PoemsHill and Leonard, 1903 - 80 pages |
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ADELAIDE JOHNSON Agnes Ethel ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA April 25 awful BILL BURLING'S TROUTING bless brave breast BURLING'S TROUTING EXPEDITION Cæsar CATSKILLS charm Chicopee chrysolite CLEOPATRA AND HYPATIA Colonel Charles James Colonel James dark DAVID BRODERICK dead dear death doth DRAMA THIRTY dreams earth fair fancy fate fear Frou Frou Frou gazed gloam golden grace HAIL MISSOURI heart heaven heroes host ISLAND NYMPHS JOAN OF ARC JOHN BIGELOW Jove Juno Katy Field land life's Listen lord maid mighty mingled MISS KATE FIELD MISS NELLIE AMBROSE mountain muse NEATH SHINING MOON o'er ocean poem PRESENT-DAY RHYMSTERS Ptolemies Queen quick rocks RODE NEATH SHINING rolling deep rose round sight SKANEATELES sleeping soul SPRING OF 1901 sweet swift TELEPHONE tell tempest thee there's thou thought throng tide TRUANTS Twas Washington Post waves whispered wild winds wonders wrath Written on receiving Yuba Dam
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Page 53 - And answered, with the ready truth And open frankness of her youth. " At school." " Who keeps it? " " Uncle Sam." " What is this place, sweet ? " " Yuba Dam." " Alas ! " he screamed, in frantic grief, " Will no one come to my relief? Will no one tell me where I am?" The school-boys shouted, " Yuba Dam !" And on the bridge, as he did slam, The planks re-echoed,
Page 53 - he cried, As through the street he swiftly hied, Yet ere he went to bed that night, From something told him by a wight, He found that he himself had shammed, And that the Yuba had been dammed. THE SOLDIER'S PARDON— JAMES SMITH.