Phoebe’s Wooing (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
"Phoebe! Phoebe! Where is the chit? When I want her most she's out of the way.Child, you're running a long account Up, ...
"Phoebe! Phoebe! Where is the chit? When I want her most she's out of the way.Child, you're running a long account Up, ...
One golden summer day, Along the forest-way,Young Colin passed with blithesome steps alert. His locks with careless grace Rimmed round his handsome faceAnd ...
A violet grew by the river-side, And gladdened all hearts with its bloom;While over the fields, on the scented air, It breathed ...
My Charlie has gone to the war, My Charlie so brave and tall;He left his plough in the furrow, And flew at ...
Just from the sentry's tramp (I must take it again at ten),I have laid my musket down, And seized instead my pen;For, ...
One autumn day, when hedges yet were green, And thick-branched trees diffused a leafy gloom,Hard by where Avon rolls its silvery ...
I sit in the shadow of apple-boughs, In the fragrant orchard close,And around me floats the scented air, With its wave-like tidal ...
I wrote my name upon the sand, And trusted it would stand for aye;But, soon, alas! the refluent sea Had washed my ...
Yet look at the thousands whose every day prayer, Far more than their own or their neighbor's salvation, Absorbs every thought, every ...
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