The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems
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- THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS-SHAY”
- And Other Poems
- (Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly of September, 1858) With numerous original illustrations by Thomas McIlvaine
- THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE:
- OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS-SHAY.” A LOGICAL STORY.
- (“BRADDOCK'S ARMY WAS DONE SO BROWN.”)
- (“I DEW VUM”)
- (“SO THE DEACON INQUIRED OF THE VILLAGE FOLK.”)
- (“THE PARSON TAKES A DRIVE.”)
- “WHEN HE GOT UP AND STARED AROUND.”
- (“THIS ANCIENT SILVER BOWL OF MINE.”)
- ON LENDING A PUNCHBOWL.
- (“JOLLY NIGHTS.”)
- (“AND QUAFFED A CUP OF GOOD OLD FLEMISH ALE.”)
- (“WITH THOSE THAT IN THE MAYFLOWER CAME.”)
- (“STIRRED THE POSSET WITH HIS SWORD.”)
- (“A MOTHER'S HAND TO CHEER HER PARTING BOY.”)
- (“ITS BROKEN WALLS.”)
- THE LAST LEAF.
- (“AS HE TOTTERS O'ER THE GROUND WITH HIS CANE.”)
- (“IN HIS PRIME.”)
- (“THE PRUNING-KNIFE OF TIME”)
- (“MY GRANDMAMMA HAS SAID.”)
- (“BY THE CRIER ON HIS ROUND.”)
- (“THE MOSSY MARBLES REST”)
- (“THE LIPS THAT HE HAS PREST.”)
- THE STAR AND THE WATER-LILY.
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