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From pride, joy, hate, greed, melancholyFrom any kind of vice, or folly,Bias, propensity or passionThat is in prevalence and fashion,Save one, the..

I heard that Heaven was bright and fair,And politicians dwelt not there. ‘Twas said by knowing ones that theyWere in the Elsewhere-so to say. So..

The Church's compass, if you please,Has two or three (or more) degreesOf variation;And many a soul has gone to griefOn this or that or t'other..

Beauty (they called her) wasn't a maidOf many things in the world afraid.She wasn't a maid who turned and fledAt sight of a mouse, alive or dead.She..

De Young (in Chicago the story is told)'Took his life in his hand,' like a warrior bold,And stood before Buckley-who thought him behind,For Buckley..

Sir Impycu Lackland, from over the sea,Has led to the altar Miss Bloatie Bondee.The wedding took place at the Church of St. Blare;The fashion, the..

You may say, if you please, Johnny Bull, that our girlsAre crazy to marry your dukes and your earls;But I’ve heard that the maids of your own little..

Och! Father McGlynn,Ye appear to be inFer a bit of a bout wid the Pope;An' there's divil a doubtBut he's knockin' ye outWhile ye're hangin' onto the..

Weep, weep, each loyal partisan,For Buckley, king of hearts;A most accomplished man; a manOf parts-of foreign parts.Long years he ruled with gentle..

Great poets fire the world with fagots bigThat make a crackling racket,But I'm content with but a whispering twigTo warm some single jacket.

Why ask me, Gastrogogue, to dine(Unless to praise your rascal wine)Yet never ask some luckless sinnerWho needs, as I do not, a dinner?

As the poor ass that from his paddock straysMight sound abroad his field-companions' praise,Recounting volubly their well-bred leer,Their port..

What wrecked the Roman power? One says vice,Another indolence, another dice.Emascle says polygamy. 'Not so,'Says Impycu-''twas luxury and show.'The..

The friends who stood about my bedLooked down upon my face and said:'God's will be done-the fellow's dead.'When from my body I was freeI straightway..

A rat who'd gorged a box of baneAnd suffered an internal pain,Came from his hole to die (the labelRequired it if the rat were able)And found outside..

As sweet as the look of a loverSaluting the eyes of a maidThat blossom to blue as the maidIs ablush to the glances above her,The sunshine is gilding..

Attorney Knight, it happens so sometimesThat lawyers, justifying cut-throats’ crimesFor hire-calumniating, too, for gold,The dead, dumb victims..

God said: 'Let there be Man,' and from the clayAdam came forth and, thoughtful, walked away.The matrix whence his body was obtained,An empty..

God said, 'Let there be Crime,' and the commandBrought Satan, leading Stoneman by the hand.'Why, that's Stupidity, not Crime,' said God'Bring what I..

Thy flesh to earth, thy soul to God,We gave, O gallant brother;And o'er thy grave the awkward squadFired into one another!

The polecat, sovereign of its native wood,Dashes damnation upon bad and good;The health of all the upas trees impairsBy exhalations deadlier than..

O Buddha, had you but foreknownThe vices of your priesthoodIt would have made you twist and moanAs any wounded beast would.You would have damned the..

When, with the force of a ram that discharges its ponderous bodyStraight at the rear elevation of the luckless culler of simples,The foot of..

Freedom, as every schoolboy knows,Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell;On every wind, indeed, that blowsI hear her yell.She screams whenever monarchs..

Did I believe the angels soon would callYou, my beloved, to the other shore,And I should never see you any more,I love you so I know that I should..