Farm Ballads

Will Carleton

jan. 1873 · IndyPublish.com

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FARM BALLADS. Betsey and I are out -- How Betsey and I made up -- Gone with a handsomer man -- Johnny Rich -- Out of the old house, Nancy -- Over the hill to the poor-house -- Over the hill from the poor-house -- Uncle Sammy -- Tom was goin' for a poet -- Goin' home to-day -- Out o' the fire -- The new church organ -- The editor's guests -- The house where we were wed -- The mother's return -- How Jamie came home -- The clang of the Yankee Reaper -- Why should they kill my baby? -- The old man meditates -- OTHER POEMS -- Apple-blossoms -- Apples growing -- The Christmas Tree -- Autumn days -- The fading flower -- Picnic Sam -- One and two -- Death-doomed -- Up the line -- Forward! -- The ship-builder --How we kept the day -- Our Army of the dead -- Mending the old flag.