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Gather them into the baskets - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Apple-Gathering"

When the winter wild sets in - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Apple-Gathering"

If the apples Eve saw were as handsome - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Apple-Gathering"

Tattered cap held for the pennies - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Banjo"

Rollicking mad and musical in their wooing - Ellen Tracy Alden "Blue Eyes"

Story and rhyme be weaving - Ellen Tracy Alden "Blue Eyes"

Fairies dancing in shady bowers - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

A pretty treasure to keep in mind - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Weeks of battle with storm and gale - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Just a league from its destined goal - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Saving their lives and nothing more - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

The thieving tide had brought its plunder - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

With a rebel heart and a flashing eye - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Who lightly turn from History's page - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Forego your redolent draughts of rare Pekoe - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Murder, and pillage, and cannon's roar - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

The scene of a livelong night's carouse - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Homeward stealing when they had passed - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

With wrecks of revel the floors were strewn - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

With tables broken and chairs o'erthrown - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

The great city was red with flame - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Ever laugh at the fortunes told - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Chasing butterflies golden, gathering blossoms sweet - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

To pieces she plucks the daisies - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

As the thoughts of those thousands stray - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

As those clouds in anger meet in deafening din - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

Unwitting, held them an hour at bay - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

The rain pours down and the four winds blow - Ellen Tracy Alden "Cluck, Cluck"

At the chilly touch of the Frost-king - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

The sunbeams have paled with fear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

Sadly the winds of autumn sigh - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

Till the leafless limbs be clothed again - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

The houses I found in my picture book - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Happy Pair"

Glory fades in a thousand shifting shades - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

Thro' the night the storm-bells toll - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

The red lightning's zigzag track - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

But who shall the news disclose - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

Flashing up a path of gold - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

The bald old oaks would step aside - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The pines would bend the knee - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The kettles and pans would play and prance - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The clock would stop and the doors swing wide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Diamonds were set in the roof for stars - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Through hundreds of miles of gloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

On the rounds of a golden ladder - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

At the centre of the earth, a mighty fire - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Filled ten billion barrels with the soot - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

And up through the chimney hurled them - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

After all our toil and trouble - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

And such were the fairy's errands - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Feeding the flood of flame - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Forth from the vine-wreathed tower - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

A dungeon beneath the shattered roof - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Clanking irons chained to the wall of stone - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

What fiends the earth doth hold - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

A chance such prize of winning - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Into the forest among the shadows brown - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Up the winding pathway I hurried on - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Through the darkness shining forth from a ruin near - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

And I would bring some tidings of the missing - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

No food but these gray mosses, no drink but pearls of rain - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The blessed clouds in pity creep downward - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

To hide their plundered treasure beneath the stone-paved floor - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The earth gaped wide and swallowed - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

From the palace window looked forth at set of sun - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

He who rode on the fated mission - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Recalling the scorn and the cruel jeers - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

And the foes of the King trembled to hear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

With ready tongue her story told - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Better than all the books relate it - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Fairies that came all unbidden - Ellen Tracy Alden "Lena Laughed"

The change that a laugh can alone bring about - Ellen Tracy Alden "Lena Laughed"

With your hair so full of sunshine - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Laughing cherubs slide down the moonbeams - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Bring two dewy, fresh pieces of the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

And tempt you to a spree - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Just to shake the mental cobwebs - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

The budding calla is bold enough to bloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Teach you model methods for enslaving humankind - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

For her ways defy conjecture - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Who come to her with manna - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Melting music-mirth she scatters - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

The better for the ripple in your smile - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

As her weary task she plies - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"

At the open window lingers with dreamy eyes - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"

Of meadow and wheat and rippling maze - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"

In the land of strangers pity is sweet and rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"

Be less lavish with her kisses rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Unless it be the music of her laughter - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

In short-lived moods of thoughtful silence - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Come creeping trustfully your own between - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

A secret charm for sending grief astray - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Among the trees the question chanced to rise - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"

My shoulders reaching to the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"

Whose fragrance thrilled the wond'ring air - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"

Trophies brought from the bloody field - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

For lack of bird and sunbeam - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

Deep through the rough rock wrought - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

And all the land is red with war - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

What stranger legions against the hostile tide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

Valhalla has sent its warriors down - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

Where people can come and go so free - Ellen Tracy Alden "Puss in a Quandary"

And the song died out of her heart - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

Ready to move at the wave of her hand - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

The blithe hours swiftly flitted - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

Free as the wind to linger and tarry - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"

Gold and houses and lands encumber - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"

Poet's works at Project Gutenberg.

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