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A list of all pages that have property "Has text" with value "<span class="poem"> <p>PIKES PEAK OR BUST . . . IN A BRUSH </p> </span>". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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  • Indignation and Jubilation  + (<div class="poem"> <p>No one has yet a copper known<br /> Whose word’s not better than your own.<br /> No judge has ever yet been found<br /> With whom your word would fair go down. </p> </div>)
  • Knutsford Park Races  + (<div class="poem"> <p>No room in de tram fe stan':<br /> "Oh! de races will be gran',—<br /> Wonder ef good luck we'll hab,<br /> Get fe win a couple bob!"<br /> Joyous, only joyous faces,<br /> Goin' to de Knutsford races. </p> </div>)
  • The Toll of the Automobile  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Not only is the mortality among human beings high, but the death-dealing qualities of the motor car are making serious inroads on our native mammals, birds and other forms of animal life. </p> </div>)
  • The Old Homestead  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Nothing can make our heart so warm,<br /> As visions of where we first were born,<br /> As the memory of that first Christmas tree,<br /> Where the old homestead used to be. </p> </div>)
  • Clark Street Bridge  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Now.   .   .<br /> .   .   Only stars and mist<br /> A lonely policeman,<br /> Two cabaret dancers,<br /> Stars and mist again,<br /> No more feet or wheels,<br /> No more dust and wagons. </p> </div>)
  • Spring in California  + (<div class="poem"> <p>O, the key to much that the world loves best<br /> Can be found beside the way,<br /> If your motor sings you a joyous song<br /> At the dawn of a bright spring day. </p> </div>)
  • Safety in Conversation  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Of God each took a different stand,<br /> Divided on Nature, Spirit and Man,<br /> While one did declare God didn’t exist,<br /> The good-natured bunch has since been missed. </p> </div>)
  • The Morning Stars  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Of old the psalmist said that the morning stars sing together,<br /> He said the rocks do sing and that the hills rejoice... </p> </div>)
  • The Mountains  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Of the peaks around both high and low,<br /> The one we favor most is San Antonio.<br /> We like to go up there whene'er we can,<br /> It's easy in a Studebaker Six Sedan. </p> </div>)
  • The Road of Human Life  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Oh! it is all that Hope can do<br /> To keep lifted our eyes<br /> And day by day our strength renew<br /> With visions and dream-lies;<br /> To lead us by that awful flood<br /> From which no soul may rise. </p> </div>)
  • Safety in Conversation  + (<div class="poem"> <p>On most every subject when men don’t agree,<br /> They smile, shake hands and part cheerfully.<br /> There’s danger in topics of soul and heart,<br /> Talk Six Studebaker and friends you will part. </p> </div>)
  • The Mountains  + (<div class="poem"> <p>On mountain height both east and west,<br /> For every living mortal there is rest.<br /> We view the peaks in contemplation<br /> Of God's great plan for all creation. </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>On the sopping esplanade or from our dingy lodgings we <br /> Stare out dully at the rain which falls for miles into the sea. </p> </div>)
  • Quatrains  + (<div class="poem"> <p>One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar,<br /> To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star;<br /> It lies with thee—the choice is thine, is thine,<br /> To hit the ties or drive thy auto-car. </p> </div>)
  • Indignation and Jubilation  + (<div class="poem"> <p>One second more and he’d done ninety,<br /> The cops they worked it almost nightly.<br /> No show our friend would ever get<br /> When face to face the judge he met. </p> </div>)
  • Clean Curtains  + (<div class="poem"> <p>One way was an oyster pail factory, one way they made candy, one way paper boxes, strawboard cartons. </p> </div>)
  • Days of Opportunity  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Opportunities once flew thick and fast,<br /> In years far in the distant past,<br /> You'll know they are here today, instead,<br /> If you read the lives of men that are dead. </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Or, in friendly fireside circle, sit and listen for the crash <br /> Meaning that the mob has realized something’s up, and start to smash; </p> </div>)
  • Indignation and Jubilation  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Our friend, to us he did confide<br /> That motor cops would have to ride.<br /> No more hiding by the road,<br /> No more chance our friend to goad. </p> </div>)
  • Our Support  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Our labor should always be well directed,<br /> No slighting for cause to be rejected.<br /> Genius may all great works begin,<br /> Labor’s the thing that makes them win. </p> </div>)
  • The Bridge: VII The Tunnel  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Our tongues recant like beaten weather vanes.<br /> This answer lives like verdigris, like hair<br /> Beyond extinction, surcease of the bone;<br /> And repetition freezes—“What </p> </div>)
  • In a Breath  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Outside in the street is the murmur and singing of life in the sun—horses, motors, women trapsing along in flimsy clothes, play of sun-fire in their blood. </p> </div>)
  • Spring in California  + (<div class="poem"> <p>O’er the ribboned line of the Great Highway,<br /> Where the wildflower carpet's laid,<br /> Where the poppy opens her golden cup<br /> As a symbol of Spring arrayed. </p> </div>)
  • Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout  + (<div class="poem"> <p>PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE. COMPLIMENTS TO PLUCKY MRS. TRINKLE. </p> </div>)
  • Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout  + (<div class="poem"> <p>PIKE'S PEAK CLIMB POSSIBLE FOR WE ARE AT THE SUMMIT. </p> </div>)
  • Automobiling in the West  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Passed the night comfortably, and when the road was taken next morning (May 29) at 6 o'clock, the sun was shining and Mr. Gates predicted no rain for the day. </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Perfect pater. Marvellous mater. Knock the critic down who dares — <br /> Very well, believe it, copy; till your hair is white as theirs. </p> </div>)
  • The Old Homestead  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Pictures of those long passed away,<br /> Hung on the walls and watched our play,<br /> They shared with us in all our glee,<br /> Where the old homestead used to be. </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Power-stations locked, deserted, since they drew the boiler fires; <br /> Pylons fallen or subsiding, trailing dead high-tension wires; </p> </div>)
  • Days of Opportunity  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Read Abraham Lincoln, American,<br /> Enshrined in the heart of every man.<br /> He was born honest in humble obscurity,<br /> He made for himself his opportunity. </p> </div>)
  • Days of Opportunity  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Read Horace Greeley, in poverty born,<br /> His name does history's page adorn,<br /> Benjamin Franklin's life and deeds,<br /> Give inspiration for youthful needs. </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Run the whole night through in gumboots, stumble on and gasp for breath, <br /> Terrors drawing close and closer, winter landscape, fox’s death; </p> </div>)
  • Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout  + (<div class="poem"> <p>SUNNY CALIFORNIA-THE END IN THE WEST </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Shut up talking, charming in the best suits to be had in town, <br /> Lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down. </p> </div>)
  • Washington Square  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Sleep-walking city!<br /> Who are the wide-eyed prowlers in the night?<br /> What nightmare-ridden cars move through their own far thunder?<br /> What living death of the wind rises, crackling the drowsy twigs? </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Smokeless chimneys, damaged bridges, rotting wharves and choked canals, <br /> Tramlines buckled, smashed trucks lying on their side across the rails; </p> </div>)
  • Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout  + (<div class="poem"> <p>So Fred accepted Briscoe's proposition and persuaded me to go along as observer, wiring Briscoe to that effect. The answer was, </p> </div>)
  • Knutsford Park Races  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Soldier ban', formed in a ring,<br /> Strike up "God save our king";<br /> Gub'nor come now by God's grace<br /> To de Knutsford Park big race:<br /> High faces among low faces<br /> At de Knutsford Park big races. </p> </div>)
  • The Old Homestead  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Some day again we will see the place,<br /> And, too, in our memory each one's face,<br /> In a Six Studebaker so easy and free,<br /> Where the old homestead used to be. </p> </div>)
  • Who Lies?  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody croaked it can't be done,<br /> Service by night without the sun.<br /> Expenses great will bring you ruin,<br /> We heard them not with all their wooin'.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>)
  • Who Lies?  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody mocked it can't be done,<br /> Back with you name the cars that 'ave run.<br /> Your profits will in them surely go,<br /> The public be d—d so take them low.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>)
  • Who Lies?  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody said it can't be done,<br /> Salaries to all and commissions none.<br /> We smiled till tears were in our eyes,<br /> For can't is a word we do despise.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>)
  • Who Lies?  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody scoffed it can't be done,<br /> Seven per cent to every last one.<br /> No compound rate or broker's fee,<br /> Will send you sure into bankruptcy.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>)
  • Who Lies?  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Somebody sneered it can't be done,<br /> Carry your paper for each mother's son.<br /> You can't collect, your loss run high,<br /> Let broker and banker cut the pie.<br /> We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </p> </div>)
  • Sung by the Choir  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Soprano had a holy time,<br /> The alto wasn’t far behind,<br /> Each had tried their vocal range,<br /> Still, from holy not a change. </p> </div>)
  • XXII  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Squeeze into the works through broken windows or through damp-sprung doors; <br /> See the rotted shafting, see holes gaping in the upper floors; </p> </div>)
  • Washington Square  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Starless and still...<br /> Who stopped this heart?<br /> Who bound this city in a trance? </p> </div>)
  • The Poplar  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Stir from your roots, walk, poplar!<br /> You are more beautiful than they are. </p> </div>)
  • As to Being Alone  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Such the question, and this the answer: </p> </div>)
  • Florida Road Workers  + (<div class="poem"> <p>Sure, <br /> A road helps everybody. <br /> Rich folks ride — <br /> And I get to see 'em ride. <br /> I ain't never seen nobody <br /> Ride so fine before. </p> </div>)