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A bear, having spread him a notable feast,Invited a famishing fox to the place.'I've killed me,' quoth he, 'an edible beastAs ever distended the..

In fair San Francisco a good man did dwell,And he wrote out a will, for he didn't feel well.Said he: 'It is proper, when making a gift,To stimulate..

I dreamed that Gabriel took his hornOn Resurrection's fateful morn,And lighting upon Laurel HillBlew long, blew loud, blew high and shrill.The houses..

Abundant bores afflict this world, and someAre bores of magnitude that-come and-no,They're always coming, but they never goLike funeral pageants, as..

I dreamed I was dreaming one morn as I layIn a garden with flowers teeming.On an island I lay in a mystical bay,In the dream I dreamed I was..

Now o' nights the ocean breezeMakes the patient flinch,For that zephyr bears a sneezeIn every cubic inch.Lo! the lively populationChorusing in..

'What is that, mother?''The funny man, child.His hands are black, but his heart is mild.''May I touch him, mother?'''T were foolishly done:He is..

When I was young and full of faithAnd other fads that youngsters cherishA cry rose as of one that saithWith emphasis: 'Help or I perish!''Twas heard..

To a hunter from the city,Overtaken by the night,Spake, in tones of tender pityFor himself, an aged wight:'I have found the world a fountainOf deceit..

Cheeta Raibama Chunder Sen,The wisest and the best of men,Betook him to the place where satWith folded feet upon a matOf precious stones beneath a..

When Adam first saw Eve he said:'O lovely creature, share my bed.'Before consenting, she her gazeFixed on the greensward to appraise,As well as..

The Day of Judgment spread its glareO'er continents and seas.The graves cracked open everywhere,Like pods of early peas.Up to the Court of Heaven..

It is the gallant SeventhIt fyghteth faste and free!God wot the where it fyghtethI ne desyre to be.The Gonfalon it flyeth,Seeming a Flayme in Sky;The..

Oft from a trading-boat I purchased spiceAnd shells and corals, brought for my inspectionFrom the fair tropics-paid a Christian priceAnd was content..

Of Hans Pietro Shanahan(Who was a most ingenious man)The Muse of History recordsThat he'd get drunk as twenty lords.He'd get so truly drunk that..

Assembled in the parlorOf the place of last resort,The smiler and the snarlerAnd the guests of every sortThe elocution chapWith rhetoric on tap;The..

O very remarkable mortal,What food is engaging your jawsAnd staining with amber their portal?'It's 'baccy I chaws.'And why do you sway in your..

Hear me sing of Sally Larkin who, I’d have you understand,Played accordions as well as any lady in the land;And I’ve often heard it stated that her..

Looking across the line, the Grecian said:'This border I will stain a Turkey red.'The Moslem smiled securely and replied:'No Greek has ever for his..

It is a politician manHe draweth near his end,And friends weep round that partisan,Of every man the friend.Between the Known and the UnknownHe lieth..

Baffled he stands upon the trackThe automatic switches clack.Where'er he turns his solemn eyesThe interlocking signals rise.The trains, before his..

Grief for an absent lover, husband, friend,Is barely felt before it comes to end:A score of early consolations serveTo modify its mouth's dejected..

Father! whose hard and cruel lawIs part of thy compassion's plan,Thy works presumptuously we scanFor what the prophets say they saw.Unbidden still..

Hawaii's King resigned his breathOur Legislature guffawed.The awful dignity of deathNot any single rough awed.But when our Legislators dieAll Kings..

Day of Satan's painful duty! Dies iræ! dies illa!Earth shall vanish, hot and sooty; Solvet sæclum in favillaSo says Virtue, so says Beauty. Teste..