Love Poems – Page 2853
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He ’d Had No Show
JOE Beall ’ud set upon a keg / Down to the groc’ry store, an’ throw / One leg right over t’other leg … -
The Mystified Quaker in New York
Respected Wife: By these few lines my whereabouts thee ’ll learn: / Moreover, I impart to thee my serious concern. / The language of this people is a riddle unto me; … -
To the “Sextant”
O Sextant of the meetin house, wich sweeps / And dusts, or is supposed to! and makes fires, / And lites the gass, and sumtimes leaves a screw loose, … -
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle
Pike County Ballads / WALL, no! I can’t tell whar he lives, / Because he don’t live, you see; … -
To the Pliocene Skull
A Geological Address / “A human skull has been found in California, in the pliocene formation. This skull is the remnant, not only of the earliest pioneer of this State, but the oldest known human being…. The skull was found in a shaft one hundred and fifty feet deep, two miles from Angel’s, in C… -
Banty Tim
[Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to the White Man’s Committee of Spunky Point, Illinois] / I RECKON I git your drift, gents— / You ’low the boy sha’n’t stay; … -
Dow’s Flat
1856 / DOW’S Flat. That ’s its name. / And I reckon that you … -
Plain Language from Truthful James
Popularly Known as “The Heathen Chinee” / WHICH I wish to remark— / And my language is plain— … -
Perils of Thinking
A Centipede was happy quite, / Until a frog in fun / Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?” … -
Nebuchadnezzar
You, Nebuchadnezzar, whoa, sah! / Whar is you tryin’ to go, sah? / I ’d hab you fur to know, sah, …
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