item: #1 of 8
          id: 16898
      author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
       title: Green Bays. Verses and Parodies
        date: None
       words: 7769
      flesch: 89
     summary: 'BEHOLD! 'BEHOLD!
    keywords: come; commem; day; dear; dreamynge; fro; jane; kitty; lady; little; love; man; oxford; swells; thy; time; tis; town; twas; white
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 23338
      author: Duff, J. L.
       title: The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam With Apologies to Omar
        date: None
       words: 695
      flesch: 85
     summary: X Yes, make the most of what we still may spend; The last Drop's lingering Taste may yet transcend Anticipation's Bliss--though we are left Sans Wine, Sans Song, Sans Singer, and--Sans End. With Apologies to_ OMAR [Illustration] _Illustrated by_ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [_Not of Philadelphia_] _
    keywords: coffee; illustration
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 23792
      author: Wells, Carolyn
       title: The Rubáiyát of Bridge
        date: None
       words: 693
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration] Oh, Threats of Loss, and Hopes of Golden Store, One thing in Bridge is Certain,--'tis not Lore! [Illustration] Ah, make the Most of what We yet may Take, Before we lose the Lead, and let Them make =Trick after Trick!
    keywords: illustration
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 26437
      author: Little, Mary Wallace Bundy
       title: The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband
        date: None
       words: 1029
      flesch: 89
     summary: But Wife says, Omar's reckoning proves it As Impotently moves as You or I. XIV At least that is the Doctrine he presents, Although to Me it is Devoid of Sense. V She soon possessed the dreadful Omar Fad, Which other Husbands, I have learned, think Bad.
    keywords: omar; rubaiyat; wife
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 28184
      author: Burgess, Gelett
       title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
        date: None
       words: 3301
      flesch: 82
     summary: LXXXV Then said a Second--Ne'er a Girl or Boy Such Stuff as I am really could enjoy: Yet He who wrote me, when I am return'd, Will me with Curse and bitter Wrath destroy! LXXXVI After a literary Silence spake A Manuscript of Henry James's make; They sneer at me for being so occult: But Kipling's found such Stuff is going to Take! LXXXVII Whereat some one of the typewritten Lot-- I think it was Cy Brady's--waxing hot-- All this of Shop and Patter--Tell me then, Who buys--Who reads--the Stuff that boils _my_
    keywords: author; books; critic; day; editor; new; stuff; tale; way
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 31467
      author: Rowland, Helen
       title: The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor
        date: None
       words: 2389
      flesch: 88
     summary: The bitter seeds of _Alimony_ sowing! Better be jocund with them, one and all, And loving _many_, thus your love dilute.
    keywords: day; illustration; love; man; woman
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 32944
      author: Riley, James Whitcomb
       title: Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers
        date: None
       words: 5563
      flesch: 90
     summary: hisse'f Doc Sifers_--ner they hain't no other one! V Doc's allus sociable, polite, and 'greeable, you'll find-- Pervidin' ef you strike him right and nothin' on his mind,-- Like in some _hurry_, when they've sent fer Sifers _quick_, you see, To 'tend some sawmill-accident, er picnic jamboree; VI Er when the lightnin' 's struck some hare- brained harvest-hand; er in Some 'tempt o' suicidin'--where they'd ort to try ag'in! [Illustration] XIV Some says no money down ud buy that bird o' Doc.--Ner no Inducement to the _bird_, says I, 'at _he'd_ let _Sifers_ go!
    keywords: day; doc; fer; git; hain't; illustration; jes; man; ner; right; round; sifers; wuz; yit
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 5408
      author: Irwin, Wallace
       title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.
        date: None
       words: 6277
      flesch: 71
     summary: Due doubtless to the preservative influence of smoke Omar Khayyam, Jr., was enabled to live to the hale age of one hundred and seven, and to go to an apotheosis fully worthy his greatness. While all this was going on, the present Editor was forced to conclude that the burning literary need was not for more translators, but for more Omars to translate; and what was his surprise to note that the work of a later and superior Omar Khayyam was lying undiscovered in the wilds of Borneo!
    keywords: day; editor; father; good; khayyam; kiss; kisses; life; love; omar; pipe; poet; rubaiyat; smoke; time
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