Custer’s Last Charge 3845 Who were those so nobly meeting That wild rush of savage reds? Husbands were they lovers, brothers, Sleeping now in gory beds Hark! A wall from Northland, Southland, Mourning for our nobio slain; Custer and his brave three hundres We’ll hot mee on earth again Grown to manhood, and a soldier, […]
From that Far Land Harriet Boyer, Lippincott’s 1914 Last night I heard you call my name From that far land which is so near Oh, did you, dear? I woke and wept with pain and loss It was so sweet to hear your voice It was so sad Spite of the pain- Ah, speak again!
Washing Day 3784 But what he had to dine upon, In faith I shall not say, But I’ll wager he’ll not come again Upon a washing day For it’s thump, thump, etc On the sad morning when I rise I make a fervent prayer Up to the gods that it may he Throughout the day […]
Misrepresentative Women 1482 I should like to remark that Dame Rumor Is the most unalluring of jades; She has little or no sense of humor, And her fables are worse than George Ade’s- (Or rather, I mean, if the reader prefers, That the fables of Ade are much better than hers) Her appearance imbues one […]
Try, Try Again 4549 Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again; If at first you don’t succeed Thy, try again Then your courage shall appear For if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear: Try, try again Once or twice though you should fail, Try, try again If at last you would […]
CONSOLATION 3849 We sigh for days that are no more, We mourn the loss of passions dead; We sing the threnodies of yore, And weep the tear of pleasures fled Yet o’er the pathways of to-day Some lingering roses still may lean, And where our doleful footsteps stray Sweet flowers be springing, all unseen Alert, […]
A Domestic Mistake 2751 Van Winker kept a country store, and his clever Wife Jeannette Tended the children and the house, and saw that both ends met A happy couple! yet one night, when Van had made alors, He went unto his pleasant home-well, just a little crose And, as it happened, on that day, […]
The Suburbanite 5597 Come all ye lads and lasses, Now jocund be and gay; September’s sun is shining And this is Labor Day For all the politicians Have dirty work to do- The labor faker’s busy, Then be you busy too From forge and shop forthcoming They march in endless files; Now watch the politician […]
Untried Ways 1755 Full many a ship puts out to sea, Not knowing what the end may be; And if each tarried the end to know, How many ships to sea would go?
The Country Chil’s Good-Night 153-3 Good-night, dear hills! So still you lie ‘ Against the bosom of the sky, I know you must be fast asleep, And all night long the stars will keep Their tender watches over you, So must I soon be sleeping, too Good-night, dear hills, for now I go To slumber, […]
Triumphulent 2016 There was a boy who thought he knew Much more than grown-up people do But when they asked him how to spell Triumphulent,” he couldn’t tell, And said he’d only got to “hat”” And other easy words like that, But couldn’t spell “triumphulent,” Although he knew just what it meant -Arthur Macy
THANKFUL 5058 Thankful? Ye jest bet yer boots! I hain’t got no complaint ter make: The world has used me square enuft- I hain’t ben scratched by its muck rake Thankful? Wall, now I shed say! We’ve hed good health an all or that; An’ while our latch string’s always out, No foe has trod […]
Barney McCoy 2654 I am going far away Norah darling And leaving such an angel far behind: It will break my heart in two, which I fondly gave to you And no other one so loving, kind, and true Chorur- Then come to my arms, North darling Bid your friends In dear eld Ireland good […]
He Laid Away the Gray 23010 Outaldea Southern cottage, an old woman, bent and gray, A last farewell was bidding to her boy; Her husband wore a suit of gray ‘way back in ’01 Now for the blue she’s giving up her joy; The uniform his father wore for what he thought was right The […]
New Year’s Eve 837 If you’re waking, call me early, call me early mother deur, For I would see the run rise upon the glad now your: It is the last New Year that I shall ever see; Then you may lay me low in the wold and think no more of me Tonight I […]
MIRAGE 4355 An unsubstantial city Within the sunset lies, God builds its battlements of clouds, An architect of skies The towers men could not finish, Their dreams that came not true, Here in the sunset vision Are raised for them anew -Isabella Howe Fiske
MAN AND HOSS 5975 “I’ve observed,” said Deacon Granby, “ınan and hoss are much the same: Let ’em know that you’re the master and they’re likely to be tame: But you give ’em cause for thinkin’ that you’re anyways afraid And you’ll get yourself in trouble just as sure as eggs are laid “There was […]
Fuller and Warren 1274 Te sons of Columbia, your attention I crave While & sorrowful altty I tell Which happened of late in old Initiana state Of a hero whom fow could excel Ilks Ramson, be courted the foy of his life And intended to make her his wife, Fut like Deltinh fair she did […]
The Dead and the Quick 5992 The sky was steel, the wind, a knife I passed by Trinity’s old graves, Close-crowded by the city’s life- And yet, the city saves! The wind did search me through and through, When, looking past the pale, I read The name of one that no man knew- A long, […]
The Auto Blew up at Lodore 3084 You have heard how the water Came down at Lodore (If you haven’t you oughter; It’s old as old Yore) But perhaps you may never Have heard tell before How the auto went up In the town of Lodore It blew into the place At a deuce of […]