A CITY MOOD.
UncategorizedA CITY MOOD.
Arthur Stringer.
435.4
If I once more might only wander free
From all this citied laughter touched with pain,
And learn with quiet hall and patient tree
To watch the wheeling seasons and the rain,
And with the lyric grass,…
The Little German Home
UncategorizedThe Little German Home.
453.3
I love to think about those days so full of fun and Joy.
That never will come back again to me;
It was many, many years agone when but a little boy.
I lived there so happy, light, and free.
I used to play about…
Amphibious
UncategorizedAmphibious
84-12
To drown our sorrows is unkind;
Besides, the chance is slim;
For in the flowing bowl we find
They quickly learn to swim
WISDOM.
UncategorizedWISDOM.
344.7
Like doves our strong-winged hopes o out
To speed their night through unknown прасе,
Like tired doves they curve about
And find no sate abiding place,
Till Wisdom's window open swings
In some sweet Ark of lowly things.
Our…
The Brick Schoolhouse on the Hill.
UncategorizedThe Brick Schoolhouse on the Hill.
457.5
On a hill in old NewHampshire
Stands the schoolhouse on the hill.
Where we boys and girls went onward.
To learn to read, write, and spell.
The lessons that were taught us
Seem'd awful hard to learn,…
An Attic Dream
UncategorizedAn Attic Dream.
244.1
All day the rain had softly beat
Its music on the window pane;
All day had tapped, like tiny feet,
Upon the shingles brown with stain.
Up in the attic long and low,
Strung on the rafters overhead
Were pennyroyal,…
Da’ American Girl.
UncategorizedDa' American Girl.
550.1
I gatta mash weeth Mag
An' she ces 'Mericana, too!
Ha! wa'at you theenk? Now, mebbe so,
You weell no calla me so slow
Ef some time you can looka seo
How she ees com' an' flirt weeth ane
Most evra two t'ree day,…
LOVE’S CONFESSIONS.
UncategorizedLOVE'S CONFESSIONS.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
329.1
How shall a maid make answer to a man
Who summons her, by love's supreme decree
The intricate strange ways that love began?
So many streams from that great fountain ran,
To open her whole heart,…
Where There’s a With There’s a Way.
UncategorizedWhere There's a With There's a Way.
336.4
This life is a difficult riddle
For many people we see.
With faces as long as a fiddle.
That ought to look shining with glee.
I am sure in this world there are plenty
Of good things enough for…
Chimes of Trinity.
UncategorizedChimes of Trinity.
265.3
In a city grand and gay, where the mighty throng hold sway.
Stands a church whose spire points toward the sky.
And down in the belfry towar oft the chimes have toll'd the hour
And many saddened hearts were charmed…
Wake Nicodemus.
UncategorizedWake Nicodemus.
261.8
Nicodemua the slave was of African birth.
And was bought for a bag full of gold:
He was reckoned a part of the sait of the earth
But he died years ago very old.
"Twas his last sad request, so we laid him away
In the…
BLUFFING.
UncategorizedBLUFFING.
378.6
If mebbe in yer system there's a little sportin' streak
You'll understand the joy of which I'm tryin' fur to spenk:
When your kind of losing courage an' yer luck is runnin' hard,
An' ye hold a bob-tail flush an' raise and draw…
All the World to Me
UncategorizedAll the World to Me.
147.7
I love you 'tis the simplest way
The thing I feel to tell;
Yet if I told it all the day,
You'd never guess how well:
You are my comfort and my light-
My very life you seem:
I think of you all day-all night
"Tis…
The Hush
UncategorizedThe Hush
705
Cheese is still quiet-Newspaper Report of the
Provision Market)
With what unqualified delight
We scan the dally press and see
In memorable black and white
That cheese, which is inclined to be
A ""rowdy"" article of diet
Is still…
Washing Day.
UncategorizedWashing Day.
378.4
But what he had to dine upon,
In faith I shall not say,
But I'll wager he'll not come again
Upon a washing day.
For it's thump, thump, etc.
On the sad morning when I rise.
I make a fervent prayer
Up to the gods that…
A Domestic Mistake
UncategorizedA Domestic Mistake.
275.1
Van Winker kept a country store, and his clever Wife Jeannette
Tended the children and the house, and saw that both ends met
A happy couple! yet one night, when Van had made alors,
He went unto his pleasant home-well,…
AN OPTIMIST.
UncategorizedAN OPTIMIST.
549.3
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 BARREN YEAR.
UncategorizedTHE BARREN YEAR.
403.1
I think perhaps my heart would be less
If I need not look on lovers any more;
If winter only lasted all the year,
And one could sit alone in thoughtless peace
Beside the chimney-place and only hear
The wind-voice in…
The Raven.
UncategorizedThe Raven.
EDGAR ALLAN POE.
304.1
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…
THE DESPAIRING MUSE.
UncategorizedTHE DESPAIRING MUSE.
359.6
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…