Black Beetles in Amber

O Abner Doble--whose "catarrhal name" Budd of that ilk might envy--'tis a rough Rude thing to say, but it is plain enough Your name is to be sneezed at: its acclaim Will "fill t...

First, the great Bonynge comes upon the scene And asks the favor of the British Queen. Suppliant he stands and urges all his claim: His wealth, his portly person and his name, H...

Not all in sorrow and in tears, To pay of gratitude's arrears The yearly sum-- Not prompted, wholly by the pride Of those for whom their friends have died, To-day we come.

Wallace, created on a noble plan To show us that a Judge can be a Man; Through moral mire exhaling mortal stench God-guided sweet and foot-clean to the Bench; In salutation here...

Good friend, it is with deep regret I note The latest, strangest turning of your coat; Though any way you wear that mental clout The seamy side seems always to be out. Who could...

What's that?--you "ne'er again will rob a stage"? What! did you do so? Faith, I didn't know it. Was _that_ what threw poor Themis in a rage? I thought you were convicted as a poet!

Look to the west! Against yon steely sky Lone Mountain rears its holy cross on high. About its base the meek-faced dead are laid To share the benediction of its shade. With cros...

"The Chair was silent, but at last He hove up his proportions vast And stilled them tumults with a look By which the undauntedest was shook. He smiled sarcastical and said: 'If...

IN EXPLANATION THE KEY NOTE CAIN AN OBITUARIAN A COMMUTED SENTENCE A LIFTED FINGER TWO STATESMEN MATTER FOR GRATITUDE THREE KINDS OF A ROGUE A MAN YE FOE TO CATHAYE SAMUEL SHORT...

O moon that hast so oft surprised the deeds Whereby I rose to greatness!--tricksy orb, The type and symbol of my politics, Now draw my ebbing fortunes to their flood, As, by the...

In the valley of the Nile, Where the Holy Crocodile Of immeasurable smile Blossoms like the early rose, And the Sacred Onion grows-- When the Pyramids were new And the Sphinx po...

Cynic perforce from studying mankind In the false volume of his single mind, He damned his fellows for his own unworth, And, bad himself, thought nothing good on earth. Yet, sti...