Will Carleton Professions : Poet Born : October 21, 1845 Died : December 18, 1912 Browse All Authors Top 19 quotes by Will Carleton Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life. Will Carleton memorial-day uplifting beautiful To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. Will Carleton fifteen appreciate heaven Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. Will Carleton fire boys fall Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days. Will Carleton autumn sweet fall Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. Will Carleton ems land fall I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell. Will Carleton hypnosis views heaven Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more! Will Carleton thanksgiving-day sake blessing Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands. Will Carleton done earth hands And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us Will Carleton fault-finders deuces pay The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread. Will Carleton editors eye hands If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. Will Carleton earth home heaven So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree Will Carleton agree speech together Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way. Will Carleton hills house way Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. Will Carleton army hero country But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. Will Carleton fate keys two We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand. Will Carleton gratitude soul father There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them; Will Carleton ignorance people knowledge Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day. Will Carleton memorial-day brother beautiful Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out. Will Carleton out things home Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
