The Poet’s Town (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
I'MID glad green miles of tillageAnd fields where cattle graze,A prosy little village,You drowse away the days.And yet — a ...
I'MID glad green miles of tillageAnd fields where cattle graze,A prosy little village,You drowse away the days.And yet — a ...
ITHE wild bee sips at the heat-drugged lipsOf the passionless lily a-nod;The sunflowers stare through the hush at the glareOf ...
TOO long mere words have thralled us. Let us think!Oh ponder, are we "free and equal" yet?That July bombast, writ ...
SOON shall you come as the dawn from the dumb abysm of night,Traveler birthward, Hastener earthward out of the gloom!Soon ...
OVER the steep cloud-cragsThe marching Day went down —Bickering spears and flags,Slant in a wind of Doom!Blear in the huddled ...
TREADER of the blue steeps and the hollows under!Day-Flinger, Hope-Singer, crowned with awful hair!Battle Lord with burning sword to cleave ...
WHEN I have finished with this episode,Left the hard, uphill road,And gone weird ways to seek another load, Oh, friends, regret ...
I do not pray for peace nor ease,Nor truce from sorrow:No suppliant on servile kneesBegs here against to-morrow!Lean flame against ...
PURPLE o'er the tree topsWild grapes sprawl;In the golden silenceFew birds call;Heavy laden SummerRipens toward the Fall.Weary with the seed ...
Seek not for me within a tomb;You shall not find me in the clay!I pierce a little wall of gloomTo ...
Give the good gaunt horse the rein,Sting him with the steel!Set his nervous thews astrain,Let him feel the winner's pain,Master-hand ...
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