FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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William Lawrence Chittenden
To a Coquette
Her wit is like some diamond bright.
love, beauty, charm, caution
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William Lawrence Chittenden
The Old Texan in New York
Huh! Sal, this life won't suit me.
city life, fast life, homesick, Yankee husband, human roundup, suffocate, longing for nature
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William Lawrence Chittenden
Man
Man lives and dies! What more know we?
youth, old-age, mortality
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William Lawrence Chittenden
That Little Boy
His merry voice is silent now.
love, child, death, sadness, mourning
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William Lawrence Chittenden
A Serenade
Dear lovely lady, dream no more.
love song, sea, longing
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60
William Lawrence Chittenden
Texas
I crave not for her cities.
prairie, open range, love for nature, freedom, sea, solitude
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63
William Lawrence Chittenden
The Yachtsman's Song
Ho, comrades! Up anchor!
sea, water, sail, sailboat, wind
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William Lawrence Chittenden
Would N't You?
I met her at dusk 'midst the clover.
woman, beauty, love, lover, kisses, romance
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65
William Lawrence Chittenden
The Parson Pickax Gray
In ole days in Californy, in the yar uv forty-nine.
likker, liquor, alcohol, fun, sinner, preacher, religion, devil, Judgment Day
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69
William Lawrence Chittenden
A San Antonio Memory
In old San Antonio city.
Senorita, Gulf of Mexico, hacienda, Eden, memories, song, sadness, loss
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71
William Lawrence Chittenden
The Cynic and Poet
A cynic once said to a poet.
doubt, life, hope, future, positive, negative
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72
William Lawrence Chittenden
Ode to the Northern
Thrice welcome to the Northern.
wind, cold, Labrador, storm, Viking, weather
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73
William Lawrence Chittenden
The Dying Actor's Soliloquy
Life's farce is nearly ended.
monologue, age, sadness, grief, death
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74
William Lawrence Chittenden
The Maine Coast
Come away, gentle rader, to the cool coast of Maine.
sea, nature, landscape, Indian, animals, flowers, smugglers, buccaneers, pirates
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76
William Lawrence Chittenden
Maverick Bill
I met him at the round-ups on the Double.
New York, frontiersman, hero, soldier, singing, Swanee River, Annie Laurie, stars, Great Spirit, home, boyhood, family, death
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80
William Lawrence Chittenden
A Barefooted Boy
Exhausted to-night by the fire's dim glow.
past, memories, youth, childhood, boyhood, old home, happiness, Indians, father
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81
William Lawrence Chittenden
What is Life?
Ah, what is life? A bubble blown.
time, search, mystery of life, experience
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82
William Lawrence Chittenden
I'm Sad Tonight
I'm sad tonight -- alone am I.
grief, sadness, autumn, lonesome, woman, love, lost love
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83
William Lawrence Chittenden
Who Knows?
Through the meadows she is coming.
lovesong, uncertainty
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William Lawrence Chittenden
A Texas "Lamb," or The Cowboy in Wall Street
I wuz riz on a ranch in ole Texas, yer know.
New York, broker, stockmen, money, stock exchange, fortune, lose money
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86
William Lawrence Chittenden
A Drummer's Reverie by the Rio Grande
The wild prairie flowers with their beauty so rare.
open range, nature, isolation, boyhood, peace, memories, dreams
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88
William Lawrence Chittenden
Brer Brown's Collection
Look hyar, my Baptist breddren.
religion, money, preacher, collection, afterlife
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90
William Lawrence Chittenden
Remember the Alamo
Fair Greece and Rome brave heroes knew.
Texas, rangers, Gettysburg, Waterloo, Lone Star, honor, battle, freedom, bravery
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91
William Lawrence Chittenden
A Sonnet to Night
The twilight's laces fringe the sea.
silence, nature,
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William Lawrence Chittenden
Lady Belle -- A Villanelle
Lovely lady, Lady Belle.
music, love song, love, courtship