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For blows on the fort of evilThat never shows a breach,For terrible life-long racesTo a goal no foot can reach,For reckless leaps into darknessWith..

Squire Adam had two wives, they say,Two wives had he, for his delight,He kissed and clypt them all the dayAnd clypt and kissed them all the night.Now..

(For Aline)Now by what whim of wanton chanceDo radiant eyes know sombre days?And feet that shod in light should danceWalk weary and laborious..

When you shall die and to the skySerenely, delicately go,Saint Peter, when he sees you there,Will clash his keys and say:'Now talk to her, Sir..

The bugle echoes shrill and sweet,But not of war it sings today.The road is rhythmic with the feetOf men-at-arms who come to pray.The rose blossoms..

Hard by an excavated street one satIn solitary session on the sand;And ever and anon he spake and spatAnd spake again-a yellow skull in hand,To which..

With a Methodist hymn in his musical throat,The Sun was emitting his ultimate note;His quivering larynx enwrinkled the seaLike an Ichthyosaurian..

O never an oathe sweares he,And never a pig-taile jerkes;With a brick-batte he ne lurkesFor to buste y'e crust, perdie,Of y'e man from over..

What, madam, run for School Director? You?And want my vote and influence? Well, well,That beats me! Gad! where _are_ we drifting to?In all my life I..

Time was the local poets sang their songsBeneath their breath in terror of the thongsI snapped about their shins. Though mild the strokeBards, like..

Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning--Sense lacking.Ah, nothing, more obscure than Browning,Save blacki

Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a..

KRASLAJORSK, SIBERIA, March 29.'My eyes are better, and I shall travel slowly toward home.'DANENHOWER.From the regions of the Night,Coming with..

Down in the state of Maine, the story goes,A woman, to secure a lapsing pension,Married a soldier-though the good Lord knowsThat very common act..

'I've found the secret of your charm,' I said,Expounding with complacency my guess.Alas! the charm, even as I named it, fled,For all its secret was..

On Evidence, on Deeds, on Bills,On Copyhold, on Loans, on Wills,Lawyers great books indite;The creaking of their busy quillsI've never heard on Right.

Though war-signs fail in time of peace, they say,Two awful portents gloom the public mind:All Mexico is arming for the frayAnd Colonel Mark McDonald..

Saint Peter sat at the jasper gate,When Stephen M. White arrived in state.'Admit me.' 'With pleasure,' Peter said,Pleased to observe that the man was..

In that fair city by the inland sea,Where Blaine unhived his Presidential bee,Frank Pixley's meeting with George Gorham sing,Celestial muse, and what..

The showman (blessing in a thousand shapes!)Parades a 'School of Educated Apes!'Small education's needed, I opine,Or native wit, to make a monkey..

Dim, grim, and silent as a ghost,The sentry occupied his post,To all the stirrings of the nightAlert of ear and sharp of sight.A sudden..

To bucks and ewes by the Good Shepherd fedThe Priest delivers masses for the dead,And even from estrays outside the foldDeath for the masses he would..

Ye parasites that to the rich men stick,As to the fattest sheep the thrifty tickEd'ard to Stanford and to Crocker Ben(To Ben and Ed'ard many meaner..

I saw a man who knelt in prayer,And heard him say:'I'll lay my inmost spirit bareTo-day.'Lord, for to-morrow and its needI do not pray;Let me upon my..

Wide windy reaches of high stubble field;A long gray road, bordered with dusty pines;A wagon moving in a 'cloud by day.'Two city sportsmen with a..