LITTLE HELPS BY THE WAY 5993 He who is false to the present duty breaks a-thread in the loom and will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled -Selected The looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year That is the best […]
Mary, Queen of Scots, 3501 I saw that grief had decked it out, an offering for the tomb I knew the eye, though faint its light, that once so brightly shone; I knew the voice, though feeble now, that thrilled with every tone I knew the ringlets almost gray, once threads of living gold: I […]
Unanswered Yet? 4573 Unanswered yet? The prayer your Hpe have pleaded In agony of heart these many years? Does faith begin to full? is hope departing? And think you in vain all those falling tears Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer! You shall have your desire sometime, somewhere You shall have your […]
THE BRIDAL L M Montgomery 2725 Last night a pale young Moon was wed Unto the amorous, eager Sea; Her maiden veil of mist she wore, His kingly purple vesture, he With her a bridal train of stars Walked sisterly through shadows dim, And, master-minstrel of the world, The great Wind sang the marriage-hymn Thus […]
To San Francisco 395 O guardian of the nation’s western gate! Keeping your lookout on our destinies, Where lles the mystic Orlent over seas, The world beholds you torn and desolate; O’erthrown as if through Nature’s deadly hate, Destroyed, distraught, brought cowering to your knees; Vanquished by forces that you could not selze, Grapple, and […]
Railroad Song 84-11 Singing through the forests Rattiing over ridges, Shooting under arches Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountains Buzzing o’er the vale: Bless me! this is pleasant, Riding on the rail Men of different stations In the eye of Fame Here are very quickly Coming to the same; High and lowly people, Birds […]
Polly’s Discovery 1152 THINGS are not like they used to be When I was very small, And some things ’bout old Santa Claus I do not see at all! There used to be just only one, Who came the night before And climbed right down our chimney place, And filled our stockings four But now-oh, […]
Watch 5705 Mother, father, watch the little feet, Climbing o’er the garden wall, Bounding through the busy streets, Ranging cellar, shed, and hall; Never count the moments lost, Never mind the time It costs; Little feet will go astray- Mother, father, watch them, while you may Mother, father, watch the little tongue Prattling eloquent and […]
Too Busy 2171 I don’t want to ruh the kenity It’s more pleasant, I allow To set here in the grocery An’ tell the other fellers how, An’ say, “Dad guin ’em! things air wrong! An’ kin tell ye why!” I don’t keer to run the kentry: I’d rather specchity Ef I wuz up in […]
The Ready Writer 3694 The Ardent Lover writes, and then the brute Conses to woo, grows cold, and turns quite mute; But don’t You ever tear his Letters up: You’ll need them in your Breach-of-Promise Suit!
The Short Poem-Japanese and American 2401 The South Atlantic Quarterly con- firms all that its contemporaries have averred of late years regarding the tendency of many Japanese poets to extreme brevity It publishes several examples to illuminate the subject for the benefit of those who do not know Japanese The poetess Chiyo, for instance, upon […]
AFTERWARDS 2505 Oh, to think that the world will go on After we are dead! Lovers will go on loving The old, old words will be said New buds will bloom in April, And white be the apple-bough; June will return, the birds troop back, The earth will be as glad as now The long, […]
Autobiography, Bi Andru Katnegy 1285 I kam from the Skotish Hilandz To the wildz of Amerika’s planz, Began my life as a massage boy, Which is monstrously good for the branz I turned my hand to the steel business- (Be sure you spell that right)- And soon became a millyunair, And books where my chef […]
Answer to “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother” 3847 My child, oh my child, thou art weary tonight! Thy spirit is sad and dim is the light Thou wouldst call me back from the echolest shore To the trials of life, to thy heart, as of yore; Thou longest again for my fond, loving care, For […]
Tenting on the OId Camp Ground 3044 We’re tenting tonight on the old camp grounds dive Give us mong to Our weary hearts cheer Camp Ground a song of home, And the friends we love so dear Chorus- Many are the hearts that are wonry tonight, Wishing for the war to cense; Many are the […]
Good Feeling 2554 What a relief it is to meet the fel- low with a smile and hearty hand- shake when you get a touch of the blues, and you feel as well, as though it isn’t any use Perhaps you don’t get up against it that way, reader, but there are those who do […]
Alone, Yet Not Alone 2346 When no kind earthly friend is near, With gentle words my heart to cheer Still am I with my Savior dear: “Alone, yet not alone” Though no loved forms my path attend With tender looks o’er me to bend, Yet aim I with my unseen Friend: “Alone, yet not alone” […]
What is the Mighty All? 1485 What is the mighty all-the main Of air, the earth, the ocean’s plain, The wheeling world stupendously Hung in the void, the stars that flee And circle through the night, and we, With life and labor, mind and thought, And dreams of all things that are not? What is […]
Halloween 22 Ah, Hallowe’en’s the dandy night! Yet woe to the unwary, For in the dark one’s apt to meet A Jack-o’-Lantern scarey This Hallowe’en, the Bunnies said, “Tonight we’ll have some fun We’ll make a Jack-o’-Lantern and We’ll see the Squirrels run But, strange to say, the Squirrels had In mind that very day […]
The Mckingbird’s Secret Frank L Stanton 3701 Sing, Mister Mockin’bird, ‘Way up in de tree; Tell me what my sweetheart Been a-tellin’ you ’bout me? She pass dis way dis mawnin’, Kaze I seen de roses stir; En you listened ter her singin’, En you stole de voice er her! I seen her des a-trippin’ […]