Poems

The Sugar-Plum Tree Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? ‘T is a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop […]

The three tailors I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time, Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim, On the Rhine, lovely […]

The Truth About hHorace It is very aggravating To hear the solemn prating Of the fossils who are stating That old Horace was a prude; When […]

The Twenty-Third Psalm My Shepherd is the Lord my God,– There is no want I know; His flock He leads in verdant meads, Where tranquil waters […]

The two little skeezucks There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked in heathenish […]

The wanderer Upon a mountain height, far from the sea, I found a shell, And to my listening ear the lonely thing Ever a song of […]

The wind (THE TALE) Cometh the Wind from the garden, fragrant and full of sweet singing– Under my tree where I sit cometh the Wind to […]

The wooing of the southland (ALASKAN BALLAD) The Northland reared his hoary head And spied the Southland leagues away– “Fairest of all fair brides,” he said, […]

Thirty-nine O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you’d pass me by– Alas, the years have sneaked away And all is changed but I! Had […]

To a soubrette ‘Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet–ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time’s dull track To […]