Poetry

  • Li Bai – We Fought for – South of the Walls

    Li Bai – We Fought for – South of the Walls

    Died for – North of the Rampart – (to an old tune) We fought for Mulberry SpringsDie now for Garlic…

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  • Li Bai – Wine

    Li Bai – Wine

    Drinking, I sit,Lost to Night,Keep falling petalsFrom the ground:Get up to followThe stream’s white moon,No sign of birds,The humans gone.…

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  • Li Bai – Yearning

    Li Bai – Yearning

    Misted the flowers weep as light diesMoon of white silk sleeplessly cries.Stilled – Phoenix wings.Touched – Mandarin strings. This song…

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  • Li Bai – Ziyi Song

    Li Bai – Ziyi Song

    Chang-an — one slip of moon;in ten thousand houses, the sound of fulling mallets.Autumn winds keep on blowing,all things make…

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  • The Night After Christmas

    The Night After Christmas

    The Night After Christmas was published in Dear Santa Claus: Charming Holiday Stories for Boys and Girls (1901) by W.B. Conkey Company, author…

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  • A Christmas Hamper

    A Christmas Hamper

    A Christmas Hamper: A Volume of Pictures and Stories for Little Folks was published in 1889 by T. Nelson and Sons…

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  • A Snow Man

    A Snow Man

    A Snow Man from A Christmas Hamper: A Volume of Pictures and Stories for Little Folks was published in 1889 by T. Nelson…

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  • Halloween

    Halloween

    Halloween is a holiday poem published in The Holidays’ Carnival (1904) by Elizabeth F. Guptil. On the last night of October,Comes the mystic…

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  • Jack-O-Lantern Song

    Jack-O-Lantern Song

    Jack-O-Lantern Song was published in South Dakota Educator (1917), attributed to “Canadian Teacher.” It is sung to the music, “Rig-a-jig” Upon one wild…

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  • Jolly Halloween

    Jolly Halloween

    Jolly Halloween sung to the tune of “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” is from Normal Instructor and Primary Plans (October 1922), submitted by Clara Emogene…

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