The City Beautiful

The City Beautiful 68 "Way down East" they have the ague Unity they, shake, shake, shake; But here in California We prefer an earthquake In some Stales they have the blizards, Cyclones disturb their rest; But out here in San Francisco We think…

San Francisco

San Franciso 394 She laughed upon her hills out there Beside her bays of misty blue; The gayest hearts, the sweetest air That any city ever knew For I have whistled all the songs That thrilled upon her care-free breath, And I have mingled…

Pity The Poor Poet

Pity the Poor Poet 503 (As He Wrote It) Myrtilla's mouth is small and red, Her eyes are big and blue, The hair is golden on her head, Her skin is creamy hue (As Copled by a Northern Paper) Myrtilla's mouth is small and red, Her eyes…

Seaferers

SEAFERERS 2501 Shanghaied in San Francisco, And we fetched up in Bombay They set us afloat on an old Leith boat, That steered like a stack o' hay We panted in the tropies, When the pitch boiled up on deck We have saved our hides, and…

San Francisco’s Promise

San Francisco's Promise 402 Thy Past rolled up in smoke and cloud And darkness of catastrophe: Thy Future rises, strong and proud, Through ashes of thine agony; Still foams the brine upon thy breast Where great ships gather to their rest,…

San Francisco

San Francisco 63 Earth trmbled like a wounded bird on wing; Dark, hushed and still was everything, Save those in horror of that hour, who heard again, Earth laboring in her stress of pain, Proud structures with granite walls and tower, Crumbled…

The Need Of The Hour

The Need of the Hour 502 Now Molly scrubs the kitchen clean And fumigates the food, She germicides the soup tureen And also boils the wood; And ere she goes, at twilight cool, To do the milking now, She boils her hands, the milking stool,…

Our City Beautiful

Our City Beautiful 93 Een tho' our hearts be steeped in tears And, bent our souls by miery: Een tho we look where once we loved- That loved, now ashes at our feet, Stifle, they cry-who dares to weep? Raise up thine head and worship Goal!…

The Student

The Student 965 Gliding down from Bangor, On a Puilman train, Afte In the woods of Maine, Quite extensive whiskers, Light mustache as well, Eits a college student, Tail and silm and swell Thro a pleasant village Peacefully they gilde, Empty…

Living

Living Richard A Haste 101-2 Richard A Haste in Four Track News To touch the cup with eager lips, and taste-not drain it; To woo and tempt and court a bliss, but not attain it; To fondle and caress a joy, but hold it lightly, Lest it become…

Live While You Live

Live While You Live 1164 Just con this o'er before the fray And the rule will give you grit: The bitter sweet of yesterday Is today's own sweeter bit! Take life easy- Take life breezy: Live the hour you live Joys and troubles Alike are…

San Francisco

San Francisco By Joaquin Miller 492 Such darkness, as when Jesus died! Then sudden dawn drave all before Two wee brown tomtits, terrified, Flashed through my open cottage door; Then instant out and off again And left a stillness like to…

The Same Old Cub

The Same Old Cub 104 Oh, fair city of the Golden Gate, you whom I loved so well Brought out of Paradise into chaos to the very brinks of hell Ruin and desolation faced her on every hund, And sadly the news, traveled throughout the broad land: Her…
The Sale 967 Just inten moment, young friends, and a story I'll unfold, A marvelous tale of a wonderful sale of a noble bady of old How her hand and her heart in an auction mart, her soul and body she sold, 'Twas in the king's highway so…

San Francisco

San Francisco 102 She sits upon her seven hills, All bare and blackened now, A mourning vell of sable smoke Obscures her stricken brow She weeps above her dead that lie Uncounted in the gloom With ashes for a winding-sheet And cinders…

Real Life

Real Life 1223 It was back in old Missoury In a peaceful farming vale, And the folks were plunged in trouble- Hushed the music of the flall There a villian held a mortgage On the dear old farmhouse roof: Much he loved the widow's daughter,…

San Francisco

San Francisco 65 O stricken San Francisco, thou Fair queen of all the West! Thy ruined homes, thy bleeding hearts, The ories of thy distress'd, Fill all the land with sorrow, We mourn, as one, thy fate, The gay voice hushed, the form now crushed, Beside…

San Francisco

San Francisco 2495 Everybody works but father, And he sits 'round all day, Boreing all the neighbors With what he has to say Mother takes in washing Willie's scraping bricks Everybody works but father- He's talking politics

Board Of Health

Board of Health 692 The Board of Health has asked for $48,000 from Relief Fund with which to kill flies: All about the tents and things Buzz busy flies, Working proboscis and wings Winking all their eyes; Threatening disease and death,…

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme 101 Not less stentorian than the angry surf that beats the shore of, Monterey Bay is the lyric defy urled by Major McLaughlin, of Santa Cruz and San Francisco, at Wallace Irwin of New York Though of world-wide…