Alphabetical index of poems
Click on any colored title for the complete text of the poem.
"We Serve"
A Day In The Dark
A Declaration Of Independence
A Dog And A Kid
A Doggone Honest Song
A Dull Life
A Fable For Poets
A Few Left
A Gift
A Large Evening At The Club
A Litany Of The Meridian
A Mercenary Lay
A Non-Wander Song
A Nose Is A Nose Is A Nose (from: Happily Ever After)
A Pantoum Of Rehearsal
A Pipe, A Jug, A Book
A Punctuated Idol
A Song Of Power
A Speck On The Dot
A Wander Song
A.D.
Absolutely Mr Shean
Accent On Accent
Adventure
Adventurers Of Science
Advertisers, Publishers--Note: (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
Advising The Telephone Girl
Aerial Adventurers
Aesop Debunked
After The Pandemonium
Age
Age Of Heroes
Albert Aikin
All Is Discovered
All Off Here
All Shipshape
All The Luck
Alphabet Of Safety
Ambition
America Speaks
American Plan
American Ships
Americanus Sum
Ample
An Adventure In Bohemia
An Easy Task
An Ideal
An Invitation
An Unsung Hero
—And a Happy New Year
And Fresh Every Hour (from: Happily Ever After)
And Hallowell Chawed
And Time Enough!
Annie Up To Date
Answer Men
Ante Mortem
Ante-Volstead Saloon Days
Any Housewife To Any Husband
Arden
Are You Having Fun?
Around The Clock
Around The Fire
Artillery
Arts and Crafts
As It Will Be In 1925
Ashes To Ashes
At A War Hospital
At Kamakura
Austin Hunt
Autumn Magic
A.W.O.L.
"B" division - from: Songs Of The Training Camps (Officers Training School)
Baby Talk
Back From Elba
Back In The States
Ballads From Bradshaw
Ballads Of Babbitt Abroad
Ballads Of The Drowsy East (Honolulu, etc)
Bangkok
Behind The Eight Ball (from: Peppigrams)
Bill And The Billiken
Blueprints
Bohemia
Boob Ballads: Chris The Nut
Boondoggle Ballad
Boston
Bottoms Up!
B-r-r-r
Buddy
Bugbear Ballads (Musca Domestica, Cimex Lectularious, The Green Fly, The Wasp, The Anopheles, The Gnat, Higher Entomology)
Burden
Business Going On During Alterations
Business Man
But look at the overhead!
But They Like The Same Food (from: Happily Ever After)
By Request
Can Do!
Cards Please
Carolina Moon
Casey Jones
Chaplin Satiety
Chant Royal Of War
Cheap
Chef Pernollet
Chicago
Chow
Chris The Nut (from: Boob Ballads)
Christmas In August
Christmas On The Great Lakes
Church Bells
Class
Classics Come To Limerick
Cliché Parade
Cold Comfort
Cold Truth
Commercially Speaking
Considerable Slug
Consolation
Cook's
Counter-Convolution
Couplets Concerning Certain Common Crimes Of Conversation
Cowboy Carols
Curtain
Customers' Man
Danger-Dynamite
Day Laborers
Declaration Of Dependence (from: Happily Ever After)
Delia Dean Butts In
Departemental Ditties Of 1942
Deserted Roads
Desire To Soar
Dimensions
Distance
Don't Blow It (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
Dolls
Don't Be Down-Hearted
Down Our Street
Double And No Quits (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
Driftwood
Drill
Drydocktrine
Dusty Answer (from: Happily Ever After)
Education - from: Songs Of The Training Camps (Officers Training School)
Elsewhere
Empty
Enchantment
Encore (We hope):*
Enemies
Enough Is Plenty
Erie (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
Even Steven
Excuse My Dust
False Beacons
Farewell, Fiorello
Farisees
Father Minds The Baby
Father Was Right
Fog
For Example
For The Occasion Only
Ford 's Out Front : On The Night Before Christmas
Fortune's Fool
Frankness Between Friends
Freedom
Frontiers
Future Greats
Gentle Art Of Selling Manuscripts
Get The Hook
Gifts And Givers
Give The Boy Scout Credit
Glow Within
Goal Ahead
Good Bye, "By"
Got A Glory
Gratitude
Greeting
Guess Again
Guess Who?
Guilty
Gypsy Song
Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho!
