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 ...
John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems (28 Poems)
Glaucus (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
GLAUCUS, the fisher, sat his tossing craft:The sun was dying on the Roman lake,And, save where Day, departing, grimly laughed,The ...
Prarie Storm Rune (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
ITHE wild bee sips at the heat-drugged lipsOf the passionless lily a-nod;The sunflowers stare through the hush at the glareOf ...
The Ghostly Brother (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
BROTHER, Brother calling meLike a distant surfy sea,Like a wind that moans and grievesAll night long about the eaves;Let me ...
The Story (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
YEARLY thrilled the plum treeWith the mother-mood;Every June the rose stockBore her wonder-child:Every year the wheatlandsReared a golden brood:World of ...
The Red Winds Come! (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
TOO long mere words have thralled us. Let us think!Oh ponder, are we "free and equal" yet?That July bombast, writ ...
Ballad Of A Child (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Yearly thrilled the plum treeWith the mother-mood;Every June the rose stockBore her wonder-child:Every year the wheatlandsReared a golden brood:World of ...
The Poet’s Advice (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
IYOU wish to be a poet, Little Man?More verses limping 'neath their big intent?Well — one must be a poet ...
Vision (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
SOON shall you come as the dawn from the dumb abysm of night,Traveler birthward, Hastener earthward out of the gloom!Soon ...
In The Night (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
OVER the steep cloud-cragsThe marching Day went down —Bickering spears and flags,Slant in a wind of Doom!Blear in the huddled ...
The Weavers (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
SUNS flash, stars drift,Comes and goes the moon;Ever through the wide milesCorn fields croonPatiently, hopefully,A low, slow tune.Lovingly, longingly,Labors without ...
Dawn Song (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
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 Gone Weird Ways (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
WHEN I have finished with this episode,Left the hard, uphill road,And gone weird ways to seek another load, Oh, friends, regret ...
Heritage (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
OH, there are those, a sordid clan,With pride in gaud and faith in gold,Who prize the sacred soul of manFor ...
Battle Cry (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
More than half beaten, but fearless,Facing the storm and the night;Breathless and reeling but tearless,Here in the lull of the ...
The News (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
LITTLE Breezes, lurking in the green-roofed covers,Where the dappled gloaming keeps the cool night dews,Up, and waft the wonder of ...
Prayer For Pain (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
I do not pray for peace nor ease,Nor truce from sorrow:No suppliant on servile kneesBegs here against to-morrow!Lean flame against ...
End Of Summer (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
PURPLE o'er the tree topsWild grapes sprawl;In the golden silenceFew birds call;Heavy laden SummerRipens toward the Fall.Weary with the seed ...
Outward (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Wither away, O Sailor! say?Under the night, under the day,Yearning sail and flying sprayOut of the black into the blue,Where ...
Morning Glories (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Distant as a dream's flight,Lay an eerie plain,Where the weary moonlightSwooned into a moan;Wailing after dead seedCame the ghost of ...
Triumph (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
SEE how the blue-girt hills are spreadWith regal cloth of gold;How, panoplied in haughty red,The frosted maples stand;The golden rod, ...
Cry Of The People (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
TREMBLE before thy chattels,Lords of the scheme of things!Fighters of all earth's battles,Ours is the might of kings!Guided by seers ...
L’envoi (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Seek not for me within a tomb;You shall not find me in the clay!I pierce a little wall of gloomTo ...
The Lyric (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
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 ...
Money (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
A SON of Adam dug beside the way."Why, Brother, do you dig?" I stopped to ask.Standing at stoop and pausing ...
Let Me Live Out My Years (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Let me live out my years in heat of blood!Let me die drunken with the dreamer's wine!Let me not see ...
April The Maiden (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Longings to grow and be vaster,Sap songs under the blue;Hints of the Mighty MasterMaking its dream come true.Gaunt limbs winter-scarred, ...
Lullaby (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
SUN-FLOOD, moon-gleamEbb and flow;Twinkle-footed star flocksCome and go:Eager little Stranger,Sleep and grow!Yearning in the moon-liftSurge the seas;Southering, the sun-luredGray goose ...