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Horatio Alger Jr's Poetry, by title

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  • A Soldier's Valentine
    Just from the sentry's tramp
    (I must take it again at ten),
    40 lines, 3 comments
  • Apple Blossoms
    I sit in the shadow of apple-boughs,
    In the fragrant orchard close,
    24 lines
  • Barbara's Courtship
    'Tis just three months and eke a day,
    Since in the meadows, raking hay,
    71 lines, 1 comment
  • Bi-Centennial Ode
    From the door of the homestead the mother looks forth,
    With a glance half of hope, half of fear,
    40 lines
  • Carving A Name
    I wrote my name upon the sand,
    And trusted it would stand for aye;
    20 lines, 3 comments
  • For The Consecration Of A Cemetary
    This verdant field that smiles to Heaven
    In Nature's bright array,
    24 lines
  • Friar Anselmo
    Friar Anselmo (God's grace may he win!)
    Committed one sad day a deadly sin;
    40 lines
  • Gone To The War
    My Charlie has gone to the war,
    My Charlie so brave and tall;
    42 lines
  • Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving
    Underneath protected branches, from the highway just aloof;
    Stands the house of Grand'ther Baldwin, with its gently sloping roof.
    72 lines
  • Harvard Ode I
    Fair Harvard, dear guide of our youth's golden days;
    At thy name all our hearts own a thrill,
    24 lines
  • Harvard Ode II
    As we meet in thy name, Alma Mater, to-night,
    All our hearts and our hopes are as one,
    24 lines
  • Harvard Ode III
    Fair Harvard, the months have accomplished their round
    And a year stands full-orbed and complete,
    24 lines
  • Harvard Ode IV
    There's a fountain of Fable whose magical power
    Time's ravages all could repair,
    24 lines
  • John Maynard
    'Twas on Lake Erie's broad expanse
    One bright midsummer day,
    96 lines
  • June
    Throw open wide your golden gates,
    O poet-landed month of June,
    12 lines
  • King Cotton
    KING COTTON looks from his window
    Towards the westering sun,
    44 lines
  • Last Words
    "DEAR Charlie," breathed a soldier,
    "O comrade true and tried,
    88 lines, 2 comments
  • Little Charlie
    A violet grew by the river-side,
    And gladdened all hearts with its bloom;
    40 lines
  • Mrs. Browning's Grave At Florence
    FLORENCE wears an added grace,
    All her earlier honors crowning;
    24 lines
  • Out Of Egypt
    To Egypt's king, who ruled beside
    The reedy river's flow,
    60 lines
  • Phoebe's Wooing
    "Phoebe! Phoebe! Where is the chit?
    When I want her most she's out of the way.
    80 lines
  • Rose In The Garden
    Thirty years have come and gone,
    Melting away like Southern Snows,
    84 lines
  • Song Of The Croaker
    An old frog lived in a dismal swamp,
    In a dismal kind of way;
    40 lines
  • St. Nicholas
    In the far-off Polar seas,
    Far beyond the Hebrides,
    79 lines
  • Summer Hours
    It is the year's high noon,
    The earth sweet incense yields,
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • The Castle
    I have a beautiful castle,
    With towers and battlements fair;
    56 lines
  • The Church At Stratford-On-Avon
    One autumn day, when hedges yet were green,
    And thick-branched trees diffused a leafy gloom,
    24 lines
  • The Confession
    I am glad that you have come,
    Arthur, from the dusty town;
    60 lines
  • The Lost Heart
    One golden summer day,
    Along the forest-way,
    63 lines
  • The Price Of Victory
    "A VICTORY! --a victory!"
    Is flashed across the wires;
    48 lines
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