Category: Poetry
When Day is Done
Bedtime Better Job, The Bob White Book of Memory. The Boy and His Dad, A Boy and His Dog, A Boy and His Stomach, A Boy and the Flag, The Boy O'Mine Brothers All
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
Bedtime Better Job, The Bob White Book of Memory. The Boy and His Dad, A Boy and His Dog, A Boy and His Stomach, A Boy and the Flag, The Boy O'Mine Brothers All
2. Chapter 2How purposeless the strife would be If there were nothing more, If there were not a plan to serve, An end to struggle for! No reason for a mortal's birth Except to have him die-...
3. Chapter 3"What is it that you own?" I questioned then. "The house we live in," slowly she replied, "Two other houses worked an' slaved for, when The boy was but a youngster at my side, S...
4. Chapter 4A woman is queer, there's no doubt about that. She hates to be thin and she hates to be fat; One minute it's laughter, the next it's a cry-- You can't understand her, however yo...
5. Chapter 5Can't be happy till he knows: "Where's Mamma?" So he begs us to disclose "Where's Mamma?" And it often seems to me, As I hear his anxious plea, That no sweeter phrase can be: "W...
6. Chapter 6Fame had never whispered then, Making slaves of eager men; Greed had never called me down To the gray walls of the town, Offering frankincense and myrrh If I'd be its prisoner;...