The Last of Winter
UncategorizedI. The Last of Winter.
208.1
Oh, not for us the primrose faint, the south wind's hush-a-low
Down shining aisles of the beech-trees that know us years ago!
Here there's a long, long allence and the dumbly falling snow.
The prairie polls away,…
A Good Rule.
UncategorizedA Good Rule.
266.2
Whether you write in prose or verse,
When you've got a thing to sa
Say It! Don't take halt a day.
When your tale's got little in it.
Crowd the whole thing in a minute.
Life is short-a fleeting vapor
Don't fill the whole…
Women’s Tragedy.
UncategorizedWomen's Tragedy.
554.1
A kiss-
A taste of bliss-
Abyss! A fatal "Yes."
(A wrong guess)-
A mess!
II.
A kiss-
A taste of bliss- And this:
A fatal "No,"
A heart's woe
Death blow!
-Young's Magazine.
The Song of the Rose.
UncategorizedThe Song of the Rose.
336.5
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…
The Dying California.
UncategorizedThe Dying California.
393.1
Tell my father, when you greet him,
That in death I prayed for him.
Prayed that I might one day meet him
In a world that's free from sin.
Tell my mother God will help her,
Now that she is growing old,
Say ber…
Minnehaha.
UncategorizedMinnehaha.
298.1
Cease thy thy laughing, Minnehaha.
Cense thy laughing now for aye:
Bavage hands are red red ed with wit slaughter
Of the innocent today.
Cease thy gay noten, Minnehaha,
Lest some mournful strain prevalli L
isten while…
A Prayer in Pain
UncategorizedA Prayer in Pain.
147.8
Lord I beseech thee, not so sharp again:
I cannot suffer so and be thy child;
I am some brute thing, tortured, trapped and wild.
Fighting the hands that would relive Its pain.
I have known sorrow, Lord, and bless-…
OCTOBER.
UncategorizedOCTOBER.
564.7
Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's licious breath!
When woods begin to wear crimson leaf. the
And suns grow meek, and meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
Wind of the sunny south! oh, still de-…
Blue Eyed Mary
UncategorizedBlue Eyed Mary.
170.3
"Come, tell me, blue eyed stranger.
Say whither dost thou roam;
O'er this wide world a ranger.
Hast thou no friends or home?
"They called me blue eyed Mary.
When friends and fortune smiled:
But, ah, how fortuner vary!…
Good News From Home
UncategorizedGood News From Home.
224.9
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…
Take a Trip in My Airship.
UncategorizedTake a Trip in My Airship.
304.2
I have a sallor, the sailor loves me,
And salls every night to my horie. ile's not a sailor that sails o'er the sea,
Or over the wild briny foam.
For he owns an airship and sails upon high,
He's just like…
SPRING ON THE EAST SIDE.
UncategorizedSPRING ON THE EAST SIDE.
349.8
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
…
Buttoning
UncategorizedButtoning.
133.4
John Jones lives with hi swife, also his sister and his mother:
He's always at the beck and call of one or the other-
Buttoning, buttoning!
His fingers have been worn to bones, his finger nails to splinters-
He's busy through…
Song for Music
UncategorizedSong for Music
CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE
288.2
Why do I sing?
For you, for you.
To you is due
All praise that song can bring;
My heart breaks into song at thought of you.
Why do I sigh?
For you, for you. To you I flew
The while my breath did die;…
The Man in the Boy.
UncategorizedThe Man in the Boy.
564.3
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…
Things.
UncategorizedThings.
436.3
We like to hear him tell of things
That aren't goin' right;
About the that brings.
Such trouble, day and night.
When he's up to speak, a mile
Is not too much to walk,
The journey's allus worth the while.
We like to hear him…
Night in Bachelor’s Hall
UncategorizedNight in Bachelor's Hall
581.6
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…
KEEP TRYING.
UncategorizedKEEP TRYING.
553.4
The coward in the confilet
Gives up at first defent:
If once repulsed, his courage
Lies shattered at his feet.
The brave heart wins a battle
Because through thick and thin
He'll not give up as conquered-
Ho fights,…
Spring.
UncategorizedSpring.
468.8
In the spring Ferdie sat next to his chum on the steps of Old North, caroling college chanties with the Seniors. And Ferdie composed the following, which he gave to the soloist, who passed it along until it was split into barber-shop…
Tragedy of the Desert.
UncategorizedTragedy of the Desert.
575.5
The elephant sat in the lemon tree,
A-swaying to and fro;
And a beautiful warbling song sang he
To the whale on the branch below-
Though a cold wind blew from the distant sea,
And the desert was deep in snow.
And…