#Americans #XXCentury
The rhino is a homely beast, For human eyes he’s not a feast. Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoce… I’ll stare at something less prepo…
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendents Outnumber your friends.
Some primal termite knocked on woo… And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor toda…
I didn’t go to church today, I trust the Lord to understand. The surf was swirling blue and whi… The children swirling on the sand. He knows, He knows how brief my s…
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead… So many I love were not yet born.
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven lives; Seven lives, In seven sacks, Like seven beeves
Nothing makes me sicker than liquor and candy is too expandy
The truth I do not stretch or sho… When I state that the dog is full… I’ve also found, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.
This one is entering her teens, Ripe for sentimental scenes, Has picked a gangling unripe male, Sees herself in a bridal veil, Presses lips and tosses head,
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond
Oh, “rorty” was a mid-Victorian w… Which meant “fine, splendid, jolly… And often to me it has reoccurred In moments melancholy. For instance, children, I think i…
Enter, breath; Breath, slip out; Blood, be channeled, And wind about. O, blessed breath and blood which…
Bring down the moon for genteel J… She’s too refined for this gross p… She wears garments and you wear cl… You buy stockings, she purchases h… She say That is correct, and you…
