#English #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1916 #AHeapO'Livin'
Oh, we have shipped his Christmas box w… And he shall find the things he likes fr… But he must miss the kisses true and all… And he must miss the smiles of home upon… He’ll spend his Christmas 'neath the Fl…
#1918 #OverHere
“GIVE me the prettiest valentine You’ve got in the shop,' said he, ‘One with the tenderest sort o’ line, In type that her eyes can see. One that she won’t need her specs to rea…
Time was I used to worry and I’d sit ar… And think with every ache I got that I… I’d see disaster comin’ from a dozen dif… An’ prophesy calamity an’ dark and drear… But I’ve come to this conclusion, that…
It is better as it is: I have failed bu… Though the pit I now am in is very dark… I can walk to-morrow’s streets and can m… Unashamed to face their gaze as I go to… I have lost the hope I had; in the dust…
Sue’s got a baby now, an’ she Is like her mother used to be; Her face seems prettier, an’ her ways More settled-like. In these few days She’s changed completely, an’ her smile
#1917 #JustFolks
THIS morning came a man to me, his smi… He shook my hand and doffed his hat then… Said he, ' I read your stuff each day,… You have a line of humor that delightful… My dear wife reads it through and throug…
I am selfish in my wishin’ every sort o’… I am selfish when I tell you that I’m w… Bending o’er you every minute, and a poc… An’ as much of love an’ gladness as a hu… Coz I know beyond all question that if…
#1916 #AHeapO'Livin'
When he was only nine months old, And plump and round and pink of cheek, A joy to tickle and to hold, Before he’d even learned to speak, His gentle mother used to say:
He was playing in the garden when we cal… But he didn’t seem to hear us, so I wen… What the little rogue was up to, and I… When he heard his mother calling, he had… ‘I am playing war,’ he told me, 'and I’…
He has not served who gathers gold, Nor has he served, whose life is told In selfish battles he has won, Or deeds of skill that he has done; But he has served who now and then
Ma has every confidence in Pa, She says she knows he always does what’s… He’s not at all like some folks’ husband… Whose conduct very often is a fright. She says that she can trust him anywhere
Because it rains when we wish it wouldn’… Because men do what they often shouldn’t… Because crops fail, and plans go wrong– Some of us grumble all day long. But somehow, in spite of the care and do…
Men are of two kinds, and he Was of the kind I’d like to be. Some preach their virtues, and a few Express their lives by what they do. That sort was he. No flowery phrase
‘I’m never alone in the garden,' he said… never alone with the flowers. It seems like I’m meeting the wonderful… out here with these blossoms of ours. An’ there’s never a bush or a plant or a…
#1919 #ThePathToHome
There’ve been times we’d disagree Somethin’ awful, Ma an’ me; Times when I would bang the door Never to come back no more, An’ go stompin’ down the street