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Within my dark and narrow bedI rested well, new-laid:I heard above my fleshless headThe grinding of a spade.A gruffer note ensued and grewTo harsh..

SHE:I'm told that men have sometimes gotToo confidential, andHave said to one another whatThey-well, you understand.I hope I don't offend you..

The Senate woke; the Chairman's snoreWas stilled, its echoes balking;The startled members dreamed no more,For Steele, who long had held the floor,Had..

Dies irae! dies ilia!Solvet saeclum in favillaTeste David cum Sibylla.Quantus tremor est futurus,Quando Judex est venturus.Cuncta stricte..

A reporter he was, and he wrote, wrote he:'The grave was covered as thick as could beWith floral tributes'-which reading,The editor man he said, he..

Cried Allen Forman: 'Doctor, prayCompose my spirits' strife:O what may be my chances, say,Of living all my life?'For lately I have dreamed of highAnd..

In Congress once great Mowther shone,Debating weighty matters;Now into an asylum thrown,He vacuously chatters.If in that legislative hallHis wisdom..

Your influence, my friend, has gathered headTo east and west its tides encroaching spread.There'll be, on all God's foot-stool, when they meet,No..

Let slaves and subjects with unvaried psalmsBefore their sovereign execute salaams;The freeman scorns one idol to adoreTom, Dick and Harry and..

Thou shalt no God but me adore:'Twere too expensive to have more.No images nor idols makeFor Roger Ingersoll to break.Take not God's name in vain:..

Running for Senator with clumsy pace,He stooped so low, to win at least a place,That Fortune, tempted by a mark so droll,Sprang in an kicked him to..

God dreamed-the suns sprang flaming into place,And sailing worlds with many a venturous race!He woke-His smile alone illumined space.

I am for Cutting. I'm a bladeDesigned for use at dress parade.My gleaming length, when I displayPeace rules the land with gentle sway;But when the..

'T was a maiden lady (the newspapers say)Pious and prim and a bit gone-gray.She slept like an angel, holy and white,Till ten o' the clock in the..

No more the swindler singly seeks his prey;To hunt in couples is the modern wayA rascal, from the public to purloin,An honest man to hide away the..

What! 'Out of danger?' Can the slighted DameOr canting Pharisee no more defame?Will Treachery caress my hand no more,Nor Hatred He alurk about my..

'By good men's prayers see Grant restored!'Shouts Talmage, pious creature!Yes, God, by supplication boredFrom every droning preacher,Exclaimed: 'So..

What! 'Out of danger?' Can the slighted DameOr canting Pharisee no more defame?Will Treachery caress my hand no more,Nor Hatred lie alurk about my..

Sleep fell upon my senses and I dreamedLong years had circled since my life had fled.The world was different, and all things seemedRemote and..

I muse upon the distant townIn many a dreamy mood.Above my head the sunbeams crownThe graveyard's giant rood.The lupin blooms among the tombs.The..

Dull were the days and sober,The mountains were brown and bare,For the season was sad OctoberAnd a dirge was in the air.The mated starlings flew..

Little's the good to sit and grieveBecause the serpent tempted Eve.Better to wipe your eyes and takeA club and go out and kill a snake.What do you..

Jacob Jacobs, of Oakland, he swore:'Dat Solomon Martin-I'll haf his gore!'Solomon Martin, of Oakland, he said:'Of Shacob Shacobs der bleed I vill..

I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo!The godly multitudes walked to and froBeneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,With pious mien, appropriately..

Ere Gabriel's note to silence diedAll graves of men were gaping wide.Then Charles A. Dana, of 'The Sun,'Rose slowly from the deepest one.'The dead in..