Shirt Waist Of Laughing Water

SHIRT WAIST OF LAUGHING WATER 3941 The newspapers assert that a cru- sade far from puritanleal is being waged in America against the peek- a-boo shirtwalst-World cable from London Then appeared fair Minnehaha, Minnehaha, Laughing Water-…

To The American Hen

To the American Hen 5812 [Poets may sing to the glory of the eagle, but the American hen that can equal the production of all our mines is entitled to a tribute for her industry] Oh, let the country pin Its faith faith to you, O Hen, And it…

In Calm Content

In Calm Content 1015 A little amrike land slowly thi from of my big calm The clut chair was both woft and warm, club chates sornclinies are The bottle hobworked with the game Jok Where to? A we bent And there was naught for to want un- Indore…

The Man In The Boy

The Man in the Boy 5643 In the acorn is wrapped the forest, In the little brook the sea; The twig that will sway with the sparrow today Is tomorrow's sturdy tree There is hope in a mother's joy Like a peach in its blossom furled, And a…

Kiss Her

Kiss Her 574 At the last annual dinner of the Friendly Hans of St Patrick, In New York, Thomas Augustin Daly of Phila- delphia had something to say of the joys of married life, and he told how to preserve these joys in this poem: Say,…

Pictures In The Fire

Pictures in the Fire 4855 When the winds whistle 'round the house And fields are brown and bare, I sit beside the roaring fire And watch the pictures there The flames leap up and I behold A wondrous palace, bright, With arch and column…

Toyland

Toyland 2824 When you've grown up, my dears, there comes n dreary day When 'mid the locks of black appears The first pale gleam of gray, my dears, The first pale gleam of gray Then of the past you'll dream, as gray haired grown-ups do, And…

Down The Mississipp

Down the Mississipp 4103 (A voyage made before the abolition of sistery) Twas a winter morning, as the clock struck ten, That we left St Louis, two dejected men Gazing on the river, thick with yellow mud And dreaming of disaster fire and…

Good

GOOD 3932 Tall chimneys are belching Their columns of smoke; But life is a plenic, Oh, life is a jokel The street cars are glanging, And work calls to me But there's a home-coming, Home-coming to thee Aye, there's a home-coming At…

Gentle Annie

Gentle Annie 3441 Thou wilt come no more, gentle Anniet Like a flower thy spirit did depart Thou art gone, alns, like the many That have bloomed in the summer of my heart Chorus Shall we never more behold thee, Never hear thy winning volce…

The Urban Pan

The Urban Pan Bliss Carman 2181 Once more the magic days are come With stronger sun and milder air; The shops are full of daffodils; There's golden leisure everywhere I heard my Lou this morning shout: "Here comes the hurdy-gurdy man!"…

To Edwin Markham

To Edwin Markham 2335 Flash the heart's gloom aflame with Freedom's fire Thrill the chained frame of labor with desire For sweet, sweet liberty Lift downcast eyes toward the morning light, Rouse the slave mind to daring dreams of right,…

The Lord Is My Shepherd

The Lord is My Shepherd 1852 "I have seen the shepherds standing amid the drench of the rain, not taking the flock out of the storm, but staying with the flock in the storm"-Extract from sermon by the Rev William A Quayle, St James' M E…

A March Glee

A March Glee 2404 I hear the wild geese honking From out the misty night, A sound of moving armles On-sweeping in their might; The river ice is drifting Beneath their northward fight I hear the bluebird plaintive From out the morning…

Sweet By And By

Sweet By and By Eugene J Hall 2177 There are faces we fondly recall That have vanished away from this vale Like the leaves of the forest that fall, Not Readable Not Readable Not Readable Not Readable "To our bountiful Father above We…

In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree 3841 The oriole with joy was sweetly singing The little brook was bab'ling its tune The vilage bells at noon were gayly ringing world rem'd better than a harvest moon For there within my arms I gently pressed…

A Miracle

A MIRACLE 3705 April, April, full of hopes, All a world of sunny sheen 'Round her, wanders up our slopes, Bluebirds following, in her hands Bursting leaf bud's tender green, Laughing, tilting, on the rocks She hangs her saxifrage, and…

Naturally

Naturally 5605 "For each of these flowers I'll give you a kiss!" Cries out the adorably sweet little miss: But she pouts as I rush for the door "Are you running away from that?"says she: "No" I answer "There's only a doz- en, you see- I'm…

The Fisherman’s Rubaiyat

THE FISHERMAN'S RUBAIYAT 5443 Wake! for the clock is several hours late, And in the pools the eager troutlets wait, All longing for the brilliant-colored fly- While from your flask sounds gurgle of the bait I sometimes think that never…

Pant Tree,

Pant Tree, 3357 What does he plant who plants in (ree? He plants a friend of sun and sky: He plants a flag of breezes free: The shaft of beauty towering high: He plants a home to Heaven anigh For song and mother-croon of bird, In hushed…