DO GOOD 5694 Do good, do good, there’s ever a way, A way where there’s ever a will; Don’t wait till to-morrow, but do it to-day And to-day, when the morrow comes, still If you’ve money, you’re armed, And can find work enough In every street, alley, and lane; If you’ve bread, cast it off, […]
Little Thomas Greed 1604 “y’ll never take a rebate: no!” Seid little Thomas Greed The courts are getting funny, se It must be wrong, indeed “Now, there la Jerry Octopus, He thinks a rebate great- He always makes an awful fuss If he must pay for freight “The prosecutor’s after him; The sheriff has a […]
A Fishe’s Hornpipe Wallace Irwin 343 As I was wandering alone Along the wave-washed dunes, I heard eleven fiddler crabs A-playing pleasant tunes All in a row with each his bow, As merry as could be, A fish’s hornpipe they composed Beside the sounding sea And as they squeaked and twanged and tweaked The waves […]
A Ploture No Artist Car Paint 2614 A quint New England homestead Where an aged couple dwelt Their houds bowed down in sorrow For the one they loved so well She wandered from her happy home, To go, no one knew where; ‘Twas in a fitof anger She left the old folks there Her brother’s […]
On the Shores of Tennessee 961 “Move my arm chair, faithful Pompey, In the sunshine bright and strong For this this world world is failing, Pompey- For Massa won’t be with you lonx: And I fain would hear the south wind Bring once more the sound to me Of the wavelets softly breaking On the […]
The Point of View 5289 The Earthworm said: “What stuple folks! They really give me pains They actually don’t know onsigh To come out when it raina!” -Margaret Ashmun
Little Drops 5506 Little drops of waste ment, Boracic acid tanned, Make the potted chicken Or other stuff that’s canned -American Spectator
GRANDMOTHER’S CHAIR 4868 Soft and comfy and deep and wide With rockers made for the dreamland ride: Always ready when she comes in With her ball of yarn and her knitting pin; Cozy and sweet for a little form Where the firelight glows with & welcome warm; The hands of loving have placed it there, […]
THE 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 is shaking the tree; It walks on the water and whirls the mills, And talks to itself […]
HYMEN 38411 Winds kiss and twine Leaves of the vine; Birds meet their mates in the blue Heart of the rose Honey-bee knows, Heart of my heart knows you! Rising tides reach Arms to the beach; Star mates with star in the blue Dawn wols the noon, Sun weds the moon, iove of my life […]
The 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 weirdest and saddest and sweetest- It always made heaven seem […]
Conscience 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 ? “I was that Lazarus, of men the least, Who once you […]
Lovers’ Lane 2014 A field of lily bordered wheat; Through vores of bridal birch it turns And money odlews, denp in ferns; Then ny a hill and down a glen, From Nowhere out and back again: And many feat have worn it plain- That errant way of Lovers’ Lane There, unafrald, the wood-fotk play: There […]
A 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 matrimony
TAHITI 3083 Over the rim of the world, Sunk in the dawn of day, There lie for you and me The Isles of Far Away Haste we back to find them? It needs but you to say! Make sail and lay our course For the Isles of Far Away! Lagoon and shore and bending palm- […]
THE LAST WORD 3904 You who once loved me, let me not un- heard Go from you to the night Only for old love’s sake I claim the word That is the dying’s right Well have you done to turn your eyes from mine My sin hath locked your door I touch and taste of […]
Kipling’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, That, in our time, thy grace may give The truth whoreby the […]
Good-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 on the air, But the rose from your cheek is fading Hark, […]
A COWBOY’S OPONION 2765 Sez Shorty Smith: “It seems some strange That Cupid rides Affection’s range, Expectin’ sure to make a hit Armed with a Injun buck outfit Fer by the way the cards are lald, An’ altmouy now is played, I wouldn’t think the god could beat her- Unless he packed a Colt’s repeater