Boys and Girls
James W. Foley
114 chapters · 4 h 23 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Nichalia Schwartz, Ellies, mleigh, ambsweet13, Josh Ausfahl and others
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A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each poem is written from the point of view of children or about children. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
Chapters
1 Away 2 min 2 The Reciprocity of Smiles 2 min 3 A Domestic Ripple 3 min 4 The Adams's Boys 3 min 5 Billy Peeble's Christmas 7 min 6 The Way He Used to Do 2 min 7 A Boy's Vacation Time 3 min 8 A Boy's Choice 2 min 9 A Discouraged Kindergartner 2 min 10 The Delusion of Ghosts 2 min 11 A Story of Self-Sacrifice 4 min 12 The Lost Child 2 min 13 Doughnutting Time 2 min 14 A Modern Miracle 1 min 15 Nervoustown 3 min 16 Song of Summer Days 1 min 17 What Mother Doesn't Know 3 min 18 So Lonesome Now 2 min 19 A Little Love Story 2 min 20 On a Noiseless Fourth 2 min 21 Conscious Ignorance 2 min 22 The Playtime of Bachelor Bill 3 min 23 How Henry Blake Knows 2 min 24 The Land of Blow Bubbles 3 min 25 The Gingercake Man 2 min 26 Lonesome 3 min 27 The Garden of Play 2 min 28 We Ain't Scared of Pa 2 min 29 A Pearl of Price 1 min 30 Dear Little, Queer Little Man 2 min 31 Girl of Mine 1 min 32 Chums 2 min 33 The Lost Boy 2 min 34 Lines to a Baby Girl 2 min 35 Little Mischefuss 2 min 36 The Travels of Mortimer Brown 3 min 37 Adventurers Three 2 min 38 When They Love You So 2 min 39 Somebody Did 2 min 40 The Waders 2 min 41 The Prisoned Pupil 2 min 42 A Prayer for Jimmy Banks 2 min 43 A Child's Christmas Prayer 2 min 44 Henry Blake's Chum 3 min 45 Once Upon a Time 2 min 46 The Way to School 2 min 47 A Present for Little Boy Blue 2 min 48 The Evolution of an Adoption 2 min 49 Some Girls that Mamma Knew 2 min 50 Gone 2 min 51 The Neighbor's Boys 2 min 52 A Quiet Afternoon 2 min 53 The Ownerless Toys 3 min 54 The Stranger 2 min 55 In Vacation Time 2 min 56 Bereaved 3 min 57 Two Little Maids 2 min 58 A New Christmas Carol 3 min 59 The Reconciliation of Pa 3 min 60 A World without Care 1 min 61 Right After School 3 min 62 A Plea for Old Friends 2 min 63 The Boyville Cadets 4 min 64 A Little Boy I Know 4 min 65 Asleep at the Circus 2 min 66 The Barriers 3 min 67 The Plaint of the New Doll 3 min 68 A Child's Almanac 2 min 69 The Loser 3 min 70 Back to School 2 min 71 Disenchantments 2 min 72 A Rainy Night 2 min 73 Kitchen Miracles 1 min 74 Jim Brady's Big Brother 2 min 75 The Scapegoat 1 min 76 A Tragedy of Center Field 2 min 77 In Swimming 2 min 78 An Unusual Chum 1 min 79 And Just Then 3 min 80 Afterwards 2 min 81 Circus Day 2 min 82 The Tour of a Smile 2 min 83 When Grandpa Plays 3 min 84 The Parted Ways 2 min 85 A Message Home 3 min 86 Lullaby 1 min 87 Disguising Toil 3 min 88 Little Girl with the Curls 2 min 89 My Wonderful Dad 4 min 90 Remembrances, Bill 3 min 91 The Bereavement 3 min 92 In Childhood Time 2 min 93 Don't 2 min 94 Extinguished 1 min 95 The Uncheered Hero 2 min 96 Old Hallowe'en Friends 2 min 97 A Refuge in Distress 2 min 98 The Lost Heart 4 min 99 Verses of a Little Child 2 min 100 Golden Days in Slowville 3 min 101 The Heart of a Child 2 min 102 The Strenuous Life 2 min 103 A Song of Motherhood 3 min 104 Youth 2 min 105 After the Years 3 min 106 A Verse to Memory 2 min 107 Lest I Forget 2 min 108 Echo of a Song 2 min 109 Lovers' Lane 3 min 110 To Children at the Hearth 2 min 111 Daddy Knows 2 min 112 A Toast to the Small Boy 3 min 113 An Adventurous Day 3 min 114 Poem of the Foragers 2 min
