All seemed delighted, though the elders more, Of course, than were the children. - Thus, before Much interchange of mirthful compliment, The story-teller said his stories "went"...
Me an' Bert an' Minnie-Belle Knows a joke, an' we won't tell! No, we don't - 'cause we don't know Why we got to laughin' so; But we got to laughin' so, "We ist kep' a-laughin'. ...
For you, I could forget the gay Delirium of merriment, And let my laughter die away In endless silence of content. I could forget, for your dear sake, The utter emptiness and ache...
Friend of a wayward hour, you came Like some good ghost, and went the same; And I within the haunted place Sit smiling on your vanished face, And talking with - your name. ...
Has she forgotten? On this very May We were to meet here, with the birds and bees, As on that Sabbath, underneath the trees We strayed among the tombs, and stripped away...
Ah, help me! but her face and brow Are lovelier than lilies are Beneath the light of moon and star That smile as they are smiling now - White lilies in a pallid swoon...
How slight a thing may set one's fancy drifting Upon the dead sea of the Past! - A view - Sometimes an odor - or a rooster lifting A far-off "Ooh! ooh-ooh!"
Nobody on the old farm here but Mother, me and John, Except, of course, the extry he'p when harvest-time come on - And then, I want to say to you, we needed he'p about,...
Picnics is fun 'at's purty hard to beat. I purt'-nigh ruther go to them than eat. I purt'-nigh ruther go to them than go With our Charlotty to the Trick-Dog Show.
Let us forget. What matters it that we Once reigned o'er happy realms of long-ago, And talked of love, and let our voices low, And ruled for some brief sessions royally?...
I would not trace the hackneyed phrase Of shallow words and empty praise, And prate of "peace" till one might think My foolish pen was drunk with ink. Nor will I here the wish express...
"He is my friend," I said, - "Be patient!" Overhead The skies were drear and dim; And lo! the thought of him Smited on my heart - and then The sun shone out again! ...
Ah, friend of mine, how goes it Since you've taken you a mate? - Your smile, though, plainly shows it Is a very happy state! Dan Cupid's necromancy! You must sit you down and dine,...