The Watermelon 4548 O see dat water million a smmiin’ fro’ de fence How I wish dat watermillion it was mine, Oh, de white folks must be foolish, dey needs a hoap ob sence, Or dey’d nebber leabe it dar upon de vine Chorus- O, de ham bene am sweet and de bacon am good, […]
THE YELLOWING WOOD 5601 Now with the stealthy touch of Autumn’s frend When all the harvest gold is gathered in, The quiet woods begin To burn as with a magte flame of red, The fail ripe berry glistens in the brake, The acorn drops among the mosses low, The drooping brackens glow- And I am […]
An Imitation Poem 3699 “We’ve Imitation butter And imitation milk: We’ve Imitation cotton And imitation silk We’ve imitation marble And Imitation wood; We’ve imitation coffee Salubriously good We’ve imitation leather For Imitation shoes; We’ve Imitation dye stuffs And imitation booze, And some of us ’tis certain Have Imitation wives In fact, I fear we’re leading […]
The Cause of Equity 5976 And brightens all the world about, With its hope giving ray Soon, soon the day of right shall glow, In splendor through the land; When every farmer lad shall march, In Equity’s fair band The cause of Equity is good: It seeks not is own gain Against the weak one […]
The Ripening’ Paris Hen 3294 I golly, it is funny How I hate t’ work, say bow, When the prerie ben is rip’nin’ In the stubble, an’ somehow I git all mixed up a-dreamin’ Icegins of lollin’ dogs en “snipe,” As old August, hot and yaller, Guards the prerle hen, ‘mos’ ripe Boine go off […]
RUBAIYAT OF SUMMER KHAYYAM 3771 WAKE! For the Summer scatters into flight Your wife before you to some Country site; She’ll take the children with her, and she’ll leave The Parlor Fumiture done up in white The Cook indeed is gone The Waitress goes To-morrow Their Returning no one knows But still there are cafes […]
Two Women 40910 One sanctifed her homely household labor With patient kindness and with tender Love this seal upon her faithful Aervice Sweet peace and joy ilmum’ed her placid face Her presence seemed to those for whom she wrought With blessing and with benediction fraught The other tolled with fretful, work re- pining Bullen of […]
Over the HIlls 1155 Over the bills and far away A little boy steals from his mornfug’s play, And under the blossoming apple tree He lies and he dreams of the things to be; Of battles fought and of victories won Of wrongs o’erthrown and of great deeds done- Of the valor that he shall […]
The Irish Jubilee 4035 Oh, a short time ago, boys, an Irishman named Doherty Was elected to the Senate by a very large ma- jority He felt so elated that he went to Dennis Cassius, Who oswned a barroom of a very large capacity He said to Cassidy, “Go over to the prower For a […]
GOOD BYE 4264 Good-bye, proud world, I’m going home: Thou are not my friend, and I’m not thine Long through thy weary crowds I roam: A river-ark on the ocean brine, Long I’ve been tossed like driven foam, And now proud world I’m going home Good-bye to Flattery’s fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise […]
The Man with the Hoe 1603 Note-Poster Dwight Coburn has declined an appointment as United States senator from Kansas on the ground that he prefers his work as secretary of the state department of agriculture I do not hanker for the great And enormous affairs of state, Nor would I give up farming for The […]
Wednesday 4104 One day at at timet Every heart that aches Knowing only top well how fons they can seent long But it’s never today which the spirit breaks It’s the darkened future, without a giram, -Helen Hunt Jackson
Miss O’Dare, since I left the city I find I have changed my mind; O pray do not deem me fickle Or think me the least un unkind For I find we were both mistaken, And that you would never want me, So my heart has turned to another; Miss O’Dare I hope you w […]
Driftwood, 2409 Driftwood I burn on my fire tonight, Driftwood from vessels lost at sea Love, Falth and Hope missed the beacon light- As wreckage now they come to me Driftwood, so rugged and old and gray Writing in flame heart history Now at the close of life’s long day My vessel’s logs are shown […]
It Happened at Once 505 And then a bolt, a jolt, a chill, And Mother Earth seemed as afraid: Then instant all again was still, Save that my cattle from the shade Where they had sought firm, rooted clay, Came forth loud lowing, glad and gay Knee-deep in grasses to rejoice That all was well, […]
Turkey Time 5494 And dacords feas Tink draweth night die Get one that’s you And stuff t young and sweet and fat, Il of this and that with fruit and be ries sauces make, And add prese ves and ples and cake Ask friends and And make Kindred all to come, thanagiving at your home […]
WHAT RULES THE WORLD? 3996 What rules the world? Is it might” What rules the world? love Is it Is it hunger that drives? Is it wit that thrives? Shall subtlety triumph or right? Hunger drives and gumption thrives, and subtlety’s envy’s glove, But knowledge and truth shall drive out rath, and love, in the […]
Bonny Doon ROBERT BURNS 4225 Ye banks and braes of bonny Doun, How can ye bloom sa fresh and fair? How can ye chaunt ye little birds, Wille I’m no wae and full o’ care? Ye’ll break my heart, ye little birds, That wander through that flow’ring thorn To mind me of departed joya Departed, […]
THE YEARS St Louis Republic 1988 They come, they pass, with snow-soft fool, And deathless youth fiumes their eyes; Alike to them are chaff and wheat, Alike the foolish adn the wise, They bring the wound, they bring the balm, They light our smiles, they dry our tears; Carless of death or life, the calm […]
WHEN HEARTS WERE TRUMPS Ralph M Thomson 4252 Once hearts were trumps, yet that was when Love played an honest game with men; Each trick so deftly won and turned, But emphasized the victory earned When hearts were trumps When hearts were trumps, my love and I Would, somehow, catch each other’s eye; A conscious […]