The Poetry of Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce is remembered mostly for his fiction and his acid definitions, but he also wrote a great deal of verse, and this volume gathers it together. Most of the poems are satirical, aimed squarely at the politicians, editors, and self-important men of his California. Bierce collected much of this work under titles like Black Beetles in Amber, and the tone matches: sharp epigrams, savage lampoons, and rhymed insults delivered with obvious relish. Alongside the invective sit darker pieces on death, folly, and the pretenses people live by, plus a scattering of fables in verse. Readers who know his prose will recognize the same unforgiving eye and the same refusal to flatter anyone. This free PDF and EPUB edition collects the verse in one place.

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was an American journalist and author known for his sardonic wit, Civil War tales, and horror stories. He mysteriously vanished in Mexico around 1914.

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#	Chapter	Length
1	Preface	1:46
2	Some Fiction; One More Unfortunate	2:46
3	Some Fiction; The Strong Young Man of Colusa	2:22
4	Some Fiction;The Glad New Year	2:00
5	Some Fiction; The Late Dowling, Senior	5:24
6	Some Fiction; “Love’s Labour Lost”	3:57
7	Some Fiction; A Comforter	2:08
8	Some Fiction; Little Isaac	2:30
9	Some Fiction; the Heels of Her	2:26
10	Some Fiction; A Tale of Two Feet	1:50
11	Some Fiction; The Scolliver Pig	3:30
12	Some Fiction; Mr. Hunker's Mourner	2:18
13	Some Fiction; A Bit of Chivalry	3:08
14	Some Fiction; The Head of the Family	2:00
15	Some Fiction; Deathbed Repentance	2:34
16	Some Fiction; The New Church that was not Built	3:23
17	Some Fiction; A Tale of the Great Quake	2:05
18	Some Fiction; Johnny	1:46
19	Some Fiction; The Child's Provider	1:52
20	Some Fiction; Boys who Began Wrong	1:50
21	Some Fiction; A Kansas Incident	1:07
22	Some Fiction; Mr. Grile's Girl	2:29
23	Some Fiction; His Railway	1:54
24	Some Fiction; Mr. Gish Makes a Present	1:59
25	Some Fiction; A Cow-County Pleasantry	1:57
26	Some Fiction; The Optimist, and What He Died Of	2:50
27	Some Fiction; The Root of Education	2:09
28	Some Fiction; Retribution	1:21
29	Some Fiction; The faithful wife	1:43
30	Some Fiction; Margaret the Childless	2:34
31	Some Fiction; The Discomfited Demon	3:58
32	Some Fiction; The Mistake of a Life	1:37
33	Some Fiction; L.S.	4:31
34	Some Fiction; The Baffled Asian	2:27
35	Tall Talk; A Call to Dinner	5:08
36	Tall Talk; On Death and Immortality	3:53
37	Tall Talk; Music, muscular and mechanical	2:35
38	Tall Talk; The Good Young Man	2:10
39	Tall Talk; The Average Parson	2:56
40	Tall Talk; Did We Eat One Another?	3:01
41	Tall Talk; Your Friend’s Friend	2:01
42	Tall Talk; Le Diable est aux Vaches	3:51
43	Tall Talk; Angels and Angles	2:06
44	Tall Talk; A Wingless Insect	4:06
45	Tall Talk; Pork on the Hoof	3:04
46	Tall Talk; The Young Person	2:16
47	Tall Talk; A Certain Popular Fallacy	1:55
48	Tall Talk; Pastoral Journalism	3:21
49	Tall Talk; Mendicity’s Mistake	2:00
50	Tall Talk; Insects	1:42
51	Tall Talk; Picnicking considered as a Mistake	1:53
52	Tall Talk; Thanksgiving Day	4:31
53	Tall Talk; Flogging	1:58
54	Tall Talk; Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press	1:19
55	Tall Talk; Charity	0:50
56	Tall Talk; The Study of Human Nature	0:52
57	Tall Talk; Additional Talk—Done in the Country	3:53