FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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FC 11 C-03
159
Robert V. Carr
The Bad Lands
Bluffs of ochre and brown and red, in varied glory flare.
land, lonely, Bad Lands, isolation, silence
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
160
Robert V. Carr
The Rattlesnake
O'er sun-baked plains he winds his way.
snake, rattlesnake
Cowboy Lyrics
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161
Robert V. Carr
The Buttes
Half-hid in shadow, vague and drear.
buttes, landscape
Cowboy Lyrics
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162
Robert V. Carr
Prairie Wolves
Up where the white bluffs fringe the plain.
wolves, animals
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
163
Robert V. Carr
The Winds of the West
Oh, the west winds, the wild winds, glad vagrants and free.
wind, longing, call, nature
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
169
Robert V. Carr
Onjinjintka
Camped in the foot hills, their fires bright.
Indians, chief, smoke, Sioux, flowers, rose, lover, Indian-White relations, heartbreak, unrequited love, unfaithfulness
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
172
Robert V. Carr
The Gun Fight
Stern his eye and ever watchful.
knight, honor, loyalty, chivalry, gunfight
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
174
Robert V. Carr
Love and Death
I'm camping here alone tonight.
memories, lost love, death, longing, wondering, stars, God
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
175
Robert V. Carr
The Western Trail
In the beginning the Great Spirit gave the prairie rare gifts.
Indians, Sioux, conservation, White man, nature
Cowboy Lyrics
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176
Robert V. Carr
To a Buffalo Skull
On the sable wall doth thy great skull gleam, a regal ornament.
buffalo, skull
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FC 11 C-03
177
Robert V. Carr
At the Grave of a Border Cavalier
No more ring the shouts and the boisterous laughter.
boldness, cavalier, bravery, headstone, death
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
178
Robert V. Carr
The Doom of the Weak
Gaunt mother, the spring is not yet come.
nature, struggle, spring, winter
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
179
Robert V. Carr
The Night Stampede
The thunder rolled like a thousand drums.
death, stampede, hero, trampled
Cowboy Lyrics
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180
Robert V. Carr
The Circle
Yesterday a cave-man spoke.
time, land, progress, circle
Cowboy Lyrics
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181
Robert V. Carr
In Passing
You waved a slim brown hand tome with a grace that proved devotion.
lope, ride
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
182
Robert V. Carr
Dear Little Fire
Dear little fire by the upland trail, well fed with twigs of oak.
fire, twigs, oak, campfire, comfort
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
5
Bob A. Carson
Nature
Precepts. Poems. Pages.
nature, druids
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
6
Bob A. Carson
A Poet
It is to want a friend, to want a home.
poet, poetry, society, praise
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
6
Bob A. Carson
I Am a Slave
My beauty is not wine to me.
nature, art, praise
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
7
Bob A. Carson
Neck Deep in June
I was born one day neck deep in June.
June, work, spring, branding, calves
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
10
Bob A. Carson
The Art
All dumb animals are fair.
shoeing, animal training, animals
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
11
Bob A. Carson
A Teacher Should Know
A teacher should know the proper way.
doctor, teaching, training
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
12
Bob A. Carson
Teach With Kindness
You'll never know, just where a word of kindness will go.
kindness, teaching
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
13
Bob A. Carson
I Wish I Were a Cowboy
I wish I were a cowboy and rode in rodeos.
rodeo
Poems of American Cowboys & Nature
FC 11 C-04
13
Bob A. Carson
Cowboys
The cowboys they come and go.
adoration