Tag Archive for: Unknown Author
That City
Love and RomanceThat City
3835
You tell me of a city
Which is a bright and fair:
Oh! why do not the friends I love
Talk more of koing there?
I hear them speak of pleasures
Which earthly things have given;
Why do they never mention
The better joys of…
A Runaway Bell Buoy
Sailing and the SeaA Runaway Bell Buoy
2112
I was wearied of my shoal
I was wearled of the surge
That lifted me without end
To beat my endless dirge
Ever the painted days
Wantoned with me and passed
A-down the valleys of the sea
And left me fettered…
The Watermelon
ReflectionsThe Watermelon
4548
O see dat water million a smmiin' fro' de fence
How I wish dat watermillion it was mine,
Oh, de white folks must be foolish, dey needs a hoap ob sence,
Or dey'd nebber leabe it dar upon de vine
Chorus-
O, de ham bene…
An Imitation Poem
ReflectionsAn Imitation Poem
3699
"We've Imitation butter
And imitation milk:
We've Imitation cotton
And imitation silk
We've imitation marble
And Imitation wood;
We've imitation coffee
Salubriously good
We've imitation leather
For Imitation…
The Cause Of Equity
BandThe Cause of Equity
5976
And brightens all the world about,
With its hope giving ray
Soon, soon the day of right shall glow,
In splendor through the land;
When every farmer lad shall march,
In Equity's fair band
The cause of Equity is…
The Ripening’ Paris Hen
Hope and MotivationThe Ripening' Paris Hen
3294
I golly, it is funny
How I hate t' work, say bow,
When the prerie ben is rip'nin'
In the stubble, an' somehow
I git all mixed up a-dreamin' Icegins of lollin' dogs en "snipe,"
As old August, hot and yaller,…
Charely Books
Hope and MotivationMiss O'Dare, since I left the city
I find I have changed my mind;
O pray do not deem me fickle
Or think me the least un unkind
For I find we were both mistaken,
And that you would never want me,
So my heart has turned to another;
Miss…
It Happened At Once
Urban LifeIt Happened at Once
505
And then a bolt, a jolt, a chill,
And Mother Earth seemed as afraid:
Then instant all again was still,
Save that my cattle from the shade
Where they had sought firm, rooted clay,
Came forth loud lowing, glad and…
Turkey Time
Childhood and InnocenceTurkey Time
5494
And dacords feas Tink draweth night die
Get one that's you And stuff t young and sweet and fat, Il of this and that
with fruit and be ries sauces make, And add prese ves and ples and cake
Ask friends and And make Kindred all…
Bonny Doon
Love and RomanceBonny Doon
ROBERT BURNS
4225
Ye banks and braes of bonny Doun,
How can ye bloom sa fresh and fair?
How can ye chaunt ye little birds,
Wille I'm no wae and full o' care?
Ye'll break my heart, ye little birds,
That wander through that flow'ring…
The Years
DeathTHE YEARS
St Louis Republic
1988
They come, they pass, with snow-soft fool,
And deathless youth fiumes their eyes;
Alike to them are chaff and wheat,
Alike the foolish adn the wise,
They bring the wound, they bring the balm,
They light our…
When Hearts Were Trumps
Love and RomanceWHEN HEARTS WERE TRUMPS
Ralph M Thomson
4252
Once hearts were trumps, yet that was when
Love played an honest game with men;
Each trick so deftly won and turned,
But emphasized the victory earned
When hearts were trumps
When…
Were I A Rose
Sailing and the SeaWere I a Rose
1918
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…
Artistic Cookery
Historical Events and FiguresArtistic Cookery
1801
For breakfast we'll give a mystery,
Compounded of of fragments of
Please do not be rash,
And call it plain hash; history
Or we'll haul you before the consistory
"Here's what we propose for your dinner,
To comfort…
A Toast To The Farmer
ReflectionsA Toast to the Farmer
1794
Let the wealthy und great
Roll in splendor and state,
I envy them not, I declare it;
I eat my own lamb, My chickens and ham,
I shear my own fleece and I wear it
I have lawns, I have bowers,
I have fruits I have…
The Queer Little House
ReflectionsThe Queer Little House
1921
The Bird With The Broken Pinion
Friendship and SolitudeThe Bird With the Broken Pinion
610
I walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing
And found on a bed of mosses,
A bird with a broken wing
I healed its wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain;
But the…
Five O’Clock In The Morning
Inner Peace and TimelessnessFive O'clock in the Morning
904
The dew lay gilstening on the grass,
A mist was o'er the brook
At the earitest gleam leam of the golden sun
The swallow her nest forBook:
The snowy blooms of the hawthorn tres
Lay thickly the ground adorning…
The Village Oracle
Historical Events and FiguresThe 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,…
Thanksgiving Always
Childhood and InnocenceThanksgiving Always
4893
When barn and byre are safe,
When flocks are in the fold,
When far and near the burdened fields
Have bowed 'neath harvest's gold:
When clusters rich have dropped
From many a blushing vine,
And genial orchards,…