Epic Publishing
Co., Inc.

This anthology represents a
52-year collection
of the story-poems that traveling minstrels recited
on the kerosene-lit, wood-planked stages of our old
Wild West Saloons
The majority have not been published in the past
100-years and many are Author Unknown poems.
This is not the kind of poetry they teach in school,
but they are the kind of poems that people read,
memorized, and recited to their friends and family for years to come.
The editor came by these poems
in the most unlikely places
He dropped out of school and went to sea when he was sixteen years of age.
After serving in
the Merchant Marines and as a U.S. Army Air Cadet during WW II, he left America to spend
seven years traveling around the world.
In ships engine
rooms, in barracks, around campfires in Africas remote jungles, and in jails and
prisons,
he heard men of dubious literary credentials recite the poems you will find in this
entertaining volume.
Again, these are not the poems they taught you in
school.
You will not have to search for cryptic meanings or
suffer the tyranny and intimidation of the literary elite.
These are the poems of the common man. They were not
written for critical acclaim. They were
written to tell a story. They were written to
be enjoyed!
Preview
any of the underlined examples below
before your purchase
A Chip On His Shoulder
A Dog Was Born
A Farewell
A Gift And A Present
A Little Angel
A Matter Of Business
A Metaphysical Dilemma
A Rustic Convert
A Smile
A Story Of St. Peter
A Tale Of Conscious Virtue
A Thankful Parson
A Yallar Dogs Love For a Negro Abdullah Bulbul Amir or Ivan Petrofsky
Skovar
All Of One Size
Always Finish
An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog
An Old Sweetheart Of Mine
An Outcast Even In Hell
Annabel Lee
Are Ya Really A Genuine Member? As My Uncle Used To Say
Ballad Of Christmas Present
Barbara Frietchie
Bohemia
Breathes There A Man With Soul So Dead
The Bridge Builder
Bum
Buying Loyalty
Bygones
Casey At The Bat
Caseys Revenge
Casey-Twenty Years Later
Caseys Tabble DHote
Christmas Tails
College Revisited
Courting In Kentucky
The Cremation Of Sam McGee
Derelict
Dog
Dogs For Disposal
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
Epitaph To A Crow
Epitaph To A Dog
Fable
The Face On the Bar Room Floor
Fathers Way
General Delivery, Alaska!
Guilty Or Not Guilty
Gunga Din
Hell In Texas
Hes Just A Dog
High Flight
Honest Confessions
Horse Sense
How Do I Love Thee
How Much Do I Love You
How Paddy Stole The Rope
How Salvator Won
I Am The Tears
I Had But Fifty Cents
I Pity The Man
I Remember Christmas
I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
Ill Return
Jealous Of You
Jim
Jim Bludso
Just Dogs
The Legend Of the Organ Builder
Let Us Smile
Light Shining Out Of Darkness
Little Breeches
Little Lost Pup
Little Meg And I
Lonely
Malice Aforethought
Mas Old Galvanized Washtub
The Man He Killed
McCaffery
Mismatched
Mr. Bones
Mr. McJones
My Dog
My Malamute Dog
My Sweetheart Of Long Ago
Nature Calling
Never Spend The Principal
O Captain! My Captain!
Old Ironsides
Old John Henry
On Buying A Dog
One Fingered Jake
Ostler Joe
Our Lips And Ears
Our Two Opinions
Outside Are Dogs |
Pals
Parson Snows Hint
Paul Reveres Ride
Paw Marks
Pity The Man
Poems
Poor Husband When His Wifes Away
Prison Walls
Quiet!..Please
Rags
Retrospection
Sam The Clams Disco
The Sausage Colored Dog
She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured
Sherry
Sleepin At The Foot O The Bed
Strive On
That Cocker Spaniel Mutt
That Queen
The Ace In The Hole
The Ballad of Me And Sourdough Dan
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
The Betrothed
The Charge Of The Light Brigade
The Clink Of the Ice
The Countersign Was Mary
The Covered Bridge
The Dancer
The Deacons Masterpiece
The Defective Mirror
The Dog That Went To Church
The Duel
The Fastest Goat Alive
The Female Of The Species
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band The Great Provider
The Harpy
The Hell Bound Train
The Homecoming
The Indian Burying Ground
The Jumblies
The Last Of The Light Brigade
The Level And The Square
The Little Dog Angel
The Maid
The Man In The Glass
The Men That Dont Fit In
The Mills Of The Gods
The New Dog
The Nuisance
The Old Stage Queen
The Oysters Lesson
The Particular Pig
The Politician
The Popular Song
The Post That Fitted
The Power Of The Dog
The Preachers Mistake
The Preachers Vacation
The Purple Cow
The Raven
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner The Road To Vagabondia
The Rodeo Clown
The Ruined Maid
The Sea Wife
The Shooting Of Dan McGrew
The Sigh
The Soldier
The Tone Of Your Voice
The Village Blacksmith
The Walrus And The Carpenter
The Womans Resolution
The Worldly Way
The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell
The Young British Soldier
They Were Mixed
To A Little Pal
To Althea From Prison
Trilby
Trouble In Amen Corner
Turn About
Two Sinners
The Vagabond And His Dog
Vanity, Vanity
Violets
The Volunteer Organist
Waiting At The Ferry
Wanted-A Ministers Wife
What To Do With A Watermelon When I Was One-And-Twenty
When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly
Whispering Bill
Who Shared Her View
Without A Dog
Wits End
Woman |
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