Category: Poetry
Transcriber’s Note: Poems are ordered by publication year (goal is the earliest available at least with legible text), then alphabetically intrayear (ignoring “A”, “An”, and “The”). Poems appear as printed in source unless changes are given in the notes. Investigation of spell...
Transcriber’s Note: Poems are ordered by publication year (goal is the earliest available at least with legible text), then alphabetically intrayear (ignoring “A”, “An”, and “Th...
2. Part 2A chicken-hearted boy was Jim, A lad with a gentle face and eye. The boys all joined in a laugh at him Whenever he chanced to be passing by. He wouldn’t set foot on a helpless t...
3. Part 3We owe our debt to the man who thinks, For he leads our minds afar Till they stand and tremble on the brinks Of the strangest things that are. We owe our debt to the man who hop...
4. Part 4The builder of the future Is not the trader keen, The driver of the turbine, Nor any swift machine; Not he who rides in triumph Through the admiring town, Fawning for public pra...
5. Part 5Silent they grow, each in its place, With cheer for all who love them, Breathing their perfume in the face Of all who bend above them. They blossom where the weary plod Their wa...
6. Part 6When sunset falls upon your day And fades from out the West. When business cares are put away And you lie down to rest, The measures of the day’s success Or failure will be told...
7. Part 7Doing It Well. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Child Welfare Magazine_. Vol. 20 No. 7. Philadelphia: The Child Welfare Co., Inc., Mar 1926. p. 438. Notes: 1) Dropped initial...
8. Part 8The Question. v1926 Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Personal Efficiency_. Vol. 16 No. 12. Chicago: LaSalle Extension University, Dec 1926. p. 715. Notes: 1) Stanzas’ origina...