WHY MEN SWEAR 3708 With awful efforts Jenkins packed His trunk until it nearly cracked He folded, doubled, jammed and squeezed, And then puffed and grunted too, and wheezed, Then viewed his triumph with a grin, For everything was safely in: But as he struggled from his knees His wife came running with these: A […]
The Lesson Ella Wheeler Wilcox 91 When Thought, accustomed to appalling fact, Grow normal and regains its sway once more, Long buried Truth, within the hearts of men, Shall rise and roll away the Stone of self, And stand revealed in all its majesty, Invincible, commanding and subline H UMBLED and awed to silence, man […]
Till Eulenspiegel CARLES HANSON TOWNE 4211 Eulenspiegel, merry lad, What a laughing life you had! Prank and jest were yours by right Or at noontide or at night, And the simple tricks you played On the spinster and the jade Only helped sad hearts to be Lighter through felicity Let the somber folk and dense […]
When My Ship Comes In 1592 To Lyell I have launched you my craft, and the wind and the tide Are drifting you outward to sea: But the ocean is round and the farther you ride The nearer you’re coming to me It is true I am lonely when dagdawn and dark Drop softly o’er […]
After the Night 55312 There la never a night so dark But that sunshine will follow soon; And when everything dreary seems, With the world as all out of tune, Then life’s storms may be passing by To be followed by brighter days, When we look for the Father’s light To be guiding our earthly […]
A Dramatic Lyric 2972 SOMETIMES happens that the editors of IT a magazine receive contributions that they enjoy tremendously, but for one reason or another they cannot exactly use in the de- partment for which the matter was submit- ted Out in Barton, Oregon, there lives a bright boy of ten who sent a dramatic […]
Land of the Leal 1705 Where are the greenest fields and where The sweetest winds that ever blow, And where has Hope excluded Care Wherever I may be with you Where is the fair and sacred land That holds my loyalty in fee? Where I may lead you by the hand And go the way […]
My Poor Dog Tray 2393 On the green banks of Shannon, when Shelah was nigh No bilthe Irish lad was so happy as I: No harp like my own could so cheerily play And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray When at last I was forced from as Shelah to part She said […]
Voiceless 2342 The poet sinned, and God said” This be his hell” The rivers sang him their lyrics The forests weaved him their spell He followed the Spring and Summer, knowing the winds by name He saw the riddle of Life when the maples were touched to flame The crowded spruces loved him, and taught […]
THE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW 5005 Bards have praised in song and lay men whose office is to siny Men who go untinching where their fooman lurk: But the man behind the plow is a hero, too, I trow He’s the man that keeps them while they do the work Oh the man behind the […]
So As By Fire 2334 There are two equal loves, each passion-strong, And one doth still desire, and one deny Strange war they wage, these twain, their whole life long, For either both must live, or both must die If love-denial prevail and have his will He saves alive his brother, love-desire; If love-desire would […]
REASSURED 3901 In days of good King Theodore strange things did come to pass For puissant senators grow mild, like little boys at class; And at King Theodore’s command would leap head first through rings, Sit up and beg play dead, and do so many other things! In days of good King Theodore all signs […]
Good-By 169-4 Farewell farewell, is often heard From the lips of those who part ‘ Tis a whispered tone and a gentle word But in springs not from the heart Whene’er we grasp the hand of those We’d have forever nigh The flame of friendship bursts and glows In the warm, frank words, “Good-by” Adieu, […]
Salvation -Writter Bynner 14 They woke me Sunday, and I looked Out of my bed to see; And then the way I felt rebuked Suggested this to me: Even the crudest curbstone prayer, That rouses hearts anew, Is nearer to the crystal stair Than many a proper pew, A dusty sleeve that touches death, Soothing […]
DID HE SELL HIS VOTE? 35911 Her father was & candidate, His daughter was my love; Her face was morning light to me, Her eyes the stars above- Her father was a candidate; This much is worthy note- S he came to me, all smiles to state: “Pa needs the floating vote!” “My dear,” I […]
Conclusion 838 I thought to pass away before, and yet allve I am; And in the fields all round I hear the bleating of the lamb How sadly I remember, rose the morning of the year! To die before the snowdrop came, and now the violet’s here It seemed so hard at first, mother, to […]
WHISTLING 4794 In boyhood when you journeyed home And darkness wrapped the world Weird beats and ogres turked about, Each bush an imp would hold The rocks took unfamiliar shapes, The trees were stiff and stark, And then to keep your courage up You whistled in the dark You travel through this vale of tears […]
San Francisco 67 Immersed in golden shadows At the close of a busy day, Thy hills and vales St Francis, In peace and quiet lay Clothed in the folds of slumber, Fair Morpheus reigned supreme Unconscious of death and destruction Thy portion unwritten, unseen Rude the cruel awakening Ye pride and nations boast; Out from […]