The Miser

The Miser 1916 There area was a miser of lauantar and umilen Who hoarded those transures in fast mounting He kept them all sealed in an vary box And nothing that happened unfastened the locks At last, growing aget, from business adrift, He…

Good News From Home

Good News From Home 2249 Good news from home, good news for me Has come across the deep blue sea From friends that I have left in tears From friends that I've not Bect for years; And since we parted long ago, My life has been a scene…

A Runaway Bell Buoy

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…

The Man With The Hoe

The Man with the Hoe 1603 Note-Poster Dwight Coburn has declined an appointment as United States senator from Kansas on the ground that he prefers his work as secretary of the state department of agriculture I do not hanker for the great…

Were I A Rose

Were I a Rose 1918 Wero I a rose, no thorn shoni dare Wound thy dear hand, s'en though you chose My choicest flow'r to pluck and wear: Were Fa rose Were I the sun, no ray should o'er Cause thee my ardent beams to shun I'd kiss…

Little Ah Sid

Little Ah Sid 3442 Little Ah Sid Was a Chinese kid- A cute little curs I declare, With eyes full of fun And a nose that begun Right up at the roots of his hair Jolly and fat Was the frollesome brat And played at the long summer day And…

A Fishe’s Hornpipe

A Fishe's Hornpipe Wallace Irwin 343 As I was wandering alone Along the wave-washed dunes, I heard eleven fiddler crabs A-playing pleasant tunes All in a row with each his bow, As merry as could be, A fish's hornpipe they composed Beside…

Honest Now

HONEST NOW 4423 Brother, with a mind to grumble At the place you occupy Don't you think it is your level, Though it isn't very high? Don't you think, if you were worthy, You'd get farther up, somehow- That the fault is in your idols?…

Unquestioned

Unquestioned 5373 That angels all are women, Is subject for dispute And contrary opinions Have borne much bitter fruit: But here is an assertion- Assail it, ye who can! Since earliest creation The Devil's been a man …

A Life On The Ocean Wave

A Life on the Ocean Wave 1542 A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep Where the scattered waters rave And the wild winds their revela keep! Like an eagie caged, 1 pine On this du duil, unchanging shore Oh give me the flashing…

Jolly Students

Jolly Students 2028 You may talk about your colleges, fair Harvard and old Yale, And all the universities whose banners brave the gale, Of the azure flag of Cambridge, and old Oxford' snoble blue That fly in far old England over hearts both…

The Song Of The Pines

THE SONG OF THE PINES 38412 The pines were asleep in the mid-day heat, That quivered down the lea, But they waked with the roar of a wave- swept shore When the wind came in from the sea They sang of ships and the bo's'n piped, The…

The Bridal

THE BRIDAL L M Montgomery 2725 Last night a pale young Moon was wed Unto the amorous, eager Sea; Her maiden veil of mist she wore, His kingly purple vesture, he With her a bridal train of stars Walked sisterly through shadows dim, And,…

The Little Light

The Little Light 2665 The light shone on the headland For the storm was raging high: I shaded my eyes from the inner glare, And gazed on the west, gray sky it was dark and lowering, on the sea The waves were booming loud And the snow…

Just Keep A-Growlin’

Just Keep A-Growlin' 16010 I We jest keep on a-growlin'- A-growlin', every one, When the birds, they go to singin' If they see a flash o' sun; An' all the rivers to the sea in merry music run! …

The Man Who Is Wanter

The Man Who is Wanter 22310 A young man's preferred, but then age searce will count Against him if he's one on whom they can reckon To do this work well, small or TOLL the amount, And to be there to do it, without call or beckon! Any one…

Untried Ways

Untried Ways 1755 Full many a ship puts out to sea, Not knowing what the end may be; And if each tarried the end to know, How many ships to sea would go?

The Dead And The Quick

The Dead and the Quick 5992 The sky was steel, the wind, a knife I passed by Trinity's old graves, Close-crowded by the city's life- And yet, the city saves! The wind did search me through and through, When, looking past the pale, I read…

The Boat Race

The Boat Race 4856 The boats were ready for the start The signal then was given, Away they went with one accord The "Isabel" and "Riven" But at last the sailors lost control, The brave boats smashed together, And to the bottom they both…

A Nautical Extravagance

A Nautical Extravagance 3075 I stood one day by the breezy bay A-watching the ships go by, When a tired tar said, with a shake of his head: "I wisht I could tell a he! "I've seen some sights as would jigger yer lights, And they've jiggered…