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The Object
THE OBJECT 4634 It’s money in the country and it’s money in the town, It’s money for the artist and It’s money for the clown; They serve for love of country, so our statesmen glibly claim, But they never spurn the money there is in it, just the same It’s money, money, money, for the […]
Vassar Faith
Vassar Faith 5441 With my faith in the destiny of woman’s higher education thus rudely shattered, I rested for a moment near an open window of Main, from which floated the clear tones of a musical Freshman, who seemed to be practicing the class hymn: “Oh, Martha’s back from Vassar,” Said Farmer James McCassar: “O […]
Freedom And Love
FREEDOM AND LOVE 33611 How delicions is the winning Of a kles at love’s beginning When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there’s no untying! Yet remember, midst your wooing, Love has bliss, but love has ruing: Other smiles may make you fickle Tears for other charms may trickle, Love he comes, and […]
She’s In Society
SHE’S IN SOCIETY 5549 Her mother named her “A-l-i-c-e,” But she’s changed that now, I see In print it spells “A-l-y-s” She’s learned to flirt and to finesse It takes her teasing brother Hal To bring her down He calls her “Al” -W H C
America
America 1277 How dark was the day When our fathers came o’er The fathomless depths of the seal When they hasted away From yon bigoted shore To the glorious “Land of the Free” Far, far from the land Which had given them birth Hesperides found them a home On a rock bound strand, In the […]
December
December 2241 December’s plercing winds go whistling by: And leafless trees are tossing to and fro The gloomy clouds do cover much the sky, And all around is seen the ice and snow Lo! down the hill the coaster’s seen to glide, And boys and girls this winter sport do share: Upon the ice do […]
Playing Doss
Playing Doss 4002 De bumble bee in tollin’ Like he’s supposed to do: De garter snakes’ uncoilla Foh to chase a bug or two: Do clouds is hurryin’ on deir track Dey’s not de sky to oro An’ I’s Jes Iayin’ on my back Out yere an playin’ bess De robin sings to cheer me […]
Good News From Home
Good News From Home 2249 Good news from home, good news for me Has come across the deep blue sea From friends that I have left in tears From friends that I’ve not Bect for years; And since we parted long ago, My life has been a scene of woe But now a joyful hour […]
A Voice In The Night
A Voice in The Night 1281 The day had been so fraught with troublous care, My soul had been so cankered by the sting Of malice’s sharp tooth, that suffering And wounded sore, even the sunset fair Seemed to my troubled eyes but as the glare Of skies of burnished brass, and questioning ‘The love […]
God
God Runuin of Derghaven 2021 O thou Eternal One! whose presence bright 0 the All space doth occupy all motions guide: Unchanged through time’s all devastating flight Thou only God! There is no God beside: Being above all beings! Mighty One! Whom none can comprehend, and none explore: Who fill’s All’st existence with Thyself alone, […]
A Book Of Verse
A Book of Verse 3946 Meredith Nicholson has written number of poems, and his publishers have launched them upon a waiting world with n title that should send the author’s name thundering down the aisles of the tem ple given to the specially de voted to poetry The book bears the sim ple and yet […]
In The Desert
In The Desert 2343 A narrow strip of dreary, sun-baked sand; sand; Brown shadows, purpling dimly toward the edge; A ribbon-width of tawny, sultry sky, That presses inward like a circling band; Even the sun sinks dully o’er the ledge, And Night slips from his hiding-place near-by Within my tent I draw my curtain close […]
Storm Bound In The North
Storm Bound in the North Aldis Dunbar 1911 If I could choose a book and slip inside of it and be! In one I love there winds a path, beside an olive-trec, Beneath, in fair green shadow, starring all the mossy glen, Spring hyacinth, and violet, and flower o’ cyclamen; So I would linger near […]
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
Battle Hymn of the Republic By Julia Ward Howe 897 BY JULIA WARD HOW Julls Ward Howe born into la best known to the American pubile by her splendid ” Bustie This was published in A Later Lyrien became famous Hymn volume antities appearing in IN, and it at once was migrated by the well […]
If
IF 2235 If c-a-t spelt dog and cow And horse and mouse and heaven, If two plus two made six and nine And twelve and eighty-seven, If “see the man” was all there was To learn Inside my reader, No boy would be as bright as I, In school I’d be the leader If school […]
Battling For The Lord
Battling for the Lord 1163 We’ve listed in a holy war, battling for the Lords Eternal life, eternal joy, battling for the Lord, Chorus We’ll work till Jesus comes, We’ll work till Jesus comes, And then we’ll rest at home I’nder our captain, Jesus Christ, battling for the Lord We’ve ‘listed for this mortal life, […]
At An Open-Air Bakery
At an Open-Air Bakery 2971 “My little man of grimy fist, How busy you appear; Your wondering eyes of amethyst Widen with sudden fear approach, all Your bakeshop in the open air “Now shake hands, Master Oh-so-Shy, And speak up how you sell These earthen tarts I want to buy A penny each? ’tis well […]
The Grave Of Bonaparte
The Grave of Bonaparte 2667 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 armor and be marching along […]
The Horse Of Too Much Trouble
The Horse of Too Much Trouble 4571 In the house of too much trouble Lived & lonely little boy: He was eager for a playmate, He was hungry for a toy But ’twas always too much trouble, Too much dirt and too much noise, For the house of too much trouble Wasn’t meant for little […]