I bought every kind of machine tha… Grinders, shellers, planters, mowe… Mills and rakes and ploughs and th… And all of them stood in the rain… Getting rusted, warped and battere…

Mr Kessler, you know, was in the… And he drew six dollars a month as… And stood on the corner talking po… Or sat at home reading Grant’s Me… And I supported the family by was…

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…

(America Conquers Europe.) Foul shapes that hate the day, aga… Late driven hence, infested fane a… The laurels of our victory were am… Vile King-craft with his breed of…

On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the thought of… And that one is the prayer of Jes… And this one is the dream of Plat…

I was the laughing-stock of the vi… Chiefly of the people of good sens… Also of the learned, like Rev. Pe… The same as English. For instead of talking free trade,

When my moustache curled, And my hair was black, And I wore tight trousers And a diamond stud, I was an excellent knave of hearts…

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…

I never saw any difference Between playing cards for money And selling real estate, Practicing law, banking, or anythi… For everything is chance.

God! ask me not to record your won… I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But I have measured their distanc… And weighed them and discovered th…

I was the Sunday school superinte… The dummy president of the wagon w… And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the… My son the cashier of the bank,

My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what i… In youth my mind was just a mirror In a rapidly flying car, Which catches and loses bits of th…

Did you ever see an alligator Come up to the air from the mud, Staring blindly under the full gla… Have you seen the stabled horses a… Tremble and start back at the sigh…

Oh, you young radicals and dreamer… You dauntless fledglings Who pass by my headstone, Mock not its record of my captainc… And my faith in God!

The very fall my sister Nancy Kna… Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder of Zora Clemens, And I sat in the court two weeks