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Scene.--_A kitchen.--Group of Children, popping corn.--The Fairy Queenof the Seasons discovered in the smoke of the corn-popper.--Waving herwand..

1 Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann;2 An' she can cook best things to eat!3 She ist puts dough in our pie-pan,4 An' pours in somepin' 'at's good..

New Castle, July 4, 1878or a hundred years the pulse of timeHas throbbed for Liberty;For a hundred years the grand old climeColumbia has been..

What delightful hosts are they --   Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,   This late hour, yet glad enoughThey have not withheld from me   Their..

O I will walk with you, my lad, whichever way you fare,You'll have me, too, the side o' you, with heart as light as air;No care for where the road..

I cannot say, and I will not sayThat he is dead- . He is just away!With a cheery smile, and a wave of the handHe has wandered into an unknown..

I woo'd a woman once,But she was sharper than an eastern wind.Tennyson"What may I do to make you glad,To make you glad and free,Till your light..

Because her eyes were far too deepAnd holy for a laugh to leapAcross the brink where sorrow triedTo drown within the amber tide;Because the looks..

1 Granny's come to our house,2 And ho! my lawzy-daisy!3 All the childern round the place4 Is ist a-runnin' crazy!5 Fetched a cake fer little Jake,6..

I have sipped, with drooping lashes,Dreamy draughts of Verzenay;I have flourished brandy-smashesIn the wildest sort of way;I have joked with 'Tom and..

A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky --A gracious lull--since, from its wakening,The morn has been a feverish, restless thingIn which the pulse of..

Tell you what I like the best --'Long about knee-deep in June,'Bout the time strawberries meltsOn the vine, -- some afternoonLike to jes' git out and..

A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze,With labored respiration, moves the wheatFrom distant reaches, till the golden seasBreak in crisp whispers at my..

To all the little children: -- The happy ones; and sad ones;The sober and the silent ones; the boisterous and glad ones;The good ones -- Yes, the..

A barefoot boy! I mark him at his play --For May is here once more, and so is he, --His dusty trousers, rolled half to the knee,And his bare ankles..

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shockAnd you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey cockAnd the clackin' of the..

There! little girl; don't cry!They have broken your doll, I know;And your tea-set blue,And your play-house, too,Are things of the long ago;But..

Were you a Greek when all the world was young,Before the weary years that pass and pass,Had scattered all the temples on the grass,Before the moss to..

Your beauty lives in mystic melodies,And all the light about you breathes a song.Your voice awakes the dreaming airs that throngWithin our..

Was ever any face like this before —So light a veiling for the soul within,So pure and yet so pitiful for sin?They say the soul will pass the Heavy..

When first I saw you — felt you take my hand,I could not speak for happiness to findHow more than all they said your heart was kind,How strong you..

Carved in the silence by the hand of Pain,And made more perfect by the gift of Peace,Than if Delight had bid your sorrow cease,And brought the dawn..

Your face is set against a fervent sky,Before the thirsty hills that sevenfoldReturn the sun's hot glory, gold on gold,Where Agamemnon and Cassandra..

Oh beauty that is filled so full of tears,Where every passing anguish left its trace,I pray you grant to me this depth of grace:That I may see before..

STEELY stars and moon of brass,How mockingly you watch me pass!You know as well as I how soonI shall be blind to stars and moon,Deaf to the wind in..