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Ambrose Bierce
June 24, 1842 – 1914
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | Alone | In contact, lo! the flint and steel, | | | 1229 | | An Inscription | A conqueror as provident as brave, | | | 1025 | | Christian | I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo! | | | 886 | | Decalogue | Thou shalt no God but me adore: | | | 822 | | Elegy | The cur foretells the knell of parting day; | | | 885 | | Freedom | Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, | | | 1201 | | Piety | The pig is taught by sermons and epistles | | | 1044 | | Rimer | The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, | | | 996 | | Safety-Clutch | Once I seen a human ruin | | | 998 | | The Day of Wrath | Day of Satan's painful duty! | | | 804 | | The Mad Philosopher | The flabby wine-skin of his brain | | | 953 | | The New Decalogue | Have but one God: thy knees were sore | | | 979 | | The Statesmen | How blest the land that counts among | | | 811 | | To The Bartholdi Statue | O Liberty, God-gifted, | | | 1008 | | Weather | Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, | | | 1041 | | With A Book | Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning | | | 1006 |
About:
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary.
Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer's career.
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