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He lay on his bed and solemnly 'signed,'Gasping-perhaps 'twas a jest he meant:'This of a sound and disposing mindIs the last ill-will and..

His caw is a cackle, his eye is dim,And he mopes all day on the lowest limb;Not a word says he, but he snaps his billAnd twitches his palsied head..

Hail, peerless Pun! thou last and best,Most rare and excellent bequestOf dying idiot to the witHe died of, rat-like, in a pit!Thyself disguised, in..

The King of Scotland, years and years ago,Convened his courtiers in a gallant rowAnd thus addressed them:'Gentle sirs, from youAbundant counsel I..

'Let Glory's sons manipulateThe tiller of the Ship of State.Be mine the humble, useful toilTo work the tiller of the soil.'

Unbeautiful is the Piute!Howe'er bedecked with bravery,His person is unsavoryOf soap he's destitute.He multiplies upon the earthIn spite of all..

Sweet Auburn! liveliest village of the plain,Where Health and Slander welcome every train,Whence smiling innocence, its tribute paid,Retires in..

II know not if it was a dream. I viewedA city where the restless multitude,Between the eastern and the western deepHad reared gigantic fabrics..

The sullen church-bell's intermittent moan,The dirge's melancholy monotone,The measured march, the drooping flags, attestA great man's progress to..

The Widows of AshurAre loud in their wailing:'No longer the 'masher'Sees Widows of Ashur!'So each is a lasherOf Man's smallest failing.The Widows of..

Once-in the county of Marin,Where milk is sold to purchase ginRenowned for butter and renownedFor fourteen ounces to the poundA bull stood watching..

I lay one happy night in bedAnd dreamed that all the dogs were dead.They'd all been taken out and shotTheir bodies strewed each vacant lot.O'er all..

'O venerable patriot, I prayStand not here coatless; at the break of dayWe'll know the grand result-and even nowThe eastern sky is faintly touched..

The skies they were ashen and sober,The leaves they were crisped and sere,' ' ' withering ' 'It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most..

Enoch Arden was an ableSeaman; hear of his mishapNot in wild mendacious fable,As 't was told by t' other chap;For I hold it is a youthfulIndiscretion..

Have but one God: thy knees were sore  If bent in prayer to three or four.  Adore no images save those  The coinage of thy country shows.  Take not..

He looked upon the ships as theyAll idly lay at anchor,Their sides with gorgeous workmen gayThe riveter and plankerRepublicans and..

I'm a gorgeous golden heroAnd my trade is taking life.Hear the twittle-twittle-tweeroOf my sibillating fifeAnd the rub-a-dub-a-dumOf my big bass..

THE TWO CAVEESDRAMATIS PERSONAE.FITCH _a Pelter of Railrogues_PICKERING _his Partner, an Enemy to Sin_OLD NICK _a General Blackwasher_DEAD CAT _a..

'O warrior with the burnished armsWith bullion cord and tasselPray tell me of the lurid charmsOf service and the fierce alarms:The storming of the..

A man born blind received his sightBy a painful operation;And these are things he saw in the lightOf an infant observation.He saw a merchant, good..

The flabby wine-skin of his brainYields to some pathologic strain,And voids from its unstored abysmThe driblet of an aphorism.

Mackay's hot wrath to Bonynge, direful springOf blows unnumbered, heavenly goddess, singThat wrath which hurled to Hellman's office floorTwo heroes..

''Tis a woeful yarn,' said the sailor man boldWho had sailed the northern-lakes'No woefuler one has ever been toldExceptin' them called 'fakes.'''Go..

Upon this quarter-eagle's leveled face,The Lord's Prayer, legibly inscribed, I trace.'Our Father which'-the pronoun there is funny,And shows the..