PEGGY READS THE PAPER 2504 Here’s the paper-I must skim it, For I want the news, of course; Another bank cashier’s absconded, Mrs Brown gets her divorce, Half a page reporting Congress, I don’t want to wade through that, Trusts and labor troubles-mercy, They must wonder where they’re at! The Czar is threatened-that’s no wonder, […]
Brier Rose 1701 I Sald Rose Brier Rose’s mother to the naughty Brier “What will become of you, my child, the Lord Al-mighty knows You will not serub the kettles, and you will not touch the broom You never ait a minute still at spinning wheel or elcom Thus grumbled in the morning, and crumbled […]
BY THE HILL OF DAN Clinton Scollard 2723 Marie, I wonder if you recall, Conning the past like a written scroll, That day, the goldenest day of all, And the long rest under the giant bole Where the singing Banias waters roll? Over the bough-tops the blue of noon- A Syrian sapphire shot with gold- […]
The San Francisco Earth-Quake 322 It was early in the morning On an April morning falr When a city fair and merciful Was quivering in the air There swaying to and fro Were buildings great and small; Then with a mighty crash Began a city’s fall The water pipes were broken, Asunder snapped the wires […]
A PRAYER PERFECT James Whitcomb Riley’s 2724 Dear Lord, kind Lord, Gracious Lord, I pray Thou wilt look on all I love Tenderly to-day! Weed their hearts of weariness, Scatter every care Down a wake of angel-wings Winnowing the air Bring unto the sorrowing All release from pain, Let the lips of laughter Overflow again […]
Song of the Grasshopper 2026 I saw a brown old grasshopper, And he sat upon a stone, While ever and anon he chirped In a sad and mournful tone: And many an anxious, troubled look He cast around the naked plain Where now was but a stubbls field Once waved the golden grain What alls […]
To A Wayfarer L B Bridgeman 1913 Be strong The way is steep, the way is long; There is no ending till thy strength shall end, And yet be strong Be brave The night is dark, the goal’s the grave They need not courage who have Hope for friend- But thou, be brave
An Enthusiastic Member 5707 I’s joined the lazy union-dat’s de company foh me: Dar ain’t no rules an’ by-laws, but we sol- emnly agree That in the tline that passes ‘twix’ the spring and early fall We is gwinter to take life easy an’ not do no work at all Dar ain’t no disputation ’bout […]
GRAPES 29810 Conserve of honey in deep purple glaze Of the red-ripened glory of October days, Dow of the fairies in globes of delight, With the freshness of frost in their tang and their bite The Concord, Catawba, the sweet Isabel, Oh, the grapes of October, what beauty they spell Clustered and cloistered in arbors […]
The Hidden Trail 1282 My life stands still, the wheels of being elog; No hour is struck, and time has ceased to be The hazy choking clouds of wreathing fog Cover the pathway I no longer see On either side some ill may lurk for me Some crouching beast, some quick engulfing bog; Dreading to […]
To Mary in Heaven By Robert Burns 647 Thou ling’ring star, with less ring ray, That lov’s; to greet the early morn, Again thou usher’st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear’st thou […]
Insects Examples 581-7 Its done observe date busy bee Dey tells so much about, ‘Bout copyin his industery I sholy has a doubt Do butterfly’s do one dat knows Do way to do trick He all us wars his sunday close An never works a lick! —Washington Star
Y Y Y Man 4368 There is a farmer who is Y Y Enough to take his EE And study nature with his I I, And think of what he C C He hears the chatter of the J J As they each other тт And sees that when a tree DKK It makes a […]
Cruiskeen Lawn 2346 Let the farmer praise his grounds, as the hunter does his hounds And the shepherd his sweet scented lawn, While I more blest than they, spend each night and day each happy With my smiling little cruiskeen lawn, lawn, lawn O, my smiling little cruiskeen lawn Leante ruma cruiskeen, Sleante gar, mavournéen, […]
Slide, Kelly, Slide 4531 I played a game of baseball I belong to Carry’s hine- The crowd was fealing jolly, and the weather l was fine; A noble lot of players I think were never found When the omnibuses Ianded that day upon the ground The game was quickly started, they sent me to bat, […]
The Lady of Shalott 2711 Not Readable Not Readable By the margin, willow valled, S lide the heavy barges, trailed By slow horses; and unhalfed The shallop filtteth sliken satled, Skimming down to Camelot But who hath seen her wave her hand, Or at the casement seen her stand Or is she known in all […]
Never Alone 84-3 (Still another version) Lonely, no not lonely, while Jesus standeth ty His presence always cheers me I know that he is them: Friendless-no, not friendlere, for Jesus is my Friend: I change but he remaineth the same unto the end, Chorus- No never alone; no never alone; He has promised never to […]
Twenty Years After 191 I “Grandpa,” a rosy schoolboy said, His eager face aglow, Why is to-day a holiday, And all the streets below Crowded with joyful folk, who march With rose-wreathed spades and picks, With Bear flags, and great banners Marked ‘Six, and Twenty-six?’ II “Why are the bands all playing, ‘Mid soldiers mile […]
The Birth of the Ivy 4732 Many and many a year ago (I tell the tale as ’twas told to me) A lady lived in her own proud hall A lady of high degree And many a knight came wooing her For stately and fair was she The fairest, statellest flower that bloomed Where the […]
O Wind From the Golden Gate Virginia Bloren Harrison 2071 Now dies the salt wind-breath of Eastward seas- And in the quivering leaves of whispering trees Soft stirs the evening breeze From charmed lands, O wind from out the West! From slumbrous isles by sleeping waves caressed, Thou bearest on thy breast The languorous perfume […]