The Johnstown Flood 5383 On a balmy day in May, when nature held full sway And the hirds sang sweetly in the sky above A lovely city lay, serene in a valley deep in green Where thousands dwelt in happiness and love Ah, but soon the scene changed, for just like a thing deranged A […]
Belle Brandon 9010 ‘Neath a free by the margin of the woodland Whose spreading leafy boughs sweep the ground With a path loading thither o’er the prairie When silence hung her night garb around: There often I have wandered in the evening When the sunrner winds have wandered on the which: lea There I saw […]
A Shocking Tale 3438 “Ha!” cried the young electrician gay, As he ogled the girls in the park “Perhaps it is true I’ve a shocking way For I’m an electrical spark” But he ogled too long, and a malden complained, As too ardently he pressed her The policeman who seized him, with gles exclaimed, “And […]
Maggie Peer 1543 The bird of peace has spread ber wings Again in our glorious sky But plaintive and sad is the song she sings, So sad that many a sigh it brings, And tears to many an eye She has gained the prize, hut at fearful cost For she misses the true and brave; […]
NAVY OF THE SIOUX 40913 Talk about your warships, Clipping through the waves; Chant about the cruiser That the storm-sea bravest Out here in Dakota Where the grass is blue We’ve a fiercer navy- The navy of the Sioux Summer long it’s active, Thrilling its frown Up and down the valley In the bankside town, […]
The Man Behind 2434 Oht I when I was a little boy my father said to me Don’t ever be too forward, lad, but not with modesty: In battle it’s the man in front that’s always shot you’ll find, But the gen’ral gets the credit, for he is the man behind” Some Notreadable
Where Dreams Are Sold 5752 At the silken sign of the Poppy At a shop that is never old Where the twilight silence lingers, It is there that dreams are sold There’s the scent of love’s lost roses, The soft echo of childhood’s laugh; There’s the ring of empty glasses, For the white lips never […]
Time Is Earnest 2753 Time in earnest, passing by: Death is earnest drawing nigh: Sinner, wilt thou trifling be? Time and death appeal to thee Life is earnest: when ’tis o’er Thou returnest nevermore Soon to meet eternity Wilt thou never serious be? God is earnest: kneel and pray Ere the season pass away; Ere […]
THE BOSN’S STORY 5171 We was scuddin’ under the Southern Cross off the coast o’ Van Dieman’s Land, An’ the cook had peppered the skipper’s duft by a slip o’ his starboard hand; The skipper he swore with a tarrible oath that the cookee’s name was mud, An he started a s’arch for the luckless […]
THE SONG OF THE PINES 38412 The pines were asleep in the mid-day heat, That quivered down the lea, But they waked with the roar of a wave- swept shore When the wind came in from the sea They sang of ships and the bo’s’n piped, The hourse watch roared a tune The taut sheets […]
There’s A Spot In The Mountains 2442 There’s a spot in the mountains where the dew, dear, Is laden with the odors of the pine, Where the heavens seem unbounded and their blue, dear, Is deepest where it mirrored seems to shine There at morn and eve, with rapture old and new, dear, The thrushes […]
A Poet, Too 3358 The Rochester (N Y) Times ваув: “Johu Howard Bryant, an only surviving brother of William Cullen Bryant, agod about 30 years, resides in Princeton, Ill He is unknown to fame, but not for want of native ability, which, judging from the following freshly written gem, might have made him as illustrious […]
Never Court but One 4541 I have finished him a letter telling him he’s free! From this moment and forever he la nothing more to ma And my heart feels lighter #ayer, since the deed at last in done I will teach him that while courting he should never court but one Eversbody in the […]
Come Bonnie Father 2767 Bonnie Father O father, dear father The clock in come home with me now the strople striken one: ou said you wer were coming TIMI You shop ink right home from the As moot a your day’s work was done, The fire’s gone out, the house in ult cold, And mother’s […]
The Watchword John Kendrick Bangs 232 Give of your mass of gold, Send to the prostrate West Some of that wealth untold Digged from her virgin breast Give! Give of your meager store, Send from your cupboard bare Out to the wasted shore, If but a pittance share Give! Give of your brother heart Quick […]
Locality 1605 As children little clothes, the great out grow The places that they once inhabited- The truly great ones, the immortal dead Who left a name and roverance below And when, perchance, the kindly people show Where they were born and nursed and reared and fed, And wrote and wrought and struggled, haply bled […]
DOUBT 4412 When Kitty looks at me and smiles, I dream into the afterwhiles And wonder if those eyes of hers Are pretty blossoms or are-burrs
TOO LATE 5648 What silence we keep year after year, With those who are most near tous and dear; We live beside each other day by day And speak of myraid things, but sel- dom say The full, sweet word that lies just in our reach, Beneath the commonplace of common speech Then out of […]
OUR BEAUTIFUL SPELLING 3193 There once was a man from St Paul Who was so exceedingly taul, That it often was said When he lay down in bed, His feet stuck clear out in the haul
The Make-Believe Man 14710 Dame Nature lights her candles in the caverns of the sky With a twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, and a yawn heigh-ho! And there blows a little cobweb into ev- ery little eve As the footsteps of the a-tick-a-tocking by moments go With tick-tock-tick till the dawn heigh-ho! When every little sleeply head […]