A Maudle-In Ballad

A MAUDLE-IN BALLAD 3563 My lank limp lily, my long lithe lily, My languid lily-love fragile and thin, With dank leaves dangling and flower-flap chilly, That shines like the shin of a Highland gilly; skin! Mottled and moist as a cold toad's…

The Country Child’s Good-Night

The Country Child's Good-Night 1472 Good-Night Good-night, dear hills! So still you lie Against the bosom of the sky, I know you must be fast asleep, And all night long the stars will ke Their tender watches over you, So must I soon be…

A Song Of Sun And Summer

A SONG OF SUN AND SUMMER ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD 4153 Now shimmering waves of fairy bloom Across the meadows break and run, And all the good brown earth is glad Beneath the glory of the sun In bubbles blown of crystal sound The tinkling…

City Children

City Children 5281 Palo towers are you that scarce have known the sun! Your little faces like sad blossoms seem Shut In some room, there helplessly to dream Of distant glens where through glad rivers run And winds at evening whisper Daylight…

Step Boldly To The Front

Step Boldly to the Front 1767 Step boldly to the front, farmers, To the place where you belong, And harken while I make your cause The burden of my song Year after year you labor To feed earth's hungry crew, While trusts are wily scheming…

At A Western Window

At a Western Window 1547 I gaze from the western window Athwart the narrowing day, Where the sunshine and the shadows In parting glory play, To violet Isles enchanted That smile at the open door As the argosies of evening - Sail through…

Barbara Frietchie

Barbara Frietchie JOHN G WHITTIER 3197 Barbara Frietohle was an aged lady of Frederick, Md, of German birth, but intensely patriotic In September, 1862, when Lee's army was on its way to Antietam, "Stonewall" Jackson's corps passed through…

Dixie’s Land

Dixie's Land 4743 I wish I was in de land ob cotton Old times dar am not forgotten, Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie land In Dixie land whar I was born in Early on one frosty mornin', Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie land Chorus Den…

The Sexton

THE SEXTON 43610 Nigh to a grave that was newly made Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade His task was done, and he paused to wall The funeral train through the open gate A relic of bygone days was he, And his locks were as white…

Never Alone

Never Alone 4735 I've seen the lighining lashing And heard the thunder rošt; I'vo felt ain's breakers dashing Trying to conquer my soul: I've heard the voice of my Savior, Telling me still to fight on: He promised never to leave me,…

A Question

A Question Mabel Mahin 1912 I study the faces of old women And ask myself a question, new and strange To my own features will there come a change? That look of meek submission? Am I, then, No different from the others? And again, I ask,…

Fame

Fame 3074 To some 'tis given to present A candidate for president; And with appeal and sally loud To sway the effervescent crowd But some-ah, some-elate and cool, On Friday afternoon at school May rattle off, without a check, "The boy…

You

You 582 You mean for me what birds at daybreak sing, When earth awakening calls t them With little yellow daffodils, "Tis spring! You mean the wondrous music of the spheres, When o'er the distant purple hills Through soft piled clouds, the…

Pity The Poor Rich

Pity the Poor Rich 3437 What's the use of hurrying, and worrying, and scurrying? Cease your labor, tired neighbor; come a while and play What's the use of plundering, and thundering, and blundering? Stop a while and learn to smile, and think…

Ballad Of Our Cooks

Ballad of Our Cooks 11 Selenn's specially was brooms And scrubbing and adjusting Daily she cycloned thrpugh the rooms Industriously dusting With her the ice-box door staid shut And milk staid sweet -sie uemper; We realy loved Selena, but We…

Nature Up-To-Date

How sweet to walk within the woods Where spreads the sylvan shade; To roam within the rural della Or fairy forest glade; To sit beside the streamlet fair And watch the babbling rills, And see upon the mossy rocks: "Take Pluckem's Purple…

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 2391 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light,…

Her Roundelay

HER ROUNDELAY 4422 It won't be long Till hens will lay Fresh eggs again, And every day: And cackle loud, And cacklo long In an exultant Glory song: A large fresh egg And one a day: This is the old hen's Round-o'-lay …

The End

The End 1276 These are the last times, it plainly appears it plainly appears "A day with the Lord is a thousand years Man has six great days his work to do, And ther comes the Sabbath eternally truet O chikiren of time! look back in the…

The Old Fashioned Homestead

The Old fashioned Homestead 905 I will do remember the old fashioned homestead, That beautiful place where I first saw the light; Where oft to have played on the green when in childhood That lovely old spot was so happy and bright The garden…