Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: poets

"A heart and a hand, / All thy own to the last. Th. Moore." Postmarked in Ellicottville, N.Y., March 16, 1909. The couplet on this postcard is from a poem, "Come, Rest in This Bosom," by the Irish poet Thomas Moore .

On Hallowe'en be wary and look about The gobble-uns will git you ef you don't watch out! A Halloween postcard illustrated by H. B. Griggs. The lines about the "gobble-uns" are from " Little Orphant Annie " (1885), a poem by James Whitcomb Riley. For another Griggs card, see Have a Devilishly Happy Halloween .

Hood College , located in Frederick, Maryland, was known as the Woman's College of Frederick until 1913, the year before this Thanksgiving dinner was held. -------- Hood College, Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, 1914, Menu Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat and we can eat; Sae let the Lord be thankit. --Burns. Grape fruit au marasquin, olives, celery, radishes, salted almonds. Lemon sherbert, roast turkey with giblet sauce, sweet potatoes en glace, cranberry jelly, corn en creme. Bird's nest salad, saltines. Mince pie, pumpkin pie, nuts, raisins, mints, cafe demi tasse. Ah, sweet content, where doth thy labour hold? --Barnabe Barnes.

"With freedom's soil beneath our feet, and freedom's banner streaming o'er us." (Lines from Joseph Rodman Drake's poem, "The American Flag.")

A home sweet home photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park . Handwritten on the back of this real photo postcard: "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood." The words written on the back of the photo refer to a line from "The Old Oaken Bucket," a poem written by Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842) that was first set to music in 1826 and has become a popular song that's endured over the years. The poem begins: How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew! Whoever wrote on the back of the photo presumably had "fond recollections" of living here as a child and must have considered it a "home sweet home" (which itself is a reference to another song that also dates to the early nineteenth century). The namesake "gold elms" are visible just behind the house, which is a Colonial Revival Cape Cod , an architectural style common in the United States from the 1930s to 1950s. I'm not sure whether the dog that's visible among the shadows in the lower right-hand corner is there to welcome or to warn off the photographer.