Book/Printed Material A prairie idyl, and other poems.
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Image 1 of A prairie idyl, and other poems.- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 2 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. PS 150 Shelf, J 3 7 I8J8J2. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 7 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL AND OTHER POEMS. 16 cniCAGo: JANSEN. McCLURG, A COMPANY. 1882. ^rruu- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 8 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. copyright, Jansen, McClurg, Company, A. D. 1882. STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY THE CHICAGO LEGAL NEWS CO.- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 11 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. TO MISS JANE W. KENDALL. PROVIDENCE, R. I. WHAT GIFT, MY FRIEND, CAN BE WORTHY OF YOU, TO WHOM I OWE SO MUCH? BUT TAKE THIS LITTLE BOOK FOR YOURS, AND KNOW...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 12 of A prairie idyl, and other poems.- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 13 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. CONTENTS. PAGE A Prairie Idyl 9 Service and Sacrifice 32 Father 36 Heart of Sorrows 42 When I Call 53 These Three 55 Merlin 58 Married 67 Fast Asleep 72 From Saurian...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 14 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 8 CONTENTS. Roses 108 Love s Largess 114 One Night 116 Mother 124 One of the Twelve 133 Sonnets 149- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 15 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. I. Four groves stood up in Western lands, Burr-oaks and poplars thickets dense: Four ways they faced, and linked their hands, From rude unreverent eyes to fence A closure...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 16 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 10 A PRAIRIE IDYL. Deep-cradled, all its babbling stilled, Peered out a limpid, lazy pool, A-swoon with lulls and hushes; Thsnce either way for many a rod, From willows gray to brambles...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 17 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 11 IV. Her winter- whiteness, unde filed, Lent flowery grace to withered weeds, Where hardy insects ran, and wild Brave snow-birds, searching after seed? Through Boreal blore and bluster;...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 18 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 12 A PRAIRIE IDYL. Set clinging feet on stalk or stem, And sent roulades into the sky As if it needed filling. VI. Sweet tunes, I know not how or why, Transfusing,...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 19 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. Out-floating sleaves and spinnings light Sheer webs, diaphanous laces; Dsad gold of moneyworts outflung In royal largess, vetches rare, Blue-flags with paling rainbows hung, Wood-sorrels exquisitely fair, Like wondering...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 20 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 14 A FRAIRIE IDYL. IX. Green span-worms, clambering like sloths, Cicadse whetting horny beaks, Gold spiders weaving silvery cloths, And bees that rob like very Greeks To feed their queen-commanders; Red-mites that...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 21 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 15 Set awful challenges afloat, This little master, all alone Half-way in Heaven, would tune his throat And dare them to the trial. XL Even so The sun is...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 22 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 16 A PRAIRIE IDYL. Slight cleavers winding blossomed links, Fringed orchids, painted- cups fire-bright, And delicate lobelias; Blue skull-caps meant for reverend elves, Gay butterfly- weeds, their wings back- turned From whirling...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 23 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 17 XIV. Began a crazy wind to blow; Loomed up a black and massy cloud; Fell down the volumed floods that flow With volleying: thunders near and loud, With...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 24 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 18 A PRAIRIE IDYL. I toiled, my fragile friends to greet, Oat sang the birds Good cheer good cheer This way! Pure, purity I 1 So sweet! See see! a- waiting waiting!...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 25 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL, 19 Translucent flowers of marvellous hue, Red, amber, orange, all in one, Their brown- black anthers bursting To scatter out their powdered gold: One half with upward looks attent,...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 26 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 20 A PRAIRIE IDYL. XIX. Loud- whirring hawk-moths, large and fleet, Went honey-mad; the dipters small Caught wings, they bathed in airy heat; 1 saw the mottled minnows all, So had the...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 27 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 21 The king-bird bragged of battles dread, How he the stealthy hawk had whipped— That armed marauder cruel. XXI. While so they sallied, darted, dipped, Slow feathered seeds began...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 28 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 22 A PRAIRIE IDYL. Bore down the scale; the days of drouth Caught gusts from vast expanses. Now this way, that way, through the field The rattling reapers reaped the grain; And...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 29 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 23 XXIY. Strip 2d burrowers in the rooty loam, Tree-nesters, vaulters black and gray, Was ever aiding, brownie, gnome Or elf more deftly housed than they Those rapid disappearers...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 30 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 24 A PRAIRIE IDYL. The gilded wheat had two moons through Their triple-seeded pendules swung To tell the lagging moments. XXYI. Now all abroad though curtains clung About the doors of noondays...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 31 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 25 And tipped their flasked elixirs out, Nor wronged one growing gerinen. Soft-mirrored in the crimsoned pool, Plumed iron-weeds Quixotes grim Kept witless guard. From lurkings cool Green pepperworts,...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 32 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 26 A PRAIRIE IDYL. XXIX. Along the turf-made bridge that spanned The narrow slough and sunken swale, To keep the feet on firmer land, I, lingering, watched the ant folk frail Prepare...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 33 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PBAIRIE IDYL. 27 Careering clouds that met and crashed; Then hints of frost, a doubtful blush, One sumach, like a palette, clashed With umber, gold, vermilion. XXXI. And out again the...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 34 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 28 A PRAIBIE IDYL. But who shall join the hue-and-cry To catch the felon crows as well? With that, a rifle sounded; And one whom pitying grace must reach If he escape,...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 35 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A FBAIRIE IDYL. 29 XXXIV. I saw the splendors southward sink, And turned to wonder while I might At all those asters azure, pink, Gray-blue, pure indigo, purple, white. Not yet the...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 36 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 30 A PRAIRIE IDYL. To lift the field and move it thence, With ail its odors, fervors, damps, Its blooms, its thickets hazel-dense, The slopes from verge to centre; XXXVI. The storms...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 37 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. A PRAIRIE IDYL. 31 An Avalon, a flying isla, A soft-eniblossomed poet s dream, A sun-and-wind suspension: So let it swim in upper air, Made evident to mortal sight, A clear mirage,...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 38 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 32 SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. I. Whiter than dew-bleached flax or fleeces shorn, Large-moulded as for treading out the corn, Adorned with garlands looped from horn to horn, Meek -faced...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 39 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. 33 With deep heart-pantings and with horns down- tossed Among the wild- voiced people, desert-lost, Paying of all their sins the crimson cost, happy, happy oxen thus to lie...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
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Image 40 of A prairie idyl, and other poems. 34 SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. IV. And hear me yet (for I am faint with dread) Before Thy graven word, with down-bent head, Through sun and storm the beasts were wont to tread,...- Contributor: Jones, Amanda Theodocia
- Date: 1882