You see the point? Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your ARSENIC.

(C) Bret Harte
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Bret Harte

• Her Letter
• The Ghost That Jim Saw
• Jack Of The Tules
• Battle Bunny
• For The King
• Father Felipe
• Miss Edith Makes Another Friend
• Alnaschar
• Dolly Varden
• Further Language From Truthful James
• A Geological Madrigal
• A Greyport Legend
• A Legend Of Cologne
• A Moral Vindicator
• A Newport Romance
• A Question Of Privilege
• An Idyl Of The Road
• An Arctic Vision
• After The Accident
• Address At The Opening Of The California Theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870
• Cadet Grey: Canto Ii