Poems

Matter for Gratitude Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people’s thanks That Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks– That Thou hast parted from our […]

On the Wedding of the Aeronaut Aeronaut, you’re fairly caught, Despite your bubble’s leaven: Out of the skies a lady’s eyes Have brought you down to […]

Piety The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.Judibras.

Rimer The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning […]

Safety-Clutch Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin’ All the place where he had fell. And I says, apostrophisin’ […]

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ Day of Satan’s painful duty! Dies iræ! dies illa! Earth shall vanish, hot and sooty; Solvet sæclum in favilla […]

The Key Note I dreamed I was dreaming one morn as I lay In a garden with flowers teeming. On an island I lay in a […]

The Legatee In fair San Francisco a good man did dwell, And he wrote out a will, for he didn’t feel well. Said he: “It is […]

The New Decalogue Have but one God: thy knees were sore If bent in prayer to three or four. Adore no images save those The coinage […]

The Statesmen How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue When troubles rise. Behold […]