Poems

The night wind Have you ever heard the wind go “Yooooo”? ‘T is a pitiful sound to hear! It seems to chill you through and through […]

The peter-bird Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes it over; Down […]

The ride to bumpville Play that my knee was a calico mare Saddled and bridled for Bumpville; Leap to the back of this steed, if you […]

The rock-a-by lady The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby street Comes stealing; comes creeping; The poppies they hang from her head to her feet, And each hath […]

The shut-eye train Come, my little one, with me! There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall; In your pretty cap and gown, […]

The singing in god’s acre Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God’s Acre lies, Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies. Their radiant wings […]

The song of luddy-dud A sunbeam comes a-creeping Into my dear one’s nest, And sings to our babe a-sleeping The song that I love the best: […]

The stoddards When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, the Stoddards hight; Their […]

The stork Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! From Babyland, out yonder […]

The straw parlor Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And there could you […]