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  • The Bow-Leg Boy
    Who should come up the road one day
    But the doctor-man in his two-wheel shay!
    46 lines
  • A Valentine
    Your gran'ma, in her youth, was quite
      As blithe a little maid as you.
    34 lines, 1 comment
  • The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway
    A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;
    A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;
    20 lines
  • With Two Spoons For Two Spoons
    How trifling shall these gifts appear
      Among the splendid many
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Christmas Eve
        Oh, hush thee, little Dear-my-Soul,
          The evening shades are falling,--
    24 lines
  • Bethlehem-Town
        As I was going to Bethlehem-town,
        Upon the earth I cast me down
    40 lines
  • Little Willie
    When Willie was a little boy,
        No more than five or six,
    42 lines
  • Chicago Weather
    To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl!
    Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow,
    16 lines
  • At Cheyenne
    Young Lochinvar came in from the West,
    With fringe on his trouser
    19 lines
  • The Three Kings Of Cologne
        From out Cologne there came three kings
          To worship Jesus Christ, their King.
    41 lines
  • The Bottle Tree
    A bottle tree bloometh in Winkyway land -
    Heigh-ho for a bottle, I say!
    24 lines
  • A Valentine To My Wife
    Accept, dear girl, this little token,
    And if between the lines you seek,
    28 lines
  • Beard And Baby
    I say, as one who never feared
    The wrath of a subscriber's bullet,
    33 lines, 2 comments
  • Nightfall in Dordrecht
    The mill goes toiling slowly around
      With steady and solemn creak,
    34 lines
  • The "Happy Isles" of Horace
    Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles
      In the golden haze off yonder,
    33 lines
  • Alaskan Balladry
    Krinken was a little child,—
    It was summer when he smiled.
    59 lines
  • Heine's "Widow Or Daughter?"
    Shall I woo the one or other?
      Both attract me—more's the pity!
    13 lines
  • The Rock-A-By Lady
    The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby street
    Comes stealing; comes creeping;
    26 lines
  • The Bibliomaniac's Prayer
    Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way
      That I may truths eternal seek;
    26 lines
  • The Bibliomaniac's Bride
    The women-folk are like to books --
      Most pleasing to the eye,
    55 lines
  • Dear Old London
    When I was broke in London in the fall of '89, 
    I chanced to spy in Oxford Street this tantalizing sign, 
    54 lines
  • Dibdin's Ghost
    Dear wife, last midnight, whilst I read 
      The tomes you so despise, 
    70 lines
  • Boccaccio
    One day upon a topmost shelf
      I found a precious prize indeed,
    63 lines
  • Marcus Varro
    Marcus Varro went up and down
      The places where old books were sold;
    53 lines
  • My Garden
    My garden aboundeth in pleasant nooks
      And fragrance is over it all;
    45 lines
  • Doctor Rabelais
    Once -- it was many years ago.
      In early wedded life,
    81 lines
  • To M.L. Gray,
    Come, dear old friend, and with us twain
      To calm Digentian groves repair;
    40 lines
  • A Democratic Hymn
    Republicans of differing views
        Are pro or con protection;
    24 lines
  • The Blue And Gray
    The Blue and the Gray collided one day
        In the future great town of Missouri,
    43 lines
  • It Is The Printer's Fault
    In Mrs. Potter's latest play
        The costuming is fine;
    3 lines
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