The white men played all sorts of… They took big fish off my hook And put little ones on, while I w… Getting a stringer, and made me be… I hadn’t seen aright the fish I h…

Take note, passers-by, of the shar… Eaten in my head-stone by the wind… Almost as if an intangible Nemesi… Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve,…

I was a gun-smith in Odessa. One night the police broke in the… Where a group of us were reading… And seized our books and arrested… But I escaped and came to New Yo…

I was a peasant girl from Germany… Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was… On a summer’s day when she was awa… He stole into the kitchen and took…

The sudden death of Eugene Carman Put me in line to be promoted to f… And I told my wife and children t… But it didn’t come, and so I thou… Old Rhodes suspected me of steali…

Rhodes’ slave! Selling shoes and… Flour and bacon, overalls, clothin… For fourteen hours a day for three… For more than twenty years. Saying “Yes’m” and “Yes, sir”, an…

Whoever thou art who passest by Know that my father was gentle, And my mother was violent, While I was born the whole of suc… Not intermixed and fused,

There would be a knock at the door And I would arise at midnight and… Where belated travelers would hear… Sepulchral boards and tacking sati… And often I wondered who would go…

You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave… Fill it with mercy for our sake, And light us gently to the grave. The Goth and Vandal rendered not

He protested all his life long The newspapers lied about him vill… That he was not at fault for Mine… But only tried to help her. Poor soul so sunk in sin he could…

Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered t… Dead with my death! Not knowing breath, though you tri…

While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides th… For singing “Turkey in the straw”… (Like Rile Potter used to sing it… For cards, or for Rev. Peet’s lec…

Did my widow flit about From Mackinac to Los Angeles, Resting and bathing and sitting an… Or more at the table over soup and… And delicate sweets and coffee?

Did you ever find out which of the boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against… There when the flags were red and… In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil

I grew spiritually fat living off… If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded its pride and devoured i… The shelters of friendship knew my… For where I could steal a friend…