Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland
Hannibal Hamlin Garlandwas an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, Georgist, and parapsychology skeptic/researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 September 1860
CityWest Salem, WI
CountryUnited States of America
nature fall blood
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
nature sunset fire
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
summer distance boys
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.
nature blessed thinking
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
endless farmers ferocious glamour light poetry setting sun toil
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.