Book: A Little Book of Western Verse

• With Trumpet And Drum

  With big tin trumpet and little red drum,
  Marching like soldiers, the children come!

  23 lines, 1 comment
• Little Boy Blue

  The little toy dog is covered with dust,
    But sturdy and stanch he stands;

  25 lines, 5 comments
• Little Croodlin Doo

  Ho, pretty bee, did you see my croodlin doo?
    Ho, little lamb, is she jinkin' on the lea?

  16 lines
• Madge: Ye Hoyden

  At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft,
  Ffor that a romping wench was shee--

  127 lines
• Uhland's

  There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine,
  And gayly they called to the hostess for wine.

  20 lines, 1 comment
• Old English Lullaby

  Hush, bonnie, dinna greit;
  Moder will rocke her sweete,--

  28 lines
• In Flanders

  Through sleet and fogs to the saline bogs
    Where the herring fish meanders,

  54 lines
• The Lyttel Boy

  Sometime there ben a lyttel boy
  That wolde not renne and play,

  32 lines
• Yvytot

  _Where wail the waters in their flaw
  A spectre wanders to and fro,

  120 lines
• The Truth About Horace

  It is very aggravating
    To hear the solemn prating

  34 lines
• Child And Mother

  O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand,
    And go where I ask you to wander,

  25 lines
• The Death Of Robin Hood

  "Give me my bow," said Robin Hood,
    "An arrow give to me;

  48 lines
• Apple-Pie And Cheese

  Full many a sinful notion
    Conceived of foreign powers

  89 lines
• "Lollyby, Lolly, Lollyby"

  Last night, whiles that the curfew bell ben ringing,
  I heard a moder to her dearie singing

  27 lines, 1 comment
• Chrystmasse Of Olde

  God rest you, Chrysten gentil men,
    Wherever you may be,—

  27 lines
• Horace And Lydia Reconciled

  HORACE
  When you were mine in auld lang syne,

  46 lines
• Japanese Lullaby

  Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,—
    Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;

  23 lines
• Our Two Opinions

  Us two wuz boys when we fell out,--
  Nigh to the age uv my youngest now;

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• Hugo's "Flower To Butterfly"

  Sweet, bide with me and let my love
    Be an enduring tether;

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• Orkney Lullaby

  A moonbeam floateth from the skies,
  Whispering, \

  27 lines
• Mediaeval Eventide Song

  Come hither, lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night,
  For yonder fares an angell yclad in raimaunt white,

  23 lines
• Little Mack

  This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh,
  We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O gosh!

  54 lines
• Thirty-Nine

  O hapless day! O wretched day!
    I hoped you'd pass me by—

  61 lines
• To Robin Goodfellow

  I see you, Maister Bawsy-brown,
  Through yonder lattice creepin';

  32 lines
• Christmas Treasures

  I count my treasures o'er with care.—
    The little toy my darling knew,

  48 lines
• Alaskan Balladry

  Krinken was a little child,—
  It was summer when he smiled.

  59 lines
• The Twenty-Third Psalm

  My Shepherd is the Lord my God,--
  There is no want I know;

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• Beranger's "Broken Fiddle"

  There, there, poor dog, my faithful friend,
    Pay you no heed unto my sorrow:

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• Hi-Spy

  Strange that the city thoroughfare,
    Noisy and bustling all the day,

  18 lines
• The Little Peach

  A little peach in the orchard grew,--
  A little peach of emerald hue;

  25 lines
• To A Soubrette

  'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met;
    And yet—ah, yet, how swift and tender

  52 lines
• The Divine Lullaby

  I hear Thy voice, dear Lord;
  I hear it by the stormy sea

  24 lines
• Horace To Phyllis

  Come, Phyllis, I've a cask of wine
    That fairly reeks with precious juices,

  43 lines
• In The Firelight

  The fire upon the hearth is low,
  And there is stillness everywhere,

  24 lines
• The "Happy Isles" of Horace

  Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles
    In the golden haze off yonder,

  33 lines
• Heine's "Widow Or Daughter?"

  Shall I woo the one or other?
    Both attract me—more's the pity!

  13 lines
• A Proper Trewe Idyll Of Camelot

  Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye
  Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a merrie May,

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• De Amicitiis

  Though care and strife
  Elsewhere be rife,

  78 lines
• The Conversazzhony

  What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know,
  For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago;

  120 lines
• Our Lady of the Mine

  The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv,
  And there befell the episode I now perpose to tell uv;

  71 lines
• Marthy's Younkit

  The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way
  Ez if it waited for a child to jine it in its play;

  75 lines
• Lullaby; By The Sea

  Fair is the castle up on the hill—
        Hushaby, sweet my own!

  33 lines
• Our biggest fish

  When in the halcyon days of old, I was a little tyke,
  I used to fish in pickerel ponds for minnows and the like;

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• Soldier, Maiden, and Flower

  \

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• Mother And Child

  One night a tiny dewdrop fell
    Into the bosom of a rose,—

  13 lines
• Ailsie, My Bairn

  Lie in my arms, Ailsie, my bairn,--
  Lie in my arms and dinna greit;

  32 lines
• Horace III. 13

  O fountain of Bandusia,
    Whence crystal waters flow,

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• Cornish Lullaby

  Out on the mountain over the town,
  All night long, all night long,

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• Horace To Melpomene

  Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,—
    Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing;

  18 lines
• A Chaucerian Paraphrase Of Horace

  Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken,
  Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken;

  11 lines
• Norse lullaby

  The sky is dark and the hills are white
  As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night,

  21 lines
• Beranger's My Last Song Perhaps (January 1814)

  When, to despoil my native France,
  With flaming torch and cruel sword

  40 lines
• Good-Bye--God Bless You!

  I like the Anglo-Saxon speech
  With its direct revealings;

  48 lines
• Mr. Dana, Of The New York Sun

  Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81
  A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.

  99 lines
• At The Door

  I thought myself indeed secure,
    So fast the door, so firm the lock;

  23 lines, 1 comment
• Sicilian Lullaby

  Hush, little one, and fold your hands;
  The sun hath set, the moon is high;

  18 lines
• Prof. vere de blaw

  Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote
  Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note,

  110 lines
• Horace To Pyrrha

  What perfumed, posie-dizened sirrah,
    With smiles for diet,

  16 lines
• Long Ago

  I once knew all the birds that came
    And nested in our orchard trees;

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• Christmas Hymn

  Sing, Christmas bells!
  Say to the earth this is the morn

  42 lines
• Some Time

  Last night, my darling, as you slept,
    I thought I heard you sigh,

  25 lines, 5 comments

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