Short Reads

Brief masterpieces for a spare half-hour — short stories and short poems you can finish in a single sitting.

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Showing 120 works from the first 120 entries in this collection.

• Simon
• Fascination
• The God-plllnk
• Under the Deck Awnings
• Robinetta
• Through
• The Tradition of the Tea-Plant
• The Nun of the Temple of Amida
• Notes from the Underground
• With Young Germany on Shipboard
• The other Man's Wife
• The Price He Paid
• The Shooting Party
• Vera
• March Wind Blow
• The Hard-boiled Egg
• A Death in the Desert
• The Machinations of Angels
• The Brother's Reply
• Julia Miller
• The Bee Hunters
• The Vanishing of Vaudrey
• Cyprian Overbeck Wells -- a Literary Mosaic
• Compartment Number Four -- Cologne to Paris
• The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
• A Pair of Blue Eyes
• God Rest you, Merry Christians
• Town
• Poetry and Marriage: the Use of Old Forms
• The End of the Battle
• The Breeches Bishop
• The Unluckiest Man in the World
• Trees
• Bits of Clay
• C'est Une Taupe
• Speaking of Angels
• The Amouretta Landscape
• Epitaph on Wm. Hood, Senr., in Tarbolton
• Epitaph on my own Friend and my Father's Friend, Wm. Muir in Tarbolton Mill
• Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
• Lines on the Author's Death
• Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scottish Bard
• Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
• To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
• Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's
• Versified Reply to an Invitation
• On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies
• A Bard's Epitaph
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq
• Epitaph on "Wee Johnie"
• Motto Prefixed to the Author's First Publication
• Lines to Mr. John Kennedy
• Lines Written on a Banknote
• Mr. William Smellie-A Sketch
• Rattlin', Roarin' Willie
• Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet
• Epigram at Roslin Inn
• Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee
• The Bard at Inverary
• Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
• Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling
• The Poet's Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic
• The Libeller's Self-Reproof
• Love in the Guise of Friendship
• The Parting Kiss
• The Henpecked Husband
• Lines to John M'Murdo, Esq. of Drumlanrig
• Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell
• The Banks of Nith
• On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking his Chain
• Johnie Lad, Cock up your Beaver
• Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
• Poem on Sensibility
• The Rights of Woman
• The True Loyal Natives
• Lines on the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory
• The Raptures of Folly
• Extempore Reply to an Invitation
• Grace after Meat
• Grace before and after Meat
• Impromptu on General Dumourier's Desertion from the French Republican Army
• Lines on John M'Murdo, Esq
• Come, Let me Take Thee to my Breast
• Behold the Hour, the Boat Arrive (Second Version)
• Deluded Swain, the Pleasure
• My Spouse Nancy
• Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
• Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice
• Epistle from Esopus to Maria
• On Capt. Lascelles
• Farewell Thou Stream
• The Solemn League and Covenant
• Lines Sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter
• Epigram on Mr. James Gracie
• Inscription at Friars' Carse Hermitage
• Inscription for an Altar of Independence
• Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
• How Cruel are the Parents
• Burial of the Minnisink
• Excelsior
• The Slave's Dream
• The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
• Walter Von Der Vogelweid
• Gaspar Becerra
• Pegasus in Pound
• Prometheus, or the Poet's Forethought
• The Emperor's Bird's-Nest
• The Ropewalk
• Enceladus
• Vox Populi
• The Challenge
• Belisarius
• The Emperor's Glove
• The Leap of Roushan Beg
• Haroun Al Raschid
• King Trisanku
• Jugurtha
• Helen of Tyre
• Hermes Trismegistus
• Rio Verde, Rio Verde

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