We are not always glad when we smile: Though we wear a fair face and are gay, And the world we deceive May not ever believe We could laugh in a happier way. - Yet, down in the deeps of the soul,...
Nothin' to say, my daughter! Nothin' at all to say! Gyrls that's in love, I've noticed, ginerly has their way! Yer mother did, afore you, when her folks objected to me -...
Wasn't it pleasant, O brother mine, In those old days of the lost sunshine Of youth - when the Saturday's chores were through, And the "Sunday's wood" in the kitchen too, And we went visiting, "me and you,"...
Old Bob White's a funny bird! - Funniest you ever heard! - Hear him whistle, - "Old - Bob - White!" You can hear him, clean from where He's 'way 'crosst the wheat-field there,...
"If I die first," my old chum paused to say, "Mind! not a whimper of regret: - instead, Laugh and be glad, as I shall. - Being dead, I shall not lodge so very far away...
They ain't no style about 'em, And they're sorto' pale and faded, Yit the doorway here, without 'em, Would be lonesomer, and shaded With a good 'eal blacker shudder Than the morning-glories makes,...
Old Indiany, 'course we know Is first, and best, and most, also, Of all the States' whole forty-four: - She's first in ever'thing, that's shore! - And best in ever'way as yet...
Old John's jes' made o' the commonest stuff - Old John Henry - He's tough, I reckon, - but none too tough - Too tough though's better than not enough! Says old John Henry....
In the jolly winters Of the long-ago, It was not so cold as now - O! No! No! Then, as I remember, Snowballs to eat Were as good as apples now. And every bit as sweet! ...
Old Man Whiskery-Whee-Kum-Wheeze Lives 'way up in the leaves o' trees. An' wunst I slipped up-stairs to play In Aunty's room, while she 'uz away; An' I clumbed up in her cushion-chair...
Old October's purt' nigh gone, And the frosts is comin' on Little heavier every day - Like our hearts is thataway! Leaves is changin' overhead Back from green to gray and red,...
I have jest about decided It 'ud keep a town-boy hoppin' Fer to work all winter, choppin' Fer a' old fire-place, like I did! Lawz! them old times wuz contrairy! - Blame backbone o' winter, 'peared-like,...
Only a dream! Her head is bent Over the keys of the instrument, While her trembling fingers go astray In the foolish tune she tries to play. He smiles in his heart, though his deep, sad eyes...
On the banks o' Deer Crick! There's the place fer me! - Worter slidin' past ye jes as clair as it kin be: - See yer shadder in it, and the shadder o' the sky,...
Hi and whoop-hooray, boys! Sing a song of cheer! Here's a holiday, boys, Lasting half a year! Round the world, and half is Shadow we have tried; Now we're where the laugh is, -...
Ho! I'm going back to where We were youngsters. - Meet me there, Dear old barefoot chum, and we Will be as we used to be, - Lawless rangers up and down The old creek beyond the town -...
Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann; An' she can cook best things to eat! She ist puts dough in our pie-pan, An' pours in somepin' 'at's good and sweet, An' nen she salts it all on top...
1 The kind of a man for you and me! He faces the world unflinchingly, And smites, as long as the wrong resists, With a knuckled faith and force like fists: He lives the life he is preaching of,...
Her heart knew naught of sorrow, Nor the vaguest taint of sin - 'Twas an ever-blooming blossom Of the purity within: And her hands knew only touches Of the mother's gentle care,...