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Untried Ways
Sailing and the SeaUntried Ways
1755
Full many a ship puts out to sea,
Not knowing what the end may be;
And if each tarried the end to know,
How many ships to sea would go?
He Laid Away The Gray
DreamsHe Laid Away the Gray
23010
Outaldea Southern cottage, an old woman, bent and gray,
A last farewell was bidding to her boy;
Her husband wore a suit of gray 'way back in '01
Now for the blue she's giving up her joy; The uniform his father…
New Year’s Eve
Holidays and CelebrationsNew Year's Eve
837
If you're waking, call me early, call me early
mother deur,
For I would see the run rise upon the glad now
your:
It is the last New Year that I shall ever see; Then you may lay me low in the wold and think
no more of me
Tonight…
Fuller And Warren
Family and RelationshipsFuller and Warren
1274
Te sons of Columbia, your attention I crave
While & sorrowful altty I tell
Which happened of late in old Initiana state
Of a hero whom fow could excel
Ilks Ramson, be courted the foy of his life
And intended to make…
The Call Of Spring
Nature and SeasonsThe Call of Spring
Florence Wilkinson
571
I hearkened at dawn to the call of the Spring,
The voice of a spirit,
And my soul leapt up like a wildwood thing,
Like a hawk from its tirret
She is calling me out to the open wold,
To the scurrying…
Love’s Logic
Love and RomanceLove's Logic
Reglnald Wright Kaufman
101-3
Because your eyes look into mine
And read my heart and understand,
Withholding nothing, dear, they are
The fairest eyes in all the land
Because your lips, a budding rose
With hau its glories still…
The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane
DeathThe Little Old Log Cabin In the Lane
2872
I'm getting old and feeble now, I cannot work no more
I'se laid the rusty bladed hos to rest
Ole massa an ole miss's am dead,
dey're sleepin' side by side
Deir spirits now are roaming wid the blest
De…
Just One Girl
Love and RomanceJust A Girl
1797
I'm in love with a sweet little girlie-
Only one, only one I meet her each evening quite early
Rain or sun, rain or sun
To work we go walking together,
Just as gay as can be
We are surely two birds of a feather
This one…
White Wings
Love and RomanceWhite Wings
23011
Sall home, as straight as an arrow,
My yacht shoots along on the crest of the sea
Sall home, to sweet Maggie Darrow,
In her dear little home she is waiting for me
High up where cliffs they are craggy
There's where the…
Familiar Friends
Friendship and CompanionshipFAMILIAR FRIENDS
2553
There's Tommy Jones, he lef' this little town,
I reckon it was thirty years ago
They tell us that the boy's got salted down
Five hundred thousand dollars cash or
Some folks say that he's clear a millionaire,
They take…
The Girl Who Used To Be
Family and RelationshipsThe Girl Who Used to Be
1212
Here's an end to loving; here we part," you say;
"Life, the cruel master, has to have his way
We have had our pleasant vision, you and I-
Now the daylight calls me: I must say good-by"
Glib your tongue to frame…
A New Poet
ReflectionsA NEW POET
4852
The new poet, Archie Sullivan, whom
Appletons have discov- ered, has been writing a series of remarkably fine poems on precious stones The verses are gems in themselves, and
Mr Sullivan has polished them with the skill of…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Franciso
394
She laughed upon her hills out there
Beside her bays of misty blue;
The gayest hearts, the sweetest air
That any city ever knew
For I have whistled all the songs
That thrilled upon her care-free breath,
And I have mingled…
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
War and ConflictTramp, Tramp, Tramp
1803
In my prison cell I sit,
Thinking, mother, dear, of you
And our bright and happy home so far away,
And the tears they fill my eyes,
Spite of all that I can do
Though I try to cheer my comrades and be gay
Chorus:
Tramp,…
The Sick Child
Childhood and InnocenceThe Sick Child
1664
I've tried so hard to go to sleep And not to fear,
But Mother dear,
It is so dark! and God won't keep
A naughty child all safe, I know:
And I was naughty Please don't gol
I am afraid with no one here
The dark is full…
The Song Of The Rose
ReflectionsThe Song of the Rose
3365
No beautiful notice have I on the hiш
No pictures to hang in my halls
But never a painter could match with his skill,
The roses abloom on my walls
Chorus-
Then sing we a song of the rose,
A song that is tender…
They Have Given Her To Another
Love and RomanceThey Have Given Her to Another
6003
They have given her to another,
They have broken every vow:
They have given her to another,
And my heart is lonely now
They remembered not our parting,
They remembered not our tears;
They have severed…
Thanksgining
Love and RomanceTHANKSGINING
By James Whitcomb Riley
2757
Let us be thankful-not only because
Hluce last our universal thanks were told,
We have grown greater in the world's applause
And fortune's newer smiles surpass the old-
But thankful for all things…
Make Home Happy
ReflectionsMake Home Happy
2619
Though we may not change the cottage
For the masaion tall and grand,
Nor exchange the little grass-plot
For a boundless stretch of land
Though we have no mesna to purchas
Costly pictures, riety and rare
Though we…
The Fairy Artist
Childhood and InnocenceThe Fairy Artist
5184
O, there is a little artist
Who paints in the cold night hours
Pictures for wee, wee children,
Of wondrous trees and flowers;
Pictures of snow-white mountains
Touching the snow-white sky;
Pictures of distant oceans
Where…