Happily Ever After
Hard Lines
Have You Got The Right Job?
Hay There
He Doesn't Watch The Clock (from: Peppigrams)
Heading It Off
Heart Of Mine
Here Beginneth The First Lesson
Here He Is!
Heredity Takes The Count
Hero Wanted
Heroes
Hiking-Heavy Marching Order
His Educated Crew
Ho-Hum!
Hoards
Hoboes
Home Disarranged (from: Happily Ever After)
Home Economics
Homebodies
Home-work
Honolulu (from: Ballads Of The Drowsy East)
Hoover
Horrors
Hot Weather
Hot Of The Griddle
How Do They Get That Way?
How You Are Robbed By Money Lenders
How's The Better Driver?
Husband Rebels
Hustle
I Just Stay Home
I Never Go There Anymore
Iconoclasts
If (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
If Tombstones Told The Truth
Impatience
Impenitent
In Bohemia
In Retrospect
Included Out
Independence
Indispensable
Infantree
Inflationary Mary (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
"Information, Please!"
Inside
Inside Stuff
Interlinear
Invocation
Ishmael
It Can't Be Done
It Takes All Kinds
It's Done With Mirrors (from: Happily Ever After)
J.K.: Soldier Of Fortune
Jack London: an appreciation
Jack and Jill
Jacks Of All Trades (from: Songs Of The Training Camps)
Joking Aside
Joseph Seeley And Isaac Osborn
Just a Bush Leaguer
Just Another Straw
Just Suppose
Kinda Soft
King Coal
Kisses
Knight Of the Gas
"K.P." from: Songs Of The Training Camps (Officers Training School)
L'Envoi
Laughing Burrows
Lays For Loving Parents
Leather Leggin's
Legality
L'Envoi
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Light On The Subject
Lightfoot Larry
Little Bo Peep
Little Boy Blow
Logic
Longing
Lothario
Love And The Wicked City
Love Lyrics Of A Chauffeur
Love Lyrics Of A Shop Girl
Love Sonnets Of A Manicure
Love's Fare
Love's Feet Linger
Loyalties
Luxury
Lyrical Lovers
Lyrics Of A Lobster
Magic Makers
Main Guard
Man Music
Man Of Business
Manhood
McGinnis That Was
Measure Of Devotion (from: Happily Ever After)
Mellowing Years
Memory
Mercenaries
Mere Shop
Mining Camp Ballads
Minutes Of The Meeting: A Ballad Of Quaker Hill
Moderation
Modern Photography
Monochrome
Monogamy
Morgan Sails The Caribbean
Mother-1927 Model
Moving Day
Moving Forces
Multiplication Is Inflation
Murder Domesticated
Names
Naturally Enough
Necessary
Nemesis Has a Busy Day
Never Again!
New Orleans
New York
Newark-The Builder
Nice Work, And Do They Get It!
No'th Ca'lina
No Criminal Intent (from: Happily Ever After)
No Flowers, Please
No Gamble (from: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times and also from: Happily Ever After)
No Gambler
No Hard Feelings (from: Happily Ever After)
No Pulmotor Needed
No Thank You
No Worries
Nobody Home
Nomad
Nostalgia
Not In Uniform
Not So Worse
Not Too Unimportant
Now We Tell Him
Odds Are With You
Oh, Be Still
Old Lady Necessity
Old Pal, Old Pal
Old Stuff
Old Stuff Stands
Old Timers
On Efficiency
On The City Street
On The Job
One Person Can Start It! (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
Once On A Time
Only A Dog
OPA
Over The Top
Page the Exterminator
Pan
Pan And The Plumber
Pan In Pandemonium
Paradise Lost
Payday At The Mine
Pawnbroker
Peking
Peppigrams ( Rising Resentment , He Doesn't Watch The Clock , Behind The Eight Ball , Play Your Hand )
Perfect Understanding
Perfectly Reasonable
Personality
Pets
Philadelphia
Phony Graph
Pigboat
Pirate Chef
Pittsburgh
Place Truly Fit For A Dog And A Kid
Play Your Hand (from: Peppigrams)
Playing Safe
Plugging Along
Pneumatic Hammer
Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times
Portrait
Postman Always Brought A Check
Post-war Proposition
Predestination
Preparedness
Prisoner
Pull Up Your Socks
Quaker Hill
Quality
Quartermaster's Report
Query
Quitters Can't Win
Ready!
