Opportunity

Opportunity 1531 Send forth your heart's desire and work and wait The opportunities of life are brought To our own doors, not by capricious fate, But by the strong, compelling force of thought …

He’s An Orator

HE'S AN ORATOR 5971 He don't pretend to be perlite When speakin' of the other party It's no kid-glove, silkstockin' fight He makes; he lams 'em good an'- hearty- Jest talks right out an' takes the resk He ain't none of your careful lunters…

The Cooktail

THE COOKTAIL 4091 Warmer of the heart! the key to lips That otherwise were sealed to me; Opener of love's gates, wherein I see The realms of joy and feel warm finger tips About my neck Thou makest me oft surmise A sweet abandon in my lady's…

The Breaking Plow

The Breaking Plow 22312 I am the plow that turns the sod That has lain for a thousand years; Where the prairie's wind-tossed Bewars nod And the wolf her wild enb rears, I come, and in my wake, like rain, In scattered the golden seed; I…

The Retired Farmer

The Retired Farmer 4098 He tires soon of the life in town, Just loafing ain't much fun He's worked for years for the goal he's reached But 'tis empty now 'tis won Of things he envied, he's now blase, And the crowd down at the store Who…

The Reason For It

The Reason For It 4866 For It Although she braved the breakers, She couldn't swim at all, But when she donned her bathing suit And flung aside her shawl And in the sand disported To show her ankie trim This girl of ancient family Was…

Damsel Dorothy

Damsel Dorothy OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 2988 Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the most distin- guished of the New England group of writers, was born in 1800, and was one of the graduating class of Harvard in 1820 which contained so many cele…

Times Had Changed

Times Had Changed 704 One day not very long ago, there walked in Gotham town The shades of two old patriarchs, from heaven Just come down: And na they wandered, open mouthed, at all there was to Bов 'Tis sald one touched the other with a…

The Little Heroine

The Little Heroine 1652 "Eay, who will climb the belfry tower And cut cut that banner down; All broken in the Austrian's power, They gullop from the town "And surely the an Idie taunt With this day's victory gained, To see you painted…

The Soldier’s Dream

The Soldier's Dream 1541 Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground over- powered The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die When reposing…

Little Orphant Annie

Little Orphant Annie 5384 Little Orphant Annie has come to our house to stay, To wash the cups an' saucers up and brush the crumbs away An' shoo the chickens off the porch and dust the hearth and sweep, An' make the fire and bake the bread…

The Man Behind

THE MAN BEHIND 5982 There's a fat girl on the trolley car and she's a blooming peach, She's standing on her toes to keep the strap within her reach, The car is going round the curve and she lets go the strap, Tis the man behind the paper…

Twas Our Last Good-By

Twas Our Last Good-By 1704 In the shade of a weeping willow, Where the violets are in bloom Sleeps a fair and lovely maiden In the cold and silent tomb Once she and I were sweethearts; She was faithful true, and braver Now beneath a weeping…

The Dying Child

The Dying Child 964 Go open wide the door, mother And let the angela in: For they are bright and fair, mother, So pure and free from sin I hear them speak my name, mother, They sweetly whisper come Oh let the angels in, mother, For…

St Anthony’s Temptations

St Anthony's Temptations 1162 St Anthong sat on a lowly stool And a book was in his hand: Never Als eves from its page he tock Either to left or right to lock But with steadfast soul, as was his rule, The holy page he scanned "We will woo"…

Home

Home 1272 Sometimes, in dreams, I see a room With massive walls and fair; Rose-shaded lights shut out the gloom, The air is sweet with flowers in bloom And you are there Sometimes, the room I see in dreams Is homely, small, and bare; The…

A Whisper

A Whisper 5544 "I love you, dear" High in the tree That spread its sheltering branches near, A song-bird trilled an ecstasy "I love you, dear" The gray mist rose from hill and mere, But no rain fell for you and me; And all our sky was bright…

Waiting For The Prince

Waiting for the Prince 1332 Happy maiden in whose eres Beams the sunny light of youth, In whose soul a glory lles Tremulous with love and truth; Musing of the days to come, Full of visionary glints, Through her mind sweet fancies run,…

San Francisco

San Francisco 321 How fair she looked! and calm, queen of the West! As though no auguish s'er could plerce her breast Tranguli and similing she in slumber luy At walking dawn upon that fatal day No rosente tinge yet graced the early morn:…

Recipe For Social Success

Recipe for Social Success 3703 A few smart frocks, A lot of cash, Good hands at bridge, A little dash, Une cause celebre, A motor-car, A whitewash brush, And there you are -Madame