THE CLOCK WILL TICK IT AWAY 5272 ‘Mid the many tasks the years Im- pose Come blithe and blissful times, And strewn through a world of rustic prose Are ripples of restful rhymes But the joys we deem the dearest seem The shortest in their stay, For we never can greet a day so sweet […]
A Family 4001 Whenever a man’s to be shot in the back And the shooter escape by a hypocrite’s tack: When a bully is wanted to stand in the dark And without word or warning, to make for his mark One unsuspecting, unknowing, unarmed, All prepared in advance, so the shooter’s unharmed, No need to […]
“Hello Central” 4223 Papa, I’m so sad and lonely Sebbet a tearful little child: Since dear mamma’s gone to heaven, Dearest napa, you’ve not smiled I will speak to her and tell her That we want her to come home Just you listen and I’ll call her Through the telephone Chorus- Helio, Central, give me […]
The Same Old Cub 104 Oh, fair city of the Golden Gate, you whom I loved so well Brought out of Paradise into chaos to the very brinks of hell Ruin and desolation faced her on every hund, And sadly the news, traveled throughout the broad land: Her people lying homeless on the bare cinder […]
The Night Rain Lorenzo Sosso 4251 Oh, how the western wind to-night wailed by, Stirring the mute trees in their somber shrouds! The slowly moving caravan of clouds Crossed wearily the desert of the sky But silence like to death, As though the vastness held its breath, Made still more solemn and intense The looming […]
Stay, Father, Stay 3848 Stay, father, stay, the night is wild; Leave not alone your dying child I feel the Joy hand of death And shorter, shorter, grows my breath Stay, father, stay, alone, alone With none to cheer or none to mourn, How can I leave this world of woe And to a land […]
MARY’S PETS 5009 Mary had a little lamb, One day it got the croup; She sold it to a packing house- It’s now canned ox-tail roup Mary had to have a pet; She bought a cunning cow Which died of splitting headaches soon: It’s country sausage now Mary wept and wopt and wept, And then […]
The Bachelor Is Happy, But- 2669 How happy is the bachelor! How free from care his life! How much more blest he really is Than if he had a wife He has no dressmakers to pay, No millinery bills; And similarly he escapes From many other ills The pretty girls all smile on him, To […]
Country LIfe 5505 The pleasures of a country life Appeal to us just now We want to roam the grassy meads, And watch the festive cow We want to climb the old stone wall, And find a shady nook, Where we can loaf all afternoon Beside the babbling brook But country life is not all […]
The Falsehood 1919 Each morn he lies in his trundle bed And sees the great sun rise, He shakes the curls of his golden hend And rubs his sleepy eyes: Then softly steals across the floor And climbs upon my knee “Is mudder here?” he asks once more “Why won’t she tum to me?” I […]
Since My Mother Died 2029 I’m lonely since my mother died, Though friends and kindred gather near I cannot check the rising sigh Or stay the silent heartfelt tear, Of earthly friends she was the best My erring youthful feet to guide: Oh, do not smile because I weep, I’m lonely since my mother died […]
Song of the Remorseful Twilight 1793 sumtimes wenn u are kummen hoam at nite frum playen hookey nuthen semes uz brite uz it did in the mornen wenn u hurd temtashuns voyce that kum to u ann sturd ure eavul pashuns up ann then uno how turble is remoarse ann u walk slo soze to […]
The Old Rocking Chair 901 It stands over there in the enen alone, The varnish is cracked and one rooker is gone) What’s left of its tidy is dusty and brown And ecatiored and ellent its fringes bang downt No bongater sopeareth to warble its praise, When we were but children it eaw its best […]
The Bubble and the Gold 3741 THE diver in unshapely coat of mail Sank eagerly to search out hintedgold With passing interest, as his lines were told, The crowd looked on-then turned with shouts to hail A gaily clouted clown in shallop frail Who leapt among the waves as one full bold Of Neptune’s rage, […]
YE HAUNTED MAYDE 4411 I, soe whyte, soe wearie and sad, I, soe worn wyth wysdom o’ books, Loved hys lass, soc wynsome and glad- Loved hys mayde wyth ye Apryl looks: John O’Neil’s lyttel red-cheeked mayde,- Under ye apple’s shade Of Weston Grange they call me Sage, Ralph, ye learned reader of scrypt; But […]
ON THE BURIAL CIRCUIT 3047 They call me through the telephone: Each of the joy of her heart makes known; One has a lily, and one has a rose, Blossomed in spite of the deep winter snows Bright in their windows these glow and glow, Orange and primroses all in a row; Hyacinth, tulip, and […]
The Door Wirginis Woodward Oloud 953 Virginia Woodward Cloud in Harper’s Bazar The door is shut; what lies beyond I may not see nor know Thou of the Past-O dear and fond! Go not the way I go The door is shut and I am blind To star if star there be; The fire of […]
When You Have Christ for a Friend 849 Why do you feel discouraged? Why are you down-hearted and sad?” God’s watchful care never falletin; In that thouglit rejuler, be glad For as sure as storm-clouds threaten There is one who w will defend No, insu need be disheartened When he has Christfor a friend Does […]
This day 2238 Improve this day, ’twill ne’er return; And likewise some wise lesson learn The prudent: let your old age find A well-filled purse, an easy mind Improve this day; let none go by Without a hearty, right good try This day-today, be not too late To gain your share of man’s estate -Joe […]
When the Frost is on the Pankin 893 BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock; And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin turkey-cock And the clackin’ of the guineas, and the cluckin’ of the hens, And the rooster hallyloopers as he tiptoes […]