DA FAITH OF AUNTA ROSA 5609 You know my Aunta Rosa? No? I weesha dat you could: She w’at you call “da leevin’ saint,” Baycause she ees so good She got so greata, stronga faith, She don’ta nevva care For doin’ anytheeng at all But justa say her prayer She justa pray, an’ pray, an’ […]
Life 2934 A little tolling A little pain, n day by day: little strife, A little Joy-and thay is life A little sort-lived summer’s morn, When joy seems all so newly born, When one day’s sky is blue above When one bird sings-and that is love A little stekening of the years The tribute of […]
Ne Negative Person 2083 If you can not by chance, Give a long song and dance On Plato or Wagner or Shelley, Or if you can’t think In glid Maeterlinck Or fluently talk Botticelli: If each time you bark A Rubens remark At a long-hair-and-high-forehead dinner You’re sat on by those Of the positive pose, […]
The Nameless Age 5701 With a chainless bike, and a horseless car, And a ship that sails in air; With a prayerless church-in a Godless age- Excepting “science” prayer With a tuneless song, and an artless art, Of “poster” girls galore, Who never were seen “in heaven above Or the earth below” before With a […]
THRENODY Richard Henry Stoddard 4353 Early or late, come when it will, At midnight or at noon, Promise of good, or threat of ill, Death always comes too soon To the child who is too young to know, (Pray heaven he never may!) This life of ours is more than play- A debt contracted long […]
BUSINESS PROSPECTS FOR MR HEARST 4897 If Willie Hearst were President (by some mischance infernal), The whole United States would be an annex to his Journal The Daily Jolt would scream with him in scarehead type untidy, He’d make a war on Saturday (and print the news on Friday His social deeds would be described […]
MAY BE SCORCHING YET 3832 He scorched upon the highway, He scorched upon the street; He scorched away from rivals, He scorched his friends to meet; He scorched in pleasant weather, He scorched when it was hot: He scorched when races asked it, He scorched when they did not, At last, his neck he broke […]
Maggie’s By My Side 2179 The land of my home is litting Flitting from my view: A gale in the sall is sitting: Tolls the merry crew Here let my home be On the water’s side: I roam with a proud heart- Maggie’s by my side Refrain- My own love Maggie dear Sitting by my […]
The Dearest Spot on Earth to Me 5002 The dearest spot on earth to me, In home, sweet home, The fairyland I’ve longed to see, la home, sweet home There how charmed the sense of hearing There where hearts are so endearing, Anthomer id tet note cheering As sweet home I’ve taught my heart the […]
OPTIMISM 4644 The world is better than it was Better today than yesterday- And each tomorrow still outdoes The day before it every way The savage could not read or write, And naked slept upon the ground; He only knew to feed and fight, By lust and murder lowly bound Barbaric pride was coarsely crude- […]
Trifles 2239 You little thought the word you lightly spoke Would sear the heart of one you called your friend, And through long days cause him to writhe and bend In voiceless agony beneath its yoke You did not know that half-contemptuous smile Would wend a tottering faith far down the height, And hide from […]
San Francisco’s Promise 402 Thy Past rolled up in smoke and cloud And darkness of catastrophe: Thy Future rises, strong and proud, Through ashes of thine agony; Still foams the brine upon thy breast Where great ships gather to their rest, Whose argosies from out the West Still hail thee Mistress of their Sea! -Maynard […]
Dreams 1768 If the iceman should come to me some day, While weighing out a plece at my back door, And, dropping it upon the porch, should say: “It was so cold last year and year before, The crop is long and we have cut the price”- If he should just say that and lay […]
Van Tosk Is Yomping 3203 Van fesk is yompin oop und down In splashing and I tell you And and the water, Ole scratch heen don’t do things crown he other Thanks to how foredads and old Norway Got mighty muscle rowing, A nd Ole don’t forget, by Yorge, For pushing villages growing Ay gat […]
Parental Song 1806 Go set the bells a-ringing Yes and fire off the guns: Blow your trumpets inside out And bang the biggest drums: If any one should ask you The cause of all this Joy You can tell them I’m the father Of a bouncing baby boy Chorus- ‘Tis nice to be a father, […]
A Hard- Lcuk Story 5751 TOLD ’em that a great big boy was never meant to stay A-hangin’ ’round a baby cart in Franklin Park all day; I told ’em that I had to watch the fellers playin’ ball, An’ now I’ll bet they wisht that I had done it, after all, For ma’s been […]
Return 2815 We can’t return when all is ended here To right the wrongs we do, to mend mistakes; We can’t return to dry a single tear Or sooth one heart that for our folly aches
TIME WAS 2976 Time was when there were spelling bees In which we did compete, From up the town or down the town, This side or ‘cross the street; But now they’re sadly out of date, In fact quite obsolete For rose a man of fertile brain, (And Roosevelt was his name) Who launched phonetic […]
Break, Break, Break ALFRED TENNYSON 3783 Break break, break, NYSON On the cold, gray stones O sen! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me Oh well for the fisherman’s boy That he shouts with his sister at play! Oh, well for the sailor lad That he sings in […]