Excerpts from the Book 'East And West':

... she lifted a quavering voice and high,. Wild and strange as a sea-bird's cry,. Till they shuddered and wondered at her side. The fog drove ...
... lawn. And mayhap from causes as slight as this. The quaint old legend is born. But the soul of that subtle, sad perfume,. As the spiced embalmings, ...
... work eh, Colonel, wasn't it. Ye mind that narrow front: They called it the 'Death-Angle.' Well, well, my lad, we won't Fight that ...
... extry grub outside o' the pris'n mess. And perhaps if a gent like you, with whom I've been sorter free, Would-thank you. But, say, look here. Oh, blast ...
... the same,-. If the duty would not overtask you,-. You would please to procure for me, game. And send per express to the Flat, Miss,. Which ...
... of Faith alone. The good effects of the waters shone. But skins grew rosy, eyes waxed clear,. Of rough vacquero and muleteer. Angular forms ...
... their poor tenements avail. For worldly show and ostentation. A Sanitary Message. Last night, above the whistling wind,. I heard the ...
... arrow so true, never bullet so dread,. As the straight steady stroke of that hammershaped head. Whether slave, or proud planter, who braves ...
... but brief encore,. Down all the circling ages run,. With the world's plaudit of Well done.. The Lost Galleon. In sixteen hundred and forty-one,. The ...
... galleon all this while:. Wrecked on some lonely coral isle. Burnt by the roving sea-marauders,. Or sailing north under secret orders. Had she ...
... only one ninth of May, but two,-. One for the good saint's present cheer,. And one for the day we lost last year.. Back to the spot ...
... the living column passed its feet,. Yet now rode steadily up the street. To the phantom bugle's warning:. Till it reached the Capitol ...
... she had a heart. But this, par parenthesis. Brown was the man. Preferred of all others to carry her fan,. Hook her glove, drape her shawl, and do ...
... light, that a lady may waltz in, or polk,. With a freedom that none but you masculine folk. Ever know. For, however poor woman aspires,. She's ...
... the vigor and ease that her movements combined. E'en Rigelboche never flung higher her robe. In the naughtiest city that's known on the globe. 'Twas ...
... island of St. Thomas.. Said the Mountain ranges, Thank'ee,. But we cannot stand the Yankee. O'er our scars and fissures poring,. In our very ...
... with hay. Yet, looking down the distant lane,. She hoped the judge would come again. But when he came, with smile and bow,. Maud only blushed, ...
... And he. Sighed as he pondered, ruefully,. How that which in Maud was native grace. In Mrs. Jenkins was out of place. And thought of the twins, ...
... dress. A Moral Vindicator. If Mr. Jones, Lycurgus B.,. Had one peculiar quality,. 'Twas his severe advocacy. Of conjugal fidelity. His ...
... Ben Bolt's, were hung. Across those wooden pegs. 'Twas there the nauseating smoke. Of my first pipe arose:. O mother, dear. these agonies. Are ...