Ellen Bayne

The Irish Pipes

THE IRISH PIPES 4472 I heard the piper playing The piper old and blind: And know its secret saying- The voice of the summer wind I heard clear waters falling, Lapping from stone to stone The wood dove crying and calling Ever alone, alone I…

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…

Finnigan To Flannigan

Finnigan to Flannigan S W GILLILAN 4167 Superintindint wiz Flannigan; Boss of the section wuz Finnigin; Whiniver the kyars got off'n the thrack An' muddled up things t' the divil an' back, Finnigin writ it to Flannigan, Afther the wrick…

The Secret

THE SECRET 5547 "But you have grown so grave and sweet"- His questioning eyes I could not meet A rose and its bud within his hand I gently laid Did he understand? -Mary…

The Ship That Never Returned

The Ship that Never Returned 18010 On a summer's day, when the waves were rippled By n soft and gentle breeze, A ship set sall with a cargo laden For port beyond the a sens There were fond farewells, There were loving amiles, While their…

Marguerite

Marguerite 5606 Marguerite! Marguerite! my star of hope I dread the day you'll forget me, Marguerite! And still I know it soon will come, The festive dance, the rich, the gay, So different from our home, Marguerite! I would not chide thee,…

A Song

A SONG 518-1 Scatter in spring-time a handful of seeds, And gather in summer a lapful of flowers This is the song of the birds in the bowers, This is the song of the wind in the reeds Down by the roadside and over the meads, Under the sunshine…

Somewhere

Somewhere 4648 Heavy and low the clouds above us frowned: Surfing the air, parched was the thiraty plain; Hushed were the birds, and, prone upon the ground Tay the limp vines, and walted for the rain Malevolent the dim cloud giants leered,…

It’s Going Up

It's Going Up 584 -It's going up, it's going up, Although we thought it went; It still keeps climbing, climbing Its rocky, steep ascent; And we in awe perspiring Just wonder where we're at, For still the rents keep going up, And other…

Work Well Done

Work Well Done 2127 The work is well done that is willingly done And the hands do not lag in their task, Then the love and good will of the la- boring one, Keep on, with no questions to ask The work is well done that is cheerfully done, And…

Baby In Church

Baby In Church 416-1 Aunt Nellie bad fashioned a dainty thing Of Hamburg and ribbon and lace, And mamma had said, as she settled it round Our beautiful baby's face, Where the dimples play and the laughter Hes Like sunbeams hid in her…

The Heaviest Cross

THE HEAVIEST CROSS Edgar M More 4851 It must be pitiful to bear great blame, All undeserved, sure that with open scorn, Or unclean jests of their own vileness born, Or covert sneers, vile lips repeat your name To know that honest men whom…

Address To A Mummy

Address to a Mummy Horace Smith 2245 And thou hast walked about how strange a story! In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago, When the Memronium was in all its glory And Time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles…

The Little German Home

The Little German Home 4533 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 all…

The Beautiful Hills

The Beautiful Hills 4574 The cities of yore that were reared in crime And renowned by the praise of seern, Went down in the tramp of old King Time To sleep with his gray haired years: But the beautiful hills rise bright and strong Thro…

A Swarm Of Bees

A swarm of Bees 2394 B hopeful B cheerful is happy, is kind, B busy of body It modest of mind It earnest B truthful Is firm, and B fair Of all Miss & Havior it sure and it ware B think ere you stumble for what may B fall: B truthful to…

Challenged

CHALLENGED 1987 She said that I couldn't, "Twas challenging too, For she meant, that I shouldn't When she said that I couldn't So tell me who he could do Show what he could do When she said that he couldn't? I would, wouldn't?

The Stricken City

The Stricken City 103 I They will build it great, they will build It strong Its streets the children of men will throng: It will be superb with its lofty domes And its marble halls and its stately homes, But never…

The Touch Of A Hand

THE TOUCH OF A HAND 4092 At times when the world seems dead, And the heart is bound in frost, Where every bird or blossom Forgotten is, or lost; A hand is laid in ours- Ah, the world is not so wrong, And for every bud that blooms The heart…