One President
ᐈ Oneiromancy
ᐈ Ornithanthropos
ᐈ Over The Border
ᐈ Peace
ᐈ 'Peaceable Expulsion'
ᐈ 'Phil' Crimmins
ᐈ Philosopher Bimm
ᐈ Piety
ᐈ Poesy
ᐈ Political Economy
ᐈ Politics
ᐈ Polyphemus
ᐈ Posterity's Award
ᐈ Prayer [fear Not In Any Tongue To Call]
ᐈ Presentiment
ᐈ Psychographs
ᐈ Rebuke
ᐈ Re-Edified
ᐈ Rejected
ᐈ Religion
ᐈ Religious Progress
ᐈ Reminded
ᐈ Revenge
ᐈ Rimer
ᐈ Safety-Clutch
ᐈ Salvini In America
ᐈ Samuel Shortridge
ᐈ Sires And Sons
ᐈ Slander
ᐈ Slickens
ᐈ Something In The Papers
ᐈ Stephen Dorsey
ᐈ Stephen J. Field
ᐈ Stoneman In Heaven
ᐈ Strained Relations
ᐈ Substance Versus Shadow
ᐈ Subterranean Phantasies
ᐈ Surprised
ᐈ T.A.H.
ᐈ Technology
ᐈ Tempora Mutantur
ᐈ Thanksgiving
ᐈ The Aesthetes
ᐈ The American Party
ᐈ The Barking Weasel
ᐈ The Birth Of The Rail
ᐈ The Birth Of Virtue
ᐈ The Boss's Choice
ᐈ The Bride
ᐈ The Brothers
ᐈ The Committee On Public Morals
ᐈ The Confederate Flags
ᐈ The Convicts' Ball
ᐈ The Cynic's Bequest
ᐈ The Day Of Wrath / Dies Iræ
ᐈ The Dead King
ᐈ The Death Of Grant
ᐈ The Debtor Abroad
ᐈ The Division Superintendent
ᐈ The Dying Statesman
ᐈ The Eastern Question
ᐈ The Fall Of Miss Larkin
ᐈ The Following Pair
ᐈ The Foot-Hill Resort
ᐈ The Fountain Refilled
ᐈ The Free Trader's Lament
ᐈ The Fyghtynge Seventh
ᐈ The Gates Ajar
ᐈ The Genesis Of Embarrassment
ᐈ The God's View-Point
ᐈ The Hermit
ᐈ The Hesitating Veteran
ᐈ The Humorist
ᐈ The In-Coming Climate
ᐈ The Key Note
ᐈ The King Of Bores
ᐈ The Last Man
ᐈ The Legatee
ᐈ The Legend Of Immortal Truth
ᐈ The Lord's Prayer On A Coin
ᐈ The Lost Colonel
ᐈ The Mackaiad
ᐈ The Mad Philosopher
ᐈ The Man Born Blind
ᐈ The Militiaman
ᐈ The Mummery
ᐈ The National Guardsman
ᐈ The Naval Constructor
ᐈ The New Decalogue
ᐈ The New Enoch
ᐈ The New 'Ulalume'
ᐈ The Night Of Election
ᐈ The Oakland Dog
ᐈ The Oleomargarine Man
ᐈ The Opposing Sex
ᐈ The Passing Of 'Boss' Shepherd
ᐈ The Passing Show
ᐈ The Perverted Village After Goldsmith
ᐈ The Piute
ᐈ The Politician
ᐈ The Psoriad
ᐈ The Pun
ᐈ The Retrospective Bird
ᐈ The Rich Testator
ᐈ The Royal Jester
ᐈ The Saint And The Monk
ᐈ The Scurril Press
ᐈ The Setting Sachem
ᐈ The Shafter Shafted
ᐈ The Spirit Of A Sponge
ᐈ The Statesmen
ᐈ The Subdued Editor
ᐈ The Sunset Gun
ᐈ The Tables Turned
ᐈ The Town Of Dae
ᐈ The Transmigrations Of A Soul
ᐈ The Unfallen Brave
ᐈ The Unpardonable Sin
ᐈ The Valley Of Dry Bones
ᐈ The Valley Of The Shadow Of Theft
ᐈ The Van Nessiad
ᐈ The Veteran
ᐈ The 'Viduate Dame'
ᐈ The Weather Wight
ᐈ The Wise And Good
ᐈ The Woful Tale Of Mr. Peters
ᐈ The Woman And The Devil
ᐈ The Yearly Lie
ᐈ Thersites
ᐈ Three Kinds Of A Rogue
ᐈ Tidings Of Good
ᐈ Tinker Dick
ᐈ To A Censor
ᐈ To A Critic Of Tennyson
ᐈ To A Dejected Poet
ᐈ To A Professional Eulogist
ᐈ To A Stray Dog
ᐈ To A Summer Poet
ᐈ To A Word-Warrior
ᐈ To An Aspirant
ᐈ To An Insolent Attorney
ᐈ To 'Colonel' Dan. Burns
ᐈ To E.S. Salomon
ᐈ To Either
ᐈ To Her
ᐈ To Maude
ᐈ To My Laundress
ᐈ To My Liars
ᐈ To Nanine
ᐈ To One Across The Way
ᐈ To One Detested
ᐈ To Oscar Wilde
ᐈ To The Bartholdi Statue
ᐈ To The Fool-Killer
ᐈ To The Happy Hunting Grounds
ᐈ To-Day
ᐈ Twin Unworthies
ᐈ Two Methods
ᐈ Two Rogues
ᐈ Two Shows
ᐈ Two Statesmen
ᐈ Unarmed
ᐈ Uncoloneled
ᐈ Unexpounded
ᐈ Vanished At Cock-Crow
ᐈ Vice Versa
ᐈ Visions Of Sin
ᐈ Weather
ᐈ With A Book
ᐈ With Mine Own Petard
ᐈ Woman In Politics
ᐈ Y'E Foe To Cathaye
ᐈ Ye Idyll Of Ye Hippopopotamus
ᐈ Yorick