Ready For The Cannery
Red Meat
Renascence
Repartee
Reporter's Envoi
Resigned (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
Resolution
Restoration
Riches
Rimes For Mary
Rising Resentment (from: Peppigrams)
Road Law
Road Test
Robots Write The Checks
Rock In The Box
Roll Your Own
Romances Of Gloriette
Round Of Applause
Ruined
Rules Of The Rude
Safety First
Sailing
Salt Fish
San Francisco
Satiety
Sea Bees
Sea Ferrets
Security
Service Stripes
Shade And Light
Shanghai
Shoot The Works
Sic Transit
Sky Terriers
Slavery or Freedom?
Slippin’
Smart Young Man
Smells
Snake In the Gas (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
So It Seems
Solo Flight
Somebody
Sometimes
Somewhere
Song Of The Coal Miner
Song Of The Restless
Song Of The Valiant
Songs From Over There
Songs From Panama
Songs Of the Cities
Songs Of The Great Lakes (The Skipper, The Mate, The Impulse, The Grouchy Stoler, Resigned, Su'ge, Erie and The Passenger Hog)
Sonnets Of A Chorus Girl
Sonnets Of A Cloak-And-Suiter
Sonnets Of A Flapper
Sonnets Of A Freshman
Song Of A Putterer
Sonnets Of A Suffragette
Sonnets Of Seven Cities
Spirit And Flesh
Spread It
Spring Fret
Spring In The City
Spurs
Step Lively, Please
Still in the Ring
Stuff Of Dreams
Substitutes
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made Of
Su'ge (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
Sunday Nights In Panama
Super-janitor
Sure He Will
Sympathy
System
Taboo!
Take It From Horace
Take The Rap
Tales of the Hot Dog Tavern
Talk About Fairy Tales
Tarnished
Telephone Directory
Tempter Wind
Tennis
Terminals
Thanksgiving Somewhere In France
That Word Listen
That's All
That's Her Privilege
That's Their Story
The Abandoned Mine
The Advance Guard
The Air Mail
The Ancient Thrill
The Angry Ones
The Annual Way
The Bad Mannered Pirate
The Ballad Of Sam Davis
The Battle Of Paris
The Beach Combers
The Bean
The Bohunk
The Bos'n's Mate
The Bread Line
The Breaker's Boy Ambition
The Call
The Certainty
The Champion
The Children's Hour or Longfellow Didn't Know The Half Of It
The Choice
The Christmas Sermon
The Cigarette
The Colt - from: Songs Of The Training Camps (Officers Training School)
The Commuter
The Confession
The Conqueror
The Continuous Performance
The Contract fan's Psalm Of Life
The Coolie
The Coward
The Cynic's Dialogue
The Dash After The Period
The Dead Broncho-Buster
The Dead Reporter
The Dead Rover
The Deep Purple
The Deserter
The Destroyer Men
The Difference
The Dock Walloper
The Doug
The Doughboy
The Drums
The Dust Eaters
The Electrician
The Empire Builder
The Enchantress
The Endless Battle
The Endless Road
The Exile
The Exploiters
The Extenuation
The Failures
The Fancy Shots
The Farmer
The Farmer's Wife
The Ferry Boat
The Fighters
The Fireman
The Flag
The Forest Ranger
The Free Course
The Gambler
The Gamester
The Gang's All Here (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
The Gentleman Mucker
The Ghost Of Pete McCluskey
The Giant-Killer
The Girder Monkey at Sea
The Girder Monkey in England
The Glamour
The Glow Worm Peddler
The Grand Review
The Grind - from: Songs Of The Training Camps (Officers Training School)
The Grouchy Stoker (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
The Half Back
The Handy Man
The Hard-Rock Man
The Haven
The Heart Of The Mine
The High Trail
The Hills
The Home-bound Gypsy
The Honker
The Hopeless Passion
The House Of Dreams
The Impulse (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
The Indian Sign
The Indecisive Plutocrat
The Jay Walker
The Joint Is Jumpin'
The Joy Of Life
The Jungle Job
The Jungle Wallah
The King's English
The Land of Cockcaigne
The Lasting Look
The Lawless Heart
The Leathernecks
The Legal Luminary
The Limit
