Poet

Carolyn Wells

1862–1942

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English

• A Ball Game
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A Brave man looked forth and a figure he saw
• A Cold Day
• A College youth toward magic yearned
• A king had many wives
• A sad, mad maiden, with a fair, sweet face
• A Soldier and a sailor met
• A soldier of the rebels lay dying in the field
• A spirit rising in the air, continued still to fight
• A traveler rode hard and fast
• A well known ballad has rehearsed
• A wise old proverb advises all
• Ah, distinctly I remember
• Ah, Love, could You and I with him conspire
• An ancient family of Chaldee
• An Arcady Girl
• An artist stepped into an office one day
• An old philosopher was my last
• And fear not lest a Smashup closing My
• And if in Vain down on the Stubborn Floor
• And then my Luncheon-Kit, and Hamper, swell
• And this I know. Though in a Magazine
• Angus Mcphairson
• As my first was walking with weary step, on a drear and…
• At Coney Island
• At my first was my friend
• At the Sign of the Sphinx
• Ballade Of Arcady
• Beneath the gaslight’s brilliant glare
• Beneath the Roman Eagle’s glory
• Biographical Sketch Of Cupid
• Boats On The Lake
• But helpless Pieces of the Game bestowed
• Clad in his ermine and his robes of state
• Cupid’S Bill
• Cupid’S Failure
• Dedicated
• Dorothy Dauber sat serene
• Eagerly I my first the pack
• Evolutionary Fame
• First sign of Liberty! My first has stood
• Flying Kites
• Forebears
• Fourth Of July
• From history’s truthful page
• Golf Lynx
• Great Shakespeare was my first; yet when he died
• Henry the Eighth grew tired of life
• High in my first they waved the flag
• Hoping my first kind Heaven will send her
• I
• I
• I had two gardeners who to work were loath
• I know a boy; his name ’s my last
• I met my whole in a far-distant land
• I was sitting in my study
• I ’d oft be thankful, could I be my whole
• Ice-Cream
• If my last could be placed upon my first
• Ii
• Ii
• Iii
• Improved Proverbs
• In a little old school-house that stood on a hill
• In Central Park
• In certain realms men have to bring
• In gorgeous splendor, once upon a time
• Indeed, I’ve learned to treat it as a Joke
• Insensibility
• Iv
• Kindness To Animals
• L'Envoi
• Leaving my whole with grief and pain
• Limericks
• Little Mothers
• Love In Arcady
• L’Envoi
• L’Envoi
• Maid of Athens, ere we part
• Men often strive my first to gain
• Men travel in my first
• Mr. R. Kipling
• Music'S Might
• My dogs I love, my horses I adore
• My first a well known character on ancient history’s page
• My first bears many a noble name
• My first can boast a head and tail
• My first did my last
• My first grows by the riverside
• My first is black and white and blue and red
• My first is given and received, a blessing and a bane
• My first is good when it ’s alone
• My first is made of clay
• My first is my last, and my first is my whole
• My first is often broken, ’t is so frail
• My first is old and yellow
• My first is the well known historical home
• My first was ground beneath the oppressor’s wheel
• My first ’s a sum of money that I have never seen
• My first ’s a very common thing
• My first ’s possessed by men and dogs and goats
• My first, a graceful shape, a lady fair
• My first, men call thee wicked, and perhaps they may be…
• My first, of high degree
• My first, the Scriptures say, in Eden grew
• My first, though scrutinized with close inspections
• My first, untidy though thou art
• My first, when full, holds many a pound
• My first, with the meek brown eyes
• My grandsire in the Mayflower came across the raging waters
• My Lady Of Delight
• My last are celebrated, noted, learned
• My last was very tall and very slim
• My whole drops from trees
• My whole was a queen
• My whole ’s very narrow, but oft it may be
• New York And London :: Mcmix
• No one can work as fast
• Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are
• Old Deacon Griggs made money fast
• Old Valentines
• Once I passed through my whole. ’T was beautiful
• One gained and kept the foremost place
• Other Little Mothers
• Patrician
• Piety
• Plebeian
• Quarrelsomeness
• Rubáiyát Of Wall Street
• Safe from the cold December storm
• Skates
• Some Arcadian Bromidioms
• Some things we could well do without
• T was not my whole,--and yet the King was there
• Thanksgiving-Day
• The Apple Bee
• The banners were waving, gems glittered and shone
• The Battering Ram
• The Black Sheep
• The Bookworm
• The breaking waves dashed high
• The Brick Bat
• The Bugbear
• The Bumble Puppy
• The Cat O' Nine Tails
• The Common Swallow
• The Cricket Bat
• The Eternal Feminine
• The Excursion Boat
• The Feather Boa
• The Fire Dogs
• The First Of April
• The Flying Buttress
• The Gold Eagle
• The Golden Buck
• The Haycock
• The Humbug
• The Intercepted Valentine
• The Irish Bull
• The Iron Spider
• The Jail-Bird
• The Jay
• The Jingle Book
• The Lay Of Lothario Lee
• The Mackerel Kit
• The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year
• The Military Frog
• The Old Story
• The Pigeon Toad
• The Poppycock
• The Powder Monkey
• The Reg'Lar Lark
• The Rival Queens
• The Round Robin
• The Royal Seal
• The Saw-Buck
• The Sea Puss
• The Shuttlecock
• The Skipping-Rope
• The sparkling wine was bright and red; ’t was tempting,…
• The Spelling Lesson
• The Spring Chicken
• The Tomahawk
• The Traveling Crane
• The Tree Calf
• The vast hosts of Egypt, at Pharaoh’s decree
• The Watch Dog
• The Welsh Rabbit
• The yacht was flying fast; the day was fair
• Then And Now
• There was a bachelor in days of old
• They say The Lion and The Lizard keep
• Though some one spoke this truthful word
• Time Flies
• Time’S Valentine
• Tis growing dusk, yet in the gathering gloom
• To A Milkmaid In Arcady
• To Sodom and Gomorrah on the plain
• To the grandest of monarchs that ever was seen