FIRST LINES OF POETRY. A baby's foot, and a skein of wool Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) About fifty years since, in the days of our daddies Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting. A district school, not far away PAGE. 463 179 385 140 45 After a three day's march he came to an Indian encampment... 477 413 58 Beneath the low-hung night cloud....... And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!)... An old wife sat by her bright fireside,........ An' sure I was tould to come to your Honor.... A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent,.. At midnight, in his guarded tent,..... 165 61 A traveler through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;.............. 163 Beside a massive gateway, built up in. days gone by,...... 238 275 221 Better to smell the violet cool, than sip the glowing wine;. But I remember when the fight was done,.. 483 By our camp fires rose a murmur,...... 08 By the flow of the inland river,..... 40 Cleon hath a million acres,-ne'er a one have I:.. Come see the Dolphin's anchor forged; 't is at a white heat now: 300 514 "Corporal Green!" the orderly cried;. 303 Crimson sunset burning...... 207 Dark is the night. How dark! no light! no fire!.. 171 Did you hear of the Widow Malone,... 109 Dimpled sheeks, mit eyes of blue..... 117 Don't run in debt-never mind, never mind.. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:. Good wife, what are you singing for? You know we've lost the hay,... 435 Half a league, half a league,... 355 Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys?... 263 Have you heard how a girl saved the lightning express, 491 Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,.. He comes not-I have watched the moon go down,.. 334 "He is very peculiar,"... 479 Here's the spot. Look around you. Above, on the height,.... 237 Ho, there! fisherman, hold your hand!... 426 How does the water come down at Lodore?... 235 How sweet the chime of Sabbath bells!.. 330 I came from haunts of coot and hern:... 277 I cannot tell you Genevieve, how oft it comes to me, I can't tell much about the thing, 'twas done so powerful quick;. 506 I don't go much on religion,...... 250 I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers,. 247 I haf von funny leedle poy,... I hate my geography lesson!. I heahs a heap o' people talkin', eberywhar I goes,. I heard the trailing garments of the Night.... 98 56 143 370 ... I know that thou art gone to the land of thy rest;.. la a little German village,.... In slumbers of midnight the sailor boy lay;.. In the tempest of life, when the wave and the gale.... I saw a lady yesterday,....... Into a ward of the whitewashed halls,. I saw him once before,... Is it anybody's business... 333 297 458 265 172 416 182 139 357 Is it you, Jack? Old boy, is it really you?. 153 I sprang to the stirrup, and Jorris and he; 386 Is there room among the angels........ 430 It must be so. Plato, thou reasonest well!.... 398 It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river side, .... 292 It was many and many a year ago,...... 166 I've just come in from the meadow, wife, where the grass is tall Listen, my children, and you shall hear,... 497 Mabel, little Mabel,..... 224 Many a long, long year ago,.. 257 Mary, let's kill the fatted calf, and celebrate this day.. 252 Meanwhile the adversary of God and man,... 390 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;....... 264 Mine horse is shloped, and I'm avraid.................. Most potent, grave, and reverend seigneurs,. Move my arm-chair, faithful Pompey,. My father, thou hast not the tale denied-.. My sister 'll be down in a minute, and says you're to wait, if you What! Drafted? My Harry! Why, man, 'tis a boy at his books.... My son! My soul to-day... Never go to France. Nigh to a grave that was newly made,.. 130 112 319 Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, ...... 91 Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are?..... 28 Now Ise got a notion in my head dat when you come to die,.. O! a wonderful stream is the river Time,...... O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,.. ...... Of all the notable things on earth,..... O Mona's waters are blue and bright.. On deck beneath the awning,.... ... 28 55 44 380 239 484 485 438 489 471 362 On the limb of an oak, sat a jolly old crow,. ... On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred and ninety-two,.. 465 On to Freedom! On to Freedom!.... O'Ryan was a man of might............. ..202 103 Our band is few, but true and tried,. 309 O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?... :14 Our bugles sang truce,-for the night-cloud had lowered,........ 304 Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!............. Poor little Besise! she tossed back her curls,. Prop your eyes wide open, Joey,... RESPECTED WIFE: From these few lines my where abouts thee learn-.. Seated one day at the organ,.. Snd it up to the garret? Well, no; what's the harm.. Softly, oh softly, the years have swept by thee,. Somewhat back from the village street.. Some words on language may be well applied, South Mountain towered on our right, far off the river iay,... Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,............. 216 Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and Conrad was gone away 287 Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,... "Tell me, gray-haired sexton," I said,.. The breaking waves dashed high............... The cold winds swept the mountain's height. The conference meeting through at last, The cottage was a thatched one, the outside old and mean,. The district school-master was sitting beh n 1 his great book-iaden 157 433 412 321 191 69 desk....... The drums are all muffled, the bugles are still; The editor sat in his easy chair,.... 241 490 190 There are lessons to learn through the school-'ime of life,. They drive home the cows from the pasture,. 379 335 272 476 399 133 429 To be or not to be-that is the question!... 388 To him who, in the love of nature, holds.... 50 Too early, of course! How provoking!.. 281 'Twas far beyond yon mountains, dear, we plighted vows of love, 422 'Twas in a Southern hospital, a month ago or more,....... 417 'Twas the time of the working men's great strike,. . Well, Betsey, this beats everything our eves have ever seer.,.... 101 Well, Jane, I staid in town last night,. 74 |