The Limit Of Devotion
The Little Priest Of Soissons
The Little Tin Gods
The Living Epitaph
The Lonesome Cop
The Lonesomest Time
The Magic Whistle
The Main Drag
The Main Event
The Malay
The Marsh Wind
The Mate (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
The Materialist
The Metropolis
The Migration
The Milk Train
The Milkman
The Millenium
The Mine Fan
The Mine Mule
The Mine Pump
The Mine Sweepers
The Mine Telephone
The Miracle Worker
The Misanthrope
The Mouth-Watering Place
The Night Watchman
The Old Beau
The Old Call
The Old Cowpuncher Speaks
The Old Love
The Old Pork Barrel
The Old Stuff Stands
The Old Timer
The Old Top Sergeant
The Outcast
The Packet Boat
The Partisan
The Peaceable Men
The Philanderer
The Philosopher
The Phonograph
The Physician
The Point Of View
The Polack
The Price Of Fish
The Prisoner
The Prodigal's Brother Stays At Home
The Profits and Loss
The Proper Setting
The Pumpman
The Real Thrill
The Reason
The Recruit
The Red Sea Trail
The Reformer
The Reporter
The Restless Legion
The Return
The Risible King
The Road To Knowledge
The Rodman (from Workaday Adventures)
The Rooter
The Roughneck
The Safety Valve
The Sailing List
The Sailor's Return
The Same Old Lure
The Scab
The Schoolroom Alphabet Of A Lazy Lad
The Sea
The Sea Wind
The Search
The Severest Critic
The Shadow Of The Years
The Singer's Defiance
The Six-Hour Shift
The Skipper (from Songs Of the Great Lakes)
The Skyline
The Smoke-Eater
The Song Of The Aeronaut
The Song Of The Rail
The Song of the Locomotive
The Spell
The Spell Of The Rialto
The Sprinter
The Steel-Worker
The Stoker
The Street Piano
The Stubborn Believer
The Sunset Trail
The Thrall Of The Golden Gate
The Tramp
The Two Crosses
The Twins
The Vagabond Vicarious
The Wander Trail
The War Lord's Rest
The Warmth Of Memory
The Warning
The Warrior
The Watchers
The Welcome
The Well Shooter (from Workaday Adventures)
The West
The West Wind
The Whistler
The Widest Hearthstone
The Will Of Thomas Taber - A Ballad Of Quaker Hill
The Windjammer
The Winning Bridegroom
The Wop
The Worker
The Worm Turns
There He Goes
There's a Home In Oklahoma
There's A Place For Him
There's No Place
They Stick To The Last
This Hopeless Passion
This Way For Romance
Thoughtful Captain Jenkins
Three Little Bureaucrats
Thumb Do
Tierra Del Fuego
Tin Type
To A Flapper
To A Good Friend
To A Photographer
To A Voyager
To Any Wife
To Booth Tarkington, Master Penman
To Doug
To Each His Own (from: Happily Ever After)
To My Futurist Love
Tokio
Told in Minor
Tommy
Tonic
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Tribute
True Success
Tug
Turnabout
Two Colonels
Ulysses
Umps
Uncle Sam Says Uncle
Unique, Isn't It?
United They Part (from: Happily Ever After)
Unsexed
Up With The Flag
Use What You've Got
Vale "Buffalo Bill"
Valhalla Inn
Verdun
Visiting Fireman Writes Home
Wait Vaughn
Walter Hampden in Cyrano de Bergerac
War Aims
War Songs
Washington Calling George
Waste
We Keep 'Em In the Air
Well, That's The Way I Heard It (from: Happily Ever After)
Whaddyuh Know?
Whaddyuh Say?
What Do You Think Of Boston?
What Hitler Has Cost the World
What Makes A Champion?
What's The News?
When Baby Comes
Where Everybody Has A Horn To Toot
Where Next?
Which?
Which Side Up ?
White Magic
Who Laughs Last
Who? Me? (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
Who's Zoo In Limerick
Windows
With A Western Twang
Women
Workaday Adventures
Workaday Adventures: The Rodman
Workaday Adventures: The Well Shooter
Ye Final Teste
You Bet Your Life (same as Answer men)
You Can Lay To That (From: Pointed Rhymes For Trying Times)
You Don't Tell me (Oh, Yes You Do)
You Never Can Tell
You Should Worry
Your Land
Youth
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