Love Poems – Page 2852

• Leedle Yawcob Strauss

  I Haf von funny leedle poy, / Vot gomes schust to mine knee; / Der queerest chap, der createst rogue, …

  by Charles Follen Adams

• Dot Long-Handled Dipper

  Der boet may sing off “Der Oldt Oaken Bookit,” / Und in schveetest langvitch its virtues may tell; / Und how, ven a poy, he mit eggsdasy dook it, …

  by Charles Follen Adams

• The Jackdaw of Rheims

  The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal’s chair! / Bishop and abbot and prior were there; / Many a monk, and many a friar, …

  by Richard Harris Barham

• American

  From “a Fable for Critics” / THERE are truths you Americans need to be told, / And it never ’ll refute them to swagger and scold; …

  by James Russell Lowell

• What Mr. Robinson Thinks

  From “The Biglow Papers,” No. III. / GUVENER B. 1 is a sensible man; / He stays to his home an’ looks arter his folks; …

  by James Russell Lowell

• Swell’s Soliloquy

  I Don’t appwove this hawid waw; / Those dweadful bannahs hawt my eyes; / And guns and dwums are such a baw,— …

  by Anonymous

• The Compliment

  Arrayed in snow-white pants and vest, / And other rainment fair to view, / I stood before my sweetheart Sue— …

  by Eugene Field

• The Nantucket Skipper

  Many a long, long year ago, / Nantucket skippers had a plan / Of finding out, though “lying low,” …

  by James Thomas Fields

• The One-Hoss Shay

  Or, The Deacon’s Masterpiece / A Logical Story / HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, …

  by Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Griggsby’s Station

  Pap’s got his patent right, and rich as all creation; / But where ’s the peace and comfort that we all had before? / Le’s go a-visitin’ back to Griggsby’s Station— …

  by James Whitcomb Riley

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