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I SAW—’t was in a dream, the other night—A man whose hair with age was thin and white;One hundred years had bettered by his birth,And still his step..

As some enormous violet that towersColossal o'er the heads of lowlier flowersIts giant petals royally displayed,And casting half the landscape into..

Once with Christ he entered Salem,Once in Moab bullied Balaam,Once by Apuleius stagedHe the pious much enraged.And, again, his head, as beaver,Topped..

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.ST. JOHN _a Presidential Candidate_MCDONALD _a Defeated Aspirant_MRS. HAYES _an Ex-President_PITTS-STEVENS _a Water Nymph__Scene_-A..

High Lord of Liars, Pickering, to theeLet meaner mortals bend the subject knee!Thine is mendacity's imperial crown,Alike by genius, action and..

Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from our lips the cupAnd forced our..

Your various talents, Goldenson, commandRespect: you are a poet and can draw.It is a pity that your gifted handShould ever have been raised against..

'To the will of the people we loyally bow!'That's the minority shibboleth now.O noble antagonists, answer me flatWhat would you do if you didn't do..

O ye who push and fightTo hear a wanton singWho utter the delightThat has the bogus ring,O men mature in years,In understanding young,The membranes..

Come in, old gentleman. How do you do?Delighted, I'm sure, that you've called.I'm a sociable sort of a chap and youAre a pleasant-appearing person..

O Reverend Ravlin, once with sounding lungYou shook the bloody banner of your tongue,Urged all the fiery boycotters afieldAnd swore you'd rather..

Villain, when the word is spoken,And your chains at last are brokenWhen the gibbet's chilling shadeCeases darkly to enfold you,And the angel who..

''Let there be Liberty!' God said, and, lo!The red skies all were luminous. The glowStruck first Columbia's kindling mountain peaksOne hundred and..

Each to his taste: some men prefer to playAt mystery, as others at piquet.Some sit in mystic meditation; someParade the street with tambourine and..

Daughter of God! Audacity divineOf clowns the terror and of brains the signNot thou the inspirer of the rushing fool,Not thine of idiots the vocal..

Jack Doe met Dick Roe, whose wife he loved,And said: 'I will get the best of him.'So pulling a knife from his boot, he shovedIt up to the hilt in the..

I drew aside the Future's veilAnd saw upon his bierThe poet Whitman. Loud the wailAnd damp the falling tear.'He's dead-he is no more!' one cried,With..

Judge Armstrong, when the poor have sought your aid,To be released from vows that they have madeIn haste, and leisurely repented, you,As stern as..

Thus the poor ass whose appetite has ne'erKnown than the thistle any sweeter fareThinks all the world eats thistles. Thus the clown,The wit and..

As oft it happens in the youth of dayThat mists obscure the sun's imperfect ray,Who, as he's mounting to the dome's extreme,Smites and dispels them..

How well this man unfolded to our viewThe world's beliefs of Death and Heaven and HellThis man whose own convictions none could tell,Nor if his maze..

Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy shrine the..

O hoary sculptor, stay thy hand:I fain would view the lettered stone.What carvest thou?-perchance some grandAnd solemn fancy all thine own.For oft to..

As time rolled on the whole world came to beA desolation and a darksome curse;And some one said: 'The changes that you seeIn the fair frame of..

Dear Bruner, once we had a little talk(That is to say, 'twas I did all the talking)About the manner of your moral walk:How devious the trail you made..