Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing, Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea. Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring, And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea. Where shall we adventure, to-day that we’re afloat, Wary of the [...]

Continue Reading ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON – PIRATE STORY POEM

THE BABIE POEM. Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes, Nae stockin’ on her feet; Her supple ankles white as snaw, Or early blossoms sweet. Her simple dress o’ sprinkled pink, Her double, dimplit chin, Her puckered lips, and baumy mou’, With na ane tooth within. Her een sae like her mither’s een, Twa gentle, [...]

Continue Reading JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN – THE BABIE POEM

The rosy clouds float overhead, The sun is going down, And now the sandman’s gentle tread Comes stealing through the town. “White sand, white sand,” he softly cries, And, as he shakes his hand, Straightway there lies on babies’ eyes His gift of shining sand. Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes, and brown, As shuts [...]

Continue Reading Margaret Vandegrift – THE SANDMAN POEM

A boy named Peter Found once in the road All harmless and helpless, A poor little toad; And ran to his playmate, And all out of breath Cried, “John, come and help, And we’ll stone him to death!” And picking up stones, The two went on the run, Saying, one to the other, “Oh, won’t [...]

Continue Reading ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY – A LESSON OF MERCY POEM

I am coming, I am coming! Hark! the honey bee is humming; See, the lark is soaring high In the blue and sunny sky, And the gnats are on the wing Wheeling round in airy ring. Listen! New-born lambs are bleating, And the cawing rooks are meeting In the elms–a noisy crowd. All the birds [...]

Continue Reading MARY HOWITT – THE VOICE OF SPRING POEM

Kathy the Carmelite won our little “Name That Theologian” contest some weeks ago, and she would have been followed by Alicia and perhaps a few other well-read ladies. (Do we have educated women at St. Blogs or what?) This one should be a little harder. The excerpt is taken from a book that was moderately [...]

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Is this finally the last straw? Are EWTN and the History Channel really worth risking the slightest exposure of your children to such images as you accidently hit Fox News on the remote? I’m with Mr. Aaron Wolf, who says it is long past time to smash your television http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Wolf/NewsAW083003.html: “There is an invader in [...]

Continue Reading Television, is it a path to hell?

The world’s a very happy place, Where every child should dance and sing, And always have a smiling face, And never sulk for anything. I waken when the morning’s come, And feel the air and light alive With strange sweet music like the hum Of bees about their busy hive. The linnets play among the [...]

Continue Reading GABRIEL SETOUN – THE WORLD’S MUSIC POEM