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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.

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The Boss's Choice 423 ViewsRate it
Nimrod 418 ViewsRate it
A Coward
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For Tat 414 ViewsRate it
Discretion 405 ViewsRate it
The National Guardsman
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A Serenade
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Arma Virumque
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To An Aspirant 393 ViewsRate it
A Bit Of Science
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Diagnosis
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Arthur Mcewen 391 ViewsRate it
Egotist
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An Epitaph [Hangman's hands laid in this tomb an]
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An Apologue
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A Year's Casualties
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Nanine
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The Aesthetes
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Fallen
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Rejected 373 ViewsRate it
Stoneman In Heaven
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James L. Flood
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Consolation 363 ViewsRate it
A Bad Night
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Montague Leverson
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The Birth Of Virtue
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Fame [He held a book in his knotty paws] 354 ViewsRate it
A 'Scion Of Nobility'
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An Augury
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Uncoloneled
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Metempsychosis [Once with Christ he entered Salem] 339 ViewsRate it
The New 'Ulalume' 336 ViewsRate it
'Died Of A Rose' 332 ViewsRate it
Tinker Dick 324 ViewsRate it
The Lord's Prayer On A Coin
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The Debtor Abroad
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Accepted
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A 'Born Leader Of Men'
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A 'Mass' Meeting
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A 'Mute Inglorious Milton'
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'Black Bart, Po8'
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J.F.B.
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T.A.H.
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Ye Idyll Of Ye Hippopopotamus
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Y'e Foe To Cathaye
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Two Statesmen
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A Vision Of Doom
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Vice Versa
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A Man
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The God's View-Point
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A Crocodile
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A Challenge
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An Example
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Business
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The Committee On Public Morals 131 ViewsRate it
Christian
 129 ViewsRate it
A Bequest To Music 128 ViewsRate it
A Political Violet
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A Warning 128 ViewsRate it
Another Way
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For Merit 128 ViewsRate it
From Virginia To Paris
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The Legatee 128 ViewsRate it
The Passing Show
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Corrected News
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The Birth Of The Rail
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The Bride
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The Perverted Village After Goldsmith
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The Woman And The Devil
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To Nanine
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Liberty
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Slickens
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The Barking Weasel
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The Brothers
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A Retort 125 ViewsRate it
An Idler
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The Piute
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The Sunset Gun
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Haec Fabula Docet
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A Song In Praise 123 ViewsRate it
To-Day
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Codex Honoris 122 ViewsRate it
To A Dejected Poet 122 ViewsRate it
A False Prophecy
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A Lacking Factor 121 ViewsRate it
A Spade
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An Unmerry Christmas
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On The Wedding Of An Aeronaut 121 ViewsRate it
The Death Of Grant
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The Passing Of 'Boss' Shepherd
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Twin Unworthies 121 ViewsRate it
California
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In Defense
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One President
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Stephen J. Field 120 ViewsRate it
The Woful Tale Of Mr. Peters
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Azrael
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Expositor Veritatis
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George A. Knight
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The Dying Statesman
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The Tables Turned
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A Dampened Ardor
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A Wreath Of Immortelles
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Creation
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Famine's Realm
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Rimer 118 ViewsRate it
The Key Note
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The Retrospective Bird
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Industrial Discontent
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Judgment 117 ViewsRate it
The Last Man
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The Subdued Editor
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The Van Nessiad
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Woman In Politics
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In The Binnacle
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To A Critic Of Tennyson 116 ViewsRate it
A Rear Elevation
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Elixer Vitæ
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Mad
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Mr. Sheets
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Subterranean Phantasies
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Another Plan
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Censor Literarum
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The American Party 114 ViewsRate it
The 'Viduate Dame'
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Weather
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Decalogue
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Exoneration 113 ViewsRate it
A Caller
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At The Eleventh Hour
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Finis Aeternitatis
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In Contumaciam 112 ViewsRate it
Bats In Sunshine
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Inspiration 111 ViewsRate it
Ornithanthropos
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Thanksgiving
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The Transmigrations Of A Soul
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Tidings Of Good
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A Soaring Toad
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For Mayor 110 ViewsRate it
On The Platform
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Samuel Shortridge 110 ViewsRate it
Slander 110 ViewsRate it
An Anarchist
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At The Close Of The Canvass
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Genesis [God said: 'Let there be Man,' and from the clay]
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The Town Of Dae
