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When lion and lamb have together lain downSpectators cry out, all in chorus;'The lamb doesn't shrink nor the lion frownA miracle's working before..

O, justice, you have fled, to dwellIn Mexico, unstrangled,Lest you should hang as high as-well,As Haman dangled.(I know not if his cord he twanged,Or..

'Let John P. Irish rise!' the edict rangAs when Creation into being sprang!Nature, not clearly understanding, triedTo make a bird that on the air..

I fell asleep and dreamed that IWas flung, like Vulcan, from the sky;Like him was lamed-another part:His leg was crippled and my heart.I woke in time..

'What are those, father?' 'Statesmen, my childLacrymose, unparliamentary, wild.''What are they that way for, father?' 'Last fall,'Our candidate's..

She stood at the ticket-seller'sSerenely removing her glove,While hundreds of strugglers and yellers,And some that were good at a shove,Were..

Big Smith is an Oakland School Board man,And he looks as good as ever he can;And he's such a cold and a chaste Big SmithThat snowflakes all are his..

Saint Peter, standing at the Gate, beheldA soul whose body Death had lately felled.A pleasant soul as ever was, he seemed:His step was joyous and his..

Because that I am weak, my love, and ill,I cannot follow the impatient feetOf my desire, but sit and watch the beatOf the unpitying pendulum..

See, Lord, fanatics all arrayedFor revolution!To foil their villainous crusadeUnsheathe again the sacred bladeOf persecution. What though through..

Wallace, created on a noble planTo show us that a Judge can be a Man;Through moral mire exhaling mortal stenchGod-guided sweet and foot-clean to the..

The trumpet sounded and the deadCame forth from earth and ocean,And Pickering arose and spedAloft with wobbling motion.'What makes him fly..

Aeronaut, you're fairly caught,Despite your bubble's leaven:Out of the skies a lady's eyesHave brought you down to Heaven!No more, no more you'll..

When Dr. Bill Bartlett stepped out of the humOf Mammon's distracting and wearisome strifeTo stand and deliver a lecture on 'SomeConditions of..

As in a dream, strange epitaphs I see,Inscribed on yet unquarried stone,Where wither flowers yet unstrownThe Campo Santo of the time to be.

When a fair bridge is builded o'er the gulfBetween two cities, some ambitious fool,Hot for distinction, pleads for earliest leaveTo push his clumsy..

Alas for ambition's possessor!Alas for the famous and proud!The Isle of Manhattan's best dresserIs wearing a hand-me-down shroud.The world has..

In Bacon see the culminating primeOf Anglo-Saxon intellect and crime.He dies and Nature, settling his affairs,Parts his endowments among us, his..

'I saw your charms in another's arms,'Said a Grecian swain with his blood a-boil;'And he kissed you fair as he held you there,A willing bird in a..

There were brave men, some one has truly said,Before Atrides (those were mostly deadBehind him) and ere you could e'er occurActaeon lived, Nimrod and..

We heard a song-bird trilling'T was but a night ago.Such rapture he was rillingAs only we could know.This morning he is flingingHis music from the..

It is pleasant to think, as I'm watching my inkA-drying along my paper,That a monument fine will surely be mineWhen death has extinguished my..

'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat;'Who sings for nobles, he should noble be.There's no _non sequitur_, I think, in that,And this is logic..

The Devil stood before the gateOf Heaven. He had a single mate:Behind him, in his shadow, slunkClay Sheets in a perspiring funk.'Saint Peter, see..

Of a person known as Peters I will humbly crave your leaveAn unusual adventure into narrative to weaveMr. William Perry Peters, of the town of..