Tag Archive for: Beauty

Pan In The Catskills

PAN 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

THE 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

Parental 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

Do-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

THE 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

Dies 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

Araluen 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

Why 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

We 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

The 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

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…

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…

Put On Your Clothes

PUT 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

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-…

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…

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!"…

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…

Do Your Best

Do 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

No 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

I 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,…