Ben King's Verse

Ben King's Verse

Benjamin Franklin King, American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley.(1857-1894)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Introduction

- Biography

- If I Should Die

- Say When, And Say It

- Gettin' Inter Shape

- Evolution

- Gedder In Yo' Grain

- Jane Jones

- Elopement

- Her Folks An' Hiz'n

- The Yaller Jackets' Nest

- How Hank Died

- How Often

- Benton Harbor, Mich.

- Asphodel

- The Flowers' Ball

- De Sun's Comin' Back

- The River St. Joe

- Baby Up At Battenberg's

- No Harm Done

- The Fates

- Paraphrase

- If I Can Be By Her

- Toboggan

- De Bugle On De Hill

- Old St. Joe

- The Tramp

- The Chautauquan Maid

- I'm A Bluejay

- 'rastus King

- That Valentine

- De Good Ship

- A Casual Observation

- Like The New Friends Best

- A Negro Song Of Home

- S'posin'

- Little 'rasmus

- Nobody Knows

- She Does Not Hear

- Down The Mississippi

- The Mermaid

- De Blackbird Fetched De Spring

- Appearances

- The Girl With The Jersey

- If My Wife Taught School

- The Old Spinning Wheel

- The Owl And The Crow

- De Clouds Am Gwine Ter Pass

- A Summer's Afternoon

- I Fed The Fishes

- Old Bossie Cow

- That Cat

- A Frog's Thanksgiving

- Lovely-loves

- Hank Spink

- The Nile

- Like De Ole Mule Bes'

- De Ribber Ob Life

- The Cat O' Nine Tails

- The Hair-tonic Bottle

- De Circus Turkey

- Sofie Jakobowski

- Sunrise

- The Woodticks

- Didn't We, Jim?

- The Post Driver

- Lef' De Ole Hoss Out

- Ec-a-lec-tic Fits

- Keep Him A Baby

- Angeliny

- De Eyarfquake

- Presque Isle

- Beulah Land

- The Blackbird And The Thrush

- De Spring-house

- Under Obligations

- Cleopatra And Charmian

- But Then

- Pinkey

- Dreamy Days

- Gord Only Knows

- The Pessimist

- Down In Walhallalah

- The Cow Slips Away