WE AND THE OTHERS Puck 3353 I pity that poor Mrs Jones; She works herself to skin and bones! Of course, in my case, I prefer To be my own help, as it were Old Mrs Johnson talks so loud Whenever she is in a crowd! To make my conversation heard I have to shrlek […]
A Young Champion 2555 Coudn’t read There was a young attorney, whose name was Gustave Reimer, Who was-champion coupler and a lightning fadder climber He stirred the emulation of the boys to such a pitch, They swore they’d win the tourna- ment, or die in the list ditch Tow, row, row! Waen’t he a dandy? […]
NIGHT 5703 WITHIN the shelter of thy calm, Night, I loose the tinselled vestures of the day, With eager hands unbind and fling away The cap and bells that made the crowd’s delight, The shallow mask that screened me from their sight Deep In thy healing silences I lay My bruised and fettered soul, that […]
Great-Grandma’s Wedding By Catherine Jewett 1021 SWEET Great-grandma looks a saint, With her white hair, and her quaint ‘ Broidered kerchief folded down Primly o’er her satin gown, As she tells in accents low, Wonder tales of long ago, When all the men had manners fine, When Knighthood’s flower was in its prime; When maidens […]
Which Road? 2015 If you could go back to the forks of the road Back the long miles you have carried the load; Back to the place where you had to de- cide By this way or that through your life to abide; Back of the grieving and back of the care, Back to the […]
Comrades 902 We from childhood played together, My dear comrade Jack and 1: We would Acht each other’s battles, To each other’s aid we’d fly; And in bowl’s scrapes and troubles You would find us ev’rywhere; Where are went the other followed Naught could part us, for we were: Chorus- Comrades, comrades, ever since we […]
The Day Is Past and Gone By Orange Scott 643 The day is past and gone Theening shades appear: peari Oh, may we all remember well The night of death draws near We iny our garments by Upon our beds to rest: “64-3 So death will soon disrobe us all Of what we here possessed […]
CHOLLIE 4424 He was a youth of high degree, His collar monstrous tall, He lithped a pretty little lithp And danced at every ball; He ogled every girl he saw, His nerve was mostly gall; He had a bad cold in his head, And that was all
DIFFICULTIES James J Montague 2625 I know a fellow who has built a ship to sail the air, In which he hopes to fiit about like swallows, here and there, And look with cold contempt upon us crawling things below; The only trouble with it is, it can’t be made to go I know a […]
WISDOM 3447 Like doves our strong-winged hopes o out To speed their night through unknown прасе, Like tired doves they curve about And find no sate abiding place, Till Wisdom’s window open swings In some sweet Ark of lowly things Our science weighs the suns and nils The patient earth with wordy strife, But Wisdom […]
John August Stetson 6001 John August Stetson was a man of at fairs, in the place he chose to realde, He’d been justice of the peace, and all the police, And many things else, on the side The people need laws, so John August declared, Suca laws as I now have in mind To regulate […]
Cork 3992 The following was written at the time of Grant’s tour of the world, 1879, Doublin gave him the free- dom of the city: Cork voted not to receive him Lament, ye muses! that Cork refuses To kindly welcome our President, Whom foreign nations, with acclamations Have dined and wined to his heart’s content […]
Babies 1761 Babies short and babies tall, Bables big and babies small Blue-eyed bables, bables haiir, Brown-eyed babies, with lots of hair Babies so tiny tiny they the can’t sit up; Babies that drink from a silver cup: Bables that coo and hables that creep; Bables that only can eat and sleep; Bables that laugh […]
Locating Uncle Joe 5051 Our Uncle Joe a rover was; he loved to sail the sea The far-off corners of the globe he sought with fervid glee And so, to keep our minds at rest and calm our anxious fears, He sent us postal cards -the kind they use for souvenirs He sent us cards […]
Kids 1221 I wonder why some Pas have none, And others have no many It seems the poor Pas have the most, And rich ones haven’t any The richest man I know in town Has just one small boy only: But pa says: Grel he pities him In that big house to lonely It reams […]
Asleep in Jesus 4742 Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep From which none ever wakes to werp: A calm and undisturbed repose Unbroken by the inst of focs Asleep in Jesus Oh, how sweet To be for such a slumber meet! With holy confidence to sing That death has lost its venomed sting Asleep in Jesus! […]
A Failure W, Broaway 1752 He failed? Perhaps but now he is at rest, Cold, tired hands upon a quiet breast Think only of him what is best He failed? But you have laid him ‘neath the sod; The rest concerns himself and God It is not yours to judge How can you know How […]
Everyday Blindness 1607 We seek for beauty on the height afar; But on the earth it glimmers all the while: ‘Tis in the garden where the roses aro; “” Tis in the glory of a mother’s smile, We seek for wisdom in each solemn look But aye, beyond the musty page it lies; “Tis in […]
The Friends By Charles Hanson Towne 954 By Charles Hanson Towne in Tom Watson & Magazine Share not thy joy with me, O friend the best; Thou may’st forget me then-I shall not care: But shut me from thy grief the bitterest, And mine own grief would be too great to bear
LOVING WORDS 5539 Can’st thou, by any scrutiny of thine Tell what’s beneath the surface of a face? Or know, by any demonstrated line The points where joy and trouble interlace? Dost then define a smile as all is well– And frown determine that some an- guish be? Ah, me! if it was so that […]