To The American Hen

To the American Hen 5812 [Poets may sing to the glory of the eagle, but the American hen that can equal the production of all our mines is entitled to a tribute for her industry] Oh, let the country pin Its faith faith to you, O Hen, And it…

The Man In The Boy

The Man in the Boy 5643 In the acorn is wrapped the forest, In the little brook the sea; The twig that will sway with the sparrow today Is tomorrow's sturdy tree There is hope in a mother's joy Like a peach in its blossom furled, And a…

A Miracle

A MIRACLE 3705 April, April, full of hopes, All a world of sunny sheen 'Round her, wanders up our slopes, Bluebirds following, in her hands Bursting leaf bud's tender green, Laughing, tilting, on the rocks She hangs her saxifrage, and…

The Despairing Muse

THE DESPAIRING MUSE 3596 Somebody has stolen the old garden | gate, The millwheel has gone to decay The old oaken bucket is missing of late, It must have been taken away The little red school house is wreck- ed and torn down, Neglected its…

The Raven

The Raven EDGAR ALLAN POE 3041 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, er many Over a quaint and curious volume of for- Kotten lore While i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of some one gently…

Mcginnis And The Union Label

McGINNIS AND THE UNION LABEL 4633 Has it got the union label, McGin- nis used to say, Has it got the union label, show it to me if you're able, If it hasn't got the label take the bloomin' thing away McGinnis had no children though he hoped…

The Game

THE GAME 4791 When a movement you start for re- forming a town And your motives are lofty and no ble and pure, They'll depict you in stripes; they will call you a clown, There's no end of insult you'll have to endure They'll make you account…

The Result

The Result 2407 You get a girl-a peach, a dream- One that can turn at once your head? Oh, no; that kind is not my theme: You get a girl to bake the bread- To bake the bread and scrub the floor, To iron, wash and dust, perhaps, To drive…

The Dear Railroad Pass

The Dear Railroad Pass 2408 [No more railroad passes will be issued after the 1st of January] How dear to my heart are the old railroad passes As fond recollection presents them to view: The passes, which iifted me over the passes, The "trips,"…

Hope

Hope By Mabel Porter Pitts 51 Out somewhere from the darkness of the East Three travelers come; Content in what they fail to understand Each moves across the heat-veiled desert sand As though he held a chart within his hand; Their fervor, by…

An Optimist

AN OPTIMIST 5493 By its hopeful example the teakettle cheers Our lot when our cares are depressing; For although in hot water clear up to its ears It sings as if life were a blessing It isn't worth while to fret, dear, To walk as behind…

The Girl I Left Behind Me

The Girl I Left Behind 2305 I'm lonesome since I crossed the hills and o'er the moor that's sedgy With heavy thoughts any imlod is filled since I have parted with Peggy parted Whene'de I turn fall and blind me the place the tears doth When…