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Book: Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 3)

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  • A Song Of Sixty-Five
    Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one,
    And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer;
    40 lines
  • Finistere
    Hurrah! I'm off to Finistere, to Finistere, to Finistere;
    My satchel's swinging on my back, my staff is in my hand;
    32 lines
  • I Have Some Friends
    I have some friends, some worthy friends,
    And worthy friends are rare:
    29 lines
  • The Spirit Of The Unborn Babe
    The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane,
    Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the night;
    48 lines
  • If You Had A Friend
    If you had a friend strong, simple, true,
    Who knew your faults and who understood;
    24 lines
  • The Outlaw
    A wild and woeful race he ran
    Of lust and sin by land and sea;
    48 lines
  • My Book
    Before I drink myself to death,
    God, let me finish up my Book!
    36 lines
  • The Contented Man
    "How good God is to me," he said;
    "For have I not a mansion tall,
    24 lines
  • My Hour
    Day after day behold me plying
    My pen within an office drear;
    80 lines
  • The Philanderer
    Oh, have you forgotten those afternoons
    With riot of roses and amber skies,
    32 lines
  • My Masterpiece
    It's slim and trim and bound in blue;
    Its leaves are crisp and edged with gold;
    24 lines
  • The Wistful One
    I sought the trails of South and North,
    I wandered East and West;
    8 lines
  • Oh, It Is Good
    Oh, it is good to drink and sup,
    And then beside the kindly fire
    20 lines
  • The Other One
    "Gather around me, children dear;
    The wind is high and the night is cold;
    56 lines
  • Old David Smail
    He dreamed away his hours in school;
    He sat with such an absent air,
    24 lines
  • The Petit Vieux
    "Sow your wild oats in your youth," so we're always told;
    But I say with deeper sooth: "Sow them when you're old."
    20 lines
  • Poor Peter
    Blind Peter Piper used to play
    All up and down the city;
    32 lines
  • The Quest
    I sought Him on the purple seas,
    I sought Him on the peaks aflame;
    18 lines
  • Teddy Bear
    O Teddy Bear! with your head awry
    And your comical twisted smile,
    32 lines
  • The Walkers
    (He speaks.)
    Walking, walking, oh, the joy of walking!
    26 lines
  • The Comforter
    As I sat by my baby's bed
    That's open to the sky,
    16 lines
  • The Wonderer
    I wish that I could understand
    The moving marvel of my Hand;
    54 lines
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