Over The Hill From The Poor-house Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 324 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 1 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

I who was always counted they say	A
Rather a bad stick any way	A
Splintered all over with dodges and tricks	B
Known as the worst of the Deacon's six	B
I the truant saucy and bold	C
The one black sheep in my father's fold	C
Once on a time as the stories say	A
Went over the hill on a winter's day	A
Over the hill to the poor house	D
	-
Tom could save what twenty could earn	E
But givin' was somethin' he ne'er would learn	E
Isaac could half o' the Scriptur's speak	F
Committed a hundred verses a week	F
Never forgot an' never slipped	G
But Honor thy father and mother he skipped	G
So over the hill to the poor house	D
	-
As for Susan her heart was kind	H
An' good what there was of it mind	H
Nothin' too big an' nothin' too nice	I
Nothin' she wouldn't sacrifice	I
For one she loved an' that 'ere one	J
Was herself when all was said an' done	J
An' Charley an' 'Becca meant well no doubt	K
But any one could pull 'em about	K
	-
An' all o' our folks ranked well you see	L
Save one poor fellow and that was me	L
An' when one dark an' rainy night	M
A neighbor's horse went out o' sight	M
They hitched on me as the guilty chap	N
That carried one end o' the halter strap	N
An' I think myself that view of the case	O
Wasn't altogether out o' place	O
My mother denied it as mothers do	P
But I am inclined to believe 'twas true	P
Though for me one thing might be said	Q
That I as well as the horse was led	Q
And the worst of whisky spurred me on	R
Or else the deed would have never been done	J
But the keenest grief I ever felt	S
Was when my mother beside me knelt	S
An' cried an' prayed till I melted down	T
As I wouldn't for half the horses in town	T
I kissed her fondly then an' there	U
An' swore henceforth to be honest and square	U
	-
I served my sentence a bitter pill	V
Some fellows should take who never will	V
And then I decided to go out West	W
Concludin' 'twould suit my health the best	W
Where how I prospered I never could tell	X
But Fortune seemed to like we me well	X
An' somehow every vein I struck	Y
Was always bubblin' over with luck	Y
An' better than that I was steady an' true	P
An' put my good resolutions through	P
But I wrote to a trusty old neighbor an' said	Q
You tell 'em old fellow that I am dead	Q
An' died a Christian 'twill please 'em more	Z
Than if I had lived the same as before	Z
	-
But when this neighbor he wrote to me	L
Your mother's in the poor house says he	L
I had a resurrection straightway	A
An' started for her that very day	A
And when I arrived where I was grown	A2
I took good care that I shouldn't be known	A2
But I bought the old cottage through and through	P
Of some one Charley had sold it to	P
And held back neither work nor gold	C
To fix it up as it was of old	C
The same big fire place wide an' high	B2
Flung up its cinders toward the sky	B2
The old clock ticked on the corner shelf	C2
I wound it an' set it agoin' myself	C2
An' if every thing wasn't just the same	D2
Neither I nor money was to blame	D2
Then over the hill to the poor house	D
	-
One blowin' blusterin' winter's day	A
With a team an' cutter I started away	A
My fiery nags was as black as coal	E2
They some'at resembled the horse I stole	E2
I hitched an' entered the poor house door	Z
A poor old woman was scrubbin' the floor	Z
She rose to her feet in great surprise	F2
And looked quite startled into my eyes	F2
I saw the whole of her trouble's trace	O
In the lines that marred her dear old face	O
Mother I shouted your sorrows is done	J
You're adopted along o' your horse thief son	J
Come over the hill from the poor house	D
	-
She didn't faint she knelt by my side	G2
An' thanked the Lord till I fairly cried	G2
An' maybe our ride wasn't pleasant an' gay	A
An' maybe she wasn't wrapped up that day	A
An' maybe our cottage wasn't warm an' bright	M
An' maybe it wasn't a pleasant sight	M
To see her a gettin' the evenin's tea	L
An' frequently stoppin' and kissin' me	L
An' maybe we didn't live happy for years	H2
In spite of my brothers' and sisters' sneers	H2
Who often said as I have heard	I2
That they wouldn't own a prison bird	I2
Though they're gettin' over that I guess	J2
For all of 'em owe me more or less	J2
	-
But I've learned one thing an' it cheers a man	K2
In always a doin' the best he can	K2
That whether on the big book a blot	L2
Gets over a fellow's name or not	L2
Whenever he does a deed that's white	M
It's credited to him fair and right	M
An' when you hear the great bugle's notes	M2
An' the Lord divides his sheep an' goats	M2
However they may settle my case	O
Wherever they may fix my place	O
My good old Christian mother you'll see	L
Will be sure to stand right up for me	L
With over the hill from the poor house	D

Will Carleton

Over The Hill From The Poor-house Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about Over The Hill From The Poor-house poem by Will Carleton

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets