Ben King's Verse

Ben King's Verse  (1894)  by Benjamin Franklin King

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• 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
• The Bung Town Canal
• De Massa
• Coonie In De Holler
• After Weidenfeller Goes
• Zaccheus
• A Retrospection
• St. Patrick's Day
• Injun Summah
• 'Cause It's Gittin Spring
• Decorate De Cabin
• The Ultimatum
• Dreamy Days
• When The Stage Gets In
• The Cultured Girl Again
• De Cushville Hop
• Gord Only Knows
• Jes' Take My Advice
• Patriotism and a Pension
• The Old Musician's Fate
• The Pessimist
• A Record F'om Way 'Back
• Thanksgibbin In Ole Virginny
• Grave Matters
• Comin' Christmas Morn
• Sad Fate of Yim Yohnsen
• Legend of the St. Joseph
• Little Jude
• Little Pucken Singer
• Down in Walhallalah
• Santa's Presents fo' de Good
• Heart of Hearts
• Sycamore
• Volapuk
• Mary Had a Cactus Plant
• The Day and the Shingle (A Parody)
• Huccum It So?
• De Watah Mellen Sploshun
• Miss Bahtholamew
• The Cow Slips Away
• Vi Vicuers

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.