Hummer 3698 Of course you’d wish to say at once, “bee, don’t be a little dunco And waste your golden days and months In fazlly reviewing The things you’re going to do, and how Your hive with honey you’ll endow, But bear in mind, O bee, that now Is the time for ‘doing’” Suppose a […]
Blue Hall 3994 Blue Bell, the dawn is waking Sweetheart, you must not sigh Blue Bell, my heart is breaking I’ve come to say good-by Hear how the bugle’s calling Calling to each brave heart Sweetheart, your tears are falling Blue Bell, we two must part Charue- Good-by my Blue Bull, farewell to you, One […]
GIVE AND GET 5535 “Give others as you journey on You’ll find it worth your while- The courage of a kindly word, The stunshine of a smile: And when you chance upon a day All hopeless, dark and cold, They’ll haste with interest to repay, An hundred, hundredfold”
NEW ENGLAND TO ” THE QUEEN CITY” 5442 “Jac” Lowell, author of “New England Snap Shots” From mountains green, from cloud-capped granite hills, From throbbing marts and peace-protected farms, We send to thee a shout of grand grand “good-wills,” We praise the strength which stays thy heart and arms! Since Pilgrim sires their homeland builded […]
A Family Club Lyric 403 At a Family club jinks last week Larry Harris made his bow as a lyric writer Nothing preten tious did Larry serve up for the edification of his club pals, but in his jingles he gave expression to a sentiment that set the audience on fire Jack Noyes did the […]
Araby’s Daughter 2122 Farewell, farewell, to thee, Araby’s daughter: Thus warbled a perl beneath the dark sen; No pearl ever lay under Oman’s green water More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee O fair na the sen flower close to thee growing How light was thy heart till love’s witchery / came […]
THE TURKEY’S THANKSGIVING CONUNDRUM 4366 The kitchen shelves were loaded, with pumpkin pies and mince; There was jelly in the pantry, and preserves of peach and quince There were nuts and apples ready, and the cakes were large and nice, And the whole farmhouse was fra- grant with the smell of cloves and spice Farmer […]
THE SUSTAINING HAND 2551 The little child win wakes at night Affrighted at the somber gloom, And clamors for a ray of light To drive the darkness from the room, To quiet dreamland sweetly goes, Contented if a hand is near, Caressingly, because it knows There is no terror it need fear So we, who […]
Christmas Song 4954 All joys, I thought, from Christmas fled When good Saint Nicholas drove away Forever in his reindeer sleigh, When last, from my low trundle-bed, I watched the gray east growing red, With heart of feverish eagerness, And in the dim light strove to guess If it were wagon, boat or sled The […]
Puffs 2292 (With Apologies to Rudyard Kipling and Professor Morse Stephens) He smokes smokes – – smokes-smokes, amokin’ over Berkeley! Smokes-smokes-smokes-smokes, smo in’ over Berkeley! smok- (Puft-puft-puff putt, breathing in and out again!) There’s no end to his cigars! Seven-six-eleven-five, twenty-nine cl- gars today- Four-six-eleven-seventeen- -thirty-two the day before- (Puff-puff puff-puff, out again!) breathing in […]
The Deserted Village 5603 Sweet Auburnt lovellest village of the plain, Where herith and plenty cheered the laboring swain Where smiling spring its earliest visit pald And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed Dear, lovely bowers of innocence and Seats of my youth, when every sport could please How often have I loitered over thy green […]
Behind The Dinner Horn 2622 Oh, the harvest days are coming, Tessledear, And tho’ slow they’ll very soon be here, When with ples and Jams and roasts You can dish ’em out your boasts How to cook thiugs on the homestead, -Jessle dear
IN AUTUMNTIDE 3081 The apple seeds are black at core; The linden leaves, like fairy ore Shed the effulgence of their gold, Paving the pathways green before More plaintive grows the thrush’s pipe; The quince’s cheek is yellow ripe; And the smooth pallor of the pear Reveals, like dawn, a russet stripe The minstrel wind […]
The Three Fishers By three Fishers 645 Three fishers wat sailing out into the west- Out Into the west as the sun went down: Each thought of the woman who loved him best, And the children stood watching them out of the town For wen must work and women must weep: And there’s little to […]
WHEN LOVERS PART 276-1 WHEN the lover from the loved one goes, Some viewless watcher knows: And a volce doth say, “Oh stay, oh stay! Love’s roses wither, drop away” WHEN the loved one’s arms the lover leaves, Some viewless watcher grieves: Mayst hear him sigh “Never good-by But a rose doth in love’s garden […]
Song of A Thousand Years 1279 A thousand years, my own Columbia ‘Tis the glad day so long foretold; ‘Tis the glad morn whose early twilight Washington saw in times of old What to the clouds one little monent Hide the bine sky when morn appears, When the bright sun that tinte them crimson Rises […]
THE WORLD GROWS BETTER 4045 Oh, the earth is full of sinning And of trouble and of woe, But the devil makes an inning Every time we say it’s so And the way to set him scowling And to put him back a pace, Is to stop this stupid growling And to look things in […]
THE WIDOW’S LOT 2763 Міs Pikes Jes called the fust time fer A month o Sundays I’ve seen her- She took on scan’luss about me A-litlu here alone, an’ she Jes up au said, “A ranch was not The place fer widders,” an’ she sot An’ harped on that one string ’til I Jes shut […]
A Life on the Ocean Wave 1542 A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep Where the scattered waters rave And the wild winds their revela keep! Like an eagie caged, 1 pine On this du duil, unchanging shore Oh give me the flashing brine, The spray, and the tempest’s roar! […]
What Did You Use To Do 576 Th boy’s just old enough to play These little fellers games Like “blind man’s buff” an-anyway, I can’t recall the names He’s just as glad as glad can be At learnin’ somethin new, An keeps forever askin’ me: “What did you used to do?” I’ve thought of “hidey […]