No Parsing in Heaven 4034 We are going we are going, To a home beyond the skin Where the helds are robed in beauty, And the sunlight never dies; Where the fount of joy is flowing In the valley green and fair; We shali dwell in love together, There will be no parting there We […]
Darling Chloe 2986 In the old Carolina state, where the sweet magnolia blooms, And the pickaninny darky learns to hoe, There is one I long to see, who was always true to me, But I left her many, many years ago ‘Mid the cotton and the corn, where we both were bred and born, And […]
THE FATTED CALF Edith Macvane 5604 As the Fatted Calf behind the Fath- er’s Axe about to fall, To convert him into Cutlets for the Homing Prodigal, “Why kill one Calf,” he cried, “to fur- nish Welcome for the Other? Pshaw! you lack a Sense of Humor, thus to Brother!” slay me for my -October […]
Song for Music CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE 2882 Why do I sing? For you, for you To you is due All praise that song can bring; My heart breaks into song at thought of you Why do I sigh? For you, for you To you I flew The while my breath did die; I had forgot […]
SI Hubbard 5602 ‘Twas way last spring I think in May, When old Si Hubbard to re did say, “They say that a circus is coming to town; Let us go down and see the clown” So we sold all the hay, oat and corn, In fact we most cleaned out the baru We went […]
McGINNIS AND THE UNION LABEL 4633 Has it got the union label, McGin- nis used to say, Has it got the union label, show it to me if you’re able, If it hasn’t got the label take the bloomin’ thing away McGinnis had no children though he hoped to have some day And his wife […]
Money Mnsk BENJAMIN T TAYLOR 2812 Ah, the buxom girls that helped the boys The nobler Helens of humbler Troys As they stripped the husks with rustling fold From elght rowed corn as vellow as gold By the candle light in pumpkin bowls, And the gleams that showed fantastic holes In the quaint old lantern’s […]
Little Old Long Cabin in the Lane 6005 I am getting old and feeble now, I cannot work no more; I have laid the rusty-bladed hoe to rest; Old massa and old missus, they Are sleeping side by side, And their spirits now are roaming with the blest Things are changed all about the place, […]
I The Last of Winter 2081 Oh, not for us the primrose faint, the south wind’s hush-a-low Down shining aisles of the beech-trees that know us years ago! Here there’s a long, long allence and the dumbly falling snow The prairie polls away, away, the Mils are covered deep The water springs in the coulees […]
SONG 2564 SWEET is the birth of love, and the awaking, The bashful dream, the faltering desire, The vision fair,- of all fair things partaking- The wonder, the communicable fire: Sweet, sweet the need to give and to obtain And sweet love’s pain!
THE MESSAGE OF TEH NIGHT 3601 The moon burns on the brow or yonder hill The hour is late, the night is still; White clover-stars shine everywhere Their breath spills on the moveless oveless alr Perchance you know that one long mournful cry Blown from some bird-throat/ full and high; Is it a note of […]
The May Queen BY ALFRED TENNYSON 836 You must wake and call me early; call me early mother dear: Tomorrow’ll be the happiest time of all the glad new year Of all the glad new year, mother; the maddest merriest day: For I’m to be Queen of the May, mother; I’m to be Queen of […]
THE NEW BATTLE CRY 55313 (A W B, in London Daily Chronicle) Half a leng, half a leag Half a leag onward! Out of Reformers’ paths Strike the Three Hundred! Fired by the zeal tu spel boldly if not tu wel Strike! Bring them down pel-mel, All the Three Hundred Forward the Rifle brigade (Rite’ […]
THE GAME 4791 When a movement you start for re- forming a town And your motives are lofty and no ble and pure, They’ll depict you in stripes; they will call you a clown, There’s no end of insult you’ll have to endure They’ll make you account for each dollar you spend, And lightly dismiss […]
The City Child’s Good-Night 1532 Good-night, dear, noisy, happy street! – The clanging bells and hurried feet, When I am safely tucked in bed And all the day-time thoughts are fled; Are just like music to my ears, And drive away the night-time fears, Good-night, dear street Your lights so bright Shine in my window […]
Thing’s Inside 1601 My papa is a doctor man, An’ that is how he knows Each little thing inside of me, An’ how it runs an’ goes Ho tells me I have whizzin’ wheels Inside my head that spin- I ast him onet t’ tell me how Th’ buzzin’ wheels got in He put his […]
Marching Along 2668 The children are gath’ring from near and far, The trumpet is sounding the call for the war The conflict is raging, ’twill be fearful and long We’ll gird on the armor, and be marching along Chorus- Marching along, we are marching along, Gird on the and be marching along The conflict is […]
In November 505-6 When October’s golden days Darken to November’s haze You can sing a song of praise And a joyful endence raise If your step is spry But if with the nipping breeze You are lame in both your knees As the leaves fall from the trees And the golden sunshine flees, Then you’ll […]
After the Primary Election 3772 So strode he to the battle, Like Joaquin in his pride; His height was five foot three, at least, And he had gall beside He cared not for the foeman, He knew the way to fix The enemy with money- The opponent with tricks Jerusalem the Golden Had poured her […]
The Two Angles By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 648 Two angels, one of Life and one of Death, Passed o’er our village as the morning broke; The dawn was on their faces, and beneath The somber houses hearsed with plumes of smoke Their attitude and aspect were the same Alike their features and their robes of […]