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Unhappy State! with horrors still to strive:Thy Hugo dead, thy Boulanger alive;A Prince who'd govern where he dares not dwell,And who for power would..

ROBERT F. MORROWDear man! although a stranger and a foeTo soft affection's humanizing glow;Although untaught how manly hearts may throbWith more..

To flatter your way to the goad of your hope,O plausible Mr. Perkins,You'll need ten tons of the softest soapAnd butter a thousand firkins.The soap..

Observe, dear Lord, what lively pranksAre played by sentimental cranks!First this one mounts his hinder hoofsAnd brays the chimneys off the..

An 'actors' cemetery'! SureThe devil never tiresOf planning places to procureThe sticks to feed his fires.

O bear me, gods, to some enchanted isleWhere woman's tears can antidote her smile.

O, heavenly powers! will wonders never cease?Hair upon dogs and feathers upon geese!The boys in mischief and the pigs in mire!The drinking water wet!..

Mahomet Stanford, with covetous stare,Gazed on a vision surpassingly fair:Far on the desert's remote extremeA mountain of gold with a mellow..

To Parmentier Parisians raiseA statue fine and large:He cooked potatoes fifty ways,Nor ever led a charge.'_Palmam qui meruit'_-the restYou knew as..

O Abner Doble-whose 'catarrhal name'Budd of that ilk might envy-'tis a roughRude thing to say, but it is plain enoughYour name is to be sneezed at:..

Let lowly themes engage my humble penStupidities of critics, not of men.Be it mine once more the maunderings to traceOf the expounders' self-directed..

What! you were born, you animated doll,Within the shadow of the Capitol?'Twas always thought (and Bancroft so assuresHis trusting readers) it was..

Strolling at sunset in my native land,With fruits and flowers thick on either hand,I crossed a Shadow flung athwart my way,Emerging on a waste of..

Alas, alas, for the tourist's guide!He turned from the beaten trail aside,Wandered bewildered, lay down and died.O grim is the Irony of Fate:It..

To him in whom the love of Nature hasImperfectly supplanted the desireAnd dread necessity of food, your shore,Fair Oakland, is a terror. Over allYour..

One thousand years I slept beneath the sod,My sleep in 1901 beginning,Then, by the action of some scurvy godWho happened then to recollect my..

He held a book in his knotty paws,And its title grand read he:'The Chronicles of the Kings' it was,By the History Companee.'I'm a monarch,' he..

O, hadst thou died when thou wert great,When at thy feet a nation kneltTo sob the gratitude it feltAnd thank the Saviour of the State,Gods might have..

I Slept, and, waking in the years to be,Heard voices, and approaching whence they came,Listened indifferently where a keyHad lately been removed. An..

When men at candidacy don't connive,From that suspicion if their friends would free 'em,The teeth and nails with which they did not striveShould be..

Behold! the days of miracle at lastReturn-if ever they were truly past:From sinful creditors' unholy greedThe church called Calvary at last is..

Of life's elixir I had writ, when sleep(Pray Heaven it spared him who the writing read!)Settled upon my senses with so deepA stupefaction that men..

The cur foretells the knell of parting day;The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;The wise man homewards plods; I only stayTo fiddle-faddle in a..

Despots effete upon tottering thronesUnsteadily poised upon dead men's bones,Walk up! walk up! the circus is free,And this wonderful spectacle you..

Megaceph, chosen to serve the StateIn the halls of legislative debate,One day with his credentials cameTo the capitol's door and announced his..