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A Political Apostate
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Lusus Politicus
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Novum Organum 108 ViewsRate it
One Of The Redeemed
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The Shafter Shafted
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For A Certain Critic
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To The Happy Hunting Grounds
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A Long-Felt Want 106 ViewsRate it
Matter For Gratitude
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Revenge 106 ViewsRate it
A Morning Fancy
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Incurable
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Not Guilty
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Reminded
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The Royal Jester
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With a Book 105 ViewsRate it
A Builder 104 ViewsRate it
A Hymn Of The Many
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A Military Incident
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The Day Of Wrath
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The Unpardonable Sin
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The Free Trader's Lament 102 ViewsRate it
A Fair Division 102 ViewsRate it
An Explanation 102 ViewsRate it
L'audace
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Prayer [Fear not in any tongue to call] 102 ViewsRate it
A Commuted Sentence
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An Art Critic
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An Interpretation
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Cooperation 101 ViewsRate it
Polyphemus
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The Spirit Of A Sponge 101 ViewsRate it
A Society Leader
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A Whipper-In
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Bereavement
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On A Proposed Crematory
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Surprised
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Ad Cattonum
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Contentment
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Technology
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The Gates Ajar
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Weather
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A Reply To A Letter
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A Wreath Of Immortelles
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Johndonkey
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'Peaceable Expulsion'
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Tempora Mutantur
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The Scurril Press
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The Setting Sachem
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Unarmed
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An Imposter
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At The Close Of The Canvass
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Fleet Strother 96 ViewsRate it
An 'Exhibit'
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The Opposing Sex 95 ViewsRate it
Two Shows
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A Jack-At-All-Views 94 ViewsRate it
An Inscription (For A Statue Of Napoleon, At West Point) 94 ViewsRate it
Convalescent ['By good men's prayers see Grant restored!']
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Francine
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Justice 94 ViewsRate it
To The Bartholdi Statue
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Democracy 93 ViewsRate it
One Mood's Expression 93 ViewsRate it
The Hesitating Veteran
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The Weather Wight
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Yorick
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A Voluptuary
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To Her 92 ViewsRate it
Elegy 91 ViewsRate it
Judex Judicatus
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Stephen Dorsey
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The Convicts' Ball
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To E.S. Salomon
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To the Bartholdi Statue
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To A Word-Warrior
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My Monument 90 ViewsRate it
The Mummery
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To One Detested
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Convalescent [What! 'Out of danger?' Can the slighted Dame]
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In Memoriam
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Salvini In America
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The Humorist
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Invocation
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The Mackaiad
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A Welcome 87 ViewsRate it
An Inscription (For a Proposed Monument in Washington) 87 ViewsRate it
A Demand
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A Literary Hangman 86 ViewsRate it
Couplets
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History
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Mr. Fink's Debating Donkey
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Presentiment
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A Cheating Preacher
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A Patter Song
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A Poet's Hope
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The Genesis Of Embarrassment
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The Militiaman
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An Exile
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The Confederate Flags
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The Cynic's Bequest
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With Mine Own Petard
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One Morning
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Poesy 83 ViewsRate it
The Wise And Good
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Visions Of Sin
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A Silurian Holiday
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Disappointment 82 ViewsRate it
To E.S. Salomon
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A Word To The Unwise
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To A Stray Dog
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To One Across The Way
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Genesis [God said, 'Let there be Crime,' and the command]
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One And One Are Two
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The Fyghtynge Seventh
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The Lost Colonel
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Unexpounded 80 ViewsRate it
Arboriculture 79 ViewsRate it
Freedom
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From Top To Bottom
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One Of The Unfair Sex
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A Bubble
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A Social Call
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An Offer Of Marriage
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Lucifer Of The Torch
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Substance Versus Shadow
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To My Liars
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A Rendezvous 77 ViewsRate it
Authority
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In Upper San Francisco
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The New Decalogue
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Thersites 77 ViewsRate it
To A Professional Eulogist
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Metempsychosis
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A Ballad Of Pikeville
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Borrowed Brains 76 ViewsRate it
Safety-Clutch
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To Maude
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To Oscar Wilde
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A Study In Gray
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Alone
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The Rich Testator 75 ViewsRate it
General B.F. Butler
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To A Censor
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A Growler
