Poems

Old English Lullaby Hush, bonnie, dinna greit; Moder will rocke her sweete,– Balow, my boy! When that his toile ben done, Daddie will come anone,– Hush […]

Orkney Lullaby A moonbeam floateth from the skies, Whispering, “Heigho, my dearie! I would spin a web before your eyes,– A beautiful web of silver light, […]

Our biggest fish When in the halcyon days of old, I was a little tyke, I used to fish in pickerel ponds for minnows and the […]

Our Lady of the Mine The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose to […]

Our Two Opinions Us two wuz boys when we fell out,– Nigh to the age uv my youngest now; Don’t rec’lect what’t wuz about, Some small […]

Over the hills and far away Over the hills and far away, A little boy steals from his morning play And under the blossoming apple-tree He […]

Pan liveth They told me once that Pan was dead, And so, in sooth, I thought him; For vainly where the streamlets led Through flowery meads […]

Picnic-time It’s June ag’in, an’ in my soul I feel the fillin’ joy That’s sure to come this time o’ year to every little boy; For, […]

Pittypat and Tippytoe All day long they come and go– Pittypat and Tippytoe; Footprints up and down the hall, Playthings scattered on the floor, Finger-marks along […]

Prof. vere de blaw Achievin’ sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, Our old […]