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So, Governor, you would not serve againAlthough we’d all agree to pay you double.You find it all is vanity and painOne clump of clover in a field of..

'Tis Master Fitch, the editor;He takes an holiday.Now wherefore, venerable sir,So resolutely gay?He lifts his head, he laughs aloud,Odzounds! 'tis..

'Sas agapo sas agapo,'He sang beneath her lattice.''Sas agapo'?' she murmured-'O,I wonder, now, what _that_ is!'Was she less fair that she did bearSo..

Come, sisters, weep!-our Baron dear,Alas! has run away.If always we had kept him hereHe had not gone astray.Painter and grainer it were vainTo say he..

As vicious women think all men are knaves,And shrew-bound gentlemen discourse of slaves;As reeling drunkards judge the world unsteadyAnd idlers swear..

O nonsense, parson-tell me not they thriveAnd jubilate who follow your dictation.The good are the unhappiest lot aliveI know they are from careful..

Nightly I put up this humble petition:'Forgive me, O Father of Glories,My sins of commission, my sins of omission,My sins of the Mission Dolores.'

Once Moses (in Scripture the story is told)Entreated the favor God's face to behold.Compassion divine the petition deniedLest vision be blasted and..

Ben Truman, you're a genius and can write,Though one would not suspect it from your looks.You lack that certain spareness which is quiteDistinctive..

It was a bruised and battered chapThe victim of some dire mishap,Who sat upon a rock and spentHis breath in this ungay lament: 'Some wars-I’ve..

I turned my eyes upon the Future's scrollAnd saw its pictured prophecies unroll.I saw that magical life-laden trainFlash its long glories o'er..

Sweet Spirit of Cesspool, hear a mother's prayer:Her terrors pacify and offspring spare!Upon Silurians alone let fall(And God in Heaven have mercy on..

If the wicked gods were willing(Pray it never may be true!)That a universal chillingShould ensueOf the sentiment of loving,If they made a great..

Come, Stanford, let us sit at easeAnd talk as old friends do.You talk of anything you please,And I will talk of you.You recently have said, I..

Good friend, it is with deep regret I noteThe latest, strangest turning of your coat;Though any way you wear that mental cloutThe seamy side seems..

‘Twas a weary-looking mortal, and he wandered near the portalOf the melancholy City of the Discontented Dead.He was pale and worn exceeding and his..

Welcker, I'm told, can boast a father greatAnd honored in the service of the State.Public Instruction all his mind employsHe guides its methods and..

What! imitate me, friend? Suppose that youWith agony and difficulty doWhat I do easily-what then? You've gotA style I heartily wish _I_ had not.If I..

There was a cranky GovernorHis name it wasn't Waterman.For office he was hotter thanThe love of any lover, norWas Boruck's threat of aiding..

O statesmen, what would you be at,With torches, flags and bands?You make me first throw up my hat,And then my hands.

'If life were not worth having,' said the preacher,''T would have in suicide one pleasant feature.''An error,' said the pessimist, 'you're..

I dreamed that I was dead. The years went by:The world forgot that such a man as IHad ever lived and written: other namesWere hailed with homage, in..

'O, I'm the Unaverage Man,But you never have heard of me,For my brother, the Average Man, outranMy fame with rapiditee,And I'm sunk in Oblivion's..

I drifted (or I seemed to) in a boatUpon the surface of a shoreless seaWhereon no ship nor anything did float,Save only the frail bark supporting..

Dawn heralded the coming sunFort Douglas was computingThe minutes-and the sunrise gunWas manned for his saluting.The gunner at that firearm stood,The..