item: #1 of 6 id: 26797 author: Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) title: Something Else Again date: None words: 16661 flesch: 87 summary: His Farewell Speech in '96 Said: 'Ware the Trusts and all their tricks! John Adams fell on darksome days: March Fourth was blustery and sleety; The French behaved in horrid ways Until John Jay drew up a treaty. Evening Mail_.] Said Abelard to Heloïse: Your tresses blowing in the breeze Enchant my soul; your cheek allures; I never knew such lips as yours. keywords: book; carlyle; comma; day; good; hath; home; horace; laugh; life; lines; love; man; new; night; ode; remember; sing; street; stuff; sweet; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; town; war; way; work; world; years cache: 26797.txt plain text: 26797.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 4756 author: Irwin, Wallace title: The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum date: None words: 4453 flesch: 78 summary: Just then Brick Murphy butted in between, Rushing my funny song-and-dance to jail, My syncopated con-talk no avail, For Murphy was the only nectarine. See how that Murphy cake-walks in his pride! keywords: good; instance; irwin; love; mame; murphy; slang; sonnets; talk; thought; time cache: 4756.txt plain text: 4756.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 5332 author: Irwin, Wallace title: The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor date: None words: 4160 flesch: 86 summary: But when I ogle Pansy in the throng My heart turns over twice and rings a gong? Of the human or personal record of William Henry Smith very little has been discovered. (1) Since the salary-books of the Metropolitan Street Railways show, during the year 1906, 182 conductors named Smith in their employ, 38 of whom were named William Smith and 12 William Henry Smith, it is easy for the reader to conceive my task in establishing the identity of our Poet. keywords: car; conductor; fare; gill; girl; grip; love; pansy; slang; smith; sonnets cache: 5332.txt plain text: 5332.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 6122 author: Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) title: Tobogganing on Parnassus date: None words: 14288 flesch: 86 summary: Neighbours all are coming over to the party, All the busy boys, all the giggling girlies, Whiffs of certain things wafted from the kitchen-- Simply delicious. Such deadly things need not alarm him. keywords: book; come; cut; day; fair; flat; good; heart; horace; know; lady; like; look; lot; love; man; myrtilla; night; ode; people; stuff; thee; thing; thou; time; way; write cache: 6122.txt plain text: 6122.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 6652 author: None title: The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe date: None words: 136616 flesch: 83 summary: I shall beg the ladies' pardon if I insert a few passages concerning her: and at the same time I assure them it is not to lesson those of the present age, who are possessed of the like laudable talents; for I will confess, that I know three in the city of Dublin, no way inferior to Xantippe, but that they have not as great men to work upon. Meanwhile, the Friar, whose head was turn'd By the laced coat, grew frisky too-- Look'd big--his former habits spurn'd-- And storm'd about as great men do-- Dealt much in pompous oaths and curses-- Said Damn you, often, or as bad-- Laid claim to other people's purses-- keywords: age; alas; author; bear; beer; black; blue; book; bright; child; church; coat; cold; course; court; cry; cut; day; days; dead; dear; death; devil; doctor; dog; door; doubt; earth; english; ere; eyes; face; fair; fancy; far; fate; father; fear; feel; fellow; felt; fine; fire; footnote; form; friend; glass; god; good; grace; great; green; grew; hair; half; hand; happy; hath; head; heart; heaven; hold; home; hope; hour; house; james; john; jones; joy; kind; king; know; ladies; lady; land; late; law; leave; left; life; like; little; live; london; long; look; lord; lot; love; maid; majesty; man; mary; master; meet; men; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; nature; nay; ne'er; ned; new; night; niversity; nose; o'er; pass; pay; pen; people; peter; place; play; poet; poor; pray; prince; public; punch; queen; quoth; red; rest; room; rose; round; royal; run; saw; set; sir; son; song; soul; spirit; street; tail; taste; tell; tender; thee; thet; things; think; thomas; thou; thought; till; time; tis; tom; tongue; town; truth; turn; vain; voice; water; way; whitbread; white; wife; william; wish; wit; woman; wonder; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 6652.txt plain text: 6652.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 8953 author: Kirk, William Frederick title: The Norsk Nightingale; Being the Lyrics of a "Lumberyack" date: None words: 6976 flesch: 94 summary: SHERIDAN'S RIDE Ef yu ban vise, and ay s'pose yu ban, As ven all his vork ban tru. Vork, say Yohn, ban vat yu mak it. keywords: ant; ban; den; dey; dis; gude; har; lak; little; maester; old; skol; tal; tenk; ven; yure; yust cache: 8953.txt plain text: 8953.txt