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  • The Daughter Of The Year
    Nature, when she made thee, dear,
    Begged the treasures of the year.
    16 lines
  • Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels
    (with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper)
    I well recall (and who does not)
    35 lines
  • Says Mister Doojabs
    Well, eight months ago one clear cold day,
    I took a ramble up Broadway,
    49 lines
  • Valentine To The Girl In Black
    In hand I take this pen of mine
    To write you, sweet, a valentine;
    7 lines
  • Trespassers
    When Love and I drew softly nigh
    And gazed in modest Chloe's eye
    17 lines
  • Why I Went To The Foot
    Was ever a maiden so worried?
    I’ll admit I am partial to Jim,
    29 lines
  • Outbid
    When Cupid held an auction sale,
    I hastened to his mart,
    33 lines
  • Partners
    Love took chambers on our street
    Opposite to mine;
    17 lines
  • Ridden Down
    When I taught Ida how to ride a
    Bicycle that night,
    13 lines
  • The Hunter
    A full-fledged gun cannot endure
    The trifling of an amateur;
    14 lines
  • No Beer, No Work
    The shades of night was fallin’ slow
    As through New York a guy did go
    26 lines
  • The Poor Boy’s Christmas
    Observe, my child, this pretty scene,
    And note the air of pleasure keen
    12 lines
  • New England Magazine
    Upon Bottle Miche the autre day
    While yet the nuit was early,
    49 lines
  • The Sheep
    The Sheep adorns the landscape rural
    And is both singular and plural—
    21 lines
  • Speaking Of Operations
    I know something wonderful—wonderful;
    So strange it will quite startle you;
    8 lines
  • The Wood Nymph
    A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder —
    That is the most I can boast to have seen,
    8 lines
  • To G. M. W. And G. F. W.
    Whenas—(I love that "whenas" word—
    It shows I am a poet, too,)
    63 lines
  • To Kate. (In Lieu Of A Valentine)
    Sweet Love and I had oft communed;
    We were, indeed, great friends,
    26 lines
  • Reasonable Interest
    I want to know how Bernard Shaw
    Likes beefsteak—fairly done, or raw?
    24 lines
  • To Jessica, Gone Back To The City
    Sence fair Jessica hez left us
    Seems ez ef she hed bereft us,
    37 lines
  • To Marguerite
    So great my debt to thee, I know my life
    Is all too short to pay the least I owe,
    9 lines
  • Womanly Qualms
    When I go rowing on the lake,
    I long to be a man;
    25 lines
  • To Phyllis And May
    O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May,
    Which of you carried my heart away?
    6 lines
  • When Ida Puts Her Armor On
    When Ida puts her armor on
    And draws her trusty blade
    33 lines
  • The Romance Of Patrolman Casey
    There was a young patrolman who
    Had large but tender feet;
    41 lines
  • To May
    I have no heart to write verses to May;
    I have no heart—yet I’m cheerful today;
    5 lines
  • The Final Tax
    Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:
    "What can we tax that is not paying?
    37 lines
  • October
    The forest holds high carnival to-day,
    And every hill-side glows with gold and fire;
    9 lines
  • Western
    The Cowboy had a sterling heart,
    The Maiden was from Boston,
    21 lines
  • The Cut Finger
    THE GOSSOON [Weeping]
    It’s bleedin’! It’s bleedin’!
    31 lines
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