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The Wonderful World
Love and RomanceTHE WONDERFUL WORLD
5762
Great, wide, wonderful, beautiful world,
With the beautiful water above you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast---
World, you are beautifully dressed!
The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind…
The Forgotten Chord
Hope and MotivationThe Forgotten Chord
3301
He was only a poor mad musician
Behind an asylum's strong bars:
At night he would sit by his window
And sing to the beautiful stars:
But how he could play in the daytime:
Such music you don't often hear-
The…
Conscience
Love and RomanceConscience
Theodosia Garrison
1665
Oknocking at my heart-and what art thou?
"I was the unforgiven; from your door
You spurned me once and bade me come no more
I am the ever present suppliant now"
O famine at my heart-and what art thou ?…
A Confirmed Spinster
War and ConflictA CONFIRMED SPINSTER
4425
There was a lonely maiden
Who lived in Androscoggin,
She got a half-formed notion
Into her little noggin
And when she had completed it,
And cruel Fate defeated it,
She used up all her patrimony
In waging war 'gainst…
Kipling’s Call To The Children
Love and RomanceKipling's Call to the Children
5496
Father in heaven, who lovest all,
Oh, help thy children when they call,
That they may build from age to age
An undefiled heritage
Teach us to bear the yoke in youth
With steadfastness and careful truth,…
Good-By, Little Girl, Good-By
Military and War StoriesGood-By, Little Girl, Good-By
4803
The sound of the bugle is calling call
Fare thee weil, fare thee wall
The soldiers in line are a-falitak
Fare thee well, fare thee well
There's a rose in your hair, sweet malden,
And its fragrance floats…
Aerial Navigation
Nature and SeasonsAerial Navigation
127-5
All hall the day when all mankind,
In every tribe and nation,
Shall meet the progrees of the age,
By aerial navigation;
When over valleys, hills, and plains
Huge chariots shall ride
In majesty and safety, too,…
Balked
ReflectionsBalked
2759
There weA Aut he got stuck
Upon this "simple life;'
He said that we would try to cut
His ways of wearing strife,
But found alas! it was no use,
For he possessed wife
The Ungained Height
Hope and MotivationThe Ungained Height
Gardner Weeks Wood
101-1
Gardner Weeks Wood in Harpers Monthly
If this be Life to count the languid hours
That drift as dreams from sun to setting sun;
Or, indolent, to watch the shadows run
Across some sturdier dial-stone…
A Child’s First Grief
Love and RomanceA Child's First Grief
5761
O, call my brother back to me!
I can not play alone:
The summer comes with flower and bee---
Where is my brother gone?
The flowers run wild, the flowers we sowed
Around our garden tree;
Our vine is drooping with its…
The Days
ReflectionsThe Days
27510
Got to start another week!
Laws-a-goodness, me!
Days, dey seems to hop along
As hasty as kin be
I likes to min' my manners,
But It ain't no use to try:
I can't say "Howdy, Monday,"
Foh nex Saturday comes byl
It ain't…
A Good Name
Love and RomanceA Good Name
2025
Children choose it,
Don't refuse it
'Tis a precious diadem:
Ne'er despise it
You will need it when you're men
Love and cherish
Love and nourish,
'Tis more precious far than gold;
Watch and guard it
Don't discard it;
You…
The Girl With A Calico Dress
ReflectionsThe Girl with a Calico Dress
5916
A fig for your upper-ten girls
With their velvets and satins and laces
Their diamonds and rubles and pearls
And their milliner figures and faces
They may chine at a party or ball
Embellished with half…
Will Bring Us Gain
Love and RomanceWill Bring Us Gain
1765
Speech for Boy
A mighty man
Is Uncle Dan,
And people love him far and near;
At early light,
Or noon, or night,
He's seeking burdened hearts to cheer
When things go right
is smile is bright,
And just as bright…
Sweet September Days
BeautySWEET SEPTEMBER DAYS
2948
The sweet September days are here,
The days of misty dreaming;
The haze, the cloud, and then the clear
Sweet autumn beauty gleaming
The sweet September days that bring
Such drifts of golden weather,
And round…
The Little Match Girl
Hope and MotivationThe LIttle Match Girl
4904
"Come in little stranger" I said
As she tapped at niy half open door;
With a blanket pinned over her head
Which reached to the basket she bore
A look full of innocence fell
From her modest and pretty blue eye,…
Cherries Are Ripe
ReflectionsCHERRIES ARE RIPE
5765
Under the tree, the farmer said,
Smiling, and shaking his wise old head,
"Cherries are ripe; but then, you know,
There's the grass to cut and the corn to hoe;
We can gather the cherries any day,
But when the sun shines…