Sunflowers: A Book of Kansas PoemsA. C. McClurg & Company, 1917 - 208 pages Anthology of poems by Kansas authors. |
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Albert Bigelow Paine back to Kansas beauty beneath bird blades bloom blow blue C. L. Edson Che-wink cheer cloud dark dawn dear desert Dorothy Statton dream dust of Kansas dusty ears East Esther eyes face farm farmer feet gleaming glory gold golden grain grass gray green hands that cling Harry Kemp harvest hear heart hill John Brown land light lips little old sod Lord's come back morning mother Mount Oread neath never night o'er old sod shanty Osawatomie pass Pawnee Rock Pawpaws plain poems prairie Prairie Wind Richard Realf Rose Morgan shadows shine sing skies sleep song soul spring stars sunflower sweet thee there's things tree treetops Twas Vachel Lindsay voice walls of corn Walt Mason watched West wheat wide wild Willard Wattles William Allen White William Herbert Carruth wind wings woman yellow York Evening Mail
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Page 17 - Ah, Sunflower! Ah, sunflower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
Page 5 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . And...
Page 105 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free...
Page 198 - In a very humble cot. In a rather quiet spot, In the suds and in the soap, Worked a woman full of hope ; Working, singing, all alone, In a sort of undertone. " With the Savior for a friend, He will keep me to the end.
Page 6 - EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell ; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God. A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high, — And all over upland and lowland The charm of the goldenrod, — Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God.
Page 106 - re flowing from our native hills As our free rivers flow ; The blessing of our Mother-land Is on us as we go. We go to plant her common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wild The music of her bells. Upbearing, like the Ark of old, The Bible in our van, We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man.
Page 199 - Not in sorrow nor in glee Working all day long was she, As her children, three or four, Played around her on the floor ; But in monotones the song She was humming all day long: " With the Savior for a friend, He will keep me to the end.
Page 7 - When the moon is new and thin, Into our hearts high yearnings Come welling and surging in, — Come from the mystic ocean, Whose rim no foot has trod, — Some of us call it longing, And others call it God. A picket frozen on duty, — A mother starved for her brood, — Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood ; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway trod, — Some call it consecration, And others call it God.
Page 4 - THREE STATES. Of all the States, but three will live in story : Old Massachusetts with her Plymouth Rock, And old Virginia with her noble stock, And Sunny Kansas with her woes and glory...
Page 23 - Strong man of the prairies, Mourn bitter and wild ! Wail, desolate woman ! Weep, fatherless child ! But the grain of God springs up From ashes beneath, And the crown of his harvest Is life out of death.