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• Carlyle and Emerson

  A bale-fire kindled in the night,
  By night a blaze, by day a cloud,
  With flame and smoke all England woke,— …

  Montgomery Schuyler

• The Town of Hay

  The town of Hay is far away,
  The town of Hay is far;
  Between its hills of green and gray …

  Sam Walter Foss

• A Drop of Ink

  This drop of ink chance leaves upon my pen,
  What might it write in Milton’s mighty hand!
  What might it speak at Shakespeare’s high command! …

  Joseph Ernest Whitney

• Sea Irony

  One day I saw a ship upon the sands
  Careened upon beam ends, her tilted deck
  Swept clear of rubbish of her long-past wreck; …

  John Langdon Heaton

• An Epilogue at Wallack's

  The play was done;
  The mimic lovers of the stage
  Were safe united, with their mimic battles won; …

  John Elton Wayland

• When Love Comes Knocking

  When love comes knocking at thy gate,
  Bid him at once depart:
  He will be patient, and will wait …

  William Henry Gardner

• If I but Knew - Leigh

  If i but knew what the tree-tops say,
  Whispering secrets night and day,
  I ’d make a song, my love, for you, …

  Amy E

• Song from "Ben Hur"

  Wake not, but hear me, love!
  Adrift, adrift on slumber’s sea,
  Thy spirit call to list to me. …

  Lew Wallace

• At Twilight

  The roses of yesteryear
  Were all of them white and red:
  It fills my heart with silent fear …

  Peyton Van Rensselaer

• Art Thou the Same

  Art thou the same, thou sobbing winter wind?
  The same that rocked the cradle of the May,
  That whispered through the leaves in summer noon, …

  Frances Dorr (Swift) Tatnall

• The Song of the Turnkey

  I
  in the darkness deep
  Of the donjon-keep, …

  Harry Bache Smith

• The Armorer's Song

  1
  let hammer on anvil ring,
  And the forge fire brightly shine; …

  Harry Bache Smith

• His Majesty

  I ’m king of the road! I gather
  My toll on the world’s highways.
  They pave the street for my royal feet, …

  Theron Brown

• Little Alabama Coon

  I ’s a little Alabama Coon,
  And I has n’t been born very long;
  I ’member seein’ a great big round moon; …

  Hattie Starr

• Go Sleep, Ma Honey - Barker

  Whipp’will ’s singin’ to de moon,—
  Go sleep, ma honey, m—m.
  He sing a pow’ful mo’nful tune, …

  Edward D

• Kentucky Babe

  ’skeeters am a hummin’ on de honeysuckle vine,—
  Sleep, Kentucky Babe!
  Sandman am a comin’ to dis little coon of mine,— …

  Richard Henry Buck

• A Little Dutch Garden

  I passed by a garden, a little Dutch garden,
  Where useful and pretty things grew,—
  Heart’s-ease and tomatoes, and pinks and potatoes, …

  Hattie Whitney

• The Old Sexton

  Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
  Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade;
  His work was done, and he paused to wait …

  Park Benjamin

• He Came Too Late

  He came too late!—Neglect had tried
  Her constancy too long;
  Her love had yielded to her pride, …

  Elizabeth Bogart

• The Succession

  as one by one the singers of our land,
  Summoned away by Death’s unfailing dart,
  Unto the greater mystery depart, …

  Frances Laughton Mace

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