A SMILE 5646 The brightness of the morn was hid ‘Neath clouds of dull, unsoftened gray; My heart beat low beneath its weight Of grief, and sorrowed with the day A mockery was all gladness-yet A loved one smiled-straight from the heart The glad look came, and mine, meeting A sweet peace soft enfolded me: […]
For AH These Juliet Wilbor Tompkins 2935 I thank thee, Lord, that I am straight and strong With wit to work and hope ho to keep me brave”: That two score yours, unfathomed, still belong To the allotted life thy bounty gave I thank thee that the sight of sunlit lands And dipping itils, the […]
A Lenten Rhapsody 5608 No, the house is not a-ûre Where that smoke doth kiss the sky, And that music is no lyre, Twanging with wild melody It is just the rip and roar, Sneeze and whip and smut and souse, Aching limbs and joints all sore, Of the days of cleaning house
In Several States 5754 “O come with Me, my love,” he said “We’ll seek some quiet, shady Del Where I Kan kiss a dainty Miss Ore tell again of Cupid’s spell :: Tenn times I love you, and I Wis You’d ‘Ark to me N C my heart A-beating inwardly for you I swear from […]
BRYAN 4041 In ’96 when Bill came forth To slug the Moneyed Bully, The nation gasped from south to north; “Good gracious, ain’t he woolly!” But since we’ve killed the Silve- Cow Anr raised the Golden Helfer The “Cyclone from Nebraska” now Is like an April zephyr Twist William Jennings Bryan then And William Jennings […]
Hallowe’en 4795 SHE ate the apple-as did Eve- And looked into the glass; She said, “The Fates will not deceive A little lonely lass” SHE ate the apple, rind and all, So that the Fates could see, Although she was so lone and small She trusted utterly THE Fates-not always wholly kind, – Now said […]
Who Knows? CATHERINE MARKHAM 3086 Those cryptic runes upon the brake writ thick, Who will interpret? or that terse distich The cricket fills the night with, who is wise To give it words? And when the night-wind flies, Who has the delicate ear that can divine The auguries of the ever-whispering pine? Or can declare […]
A Thanksgiving Obeing 4891 “Come, hear the tale I would unfold,” said the Gobbler to his flock, “For what the stars this day have told has given me a shock “The zodiac, in days of old, with twelve signs was com plete, But woe is me, this day I see, thirteen are on the sheet! […]
Buttoning 1334 John Jones lives with hi swife, also his sister and his mother: He’s always at the beck and call of one or the other- Buttoning, buttoning! His fingers have been worn to bones, his finger nails to splinters- He’s busy through the springs and falls, the summers and the win- ters, Buttoning, bttoning! […]
As a Comic 2939 I asked a charming young soubrette Who’d said I was a “shine” To please those cruel words forget And be my valentine She said my valentine she’d be If I my ald would lend And let her stick a stamp on me And mail me to a frined
A Memory Emily Sargent Lewis 572 My mother died when I was four, That’s why I can’t remember more Of what she used to do and say So long ago I’m six to-day I know one day she climbed with me, Way up into the apple tree, The flowers fell down upon us so We […]
SLOWING UP 5644 Everybody’s runnin’ In this eventful day; Runnin’ some big business So’s to make it pay; Runnin’ for an office Or runnin’ from the law- It’s the fastest runnin’ That this old world ever saw I want to stop a minute, So’s to kind o’ ketch my breath, We go so fast around […]
AFTER 2947 One who was rich picked out a spot High on a noble hill, and there He built himself a costly tomb, That all the people might know where He rested when his work was done, The marble glistened in the sun; The white shaft towered in the air A toller where the crowds […]
THE MARIPOSA LILY 5545 Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing, Poised upon tender slip, and quivering To flight! a flower of the fields of air; A jeweled moth; a butterfly, with rare And tender tints upon his downy wing, A moment resting in our happy sight; A flower held captive by a thread so slight […]
The Pirate’s Serenade 84-6 My boat’s by the tower, my bark’s in the bay And both must be gone ere the dawn of the day The moon’s in her shroud, but to guide thec afar On the deck of the Dariln’s a love lighted star Then wake, lady, wake I am waiting for thee, And […]
The Killjoy 3205 Although a fellow’s down and out, Why, matters might be worse; And he can keep up courage stout With nothing in his purse A chap can be light-hearted, then, Although he has to toll; But life is just a desert when A fellow has a boil A chap can be both bright […]
Panting for Heaven 3502 Ye angels who stand ’round the throne And View my Immanuel’s face, In rapturous songs make him known Tune, tune your soft harps to his praise He formed you the spirits you are- So happy, so noble, so good When others sunk down in despair, Confirmed by his power ye stood […]
Grandpa Nathan 3776 By the beech and hickory Dre Grandpa Nathan sat at night With details of marching armes, And the news of many a fight When he laid aside the paper Though its contests he had told He was plied with any questions By the young and by the old ‘Tis a war the […]
A Very Conservative Man 1156 He doesn’t believe half the stories he hears- He’s a very conservative man The papers, he says, spread unwarranted fears- He’s a very conservative map The troubles we hear of he mlidly de clares, Most often are nothing but newspaper scares To favor the bulls or to pront the bears- […]
Love, the Illusion 3202 Love is just a cobweb, wet with morning dew; Love is just a fairy spell, invisible to view; A tread-a touch too heavy, and the cobweb is not there A sigh too long, and lo:-the spell has vanished into air! Love is just a morning glory, doomed at noon to die; […]