Tag Archive for: man

Maybe So

Maybe So 967 If every man got all he earned And none got any more, Perhaps affairs would be o'erturned; Some men who heretofore Have put on lordly style would fall And meekly work away While other men obscure today Would loom up grand…

Were I a Rose

Were I a Rose. 191.8. Wero I a rose, no thorn shoni dare Wound thy dear hand, s'en though you chose My choicest flow'r to pluck and wear: Were Fa rose Were I the sun, no ray should o'er Cause thee my ardent beams to shun I'd kiss…

I Love To Live

I Love to Live 845 "I love to live," said an aged man, Whose hour of dying was near at hand Think you such words from him were wi The old man was again a child Be it ever thus in this fallen world, Is the banner of hope to the breeze unfu And…

An Old Man’s Story

An Old Man's Story. 169.5 "Tis only an oid man's strory-a tale we have oftheard told In a thousand forms and fancies, by the yourg sa ni well as old. A tale of life drenged hellwa.d. bound down by a demon's chain. Till the friendly hand of…

The Man Behind

The Man Behind. 243.4 Oht I when I was a little boy my father said to me Don't ever be too forward, lad, but not with modesty: In battle it's the man in front that's always shot. you'll find, But the gen'ral gets the credit, for he is the…

The Make-Believe Man

The Make-Believe Man. 147.10 Dame Nature lights her candles in the caverns of the sky. With a twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, and a yawn heigh-ho! And there blows a little cobweb into ev- ery little eve As the footsteps of the a-tick-a-tocking…

Simple Request

Simple Request. 147.9 I'm just as reason'ble a man As any can be: I don't see how sane people can Find any fault with me. I try my best to keep the rest From goin' quite astray- An' all I ask in life is jest To have things my own way! It's…

The World Went Well With Me Then

The World Went Well With Me Then By T C Barhaton 899 When I was a young mathemahuben, When I was a young man, oil then I married a wife, and I settled in And the world it went well with me them ah Uren My wife she took wiek, oh, than, oh,…

The Man Who is Wanter

The Man Who is Wanter. 223.10 A young man's preferred, but then age searce will count Against him if he's one on whom they can reckon To do this work well, small or TOLL the amount, And to be there to do it, without call or beckon! Any…

The World Went Well With Me Then

The World Went Well With Me Then. By T. C Barhaton 89.9 When I was a young mathemahuben, When I was a young man, oil then I married a wife, and I settled in And the world it went well with me them ah. Uren. My wife she took wiek, oh, than,…

The Village Oracle

The Village Oracle. 84-1 Beneath the weather-Lenten porch That shades the village store He sits at care, an aged man Of three-score years or more. That ample seat for him is placed Beside the opell door, His face is very keen and shrewd,…

The Village Oracle

The Village Oracle 84-1 Beneath the weather-Lenten porch That shades the village store He sits at care, an aged man Of three-score years or more That ample seat for him is placed Beside the opell door, His face is very keen and shrewd,…

A Very Conservative Man

A Very Conservative Man 1156 He doesn't believe half the stories he hears- He's a very conservative man The papers, he says, spread unwarranted fears- He's a very conservative map The troubles we hear of he mlidly de clares, Most often are…