The Ghost in the Attic: And Other VersesA.A. Knopf, 1926 - 145 страници |
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Amid Amos ancient Asa Kenney beneath Bennett Betimes bloom breeze brought bull CHIMNEY SWIFT climbed clocks cried dark deacon Dexter of Newburyport door dream drew dusk Edwin Marcy eyes face FACE-BACKS fence garden grass grew HARUSPEX head heart Hebron hills HIRSUTE horses Hum-m-m Jehudi Josiah Snow knew laid land legend light lilac-tree lived locust-trees lonely long ago looked loom maize Marah Medford meeting-house molasses morning neighbor never night o'er OLD DEERFIELD Old Whitway once parson passed plow pound of tea pray Prentice pride red-winged blackbirds road rose round Sarah seemed shade skimmington smile soon SORGHUM soul spoke spring Stephen stone stood strange stranger sudden Susan Bailey swift sycamore tall teamsters things thought Timothy Dexter to-day toil town trees turned waited WET DAYS wheel Whereat wind winter wool-wheel words wore Yankee yore York Herald Tribune
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Страница 123 - Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles ? 36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
Страница 6 - All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses." " We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.
Страница 130 - The lark was on the wing, The snail was on the thorn ; The horn was on the critter, The knob was on the horn.
Страница 50 - ... RIME OF AN ANCIENT GENTLEMAN TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport Was a droll old scout of a good old sort. He published a book, did this choice old spark, With no trace of a punctuation mark. The critics might rave or readers complain, And declare the proceeding scarcely sane; Yet never a point did the book contain. Some persons denounced him and others jeered, But a new edition ere long appeared. Points of all sizes and all the faces That then could be found in printers...
Страница 51 - They cried, and he went with another lot. And he sold the lids to the native beaux, Who wore 'em suspended from ear or nose And asked, "Can you furnish some more of those?" Timothy Dexter of Newburyport Was a stanch old blade of a fine old sort. They begged him to stay. "My regrets," said he, "But Newburyport is the place for me.
Страница 51 - But Newburyport is the place for me. Though I like it here, yet I aim to tack For my native town on the Merrimac. You'll please excuse me, for I'm going back." So he sailed back home, where he lived in state, With a coach and a poet laureate; And he set up statues of men of fame, With Timothy Dexter among the same; And he wronged no man nor was sued in tort, This blithe old fellow of a high old sort, Timothy Dexter of Newburyport.
Страница 105 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door...
Страница 50 - Timothy Dexter of Newburyport Was a gay old soul of a rare old sort. For West Indian trade he laid his plans, So he sailed with a cargo of warming-pans ; And when he discovered for things like these No market at all in the Caribbees, His comment was merely, "We aim to please.
Страница 92 - ... for souls ; and so When the Hannah sailed again, She carried no Medford rum below — She was laden with living men. Yet black men differed from rum, O Lord — Rum was rated most precious stuff, But a few dead blacks tossed...
Страница 51 - No market at all in the Caribbees, His comment was merely, "We aim to please." •He removed the lids with a right good will, And the pans he sold to a sugar mill For molasses ladles.