Christmas Song

Christmas Song 4954 All joys, I thought, from Christmas fled When good Saint Nicholas drove away Forever in his reindeer sleigh, When last, from my low trundle-bed, I watched the gray east growing red, With heart of feverish eagerness,…

A Song

A SONG 518-1 Scatter in spring-time a handful of seeds, And gather in summer a lapful of flowers This is the song of the birds in the bowers, This is the song of the wind in the reeds Down by the roadside and over the meads, Under the sunshine…

Where Dreams Are Sold

Where Dreams Are Sold 5752 At the silken sign of the Poppy At a shop that is never old Where the twilight silence lingers, It is there that dreams are sold There's the scent of love's lost roses, The soft echo of childhood's laugh; There's…

The Dying Child

The Dying Child 964 Go open wide the door, mother And let the angela in: For they are bright and fair, mother, So pure and free from sin I hear them speak my name, mother, They sweetly whisper come Oh let the angels in, mother, For…

Answer To “Rock Me To Sleep, Mother”

Answer to "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother" 3847 My child, oh my child, thou art weary tonight! Thy spirit is sad and dim is the light Thou wouldst call me back from the echolest shore To the trials of life, to thy heart, as of yore; Thou longest…

Kids

Kids 1221 I wonder why some Pas have none, And others have no many It seems the poor Pas have the most, And rich ones haven't any The richest man I know in town Has just one small boy only: But pa says: Grel he pities him In that big house…

“Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep”

"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" 43613 "Now I lay me down to sleep: I pray the Lord my soul to keep,"L Was my childhood's early prayer, Taught by my mother's love and care Many years since they have fled: Mother slumbers with the dead; Yet…

The Old Schoolbook

The Old Schoolbook 1798 On the old schoolbook in the dusty nook, With a tearful eye I gaze, Come down, old friend, for an hour we'll spend In talking of bygone days I gaze once more as in days of yore, On the task that taxed the brain;…

Christmas Greeting

Christmas Greeting 5543 Christmas bells are ringing: Angel volces singing "Peace on earth, good will to man" Christmas praises sounding: Christmas joys abounding: Take and give what joy you can! Giving or receiving Christmas gifts are…

The Little Old Red Shawl

The Little Old Red Shawl 1657 It now lies on the self, it is faded and torn, That dear old shawl my mother wore Tis all that is left for this heart to adore, To bring to mind theme How often the handa happy days tpo these folde have been…

Love’s Confessions

LOVE'S CONFESSIONS Ella Wheeler Wilcox 3291 How shall a maid make answer to a man Who summons her, by love's supreme decree The intricate strange ways that love began? So many streams from that great fountain ran, To open her whole heart,…

Faded Flowers

Faded Flowers 4685 The flowers I saw in the wild wood, Have since dropped their beautiful leaves, And many dear friends of my childhood Have slumbered for years in their graves But the bloom of the flower I remember, Though the similes…

Night In Bachelor’s Hall

Night in Bachelor's Hall 5816 They've gone away! It seems a year, Aye! weeks of years since they were here: And yet it was but yesterday I kissed them when they went away, Away from all the scorching heat That grips this brick-walled city street And…

Spring On The East Side

SPRING ON THE EAST SIDE 3498 When the wind walls round frosty eaves Like some unhappy soul that grieves- When snowflakes fall and fields lle deep Beneath white counterpanes asleep- What mirth around the fire prevails …

Toyland

Toyland 2824 When you've grown up, my dears, there comes n dreary day When 'mid the locks of black appears The first pale gleam of gray, my dears, The first pale gleam of gray Then of the past you'll dream, as gray haired grown-ups do, And…

The Old Kitchen Floor

The Old Kitchen Floor 3308 Far back in my musings my thoughts have been cast, To the spot where the hours of my childhood wero passed I loved ali its rooms, to the pantry and hall, But that blessed old kitchen was dearer than all Its chairs…

Folded Hands

Folded Hands 3991 Pale, withered hands, that more than four-score yearn Had wrought for others, soothed the hurt of Rocked children's cradles, cessed the fever's smart, Dropped balm of lovin many an aching heart, Now attrien folded like…

After Many Years

After Many Years Alice E Squire 2243 Back to the arenes of my childhood Back to the old home once more; Many a thing to remind me Of the days so happy of yore Back to the weates of my girlhood, To the old homesteat no fair Longing and…