Tag Archive for: Memory

Leave Taking

Leave Taking 2333 You, who do not know, stand by the door and watch from there, Impatient at the long delay and foolish care With which I take each little thing from its accustomed place- The tiny clock, and old Satsuma vase, The imaged…

A Thanksgiving Obeing

A Thanksgiving Obeing 4891 "Come, hear the tale I would unfold," said the Gobbler to his flock, "For what the stars this day have told has given me a shock "The zodiac, in days of old, with twelve signs was com plete, But woe is me, this…

A Memory

A Memory Emily Sargent Lewis 572 My mother died when I was four, That's why I can't remember more Of what she used to do and say So long ago I'm six to-day I know one day she climbed with me, Way up into the apple tree, The flowers fell…

Grandpa Nathan

Grandpa Nathan 3776 By the beech and hickory Dre Grandpa Nathan sat at night With details of marching armes, And the news of many a fight When he laid aside the paper Though its contests he had told He was plied with any questions By…

Lorena

Lorena 3774 The years creep slowly by, Lorena, the snow is on the ground again The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, the frost gleams where the flowers have been: But the heart throbs on as warmly now as when the summer days were nigh: Oh,…

The Return Of The Flag

THE RETURN OF THE FLAG 512,4 (Minna Irving in Leslie's Weekly) Resolutions directing the city clerk of Boston to restore to New Orleans the confederate flag which was taken by General Butler as a trophy of war when he took possession of…

When The Cows Come Home

When the Cows Come Home Mrs Agnes E Mitchell 2242 With klingle, klangie, klingle, 'Way down the dusky dingle The cows are coming home; Now, sweet and clear, and faint and low, The alry tinkiings come and go Like chimings from some far oft…