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Book: Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 2)

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  • A Domestic Tragedy
    Clorinda met me on the way
    As I came from the train;
    25 lines, 6 comments
  • Fi-Fi In Bed
    Up into the sky I stare;
    All the little stars I see;
    12 lines
  • Gods In The Gutter
    I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat,
    And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat;
    21 lines
  • The Bohemian Dreams
    Because my overcoat's in pawn,
    I choose to take my glass
    64 lines
  • My Neighbors
    To rest my fagged brain now and then,
    When wearied of my proper labors,
    16 lines
  • The Release
    To-day within a grog-shop near
    I saw a newly captured linnet,
    24 lines
  • Room 4: The Painter Chap
    He gives me such a bold and curious look,
    That young American across the way,
    67 lines
  • The Pencil Seller
    A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy?
    I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight;
    154 lines
  • Room 5: The Concert Singer
    I'm one of these haphazard chaps
    Who sit in cafes drinking;
    56 lines
  • The Bohemian
    Up in my garret bleak and bare
    I tilted back on my broken chair,
    32 lines
  • Room 6: The Little Workgirl
    Three gentlemen live close beside me --
    A painter of pictures bizarre,
    56 lines
  • The Joy Of Being Poor
    I
    Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich;
    57 lines
  • Room 7: The Coco-Fiend
    I look at no one, me;
    I pass them on the stair;
    135 lines
  • The Philistine And The Bohemian
    She was a Philistine spick and span,
    He was a bold Bohemian.
    84 lines
  • The Auction Sale
    Her little head just topped the window-sill;
    She even mounted on a stool, maybe;
    64 lines
  • The Wee Shop
    She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking
    The pinched economies of thirty years;
    56 lines, 1 comment
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