The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge
by John Townsend Trowbridge (9781150503009)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Houghton Subjects: Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Something we gain of him and bear away Beside our purchase. We look awhile, upon the quivering bay And shimmering birches -- The young squaw bearing up from the canoes Some heavy lading; Along the beach a picturesque papoose Splashing and wading; The withered crone, the camp-smoke's slow ascent, The puffs that blind her; The girl, her silhouette on the sunlit tent Shadowed behind her; The stalwart brave, watching his burdened wife, Erect and stolid: We look, and think with pity of a life So poor and squalid Then at the cheering signal of a bell We slowly wander Back to the world, back to the great hotel Looming up yonder. AN IDYL OF HARVEST TIME Swift cloud, swift light, now dark, now bright, across the landscape played; And, spotted as a leopard's side in chasing sun and shade, To far dim heights and purple vales the upland rolled away, Where the soft, warm haze of summer days on all the distance lay. From shorn and hoary harvest-fields to barn and bristling stack, The wagon bore its beetling loads, or clattered empty back; The leaning oxen clashed their horns and swayed along the road, And the old house-dog lolled beside, in the shadow of the load. The children played among the sheaves, the hawk went sailing over, The yellow-bird was on the bough, the bee was on the clover, While at my easel by the oak I sketched, and sketched in vain: -- Coul...

USD $34.08

   Dispatch: 3 to 7 business days, stock levels permitting