Tag Archive for: J W Foley
The Family Reading-Table
Family and RelationshipsThe Family Reading-Table
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Father's busy roading of "The Graft That's All About":
Mother's wondering when the next magazine comes out;
Aunty hasn't finished with "The Lifting of the r Lid,"
Little Johnny's busy with "The Life of Captain…
After The Years
ReflectionsAfter the Years
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When you went back to the old home place had the mountain become a hill?
Had the raging river your boyhood knew shrunk down to a peaceful rill?
Were the monster trees in the old front yard but
half of their former size?
Was…
Song Of Summer Days
Love and RomanceSong Of Summer Days
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Sing a song of hollow logs,
Chirp of cricket, croak of frogs,
Cry of wild birds, hum of bees,
Dancing leaves and whisp'ring trees;
Legs all bare and dusty toes,
Ruddy cheeks and freckled nose,
Splash of brook…
Reassured
Hope and MotivationREASSURED
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In days of good King Theodore strange things did come to pass
For puissant senators grow mild, like little boys at class;
And at King Theodore's command would leap head first through rings,
Sit up and beg play dead, and do…
The Need Of The Hour
Urban LifeThe Need of the Hour
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Now Molly scrubs the kitchen clean
And fumigates the food,
She germicides the soup tureen
And also boils the wood;
And ere she goes, at twilight cool,
To do the milking now,
She boils her hands, the milking stool,…
An Old- Fashion Girl
DreamsAn Old- Fashion Girl
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Just an old-fashioned girl, of the kind that you know
When your mothersat up to mend stockings for you
With a ball of red yarn and a bag full of hose
And a goose-eggish thing that slipped down in the toos
Just an…
The Menace Of Reform
Nature and SeasonsTHE MENACE OF REFORM
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When the plaints of the reformers bring about the childless flat,
When the women of the future deign to wear the birdless hat,
When the magazines, muck-rakelens, tell about the germtess beef,
When the Fourth is wholly…
The Despairing Muse
Hope and MotivationTHE DESPAIRING MUSE
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Somebody has stolen the old garden | gate,
The millwheel has gone to decay
The old oaken bucket is missing of late,
It must have been taken away
The little red school house is wreck- ed and torn down,
Neglected its…
The Consumer’s Turn
ReflectionsThe Consumer's Turn
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For all these years I've suffered, but
My turn has come at last;
They stare at me in envy from
The jails when I go past
I may have suffered from them, but I hold no angry hate,
For vengeance comes to those of us…