Category Archives: Child’s Calendar Beautiful (nature and other seasonal poems from the book)

Except for a few bits and pieces, this completes the Child’s Calendar Beautiful. In another week or two I’ll send it over to one of the online etext sites. SONG. THERE is ever a song somewhere, my dear; There is ever a something sings alway;There’s the song of the lark when the skies are clear, […]

THE CLOUD I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one,When rocked to rest on their mother’s breast, As she dances about the sun.I wield […]

OUR KIND OF A MAN 1. THE kind of a man for you and me IHe faces the world unflinchingly,And smites, as long as the wrong resists, With a knuckled faith and force like fists; He lives the life he is preaching of,And loves where most is the need of love; His voice is clear […]

AUGUST WINGS WINGS that flutter in sunny air;Wings that dive and dip and dare;Wings of the humming bird flashing byWings of the lark in the purple sky;Wings of the eagle aloft, aloof;Wings of the pigeon upon the roof;Wings of the storm bird swift and free, With wild winds sweeping across the sea:Often and often a […]