Famous Wilkins Poems by Famous Poets
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...ed,"--they was right,
For I leaned to punchin' cattle
And I'm at it still tonight.
And she married young Doc Wilkins--
Oh my Lord! but that was hard!
Wish that fool would quit his singin'
"Annie Laurie" out on guard!
Oh, I just kaint stand it thinkin'
Of the things that happened then.
Good old times, and all apast me!
Never seem to come again--
My turn? Sure. I'll come a-runnin'.
Warm me up some coffee, pard--
But I'll stop...Read more of this...
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Clark, Badger
...t half the scribblers muster,
That swarm'd round Rivington in cluster;
Assemblies, Councilmen, forsooth,
Brush, Cowper, Wilkins, Chandler, Booth:
Yet all their arguments and sapience
You did not value at three halfpence.
Did not our Massachusettensis
For your conviction strain his senses;
Scrawl every moment he could spare
From cards and barbers and the fair;
Show, clear as sun in noonday heavens,
You did not feel a single grievance;
Demonstrate all your opposition
Sprung fro...Read more of this...
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Trumbull, John
...dships from each carved estate,
On our New-York Assembly wait!
What titled Jauncys, Gales and Billops;
Lord Brush, Lord Wilkins and Lord Philips!
In wide-sleeved pomp of godly guise,
What solemn rows of Bishops rise!
Aloft a Cardinal's hat is spread
O'er punster Cooper's reverend head.
In Vardell, that poetic zealot,
I view a lawn-bedizen'd Prelate;
While mitres fall, as 'tis their duty,
On heads of Chandler and Auchmuty!
Knights, Viscounts, Barons, shall ye meet,
As thick as...Read more of this...
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Trumbull, John
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