A MAUDLE-IN BALLAD 3563 My lank limp lily, my long lithe lily, My languid lily-love fragile and thin, With dank leaves dangling and flower-flap chilly, That shines like the shin of a Highland gilly; skin! Mottled and moist as a cold toad’s skin! Lustrous and leper-white, splendid and splay! Art thou not Utter and wholly […]
The Country Child’s Good-Night 1472 Good-Night Good-night, dear hills! So still you lie Against the bosom of the sky, I know you must be fast asleep, And all night long the stars will ke Their tender watches over you, So must I soon be sleeping, too
A SONG OF SUN AND SUMMER ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD 4153 Now shimmering waves of fairy bloom Across the meadows break and run, And all the good brown earth is glad Beneath the glory of the sun In bubbles blown of crystal sound The tinkling bird-notes ring and fall, And silvery echoes answer clear When summer’s […]
City Children 5281 Palo towers are you that scarce have known the sun! Your little faces like sad blossoms seem Shut In some room, there helplessly to dream Of distant glens where through glad rivers run And winds at evening whisper Daylight done You miss the tranquil moon’s unfettered beam, The wide, unsheltered earth, the […]
Step Boldly to the Front 1767 Step boldly to the front, farmers, To the place where you belong, And harken while I make your cause The burden of my song Year after year you labor To feed earth’s hungry crew, While trusts are wily scheming To get the best of you Step bravely to the […]
At a Western Window 1547 I gaze from the western window Athwart the narrowing day, Where the sunshine and the shadows In parting glory play, To violet Isles enchanted That smile at the open door As the argosies of evening – Sail through a pairer shore The day is long behind me, The night is […]
Barbara Frietchie JOHN G WHITTIER 3197 Barbara Frietohle was an aged lady of Frederick, Md, of German birth, but intensely patriotic In September, 1862, when Lee’s army was on its way to Antietam, “Stonewall” Jackson’s corps passed through Frederick, and the inhabitants, though a majority of them were loyai, resolved not to pro- voke the […]
Dixie’s Land 4743 I wish I was in de land ob cotton Old times dar am not forgotten, Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie land In Dixie land whar I was born in Early on one frosty mornin’, Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie land Chorus Den I wish I was in Dixie, […]
THE SEXTON 43610 Nigh to a grave that was newly made Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade His task was done, and he paused to wall The funeral train through the open gate A relic of bygone days was he, And his locks were as white na a foamy sea, And these words […]
Never Alone 4735 I’ve seen the lighining lashing And heard the thunder rošt; I’vo felt ain’s breakers dashing Trying to conquer my soul: I’ve heard the voice of my Savior, Telling me still to fight on: He promised never to leave me, Never to leave me alone Chorus- No, never alone, no, never alone, He […]
A Question Mabel Mahin 1912 I study the faces of old women And ask myself a question, new and strange To my own features will there come a change? That look of meek submission? Am I, then, No different from the others? And again, I ask, have I no power to arrange The course of […]
Fame 3074 To some ’tis given to present A candidate for president; And with appeal and sally loud To sway the effervescent crowd But some-ah, some-elate and cool, On Friday afternoon at school May rattle off, without a check, “The boy stood on the burning deck!” -Edwin L Sabin
You 582 You mean for me what birds at daybreak sing, When earth awakening calls t them With little yellow daffodils, “Tis spring! You mean the wondrous music of the spheres, When o’er the distant purple hills Through soft piled clouds, the great white moon appears You mean what the great sea is fain to […]
Pity the Poor Rich 3437 What’s the use of hurrying, and worrying, and scurrying? Cease your labor, tired neighbor; come a while and play What’s the use of plundering, and thundering, and blundering? Stop a while and learn to smile, and think of yesterday What’s the use of bustling, and hustling, and rus- tling? Figures […]
Ballad of Our Cooks 11 Selenn’s specially was brooms And scrubbing and adjusting Daily she cycloned thrpugh the rooms Industriously dusting With her the ice-box door staid shut And milk staid sweet -sie uemper; We realy loved Selena, but We couldn’t stand her temper Jemima-bless her!-loudly scorned The least prevarications; Her lightest moments were adorned […]
How sweet to walk within the woods Where spreads the sylvan shade; To roam within the rural della Or fairy forest glade; To sit beside the streamlet fair And watch the babbling rills, And see upon the mossy rocks: “Take Pluckem’s Purple Pills!” How sweet to leave the city streets, To throw off duty’s load, […]
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 2391 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night In the dark blue sky you […]
HER ROUNDELAY 4422 It won’t be long Till hens will lay Fresh eggs again, And every day: And cackle loud, And cacklo long In an exultant Glory song: A large fresh egg And one a day: This is the old hen’s Round-o’-lay -J M Lewis, Texas
The End 1276 These are the last times, it plainly appears it plainly appears “A day with the Lord is a thousand years Man has six great days his work to do, And ther comes the Sabbath eternally truet O chikiren of time! look back in the meze, For 6000 years are the six great […]
The Old fashioned Homestead 905 I will do remember the old fashioned homestead, That beautiful place where I first saw the light; Where oft to have played on the green when in childhood That lovely old spot was so happy and bright The garden was loaded with sweet scented flowers, The pretty magnolia grew close […]