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Avenging the Maine

A Drunken A. B. and other poems

McGirt, James E.

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EXPLAINING DIALECT POEMS.

AVENGING THE MAINE.

THE MEMORY OF MACEO.

THE SIEGE OF MANILA.

SIEGE OF SANTIAGO.

THE STARS AND STRIPES SHALL NEVER TRAIL THE DUST.

WAVE ON, THOU FLAG.

SEEKING HER BOY.

MEMORY OF LINCOLN AND THE YANKEES.

THE DEATH OF HECTOR.

A DRUNKEN A. B.

THE GIRL AND THE BIRDS.

SUMMER IS GONE.

THE END OF DAY.

THE SIGNS OF DEATH.

FORTUNE'S WHEEL.

SHOW YOUR LOVE.

MEMORY OF THE OLD TIME.

DON'T LAUGH, BOYS.

HEROD'S SLAUGHTER OF THE BABES.

A VIEW OF CHILDHOOD.

REASON, SAD WORLD.

THE WELTHY NIGAH.

THE BOYS' OPPORTUNITY.

“NO USE IN SIGNS.”

MEMORY OF FRANCES WILLARD.

I'LL ENTER THE SALOON NO MORE.

ODE TO CONSCIENCE.

FOR THE PRIVATE SOLDIER.

MY LONELY HOMESTEAD.

OUR FATHERS' ERRORS.

VIRTUE ALONE CAN MAKE GREAT MEN.

TO HER THAT WEEPS.

THE HEATHEN LAND.

BLAME NOT THE POET.

TO W. W. BROWNE.

MEMORY OF W. W. BROWNE.

DE 'SCURSION DAT YER RODE.

WHY SHOULD I DEPLORE?

GOD BLESS THE SAILORS.

GIB TER ME ER LOCK OB YER HAIR.

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EXPLAINING DIALECT POEMS.

You may wonder why the dialect words in my humorous poems are so few compared with those in other dialect poems, but if you will notice such characters as I have portrayed you will find, as I have, that the most illiterate persons, living now among so many who are cultured, do not speak the whole dialect, but speak correctly one-half of their words. So I have written just as the masses impressed me.