#English #XXCentury
If I had lived in Franklin’s time… Beholding him out in the rain, a k… And noticing upon its tail the bar… Would, with the scoffers on the st… And with a sneer upon my lips I w…
Life is a jest; Take the delight of it. Laughter is best; Sing through the night of it. Swiftly the tear
After a man has been married awhil… And his wife has grown used to his… And style, When she knows form the twinkle th… Up his eye
Last night Ma said to Pa: 'My de… The Williamsons are coming here To visit for a week or two, An’ I must have a talk with you. We need some things which we must…
It is better as it is: I have fai… Though the pit I now am in is ver… I can walk to-morrow’s streets and… Unashamed to face their gaze as I… I have lost the hope I had; in th…
There in the flame of the open gra… All that is good in the past I se… Red-lipped youth on the swinging g… Bright-eyed youth with its minstre… Girls and boys that I used to kno…
I notice when the news comes in Of one who’s claimed eternal glory… This simple phrase, ‘the next of k… Concludes the soldier’s final stor… This tells the world what voice wi…
I’VE had a heap of fun and I’ve… I’ve had a heap of pleasure and I… But I ‘m treading just as gayly,… And I ’m looking for the sunshine… Always hoping for the best,
It isn’t the money you’re making, it isn’t the clothes you wear, And it isn’t the skill of your goo… It’s the smile on your face and the light of your eye and the burd…
If he is honest, kindly, true, And glad to work from day to day; If when his bit of toil is through With children he will stoop to pla… If he does always what he can
Over the hills of time to the vall… Over the roads of woe to the land… Up from the haunts of men to the p… This is the march of mortality to… Troopers we are in life, warring a…
DOWN the lanes of August’and t… All the world’s in color now, and… Never reds will redder be, more go… Down the lanes of August, and the… Mother Nature’s brushes now with…
He brought me his report card from… He wasn’t very proud of it and sad… He was excellent in reading, but a… And I noticed there were several… But one little bit of credit which…
You don’t begrudge the labor when… You don’t recall the dreary days t… You don’t recall a single care You spent upon the garden there; And all the toil
The little woman, to her I bow And doff my hat as I pass her by; I reverence the furrows that mark… And the sparkling love light in he… The little woman who stays at home…