FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
469
Ernest McGaffey
A California Idyll
A road-runner dodged through the chaparral.
desert, animals, sun, heat
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
470
Edwin Markham
The Lizard
I sit among the hoary trees.
Aristotle, hermit, gray friar, eternal youth, animal
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
471
Dorothy Scarborough
The Organ Cactus
Up from the desert desolate and bleak.
nature, sky, storm, hurricane, symphony, music
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
471
William Haskel Simpson
Yucca is Yellowing
Yucca is yellowing.
cactus, crimson, beauty, sunset
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
472
John P. Sjolander
The Last Longhorn's Farewell
I hear a sound, like music through the gale.
dust, summer, heat, meteors, centaur, sensations, nature, earth, hunger, thirst, flood, disaster, food, death
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
473 l
John P. Sjolander
The Pine of Whiting Wood
Not to the fury of the storm, though loud.
sun, fierce, death-song, nature, White Cove, peace, victory
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
474
George Sterling
The Black Vulture
Aloof upon the day's immeasured dome.
silence, eagle, falcon, sierras, dream, sunset, thunder
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
475
George Sterling
Father Coyote
At twilight time, when the lamps are lit.
chaparral, milking-time, rum, coyotedom, turkey, cat, mice, animals, rabbits
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
477
George Sterling
Pumas
Hushed, cruel, amber-eyed.
dusk, danger, great cats, grace
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
477
James van Rensselear
A Note on Lizards' Feet
Out on the desert.
hot sand, wings
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
477
Owen Wister
The Pinto
At Guayamas I born in this various world.
children's hoss, Ingless ,trade, travel, Gringo, Injuns, cowboys
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
478
Charles Erskin Scott Wood
Sagebrush
Oh, I am sick for the sagebrush.
longing, smell, fragrance, familiar, home
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
479
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To Midnight an Epitaph
Under this sod lies a great bucking hoss.
hoss-heaven, soul
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
488
Arthur Guiterman
Coyote and the Star
This is a legend from Siskiyou Bar.
dance, flame of the Sun, Frost Wizard, Salmon, Sisson, satellites, Star-fairy, Shasta, flight, Indians, limitless space, meteor, moral
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
491
John P. Jones
Silver Jack's Religion
I was on the drive in sixty, working under silver Jack.
Robert Wait, Bible, gab, sniggered, miracles, stories, Savior, religion, fistfight, Christ, hell, skeptic
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
492
Stoddard King
Etude Geographique
Out West, they say, a man's a man, the legend still persists.
Gosh, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Walla Walla, stories, manicured men, wimps, meek, galosh, umbrella
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
493
Henry Herbert Knibbs
The Lost Range
Only a few could understand his ways and his outfit queer.
Tom Bright, Pecos, Santa Fe, sage-brush garden, open range, eagle, hobo, grub, Buckman, Other Side, death
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
495
Vachel Lindsay
The Ghost of the Buffaloes
Last Night at black midnight I woke with a cry.
gods, Indians, dream, scalp-hunters, blood-thirst, massacres
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
498
John R. Painter
A Bob-Tailed Flush
There came unto me yesterday.
old man, traveled gentleman, cities, Europe, Versailles Treaty, opulence, misfortune
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
499
James Stevens
The Frozen Logger
As I sat down one ev'nin' in a timber-town caf?.
thumb, lover, whiskers, embrace, vertebrae, mackinaw, cold, hundred degrees below zero, China, broken jar
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
500
Ernest Douglas
Out Where the West Begins
Out where the talk is a little stronger.
trails, wild men, shy women, heat, lizards, jerky, beans, jackrabbits, devil, hell
Lyrics of the Lariat
FC 11 G-10
13
Nathan Kirk Griggs
The Cowboy
With eyes that were blazing, but now that are glazing.
cowboy, death, gambling, poker, saloon, barroom, shot
Lyrics of the Lariat
FC 11 G-10
18
Nathan Kirk Griggs
Vesper Cradle Song
Now the day at prayer is kneeling.
lullaby, baby
Lyrics of the Lariat
FC 11 G-10
20
Nathan Kirk Griggs
The Waters to the Hosts
As laughing brooklet goes to join the noble stream.
God, Lord, belief, stream, river, water
Lyrics of the Lariat
FC 11 G-10
23
Nathan Kirk Griggs
Passion Flowers
Love's many strange moods are blossoms of passion.
will, love, reason, Cupid