Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Gypsy Woman

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1901 The gypsy woman Lives on the moor; She sleeps in a tent, With a curtained door. Low is her dwelling And hard her bed, But the stars at ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

He's Willing Now

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1920 But Champion Is a Late Late, Says Georgia Poet. The following was received by the sporting editor of The Saturday Blade from Atlanta, G...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Longfellow's "Hiawatha"

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1896 The Indian epic of "Hiawatha" took the world by surprise, writes Hezekiah Butterworth in an article "How Longfellow Wrot...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Author of "Flying Machine" Poem Sees First Airplane

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Author of "Darius Green and His Flying Machine" 1910 John Townsend Trowbridge Wrote the Poem 40 Years Ago, and the Whole Country L...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Thirty Girls Eat Ice Cream

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Illinois, 1906 Drill Corps the Guests of General Pennypacker As guests of General Galusha Pennypacker of Philadelphia, Pa., who is visiting ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

A Literary Curiosity — 38 Lines, Different Poets, One Poem

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1878 A Literary Curiosity A lady occupied a whole year in searching for and fitting the following thirty-eight lines from English and Americ...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

ORAL TEST

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TEACHER: Take four out of five and what do you have, Tommy? TOMMY: Pyorrhea, ma'am. I don't get it. NOTHING COULD BE PLAINER BUTLER:...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

THAT'S PEP

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Vigor, vitality, vim and punch -- That's pep! The courage to act on a sudden hunch, That's pep! The nerve to tackle the hardest thin...

HER OWN MEDICINE

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Mary: "Going out to the drug-store, dad?" Dad: "Yes, Why?" Mary: "Bring me back a couple of pills with you?" D...