Dreams in HomespunLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1897 - 221 páginas |
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ain't allus Biddy McGee Billy McGaw blooms bobolinks bwave cable-car Chegung Chet crop dead DEAR dreamed earth Erastus etikwet evermore eyes farm fate's great turnpike Fit to kill flosserfize flying-machine funeral Ghost glad hear heart HERDSGRASS FOUR CORNERS hills Hiram Hale John John Bean John Stubbs July kelp little red stamp look loud Lung Complaint meadows MELCHIZEDEK mighty milk Mother Putney never night O'Flaherty oblivious to fears once perceed Plato Pokumville ROOM 40 Sam Flint SAM WALTER FOSS Sambo sing skies soul stamp with George star sticks stood strong Stubbs Sylvanus Cobb tale Of Hiram tears tell thing thoroughfare that stretches thought throng town of Hay tree trundle bed truth turnpike thoroughfare twas UNCLE HIRAM W'en a feller whale whiskers wife winds wineless drunkard's song young Zeitgeist
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Página 11 - Wise, foolish — so am I. Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban ? Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Página 12 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road Where the race of men go by — They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish — so am I. Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Página 177 - The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song ; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong. There are thoughts that moan from the soul of the pine, And thoughts in a flower bell curled ; And the thoughts that are blown with the scent of the fern Are as new and as old as the world.
Página 12 - I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead And mountains of wearisome height; That the road passes on through the long afternoon And stretches away to the night.
Página 63 - I'm the little red stamp with George Washington's picture; And I go wherever I may, To any spot in George Washington's land; And I go by the shortest way. And the guns of wrath would clear my path — A thousand guns at need — Of the hands that should dare to block my course, Or slacken my onward speed.
Página 172 - She was Grand Worthy Prophetess Of the Illustrious Maids of Mark; Of Vestals of the Third Degree She was Most Potent Matriarch; She was High Priestess of the Shrine Of Clubtown's Culture Coterie, And First Vice-President of the League Of the Illustrious GAB She was the First Dame of the Club For teaching Patagonians Greek; She was Chief Clerk and Auditor Of Clubtown's Anti-Bachelor Clique; She was High Treasurer of the Fund For Borrioboolaghalians, And the Fund for Sending Browning's Poems To Native-born...
Página 64 - Is standing straight with outstretched arms And rapt and upturned eyes." "Oh, no; no, no," said Elder Slow, "Such posture is too proud: A man should pray with eyes fast closed And head contritely bowed.
Página 65 - Las' year I fell in Hodgkin's well Head first," said Cyrus Brown, " With both my heels a-stickin' up, My head a-pinting down ; " An' I made a prayer right then an' there — Best prayer I ever said, The prayingest prayer I ever prayed, A-standing on my head.