SWEET SEPTEMBER DAYS 2948 The sweet September days are here, The days of misty dreaming; The haze, the cloud, and then the clear Sweet autumn beauty gleaming The sweet September days that bring Such drifts of golden weather, And round us with their shadow cling– Gray days and gold together The sweet September days of […]
The LIttle Match Girl 4904 “Come in little stranger” I said As she tapped at niy half open door; With a blanket pinned over her head Which reached to the basket she bore A look full of innocence fell From her modest and pretty blue eye, As she said “I have matches to sell, And […]
Things 4363 We like to hear him tell of things That aren’t goin’ right; About the that brings Such trouble, day and night When he’s up to speak, a mile Is not too much to walk, The journey’s allus worth the while We like to hear him talk He ran for office But a man […]
CHERRIES ARE RIPE 5765 Under the tree, the farmer said, Smiling, and shaking his wise old head, “Cherries are ripe; but then, you know, There’s the grass to cut and the corn to hoe; We can gather the cherries any day, But when the sun shines we must make our hay To-night, when the work […]
A Mountain Monument MARY H C BOOTH 5635 The mountains crimsoned with delight And shook in thunder thrills, They leaned across the jeweled night, And whispered to the hills And the little hills upspringing Gave back an answering nod Then burst out into singing Of freedom and of God And freedom took her dwelling place […]
Little Blossom 6006 “Oh, dear! I’se so tired and lonesome! I wonder why mamma don’t come; She told me to s’ut up my blue eyes, And ‘fore I waked up she’d be home S’e suid s’e was going to see gamma; S’e lives by the river so bright; I s’pect that my mamma fell in […]
A Sunset Panorama 3846 See! At close of day in western sky Those mountain clouds shine like Sinait Skirted with piumed tips aglow Are zilvered creats, like peaks of snow, At foot of which gold tinged they pour Light’s richer hues in waver galore The art the brush this scene to take True to pa […]
Another stanza 1862 I have read a strenuous gospel of the square and righteous deal To: “The more the robber spreads him- self the bigger is hte steal Let the hero with the big stich I am the rascals till they squal, While Kansas Marcbes on” -Chicago Tribune
The Indian Hunter 3195 Let me go to my home in the far distant West To the scenes of my youth that I like the best, Where the tall cedars are and the bright waters How, Where my parents will greet me, white man, let me go Let me go to the hills and the […]
LIFE IN ATLANTA YET 4792 No matter how the weather goes, We’re sure to have a showin’, For there’ll be corn enough to keep The moonshine stills a-goin’! The boys are busy ‘long the line Who dodge the tax internal (A little sugar, please, in mine- Here’s lookin’ at you, colonel!) OF Iama, -Atlanta Constitution
PREJUDICE 4687 Hate hides its hideous head in prejudice, in custom sheathes its deadly treachery! The man who hates ils fellow men is near The snake as he who pities them is near The gods, for love distinguishes the great From little men, as speech themselves from brutes The race that hates a fellow race […]
I looked in her eyes, And I held her hand As I said: “My love, I am yours to command To have and to hold Till life has grown old And has passed away like a tale that is told” But she answered: “No” And withdrew her hand; “I am not your own, Not yours […]
Make Good 5004 If you start to do a thing, Make good; If it be to dance or sing, Make good; If it be to write a famous book Or to be a noted cook, Do your best, by hook or crook, Make good, If you say you’ll make a name, After love or pelf […]
Conversion 2716 While in conversation with a com- pany of friends last evening a re- mark was made by one of the party to the effect that everybody “knocking” everybody else That the doctors “pound’t each other-by word of mouth-and that the lawyers are “doing” their brethren of the legal fraternity in the same manner, […]
Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still 45411 Tix years since last we met, And we may not meet rain: I have struggled to forget, But the struggle was in vain, For her volce lives on the breeze, And her spirit comes at will; In the midnight, on the rens, Her bright smile haunta ine atill […]
The Ghostly Wind 5823 De lonesome Win’ he holler w’en de night wuz in de middle: “Ef you lemme in I’ll show you how I knows ter play de fiddle: Done had de leaves a-dancin’ fum de very break er day, But, blowin’ s’ch a lively tune, I danced de stars away! “En I’m lost-lost-lost […]
The Irish Erin Grant’s Lament 5435 I’m sitting on the stile, Mary Where we sat side by side: On a bright May morning long ago, When årst you were my belde The corn wus springing fresh and green, And the lark sang loud and high, And the red was on your cheek, Mary, And ho […]
GRANDMA’S GARGEN 2989 In Grandma’s dear old-fashioned garden, Where countless flowers grow, Nodding in the soft south wind, Gently swaying to and fro, Overhead the birds are singing, To the dear old-fashioned flowers, And the honey bees are humming, In the sweet and sunny bowers Children playing in the garden, Gather blossonis never missed, In […]
Ervesiorto 2944 The Carthusian monks in the time ofCortez established small monastery high up on the mountain slopes on the roa lending to Toluen, the capital of the State of Mexico, for th City of Mexico is in a district like Washington When a bette road was found the convent of El Desierto, which was […]
Where Is Hep 4478 We’ve had the muckrakers, The scandal and crime And now for the man With the chloride of lime -Milwaukee Sentinel