Wilderness Songs

by Grace H. Conkling

47 chapters1h 24mEnglish1920

About this book

This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling -- American poet, author and musician -- ranges in theme from close observations of the natural world to the loss and desolation of World War I. Having taught English for 34 years at Smith College, Conkling remains honored to this day with an annual poetry residency in her name. - Summary by Nemo

Chapters (47)

1The Road to Mount Tom

123

2The Road to Hockanum Ferry

109

3The Road to the Pool

4The Saw-mill on the Connecticut

5Songs on the Mohawk Trail (6 Short Poems)

303

6Journey's End

7War

8The Return of Jeanne D'arc

355

9Refugees- Belgium 1914

122

10At the Cross-roads

11Letter to an Aviator in France

285

12The Names

165

13Adventure

319

14Six Songs From Over There (6 Short Poems)

208

15The Dream

16The Ruined Cities

111

17His Letter

135

18The Nightingales of Flanders

19To Francis Ledwidge

20Rheims Cathedral- 1918

21Victory Bells

22‘Honorably Discharged’

23Poppies

24Frost on a Window

25Hilda in the Wood

26To the Schooner ‘Casco’

27A Letter to Elsa

140

28The Caribbean From a Northern Garden

29I Have Cared for You, Moon

30Dilemma

190

31Songs of Places-old Mexico (13 Short Poems)

347

32The Door-harp

33Bells at Evening

34Night Song

35A Child's Song Overheard

36Parting

37White Foxglove

38The Rainy Moon

39Garden Dusk

40The Rose

41Cedars

42Moonrise

43Solitude

44‘Nuit D'etoiles’

45‘Reflets Dans L'eau’

46Elegy for the Irish Poet, Ledwidge

47The Wilderness

Wilderness Songs

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