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A Nightmare
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An Average
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Convalescent
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Down Among The Dead Men
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Religious Progress
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A Guest
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'A Literary Method' 71 ViewsRate it
A Pickbrain 71 ViewsRate it
Fate 71 ViewsRate it
One Of The Saints
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The Dead King
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The Key Note
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The King Of Bores 71 ViewsRate it
Art 70 ViewsRate it
Beecher
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In High Life
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The Oakland Dog
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A Black-List
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Indicted
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A Promised Fast Train
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Arbor Day
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Carmelite
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Omnes Vanitas
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The Fountain Refilled
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The Pun
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At Anchor
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Constancy
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Psychographs 67 ViewsRate it
The In-Coming Climate 67 ViewsRate it
The Mad Philosopher 67 ViewsRate it
A Celebrated Case
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De Young-A Prophecy 66 ViewsRate it
In His Hand
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A Partisan's Protest 65 ViewsRate it
Aspiration
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For Wounds 65 ViewsRate it
'Phil' Crimmins 65 ViewsRate it
Again
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The Fall Of Miss Larkin
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On Stone 63 ViewsRate it
The Foot-Hill Resort
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An Actor 62 ViewsRate it
Creation
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Over The Border
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The Man Born Blind
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The Oleomargarine Man
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The Psoriad
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A Lifted Finger
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A Merciful Governor
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Charles And Peter
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Oneiromancy
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Philosopher Bimm 61 ViewsRate it
Politics 61 ViewsRate it
A Dilemma
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An Alibi
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An Undress Uniform 60 ViewsRate it
Four Candidates For Senator 60 ViewsRate it
A Railroad Lackey
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Re-Edified
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To Either
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To The Fool-Killer
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An Enemy To Law And Order 58 ViewsRate it
Cain
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Contemplation 58 ViewsRate it
France
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The Valley Of Dry Bones
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Dies Irae 57 ViewsRate it
Ignis Fatuus
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Rebuke 57 ViewsRate it
A Poet's Father
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To An Insolent Attorney
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A Critic
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A Vision Of Climate
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Four Of A Kind
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Peace 55 ViewsRate it
Fame [One thousand years I slept beneath the sod]
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Piety 54 ViewsRate it
Three Kinds Of A Rogue
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A Bulletin 53 ViewsRate it
Aspirants Three
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By False Pretenses
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Laus Lucis
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An Obituarian
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One Judge
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The Statesmen
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A Fool
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A Prayer [Sweet Spirit of Cesspool, hear a mother's prayer]
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A Possibility
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Bimetalism 50 ViewsRate it
A Controversialist 49 ViewsRate it
From The Minutes
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The Eastern Question 49 ViewsRate it
To My Laundress
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At The 'National Encampment'
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Dennis Kearney
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A Fish Commissioner 47 ViewsRate it
By A Defeated Litigant
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Emancipation
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Posterity's Award
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To 'Colonel' Dan. Burns
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A Career In Letters 46 ViewsRate it
A Vision Of Resurrection
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For President, Leland Stanford
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Strained Relations 46 ViewsRate it
A Culinary Candidate 45 ViewsRate it
Master Of Three Arts
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The Naval Constructor 45 ViewsRate it
Hell
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Humility 44 ViewsRate it
A Paradox 43 ViewsRate it
Geotheos
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Llewellen Powell
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Montefiore
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The Legend Of Immortal Truth
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The Saint And The Monk
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Two Rogues
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Foundations Of The State
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To A Summer Poet
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A Wet Season
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Election Day
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The Hermit
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The Valley Of The Shadow Of Theft
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Homo Podunkensis
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Hospitality 40 ViewsRate it
Mendax
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The New Enoch
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The Night Of Election
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The Veteran
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Magnanimity 39 ViewsRate it
Adair Welcker, Poet 38 ViewsRate it
In Defense
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The Division Superintendent
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The Statesmen
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Something In The Papers
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The Following Pair 37 ViewsRate it
My Lord Poet 36 ViewsRate it
A Hasty Inference
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An Inscription 35 ViewsRate it
Detected 35 ViewsRate it
Vanished At Cock-Crow 35 ViewsRate it
A Demagogue
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Sires And Sons
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The Politician 33 ViewsRate it
The Unfallen Brave
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The Yearly Lie
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A Question Of Eligibility
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Political Economy
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Two Methods
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An Epitaph [Here lies Greer Harrison, a well cracked louse]
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Foresight 30 ViewsRate it
On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut 30 ViewsRate it
Ad Moodium
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Religion
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