Tag Archive for: Unknown Author
The Result
Hope and MotivationThe Result
2407
You get a girl-a peach, a dream-
One that can turn at once your head?
Oh, no; that kind is not my theme:
You get a girl to bake the bread-
To bake the bread and scrub the floor,
To iron, wash and dust, perhaps,
To drive…
Rondeau
ReflectionsRondeau
2188
I promised to obey? Perhaps that's so
I do not? Well, that, too, I think I know
You see, I'd no experience of men
You weren't a bear, who growled about his den;
Your claws and teeth you were too smart to show
Oh, but you were…
The Masquerade
War and ConflictThe Masquerade
BY Corinne Barry
2012
It was at the masquerade-
Playful youth and laughing maid,
Woman wan, and bended jade-
I was in a domino,
Masked and draped from head to toe
Came a warrior to woo,
Iron-gloved and armored, too
Man…
The Unforgotten
Historical Events and FiguresThe Unforgotten
By Theodosia Garrison
952
By Theodosia Garrison in Smart Set
It is all calm, this love you give to me
Mly life goes gently in a cloistered hold
Whose windows open to the scanty gold
Of tender twilight on a quiet sea
This…
We Are Passing Away
DeathWe Are Passing Away
2124
Vain man, thy fond pursuits forbear:
Repent, thine end is nigh;
Death, at the farthest, can't be far;
O think before thou die!
Refrain-
We are passing away
We are passing away
To the great judgment day
Reflect,…
Weather Talk
ReflectionsWeather Talk
3777
Our dear old Hoosier poet, Jlm Riley, tells us:
It ain't no use to grumble and complalu,
It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice:
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain,
Why, rain's my choice
Ring The Bell, Watchman
ReflectionsRing the Bell, watchman
2932
High in the belfry the old sexton stands
Clasping the rope with his thin, long hands
Fixed is his gaze as by some magic spell
Till he hears the distant murmur, "Ring, ring the bell"
Chorus-
Ring the bell, watchman,…
Blab Ballads
ReflectionsBlab Ballads
Nixon Waterman
2621
Emersonian Extravagance
"Hitch your wagon to a star!"
Sounds very fine, of course,
But it would prove more prudent, far,
To own a first-class motor-car,
Or even a good,…
By The Hill Of Dan
Love and RomanceBY THE HILL OF DAN
Clinton Scollard
2723
Marie, I wonder if you recall,
Conning the past like a written scroll,
That day, the goldenest day of all,
And the long rest under the giant bole
Where the singing Banias waters roll?
Over the bough-tops…
The San Francisco Earth-Quake
Urban LifeThe San Francisco Earth-Quake
322
It was early in the morning
On an April morning falr
When a city fair and merciful
Was quivering in the air
There swaying to and fro
Were buildings great and small;
Then with a mighty crash
Began a city's…
Song Of The Grasshopper
Memories and NostalgiaSong of the Grasshopper
2026
I saw a brown old grasshopper,
And he sat upon a stone,
While ever and anon he chirped
In a sad and mournful tone:
And many an anxious, troubled look
He cast around the naked plain
Where now was but a stubbls…
To A Wayfarer
Courage and PerseveranceTo A Wayfarer
L B Bridgeman
1913
Be strong
The way is steep, the way is long;
There is no ending till thy strength shall end,
And yet be strong
Be brave
The night is dark, the goal's the grave
They need not courage who have Hope for friend-…
Grapes
BeautyGRAPES
29810
Conserve of honey in deep purple glaze
Of the red-ripened glory of October days,
Dow of the fairies in globes of delight,
With the freshness of frost in their tang and their bite
The Concord, Catawba, the sweet Isabel,
Oh,…
To Mary In Heaven
Love and RomanceTo Mary in Heaven
By Robert Burns
647
Thou ling'ring star, with less ring ray,
That lov's; to greet the early morn,
Again thou usher'st in the day
My Mary from my soul was torn
O Mary! dear departed shade!
Where is thy place of blissful…
Cruiskeen Lawn
DeathCruiskeen Lawn
2346
Let the farmer praise his grounds, as the hunter does his hounds
And the shepherd his sweet scented lawn,
While I more blest than they, spend each night and day each happy
With my smiling little cruiskeen lawn, lawn, lawn…
The Lady Of Shalott
War and ConflictThe Lady of Shalott
2711
Not Readable
Not Readable
By the margin, willow valled, S
lide the heavy barges, trailed
By slow horses; and unhalfed
The shallop filtteth sliken satled,
Skimming down to Camelot
But who hath seen her wave her…
Never Alone
Friendship and SolitudeNever Alone
84-3
(Still another version)
Lonely, no not lonely, while Jesus standeth ty
His presence always cheers me I know that he is
them:
Friendless-no, not friendlere, for Jesus is my
Friend:
I change but he remaineth the same unto the…
Twenty Years After
Historical Events and FiguresTwenty Years After
191
I
"Grandpa," a rosy schoolboy said,
His eager face aglow,
Why is to-day a holiday,
And all the streets below
Crowded with joyful folk, who march
With rose-wreathed spades and picks,
With Bear flags,…
The Birth Of The Ivy
DeathThe Birth of the Ivy
4732
Many and many a year ago
(I tell the tale as 'twas told to me)
A lady lived in her own proud hall
A lady of high degree
And many a knight came wooing her
For stately and fair was she
The fairest, statellest flower…
O Wind From The Golden Gate
DreamsO Wind From the Golden Gate
Virginia Bloren Harrison
2071
Now dies the salt wind-breath of Eastward seas-
And in the quivering leaves of whispering trees
Soft stirs the evening breeze
From charmed lands, O wind from out the West!
From slumbrous…