FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

When Life's Sun Goes Down

Tho' the gloom of night is falling.

afterlife, death, belief

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Reliance

I will not bow, in trial hour, and call for mortal arm.

belief, hardship

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Serpents

A thousand boughs are bending.

Satan, temptation, evil, sin, morality, serpent

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

The Deserted Church

There's an old gray church, deserted and lone.

memories, worship, childhood

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

An Irishman

Be there a sad note in an Irishman's lays.

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Inyan Kara

O Thou, my Inyan Kara, Thou Mount, in mount's embrace.

volcano, Wyoming, mountain

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

While I Dream

Oh, I often dream of the happy, happy golden hours.

childhood, memories, death, afterlife

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Field of Life

The world is a field, where trials abound.

morality, afterlife

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

What is Man?

An Alchemist, who wields the wonder-working stone.

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

High Mass of the Muses

In careless mood, I chanced to roam.

Berne, Switzerland, organ, music

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Garland the Land

Tho' the world is abloom, in the heart there is gloom.

rum, wine, alcohol, evil, sin, morality

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

A Suffragist Sufferer

Ach, frau, mein frau, mein liebe frau.

husband, wife, marriage, independence

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

The Two Trios

The Trio of sirens were queens of the sea.

Capri, magic, song, sailor, sailors, greed, envy, hate, avarice, morality

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Hope's Offering

Set free from sin's beguiling snare.

hope, belief

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Land of Rest

O Blessed Realm, where all may be.

faith, belief

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

The Loon Cry

I wandered in the northland.

bird, morality, foolishness

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

O Give Me Your Hand

When night has veiled the earth, so fair.

life, belief

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

The Father Seeth All

In the days when we are building.

sin, belief, God

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

The Unfailing Cruse

When thy cares are pressing.

sorrow

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

A Thirty Years' Dream

Where is that little school-house, Alf.

school, memories, past, youth, childhood, boy

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Do Not Fear

Fainting one, on foamy sea.

belief

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Love

When the cheeks of morn are glowing.

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

The Voice of Hope

O, Care, while hearts before you are bending.

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Joyless Youth

I feel quite sure the children now.

progress, change, youth, thought, childhood, play, learning, knowledge

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Nathan Kirk Griggs

Hope

Across a smiling sea.