Tag Archive for: john
Buttoning
ReflectionsButtoning
1334
John Jones lives with hi swife, also his sister and his mother:
He's always at the beck and call of one or the other-
Buttoning, buttoning!
His fingers have been worn to bones, his finger nails to splinters-
He's busy through…
The Watchword
Urban LifeThe Watchword
John Kendrick Bangs
232
Give of your mass of gold,
Send to the prostrate West
Some of that wealth untold
Digged from her virgin breast
Give!
Give of your meager store,
Send from your cupboard bare
Out to the…
Which?
War and ConflictWhich?
1343
John Smith is thrice a millionaire,
Quite rapid's been his rise,
A shrewd and calculating man
The world accounts him wise;
A scruple he has never let
Retard his upward way,
The question alv always is with him,
At all times,…
John August Stetson
Nature and SeasonsJohn August Stetson
6001
John August Stetson was a man of at fairs,
in the place he chose to realde,
He'd been justice of the peace, and all the police,
And many things else, on the side
The people need laws, so John August declared,
Suca…
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…