FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
29769 results found for "No Search Criteria Set"Book Title
Composer
Call #
Pages
Author
Poem Title
First Lines
Keywords
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
5
Edwin Ford Piper
The Last Antelope
Behind the board fence at the banker's house, The slender, tawn-gray creature starves and thirsts
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
6
Edwin Ford Piper
The Cowboy
Belted with Colt and cartridge, spur on heel, the tall, spare form is tricked for holiday
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
8
Edwin Ford Piper
The Settler
In Westertown a statue rules the square, the settler as the sculptor visioned him
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
9
Edwin Ford Piper
The Horse Thief
By the ditch in the hollow stands the tree, A cottonwood with deeply wrinkled bark
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
13
Edwin Ford Piper
Barbed Wire
The prairie cleft by skirmish lines of fence, High-headed longhorns bound for pastures new
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
15
Edwin Ford Piper
The Well
Within the lumber wagon by the well, The barrels stand, and little snowflakes drive
water
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
17
Edwin Ford Piper
The Windmill
Yes, July heat. You'll drink another dipper. The old wheel creaks and strains. Give her good breezes
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
21
Edwin Ford Piper
Breaking Sod
The level field of gray-green buffalo grass, Still narrows as the sweating bays plod on
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
22
Edwin Ford Piper
The Sod House
The hoof-beats sound, the harness clacks and clinks, the wagon rattles in the frosty air
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
24
Edwin Ford Piper
The Drought
The light of noon comes reddened from a sky, a-blur with dust the irritable wind
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
25
Edwin Ford Piper
The Ford at the River
Through thin, gray, moving clouds a summer sun
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
26
Edwin Ford Piper
The Prairie Fire
With all dry grasses rustling in the breeze, Where fireguards saved them.
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
28
Edwin Ford Piper
The Boy on the Prairie
At thirteen he first saw a railway train, with all the amazing violence of the wheels
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
30
Edwin Ford Piper
Annie
Maybe nine years, her hair in yellow braids
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
32
Edwin Ford Piper
The Grasshoppers
Down by the orchard plot a man and boy
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
34
Edwin Ford Piper
The Schoolmistress
In morning breeze, the Indian summer's gold
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
38
Edwin Ford Piper
The River Once More
Since yesterday under a stiff north wind
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
41
Edwin Ford Piper
Ten Cents a Bushel
The level sunrise brings a simple glory
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
43
Edwin Ford Piper
Three Per Cent a Month
Soft April sunshine sweetens all the world
percent, mortgage, wheat, expenses, costs
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
45
Edwin Ford Piper
Meanwhile
The August sun had still two hours of sky, when the white flag a-flutter from the house signaled him in to find
sickness, death
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
49
Edwin Ford Piper
The Church
The blinding July sun at ten o'clock, Glares on the white walls of the little church
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
55
Edwin Ford Piper
Have You an Eye
Have you an eye for the trails, the trails, the old mark and the new?
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
57
Edwin Ford Piper
The Ridge Farm
The ridge is open to all moody weather:
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
62
Edwin Ford Piper
In the Canyon
This is her diary. Come with me to view the canyon
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
74
Edwin Ford Piper
Road and Path
O, road and path, and path and road