Will Carleton
Will Carleton
William McKendree Carletonwas an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 October 1845
CountryUnited States of America
apple blossoms danced maiden rich silence stretched thoughts underneath within
Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.
sailed
If we who have sailed togetherFlit out of each other's view,The world will sail on, I think,Just as it used to do.
home
Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.
agree
We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea, And the more we arg'ed the question, the more we didn't agree
beats beetle drought full land loaded mortgage tempest worm
Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
earth fellow gets heaven home knows
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it whenHe's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
fate gold key learned lives lock sure
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
knowledge people towns
There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.
sweet fall autumn
Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.
gratitude father soul
We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
fate two keys
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
fall boys white
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
country hero army
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
house way hills
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.