Resurgam! 393 From ash and desolation I will arise Imperial, triumphant-on my lips The hill’s song and the sea’s song, and the mist Of an eternal pity in my eyes From ash and desolation I will arise And o’er my head the singing stars shall tell The glory of my rising Far and wide The […]
The Telegram 966 I “Is this the telegraph office?” Asked a childish voice one day, As I noticed the click of my instrument With a message from far away As it commed I turned At my elbow Stood the merriest scrap of a boy, Whose childish face was all aglow With the light of a […]
Alexander 2308 Look here Alexander I was only forlingling: When I said another coon my heart was All the day I think of no one else but you Honest, Alexander, won’t you please belteve me It would break my heart in we, if you should leave me Won’t you take me back, babe, and Fil […]
Which Oae? 4229 There were two little kittine, a black and a gras And grandmamma said with a frown: “Twiil never do to keep them both; the black one we had better drown Don’t cry, my dear,” to tiny Bess: “one kitten is nough to keep: Now run to nurse, for it’s growing late and […]
“The Reson I Left the Farm 833 “”There’s that speckled calf, do you see him? Well, he’s a Christmas gift for you, Jim He’s not been doing well this fall; He’s got so he won’t come when I call But you can have him for a Christmas gift, Go fetch him in ‘fore he goes […]
Mary’s Prayer 5919 That father rose in penitence: sweet thoughts within him stirred A yearning, warm desire to hear from God’s own word Those prectous truthe she thus had llaped in ac Cents sweet and mild: He placed the Bible in her hand; “Take this, and read me, child, burr She read the holy Book, […]
ELIAS LYMAN 5497 Elias Lyman loves to lle Helies all morning in the shade And when the sun at noon gets high He lles where fresher made shade is He lies around all afternoon And talks about the days gone by: Beneath the silver silent moon He loves to lie around and lie He lles […]
Heart’s Life 2331 Tom took young Ariel for a spin, (She was his heart’s desire) For Ariel was a “fly” young thing But Thomas, he was “Flyer” Some day he’d win that Deere young heart Between those shoulders narrow, And hoped that soon the little god Would Pierce it with an Arrow E’er many Moons […]
Rememebtance 2562 Soft! and low the music came, And yet it every crevice filled; Strains of melody so sweet That s’en the mocking bird was stilled And then there came the silence, doe When every note had passed away, Leaving naught but emptiness– A barren earth and skies of gray -Milwaukee Sentinel
A CITY MOOD Arthur Stringer 4354 If I once more might only wander free From all this citied laughter touched with pain, And learn with quiet hall and patient tree To watch the wheeling seasons and the rain, And with the lyric grass, the widening ridening sea, Retaste the wine of Earth’s Aprilian strain And […]
THE Lure OF The Thirst 392 I’ve lost my duds, my home and job, My coin is burid deep; And jewels all with watch and fob Beneath the ashes sleep My beauty, too, has taken flight, Complexion’s sadly marred; A ton of brick from topmost height My features badly scarred My feet are cut with […]
Smile 955 You smile upon your friend today Today his jlis are over: You hearken to the lover’s say And happy is the lover “Tis late to hearken, late to smile But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die forever Mcclure’s
IF WE KNEW 2946 If we knew the cares and crosses Crowding round our neighbor’s way; If we knew the little losses, Sorely grievous, day by day; Would we then so often chide him For his lack of thrift and gain, Leaving on his hearth a shadow, Leaving on his life a stain? If we […]
The Better Land Mrs Hemans 2248 “I hear thee speak of the better land:- Thou call’st its children a happy band: Mother! oh, where is that radiant shore? Shall we not seek It, and weep no more? Is it where the flower of the orange blows, And the firefiles dance through the myrtle boughs?” “Not […]
The Mountains 2236 I saw the mountains stand Silent, wonderful and grand, Looking out across the land When the golden light was falling On distant dome and spire, And I heard a low voice calling: “Come up higher, come up higher From the lowland and the mire, From the mist of earth desire, From the […]
Liked It 5288 A sweet little maiden named May Once strolled in a park o’er the way, She met a young man Who kissed her and ran, And now she goes there ev’ry day -Denver Post
L’Envoi 3293 Absolve me, Prince; confession is all over But listen and take warning, oh, my lover You put to rout all dreams that may have been; You won the day, but ’tis not all to win; Guard well the fort, lest new dreams enter in
The Consumer’s Turn 4675 For all these years I’ve suffered, but My turn has come at last; They stare at me in envy from The jails when I go past I may have suffered from them, but I hold no angry hate, For vengeance comes to those of us Who only stand and wait I […]
A WONDER 4369 Xenophon Wiseboy’s a wonderful man, He’s always evolving some curious plan For freeing the world from conten-tion and strife And scattering roses through every- one’s life He gets out his pen and a bottle of Inc And settles himself to do nothing but think He possesses a fluent and logical style, And, […]