Harvest Time (John Jay Chapman Poems)
BEHOLD, the harvest is at hand;And thick on the encircling hillsThe sheaves like an encampment stand,Making a martial fairy-landThat half ...
John Jay Chapman Poems on Youth (5 Poems)
May, 1918 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE moon at midnight quenched her vaporous light,Leaving the stars but faintly brightLike tapers that burn ill;And in the fragrant ...
The Kneisel Quartet (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Lines read at the dinner given to its members upon their retirement)HAPPY the man who with steadfast devotionWalks through the ...
Heroes (John Jay Chapman Poems)
I SEE them hasting toward the lightWhere war's dim watchfires glow;The stars that burn in Europe's nightConduct them to the ...
Our Sailor (John Jay Chapman Poems)
OH yes, he came again! But 'twas not he.A youth no longer ours, nay, taller, older;A serious young ensign, stern, ...