The Chaperon (George Ade Poems)
The very first duty of a chaperonIs to leave the young folks quite alone;Permitting them to sit up lateIn twos ...
The very first duty of a chaperonIs to leave the young folks quite alone;Permitting them to sit up lateIn twos ...
One day they came; I heard their feet. ...
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal, There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding ...
1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedanschoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service ...
O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's ...
UNDER the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red ...
For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read: Duxbury It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Runs to no compass point But starts within the human heart Where travellers in twos may go As for a ...
ASHES of soldiers! As I muse, retrospective, murmuring a chant in thought, Lo! the war resumes-again to my sense your ...
1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; Of unnamed ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree And wore them all that evening in my hair: Then in due ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
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