A Song of Summer 2088 Down dar whar de river run An de win’ is havin’ fun, See me sleep in de sun?- Summertime in Dixie! Hear de ole mule “haw” an “gee?” See de white man lash him free? Ain’t no white man workin’ me! Summertime in Dixie! Stretch out on de ground’ so […]
The Old Log Baru 4165 There’s a charm for me yet in the old log barn So tottering, old and gray Where wildly I loved long years ago To romp on the new made hay Chorus For the merry old times that I sported there, The song that I sung in my play Hath left […]
The Proud Old Cochin 2722 There was a fat old Cochin hen Vainglorious and proud: And every time she laid an egg She cackled long and loud One day she found a goose egg in The bottom of her nest; And thinking she had laid it there, She did her level best She cackled, cackled-all […]
Paul Vance, or Lorena’s Reply 3775 The years are creeping slowly by, dear Paul, the winters come and go, The wind reeps past st with mourrful cry, dear Paul, and pelt my face with snow: But there’s no snow upon the heart, dear Paul: ’tis summer always there: Those early loves spread sunshine sweeten memories […]
There’ll Be No Sorrow Thore 1808 Come, sing to me of heaven When I’m about to diet Sing songs of holy ecstasy, To wart my soul on high Chorus- There’ll be no sorrow there, There’ll be no sorrow there In heaven above, where all is love, There’ll be no sorrow there When the last moment […]
The Sleeves of Yesterday 506 I wonder where the sleeves have flown That erstwhile hid milady’s arms; The present show of flesh and bone Too oft reveals but doubtful charms A style the washerwomen set Is recognized as recherché- Dame Fashion, it’s the worst thing yet! Where are the sleeves of yesterday? Hortense, whose “bridge”keeps […]
A Dollar or Two 2306 With curious sters as we tread our way through This intricate world, a sother folks do May we still on our journey be able to view The benevolent fare of a dollar or two For an excellent thing is a dollar or two No friend so true as a dollar […]
“Father Has Turnes the Dear Picture, Again” 43612 A lasste came home who for years had been gone, Her pride had been conquered, a mother’s love worn, In youth she had married the choice of her heart, And lived from her home and her kind apart; Her picture was turned to the wall with the […]
The Rooter’s Rotary 5217 From the lady dressed in red With a hat upon her locks Bigger than the batter’s box, With a tongue that wags along From the first tap of the gong; “Who is that nice looking man Over there the one that ran?” “How long innings do they play?” “How much longer […]
The King of the Fourth of July By William Francls O’Donnell 21 Author: William Francil O’Donnell Did our forefathers wot, when they shattered Our English-forged fetters, that they Would give reign to a lord more tyrannic Than even King George in his away? A Czar who, one day of each cycle, From turbulent throne-seat makes […]
FATHER, MOTHER AND I 4642 We three have walked together, In the days so long gone by: When the world was seemed true; Father and Mother and I new and all You held my hand so surely, Lest my wayward feet should stray In the tangled wild, that lures each child From the safe and […]
Together 693 Glory of a golden light over vale and hill Buttercups a-bending to the swift wind’s will, Summer-sweet in every breath, a bird on every spray- And it’s you and I together, Dear, the livelong day! Wonder of a misty moon high above the wood, Glamour in the valley and our own heart’s blood, […]
An Old Man’s Story 1695 “Tis only an oid man’s strory-a tale we have oftheard told In a thousand forms and fancies, by the yourg sa ni well as old A tale of life drenged hellwad bound down by a demon’s chain Till the friendly hand of temp’rance had rescued It back again Though only […]
The School Master’s Thesis 2811 And set his white teeth close together, And gave his thin lips a short twist, As to say I could whly you, confound you, Could such things be done with the fist There were two knowing girls in the corner, Each one with some beauty possessed, In a whisper discursing […]
A MAN’S A MAN FOR A’ THAT Robert Burns 4808 Is there for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a’ that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, and a’ that, Our toils obscure, and a’ that: The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, […]
Resurgas 391 To the living soul in the city of San Fran clean, Thou shalt rias-our City of the Sun! For, ever in a nory death like thine, Ere Bearce the flamos be fled, A recreation in bogun: Even as in Arabia the Divine, A plunued and centuried life was shed Only anow to greet […]
Molly Darling 33610 A soldier boy was he, A soldier’s sweetheart she Above their heads the stars are softly shining An to a soldier’s breast a golden head is pressed And round a soldier’s neck two arms are twining, But o’er the hills away & comrade sleeping lay, And in the scales of fate his […]
The Swan Song of Parson Avery JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 2874 Pleasantly lay the clearings in the mellow sum mer morn, With the newly planted orchards dropping their fruits first born And the home roots like brown islands amid a sea of corn Broad meadows reached out seaward the tided creeks between And hills rolled wave-like […]
That City 3835 You tell me of a city Which is a bright and fair: Oh! why do not the friends I love Talk more of koing there? I hear them speak of pleasures Which earthly things have given; Why do they never mention The better joys of of heaven? Chorus- “A city which hath […]
A Runaway Bell Buoy 2112 I was wearied of my shoal I was wearled of the surge That lifted me without end To beat my endless dirge Ever the painted days Wantoned with me and passed A-down the valleys of the sea And left me fettered fast Left me that cried to them Chained to […]