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Farm Ballads
Will Carleton
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Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston.
Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston.
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And she will mourn and cry for what she has left behind;
And maybe she'll sometimes long for me—for me—but no!
I've blotted her out of my heart, and I will not have it so.
And yet in her girlish heart there was somethin' or other she had
That fastened a man to her, and wasn't entirely bad;
And she loved me a little, I think, although it didn't last;
But I mustn't think of these things—I've buried 'em in the past.
I'll take my hard words back, nor make a bad matter worse;
She'll have trouble enough; she shall not have my curse;
But I'll live a life so square—and I well know that I can—
That she always will sorry be that she went with that han'somer man.
Ah, here is her kitchen dress! it makes my poor eyes blur;
It seems, when I look at that, as if 'twas holdin' her.
And here are her week-day shoes, and there is her . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
**I'd left the review below for the ebook, but I received the vintage hardback and wish I could add even more stars. The cover and illustrations within enhance the reading experience even more.
Review:
Will Carleton has become my favorite poet. After finding a copy of Farm Legends in an antique store
Will Carleton has become my favorite poet. After finding a copy of Farm Legends in an antique store, I delighted in each ballad. Of course I had to find Farm Ballads, so I found it in ebook. It is delightful, but lacks the format and beautiful sketches present in his hardbacks! I located a vintage c
Very sweet home-town poems from the late 1800s, I'd estimate. Most of the stories have happy endings, too. My favorite is "The Old Man Meditates", wherein a patriarch laments the passing of the quiet days of close community by the roaring technology of 'Progress'.
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