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If Mr. Jones, Lycurgus B., Had one peculiar quality, ’Twas his severe advocacy Of conjugal fidelity. His views of heaven were very free…
(A GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY, 1… Very fair and full of promise Lay the island of St. Thomas: Ocean o’er its reefs and bars Hid its elemental scars;
REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JA… We hev tumbled ez dust Or ez worms of the yearth; Wot we looked for hez bust! We are objects of mirth!
An empty bench, a sky of grayest e… A bare, bleak shed in blackest sil… Twelve years of platform, and befo… Twelve miles of prairie glimmering… North, south, east, west,—the same…
Sauntering hither on listless wing… Careless vagabond of the sea, Little thou heedest the surf that… The bar that thunders, the shale t… Give me to keep thy company.
I. THE PERSONIFIED SE… AFFECTION’S charm no longer g… The idol of the shrine; But cold Oblivion seeks to fill Regret’s ambrosial wine.
It was spring the first time that… moved in Next door, just as skating was ove… For the fence in our back yard was… through the slat,
(NYE’S FORD, STANISLAUS,… Do I sleep? do I dream? Do I wonder and doubt? Are things what they seem? Or is visions about?
Captain of the Western wood, Thou that apest Robin Hood! Green above thy scarlet hose, How thy velvet mantle shows! Never tree like thee arrayed,
Last night, above the whistling wi… I heard the welcome rain,— A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top
It is the story of Thompson—of Th… Frequently drunk was Thompson, bu… Light and free was the touch of T… Great the mortality incident on th… Yet not happy or gay was Thompson…
(YREKA, 1873) Which it is not my style To produce needless pain By statements that rile Or that go 'gin the grain,
Why, as to that, said the engineer… Ghosts ain’t things we are apt to… Spirits don’t fool with levers muc… And throttle-valves don’t take to… And as for Jim,
By scattered rocks and turbid wate… By furrowed glade and dell, To feverish men thy calm, sweet fa… Thou stayest them to tell The delicate thought that cannot f…
(A GEOLOGICAL ADDRESS) ‘Speak, O man, less recent! Fragm… Primal pioneer of pliocene formati… Hid in lowest drifts below the ear… Of volcanic tufa!