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
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.
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.