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This is a collection of poetry written by Benjamin Franklin. The book contains some of the following poems: Gedder in yo grain - How often - The retrospection - Huccum it so? - Loveylovers - She does not hear - Thabksgibbin in Ole Virginny - Keep him a baby.
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Ben King's Verse - Benjamin Franklin King
Benjamin Franklin King
Ben King's Verse
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4064066438067
Table of Contents
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
A Record F'om Way 'Back
Down in Walhallalah
The Cow Slips Away
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
Introduction
Table of Contents
So Far as we know, this young man, now so suddenly dead, was the drollest mimic and gentlest humorist of our region. He existed as the welcome and mirthful shadow of conventional and tiresome things.
He began as the expositor of The Maiden's Prayer
on the piano, where each accented note was flat or sharp, and the music flowed rapidly, or over great difficulties, as the score might determine. He arose, and looking half-witted, recited with unapproachable modesty the stammering delight which he would feel if he could be by Her!
He frosled his hair and became Paderewski, who forthwith fell upon the piano tooth and nail, tore up the track, derailed the symphony, went down stairs and shook the furnace, fainted at the pedals, and was carried out rigid by supers--the greatest pianist of any age. He wrote If I Should Die To-night
--a parody that was accepted as the true original, the sun, the center of the great If-I-should-die-to-night system of thought and poetry. He wrote the poet's lament--that there was nothing to eat but food, and nowhere to come but off. The artists of the newspaper world generously sprang to his side; they placed him pictorially before the people, and determined, with almost prophetic spirit, that our small circle should not alone dwell with undiminishing laughter upon the gambols of Ben King. He was coldly, then not coldly, then warmly received by the church fairs, the clubs, and the Elks, where he got a supper--if any were left. At last he charged a small sum for appearing publicly, and this sum was rapidly enlarging and his fortune was in sight, when the hotel porter found him dead in his room at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
During the years we knew him, he never spoke to us in a disparaging way concerning any other person, and unless Paderewski's comb was ruffled by Ben's exhibition of hair and haste in piano-playing, no parody, or perk, or prank of Ben King ever depended for its success upon the wounding of another creature's feelings.
We all accounted him a genius, and while we could not guess what he would do next, we awaited his performances with complacence, laughing as if we owned him and had ourselves ordered his latest jeu d'esprit. We deplored the untimely moment of his end; we held beautiful, solemn and impressive memorial services over his body,
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