A Leak In The Dike (Phoebe Cary Poems)
A Story of HollandThe good dame looked from her cottage At the close of the pleasant day,And cheerily called to her ...
Phoebe Cary Poems (16 Poems)
The Three Wrens (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Mr. Wren and his dear began early one year,-They were married, of course, on St. Valentine's day,-To build such a ...
Abraham Lincoln (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Our sun hath gone down at the noonday, The heavens are black; And over the morning the shadows Of night-time are back. Stop the ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
Sugar-Making (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The crocus rose from her snowy bedAs she felt the spring's caresses,And the willow from her graceful headShook out her ...
Entered Into Rest (Phoebe Cary Poems)
My friend, 0, my dearly beloved!O, do you feel, do you know,How the times and the seasons are going;Are they ...
The Prairie on Fire (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The long grass burned brownIn the summer's fierce heat,Snaps brittle and dry'Neath the traveller's feet,As over the prairie,Through all the ...
The Lovers (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Sally Salter, she was a young teacher who taught,And her friend, Charley Church, was a preacher who praught,Though his enemies ...
The Day Is Done (Parody of H.W. Longfellow) (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The day is done, and darknessFrom the wing of night is loosed,As a feather is wafted downward,From a chicken going ...
Suppose (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Suppose, my little lady,Your doll should break her head,Could you make it whole by cryingTill your eyes and nose are ...
Nearer Home (Phoebe Cary Poems)
One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er;I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before;Nearer my Father's house, ...
Ready (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Loaded with gallant soldiers, A boat shot in to the land,And lay at the right of Rodman's Point With her keel upon ...
Ballad of the Canal (Phoebe Cary Poems)
We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul had room to sleep;It was midnight on the waters, And the banks were ...
Shakesperian Readings – 3 (Phoebe Cary Poems)
My father had a daughter got a man,As it might be, perhaps, were I good-looking,I should, your lordship.And what's her ...
Jacob (Phoebe Cary Poems)
HE dwelt among "apartments let,"About five stories high;A man I thought that none would get,And very few would try.A boulder, ...
When Lovely Woman (Phoebe Cary Poems)
When lovely woman wants a favor,And finds, too late, that man won't bend,What earthly circumstance can save herFrom disappointment in ...