The Song Of The Rose
ReflectionsThe Song of the Rose
3365
No beautiful notice have I on the hiш
No pictures to hang in my halls
But never a painter could match with his skill,
The roses abloom on my walls
Chorus-
Then sing we a song of the rose,
A song that is tender…
Make Home Happy
ReflectionsMake Home Happy
2619
Though we may not change the cottage
For the masaion tall and grand,
Nor exchange the little grass-plot
For a boundless stretch of land
Though we have no mesna to purchas
Costly pictures, riety and rare
Though we…
Ah Picks By De Light O’ De Moon
ReflectionsAH PICKS BY DE LIGHT O' DE MOON
4585
Ah knows a medda whar de grasgrows sweet
An' lil' cool crik runs along
An' Ah wuke all day in de scotchin' heat,
But at night jls' hear ma song
Ah don' belong to no white man,
Dis nigga's all his own;
An'…
The World’s Way
ReflectionsThe World's Way
2232
This old world's mighty busy It has so much to do
It's got to skip a lot o' things that ought to be put through
An' leave 'em fur a future day when it can rest an' say "
"At last we've got things runnin' in some rag'lar…
The Penalty We Pay
ReflectionsThe Penalty We Pay
1864
The sweetest things we get to eat,
There's not a bit of question,
Are always bound to do us up,
And give us indigestion
-Will F Griffin,
Have You Met Him?
ReflectionsHAVE YOU MET HIM?
5596
She saw a house "To-let" one day,
As nice as e'er was seen,
From attic high to basement low
'Twas orderly and clean
It suited her; she asked the price
He named a sum so big,
"Twould make e'en forty-niners dance
…
God’s Pretty Things
ReflectionsGod's Pretty Things
3204
There's never a rose in all the world,
But makes some groen spray sweeter;
There's never a wind in all the sky
But makes some bird's wing fleeter
There's never a star but brings to heaven
Some silver radiance tender…
The Cizar’s Lunch
ReflectionsThe Cizar's Lunch
4365
The exar dare not hammer a walnut
For fear it's a bomb in disguise;
Aud ring sausage he
Must not drop on his knee
Lest it cover some deadly surprise!
His Profitable Crop
ReflectionsHIS PROFITABLE CROP
5825
Oh, I care not a dern though the crope may all burn
In the withering heat of the sun;
I'm not giving a whoop, though the kid-ney beans droop,
As for weeks and for weeks they have done
Though it seems that a torch has…
A Toust
ReflectionsA Toust
3431
"Here's to you old pal!
May you live a thousand years
Just to keep things lively
In this vale of tears
And may I live a thousand years
Just short one day,
For I wouldn't like to stay here
When you are gone away"
Da Faith Of Aunta Rosa
ReflectionsDA FAITH OF AUNTA ROSA
5609
You know my Aunta Rosa? No?
I weesha dat you could:
She w'at you call "da leevin' saint,"
Baycause she ees so good
She got so greata, stronga faith,
She don'ta nevva care
For doin' anytheeng at all
But justa…
Ne Negative Person
ReflectionsNe Negative Person
2083
If you can not by chance,
Give a long song and dance
On Plato or Wagner or Shelley,
Or if you can't think
In glid Maeterlinck
Or fluently talk Botticelli:
If each time you bark
A Rubens remark
At a long-hair-and-high-forehead…
Optimism
ReflectionsOPTIMISM
4644
The world is better than it was
Better today than yesterday-
And each tomorrow still outdoes
The day before it every way
The savage could not read or write,
And naked slept upon the ground;
He only knew to feed and fight,…
Van Tosk Is Yomping
ReflectionsVan Tosk Is Yomping
3203
Van fesk is yompin oop
und down In splashing and I tell you
And and the water, Ole scratch heen don't do things crown he other
Thanks to how foredads and old Norway
Got mighty muscle rowing, A
nd Ole don't…
A Hard- Lcuk Story
ReflectionsA Hard- Lcuk Story
5751
TOLD 'em that a great big boy was never meant to stay
A-hangin' 'round a baby cart in Franklin Park all day;
I told 'em that I had to watch the fellers playin' ball,
An' now I'll bet they wisht that I had done it,…
Return
ReflectionsReturn
2815
We can't return when all is ended here
To right the wrongs we do, to mend mistakes;
We can't return to dry a single tear
Or sooth one heart that for our folly aches
Time Was
ReflectionsTIME WAS
2976
Time was when there were spelling bees
In which we did compete,
From up the town or down the town,
This side or 'cross the street;
But now they're sadly out of date,
In fact quite obsolete
For rose a man of fertile brain,…
If Knocking Paid
ReflectionsIf Knocking Paid
1609
- If knocking paid, how easily
We might win freedom from our earest
The problems that are hard for me
Would soon be trivial affairs;
I'd live in luxury and own
An auto of the highest grade;
With all my troubles overthrown,…
A Little Country Lassie
ReflectionsA Little Country Lassie
1692
I'm a little country lasste
I can iron, churn, and bake,
Wash the dishes, feed the poultry
Make a famous Johnny cake,
Ride the horses to the water
Drive the cows to pastures green
I would not exchange my station…