Tag Archive for: Beauty
Pan In The Catskills
BeautyPAN IN THE CATSKILLS
Bliss Carman
5061
They say that he is dead, and now no more
The reedy syrinx sounds among the hills,
When the long summer heat is on the land
But I have heard the Catskill thrushes sing,
And therefore am incredulous…
The Best Thing In The World
BeautyTHE BEST THING IN THE WORLD
5006
The present year, 1906, is the one hundredth since the birth of
Eliza- beth Barrett Browning and the sixti- eth since her marriage to
Robert Browning; for she was in her forty- first year
when she became…
Parental Song
BeautyParental Song
1806
Go set the bells a-ringing
Yes and fire off the guns:
Blow your trumpets inside out
And bang the biggest drums:
If any one should ask you
The cause of all this Joy
You can tell them I'm the father
Of a bouncing baby…
Do-Do Eyes
BeautyDo-Do Eyes
3696
The greater the charms of a woman,
The farther she'll go with your tin:
All beauty's skin-deep that is human-
And beauties are mostly a skin
The Master Singer
BeautyTHE MASTER SINGER
4854
Things loved once overmuch he made us hate,
He turned our veriest weed into a rose,
Taught us to weep at laughter, laugh at fate
Touched us to love or sorrow as he chose
And waywardly, at his imperious whim,
The tides…
Dies Irae
BeautyDies Irae
AMBROSE BIERCE
3561
Day of Satans' painful duty!
Earth shall vanish, hot and sooty:
So says Virtue, so says Beauty
Ah! what terror shall be shaping
When the Judge the truth's undraping!
Cats from ev'ry bag escaping!
Now the…
Araluen
BeautyAraluen
2402
Take this rose and very gently place it on the tend, dxp
Moses where our little darling Aralue: lles asleop:
Put the blossoms close to baby-kneel with me my love, and pray:
We must leave the bird, we've burled-say good- by to her…
Why Am I Sad And Dreary
BeautyWhy am I Sad and Dreary?
2175
Why am I sad and dreary?
Why does my heart grow weary?
What, then, but this can cheer me,
I soon shall rest in heaven
Chorus-
When this poor body lles slumbering in the tomb
And soft winds gently sigh o'er…
We Shall Know Each Other Hetter
BeautyWe Shall Know Each Other Hetter
4164
When the mists have rolled in splendor from the beauty of the hills,
And the sunlight falis in is in gladness on the river and the rills,
We recall our father's gladness in the rainbow of the spray-
We…
The Sun Bright Clime
BeautyThe Sun Bright Clime
1653
Have you heard, have you heard, of that sun bright clime
Undimined by sorrow, unhurt by time,
Where nae hath
Where the sys is no po power o'er the fadeless frame, fire, and the heart la name?
Have you heard of that…
City Children
BeautyCity 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…
Barbara Frietchie
BeautyBarbara 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…
Put On Your Clothes
BeautyPUT ON YOUR CLOTHES
27511
There's a truth I wish to declare,
For I've noticed how pretty your face is,
You're an artist in doing your hair
And the line of your figure all grace is
But one thing you really should learn,
It is vital, as you…
Shirt Waist Of Laughing Water
BeautySHIRT 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-…
Down The Mississipp
BeautyDown 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…
The Urban Pan
BeautyThe 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!"…
Pant Tree,
BeautyPant 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…
Do Your Best
BeautyDo Your Best
1546
Do your best and leave the rest:
Never mind to-morrow;
He who works with happy zest
Has no need to borrow
Trouble from some future day
True success will come his way
Do your best and leave the rest!
He who strives for…
No Parsing In Heaven
BeautyNo Parsing in Heaven
4034
We are going we are going,
To a home beyond the skin
Where the helds are robed in beauty,
And the sunlight never dies;
Where the fount of joy is flowing
In the valley green and fair;
We shali dwell in love together,…
The Last Of Winter
BeautyI The Last of Winter
2081
Oh, not for us the primrose faint, the south wind's hush-a-low
Down shining aisles of the beech-trees that know us years ago!
Here there's a long, long allence and the dumbly falling snow
The prairie polls away,…