Book: Songs and Other Verse

• The Singing In God's Acre

  Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies,
  Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies.

  34 lines
• The Dream-Ship

  When the world is fast asleep,
      Along the midnight skies—

  53 lines
• To Cinna

  Cinna, the great Venusian told
    In songs that will not die

  34 lines
• Mysterious doings

  As once I rambled in the woods
  I chanced to spy amid the brake

  24 lines
• Ballad Of Women I Love

  Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate
    Hid away in an oaken chest,

  34 lines
• The Peter-Bird

  Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,
  And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes it over;

  168 lines
• Suppose

  Suppose, my dear, that you were I
  And by your side your sweetheart sate;

  18 lines
• A Paraphrase

  Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name;
  Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, in Heaven the same;

  7 lines, 1 comment
• With Two Spoons For Two Spoons

  How trifling shall these gifts appear
    Among the splendid many

  23 lines, 1 comment
• The Bow-Leg Boy

  Who should come up the road one day
  But the doctor-man in his two-wheel shay!

  46 lines
• Mary Smith

  Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith,
  There used to live a pretty girl whose name was Mary Smith;

  70 lines
• Hugo's "Pool In The Forest"

  How calm, how beauteous and how cool—
    How like a sister to the skies,

  22 lines
• Jessie

  When I remark her golden hair
  Swoon on her glorious shoulders,

  32 lines
• Dr. Sam

  TO MISS GRACE KING
  Down in the old French quarter,

  62 lines
• To Emma Abbott

  There—let thy hands be folded
      Awhile in sleep's repose;

  26 lines
• A Drinking Song

  Come, brothers, share the fellowship
    We celebrate to-night;

  37 lines
• The Great Journalist In Spain

  Good editor Dana—God bless him, we say—
    Will soon be afloat on the main,

  41 lines
• The Discreet Collector

  Down south there is a curio-shop
    Unknown to many men;

  43 lines
• Love Song--Heine

  Many a beauteous flower doth spring
    From the tears that flood my eyes,

  8 lines
• The Three Tailors

  I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time,
  Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim,

  47 lines
• A Rhine-Land Drinking Song

  If our own life is the life of a flower
      (And that's what some sages are thinking),

  25 lines
• A Piteous Plaint

  I cannot eat my porridge,
    I weary of my play;

  52 lines
• Der Mann Im Keller

  How cool and fair this cellar where
      My throne a dusky cask is;

  31 lines
• The Two Little Skeezucks

  There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle
    Of Boo in a southern sea;

  78 lines
• Two Idylls From Bion The Smyrnean

  Once a fowler, young and artless,
    To the quiet greenwood came;

  69 lines
• Lyman, Frederick, And Jim

  Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day,
    Set out in a great big ship—

  50 lines
• Alaskan Balladry, No.1

  The Northland reared his hoary head
    And spied the Southland leagues away—

  48 lines
• Abu Midjan

  When Father Time swings round his scythe,
    Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine,

  23 lines
• Hymn

  (FROM THE GERMAN OF MARTIN LUTHER)
  O heart of mine! lift up thine eyes

  17 lines
• The Limitations Of Youth

  I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss
    Way out into the big an' boundless west;

  34 lines
• Star of the east

  Star of the East, that long ago
  Brought wise men on their way

  18 lines
• The Straw Parlor

  Way up at the top of a big stack of straw
  Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw!

  61 lines
• Twin Idols

  There are two phrases, you must know,
    So potent (yet so small)

  43 lines
• A Valentine

  Your gran'ma, in her youth, was quite
    As blithe a little maid as you.

  34 lines, 1 comment
• Two Valentines

  I.—TO MISTRESS BARBARA
  There were three cavaliers, all handsome and true,

  51 lines
• The Stoddards

  When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night,
  To visit with my honest, genial friends, the Stoddards hight;

  75 lines
• Mother And Sphinx

  (EGYPTIAN FOLK-SONG)
  Grim is the face that looks into the night

  44 lines
• The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway

  A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;
  A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;

  20 lines
• A Spring Poem From Bion

  One asketh:
  "Tell me, Myrson, tell me true:

  33 lines
• Beranger's "To My Old Coat"

  Still serve me in my age, I pray,
    As in my youth, O faithful one;

  43 lines
• Ben Apfelgarten

  There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called,
    Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago,

  50 lines
• The Wind

  (THE TALE)
  Cometh the Wind from the garden, fragrant and full of sweet singing—

  55 lines
• A Heine Love Song

  The image of the moon at night
    All trembling in the ocean lies,

  8 lines
• With Brutus In St. Jo

  Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West
  The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the best;

  88 lines
• Uhland's "Chapel"

  Yonder stands the hillside chapel
    Mid the evergreens and rocks,

  13 lines
• Pan liveth

  They told me once that Pan was dead,
  And so, in sooth, I thought him;

  48 lines
• The Dreams

  Two dreams came down to earth one night
    From the realm of mist and dew;

  68 lines
• Winfreda

  (A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE)
  When to the dreary greenwood gloam

  50 lines
• In New Orleans

  'Twas in the Crescent City not long ago befell
  The tear-compelling incident I now propose to tell;

  42 lines
• Be My Sweetheart

  Sweetheart, be my sweetheart
    When birds are on the wing,

  26 lines
• My playmates

  The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool--
  Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool;

  30 lines
• Sister's cake

  I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,
  Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;

  54 lines
• Stoves and sunshine

  Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea--
  The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough for me!

  42 lines
• Ed

  Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion,
  You cudn't stop him any more'n a dam 'ud stop the ocean;

  18 lines

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