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Standing within the triple wall of Hell,And flattening his nose against a grateBehind whose brazen bars he'd had to dwellA thousand million ages to..

It was a solemn rite as e’erWas seen by mortal man.The celebrants, the people there,Were all Republican. There Estee bent his grizzled head,And..

Pennoyer, Governor of Oregon,Casting to South his eye across the bourneOf his dominion (where the Palmiped,With leathers 'twixt his toes, paddles his..

Dimly apparent, through the gloomOf Market-street's opaque simoom,A queue of people, parti-sexed,Awaiting the command of 'Next!'A sidewalk booth, a..

His poems Riley says that he inditesUpon an empty stomach. Heavenly Powers,Feed him throat-full: for what the beggar writesUpon his empty stomach..

Beneath his coat of dirt great Neilson lovesTo hide the avenging rope.He handles all he touches without gloves,Excepting soap.

What! _you_ whip rascals?-_you_, whose gutter bloodBears, in its dark, dishonorable flood,Enough of prison-birds’ prolific germsTo serve a whole..

'You acted unwisely,' I cried, 'as you seeBy the outcome.' He calmly eyed me:'When choosing the course of my action,' said he,'I had not the outcome..

So, Estee, you are still alive! I thoughtThat you had died and were a blessed ghostI know at least your coffin once was boughtWith Railroad money;..

God’s people sorely were oppressed,I heard their lamentations long;I hear their singing, clear and strong,I see their banners in the West! The..

The Devil one day, coming up from the Pit,All grimy with perspiration,Applied to St. Peter and begged he'd admitHim a moment for consultation.The..

Death, are you well? I trust you have no coughThat's painful or in any way annoyingNo kidney trouble that may carry you off,Or heart disease to keep..

Judge Shafter, you're an aged man, I know,And learned too, I doubt not, in the law;And a head white with many a winter's snow(I wish, however that..

Says Anderson, Theosophist:'Among the many that existIn modern halls,Some lived in ancient Egypt's climeAnd in their childhood saw the primeOf..

Great Joseph D. Redding-illustrious name!Considered a fish-horn the trumpet of Fame.That goddess was angry, and what do you think?Her trumpet she..

Dom Pedro, Emperor of far Brazil(Whence coffee comes and the three-cornered nut),They say that you're imperially ill,And threatened with paralysis...

Another Irish landlord gone to grass,Slain by the bullets of the tenant class!Pray, good agrarians, what wrong requiresSuch foul redress? Between you..

Filled with a zeal to serve my fellow men,For years I criticised their prose and verges:Pointed out all their blunders of the pen,Their shallowness..

You promised to paint me a picture,Dear Mat,And I was to pay you in rhyme.Although I am loth to inflict yourMost easy of consciences, I'mOf opinion..

Yawp, yawp, yawp!Under the moon and sun.It's aye the rabble,And I to gabble,And hey! for the tale that is never done.'Chant, chant, chant!To woo the..

Yawp, yawp, yawp!Under the moon and sun.It's aye the rabble,And I to gabble,And hey! for the tale that is never done.'Chant, chant, chant!To woo the..

The Chinatown at BakersfieldWas blazing bright and high;The flames to water would not yield,Though torrents drenched the skyAnd drowned the ground..

A cook adorned with paper cap,Or waiter with a tray,May be a worthy kind of chapIn his way,But when we want one for Recorder,Then, Mr. Walton, take..

Nay, Peter Robertson, 'tis not for youTo blubber o'er Max Taubles for he's dead.By Heaven! my hearty, if you only knewHow better is a grave-worm in..

That from _you_, neighbor! to whose vacant lotEach rhyming literary knacker scourgesHis cart-compelling Pegasus to trot,As folly, fame or famine..