Poems

The drum I’m a beautiful red, red drum, And I train with the soldier boys; As up the street we come, Wonderful is our noise! There’s […]

The duel The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on the table sat; ‘T was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!) Nor […]

The fly-away horse Oh, a wonderful horse is the Fly-Away Horse – Perhaps you have seen him before; Perhaps, while you slept, his shadow has swept […]

The great journalist in spain Good editor Dana–God bless him, we say– Will soon be afloat on the main, Will be steaming away Through the mist […]

The happy household It’s when the birds go piping and the daylight slowly breaks, That, clamoring for his dinner, our precious baby wakes; Then it’s sleep […]

The humming top The top it hummeth a sweet, sweet song To my dear little boy at play – Merrily singeth all day long, As it […]

The jaffa and jerusalem railway A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair; […]

The limitations of youth I’d like to be a cowboy an’ ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an’ boundless west; I’d kill the […]

The Little Peach A little peach in the orchard grew,– A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew, It […]

The Lyttel Boy Sometime there ben a lyttel boy That wolde not renne and play, And helpless like that little tyke Ben allwais in the way. […]