The Sustaining Hand

THE SUSTAINING HAND 2551 The little child win wakes at night Affrighted at the somber gloom, And clamors for a ray of light To drive the darkness from the room, To quiet dreamland sweetly goes, Contented if a hand is near, Caressingly,…

The Ship That Never Returned

The Ship that Never Returned 18010 On a summer's day, when the waves were rippled By n soft and gentle breeze, A ship set sall with a cargo laden For port beyond the a sens There were fond farewells, There were loving amiles, While their…

Marguerite

Marguerite 5606 Marguerite! Marguerite! my star of hope I dread the day you'll forget me, Marguerite! And still I know it soon will come, The festive dance, the rich, the gay, So different from our home, Marguerite! I would not chide thee,…

When My Ship Comes In

When My Ship Comes In 1592 To Lyell I have launched you my craft, and the wind and the tide Are drifting you outward to sea: But the ocean is round and the farther you ride The nearer you're coming to me It is true I am lonely when dagdawn…

Land Of The Leaf

Land of the Leal 1705 Where are the greenest fields and where The sweetest winds that ever blow, And where has Hope excluded Care Wherever I may be with you Where is the fair and sacred land That holds my loyalty in fee? Where I may lead…

Reassured

REASSURED 3901 In days of good King Theodore strange things did come to pass For puissant senators grow mild, like little boys at class; And at King Theodore's command would leap head first through rings, Sit up and beg play dead, and do…

Salvation

Salvation -Writter Bynner 14 They woke me Sunday, and I looked Out of my bed to see; And then the way I felt rebuked Suggested this to me: Even the crudest curbstone prayer, That rouses hearts anew, Is nearer to the crystal stair Than many…

The Wants Of Man

The Wants of Man 5922 "Man wants but little here Nor wants that little long" 'Tis not with me exactly so, But 'ds so in the song My wants are many, and if told Would muster many a secre; And were each wish a mint of gold I still should…

The Muck-Raker

THE MUCK-RAKER 4686 He sang of the glory of cities, Of pillar and spire and mart; Of domes unreared and of God stiil feared, Of good in the human heart He sang of the hopes, uplifting, Of duty made clear and clear, But they called him…

The Passing Of An Auto-Crat

The Auto-crat-oh, think of that!-he went a fearful pace; He did not smile, through all the wholehe had a mobile face He took no interest in man, yet sought the human race The Auto-crat-oh, think of that!-I never saw him laugh; In wreckage…

Shells Of Ocean

Shells of Ocean 2566 One summer eve, with pensive thoughts, I wandered on the sea-best shore, Where oft in heedless infant sport I gathered shells in days before The splashing waves like music fell Responsive to my fancy wild: A dream…

Nobody To Blame But Yourself

NOBODY TO BLAME BUT YOURSELF 4632 You married a maiden you thought to be rich, And found that she hadn't a dime, And, yoked to a flighty extravagant shrew, You bewail your sad lot all the time You dream of a girl who was pure as a pearl, And…

Waiting For The Prince

Waiting for the Prince 1332 Happy maiden in whose eres Beams the sunny light of youth, In whose soul a glory lles Tremulous with love and truth; Musing of the days to come, Full of visionary glints, Through her mind sweet fancies run,…

Boy May Be Found With Song

Boy May Be Found with Song 2172 , A song, may find a lost boy A song may accomplish what a heart broken father and hundreds of friends have falled to do The simple words of "The Lost Child" sung in a sweet voice may fall upon the ear…

To Thine Own Self Be True

To Thine Own Self Be True Pakenham Beatty 3782 Pakenham Beatty was born in 1855 He has written several volumes-"To My Lady" 1878: "Three Women of the People 1881 and "Marcia a Tragedy" 1884 By thine own soul's law learn to live And if men thwart…

Left Undone

Left Undone Margaret E Sangster 2024 It isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you've left undone Which gives you a bit of a heartache At the setting of the sun The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower…

Unanswered Yet?

Unanswered Yet? 4573 Unanswered yet? The prayer your Hpe have pleaded In agony of heart these many years? Does faith begin to full? is hope departing? And think you in vain all those falling tears Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer!…

The Chariots Of The Gods

The Chariots Of The Gods By Charles K Field 585 O Lares and Penates, Ye household gods we prize, Who smile on family parties And weep o'er broken ties; Now pour we due libation And gratefully admire The homely transportation That saved…

All Hallow Eve

All Hallow Eve 2444 Within the house the hearth-fire's crackling blaze Lights up with ruddy glare the an cient room, And chisels fresh with its quick- darting rays The oaken flowers that on the pan- els bloom Then flickers o'er a troop of…

The Girl I Left Behind

The Girl I Left Behind 230-5 I'm lonescme since I crossed the hills and o'er the moor that's sedgy With heavy thoughts iny mind is filled since I have parted with Peggy: Whene' I turn to view the place the tears doth fall and blind me When…