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Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life
Connecticut River reeds blown by the "Peasant Bard"
Canning, Josiah D. (1816-1892)
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ADDRESS TO CONNECTICUT RIVER.
AUTUMNAL LEAVES.
A WINTER NIGHT'S EPISTLE.
A WINTER MORNING'S EPISTLE TO SAME
A MOTHER'S LAMENT.
TO A BOB-A-LINK.
EPISTLE TO HUGH AINSLIE.
POEM
THE BLUE-BIRD.
ON PLANTING AN ELM TREE.
THE RUINED MILL.
NOCTURNE.
LINES
A STORMY NIGHT'S EPISTLE TO “OLD KNICK.”
A NIGHT IN A COUNTRY INN.
SONGS.
MARY, MAVOURNIN, ACUSHLA MA CREE.
THE WINDS THAT FROM MONADNOCK BLOW.
JOSIE, JOSEPHINE.
WHAT TIME THE KINE CAME DOWN THE BRAE.
A FEW LINES TO THE DEVIL, AND A WORD TO THE READER.
TO THE VIOLIN.
THE DESERTED SCHOOL-HOUSE.
RHEUMATISM.
AUTUMNAL.
THE BORDER HUNTER.
THE HUNTER'S HOME.
A WINTER THAW.
UNADILLA BROOK.
POEM
LINES TO A TURTLE,
INDIAN SUMMER.
THE FIELD FLOWER.
A NEW-YEAR'S LAY—1880.
NIGHT WATCH—AUGUST 31.
THE OLD COUNTRY CHURCH.
WIND OF THE WINTER NIGHT.
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Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life
The Blacksmith said, when he could see
Better than now, repeatedly
Cast iron he had welded well;
And tho' the thing seem'd strange to tell,
All that was needed, on the whole,
Was
gumption
and
right kind of coal
.
Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life