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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VERMONT Matches Found: 151 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAY OF MEMPHREMAGOG, by LAVINIA S. TYLER GOODWIN Poem Text First Line: Not as when, in summer days Last Line: "idlers, haste, -- build, build your wall!" Subject(s): Memphremagog (lake), Vermont A LITTLE WHILE, by JANICE MEREDITH GOODRICH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: A little while, vermont, a little while Last Line: With quiet eyes—with quiet eyes. Subject(s): Vermont A SNOW-STORM; SCENE IN A VERMONT WINTER, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a fearful night in the winter time Last Line: Where she lay when she floundered down. Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Vermont A SOLDIER BOY TO HIS GREEN MOUNTAIN MARY, by FREDERICK W. SHELTON Poem Text First Line: Oh, sweet is the breath of the morning Last Line: On the banks of the charming lamoille. Subject(s): Love; Vermont A THOUGHTLESS GUEST, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: We gave you mountain fare Last Line: Is naught to mountain men. Subject(s): Guests; Mountain Life - Vermont; Rudeness; Visiting; Bad Manners A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny how our ancestors Last Line: With some deliberation. Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals A VERMONT AUCTIONEER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er an auction bill I see Last Line: He lived and died an auctioneer. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Villages; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT BOOTMAKER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's lots of other themes and things Last Line: The boots that loren lawrence made? Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Parades; Vermont A VERMONT BREAKFAST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer days speed up so fast Last Line: And glorifies that apple. Subject(s): Apples; Food & Eating; Fruit; Vermont A VERMONT BUTTERY, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Us children liked the kitchen room Last Line: Behind the buttery door. Subject(s): Butter; Vermont A VERMONT CHICKEN BUYER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stronger grew november's cold Last Line: With other chaps and chickens. Subject(s): Business; Chickens; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Vermont; Businessmen; Businesswomen A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A VERMONT GENERAL-UTILITY MAN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We used to have a man in town Last Line: That bested jerry king. Subject(s): Ingenuity; Neighbors; Vermont A VERMONT GRINSTONE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our old big grinstone used to stand Last Line: And leaves him only one to turn. Subject(s): Railroads; Stones; Vermont; Wagons; Wheels; Railways; Trains; Granite; Rocks A VERMONT KITCHEN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady some call 'mrs. Looz' Last Line: No stranger, though a tramp, could stifle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT PASTURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have to work your tillage land Last Line: Upon your pastur ledges. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT RASCAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every town has got, I guess ...' Last Line: He'll have no gravestone when he's gone. Subject(s): Country Life; Vermont A VERMONT SUNDAY DINNER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sermons, sunday school between Last Line: To get dried beef for dinner. Subject(s): Beef; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Vermont ADDISON COUNTY, VERMONT, CLAY, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north vermonter who would fain Last Line: In travelling over first-class clay. Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips ALBANY BUS STATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same fat man with the fluorescent vest Last Line: Pulls in to take me home to brandon. Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips AN OLD VERMONT CELLAR HOLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To wander near a ruined home Last Line: Of lilacs set in roses. Subject(s): Cellars; Vermont; Basements ANCIENTS OF NEW ENGLAND; 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF BURLINGTON, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back from the lake, proud mountains Last Line: Mountains of vermont. Subject(s): Burlington, Vermont APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night. Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ver purpureum horace loved Last Line: Up here at jim mcnally's. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Peace; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BANKING UP VERMONT HOUSES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house without a suller wall Last Line: They know you've finished banking up. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BLASTING ROCKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cutting corn is late Last Line: And squandered forty plunks. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BOB IN HIS VALLEY, by MARIA TERRONE Poem Source First Line: After twenty years in vermont Last Line: Unable to account for imbalance, %the fleeting weight it bore Subject(s): Life; Nature; Vermont BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night! Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most farms, in any place you please Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers CANDIDATING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bet that folks up here this week Last Line: "with candidating in vermont." Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Vermont; Voting; Voters; Suffrage CHELSEA, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: I have known villages where brooding hills Last Line: Verbena, marigold and bleeding heart. Subject(s): Chelsea, Vermont CLEANING OUT THE SULLER IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time to clean the suller out Last Line: "it's pretty clean down suller." Subject(s): Cattle; Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CONVIVIAL SONG FOR GENERAL MORRIS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not of your washingtons Last Line: The governor's seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Allen, Ira (1751-1814); American Revolution; Bradley, Stephen R. (1754-1830); Chittenden, Thomas (1730-1797); Enos, Roger; Lyon, Matthew (1746-1822); Morris, Lewis Richard (1760-1825); Sullivan, John (1740-1795); Tichenor, Isaac (1754-1838); Vermont CROWNING VERMONT; FOR THE BROOKLYN SOCIETY OF VERMONTERS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we crown vermont? With the beauty and balm of her mountains? Last Line: With the might of the hills and the seas we will crown her to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Patriotism; Vermont CUTTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer 'moves right up the line' Last Line: "and ""set,"" with father, ""'round the hill." Subject(s): Cattle; Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers DIGGING POTATERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, you'll pick the dustiest day Last Line: And dream of saratoga chips. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Potatoes; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers DIPPING CANDLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-dipping candles used to be Last Line: Can turn no tastier trick today. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandchildren; Vermont; Relatives; Grandsons; Granddaughters DOG DAYS IN VERMONT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cistern on the hill, sucked dry and sizzling Last Line: Imagination's limits, how they fade... %even the dogs are sleeping in their pens. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Vacation; Vermont EARLY DAYS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've read the settlers, bless their souls Last Line: To borrow jest a carpet tack. Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Farm Life; Vermont; Loans; Agriculture; Farmers EARLY SPRING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's tune is up Last Line: When the sun runs high. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring; Vermont ELEGY UPON A DEAD SALMON, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thee no more shall water quechee pour Last Line: But if thou crest the wave with virgin finn &c -- Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Quechee Gorge, Vermont; Salmon FALL COMES IN BACK-COUNTRY VERMONT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deader they die here, or at least Last Line: I touch the hand there on the pillow Subject(s): Vermont; Country Life; Autumn FALL COMES IN BACK-COUNTRY VERMONT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deader they die here, or at least Last Line: The whistling down-plunge to the mountain's shade. %I touch the hand there on the pillow Subject(s): Vermont FIREWORKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When our home town was old enough Subject(s): Fireworks; Vermont FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say Last Line: You wish you owned another stove! Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen GIHON, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They all wore little hats Subject(s): Rivers; Vermont GOING CROSSLOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who says with solemn pride Last Line: "that ""wheel"" themselves to death." Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Migrant Labor; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers GREASING BOOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To keep a feller's boots in trim Last Line: When settled weather struck your boots. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers HARVEST TIME IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like that scripture line that says Last Line: They are not white for harvest now. Subject(s): Harvest; Vermont HAYING TIME IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something more to 'haying time' Last Line: Is that it? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Vermont HAYING, VERMONT AND GINGER DRINK COORDINATED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know what dido drank, a scholar Last Line: Vermont's great beverage, ginger drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Vermont; Water; Wine HOUSECLEANING DAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To clean a house is still some job Last Line: The day we cleaned the house. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Household Employees; Vermont; Servants; Domestics; Maids HOW BARRE, VERMONT, WAS NAMED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if you've ever heard Last Line: "now barre is the name." Subject(s): Barre, Vermont; Mountain Life - Vermont; Towns JERICHO, VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first 'big man' I ever knew Last Line: And touch the earth in jericho. Subject(s): Towns; Windsor, Vermont LINES ON BRATTLEBORO, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wild sweet valley, hid among the mountains blue Last Line: A scene so true, yet romance like, as brattleboro vale. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Brattleboro, Vermont LITTLE JERRY, THE MILLER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the hill you may see the mill Last Line: But jerry, the miller, is dead and gone. Subject(s): Highgate, Vermont; Mills & Millers LOOKING OVER VERMONT TOWN RESORTS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along before marchmeeting day Last Line: And them that search the town reports. Subject(s): Courthouses; Towns; Vermont MAKING SOAP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last thursday, down by slipshod hill Last Line: To make and own a tub of soap. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Mountain Life - Vermont; Soup; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MANSFIELD, by ELLEN ELIZA HALL PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Around me rise / the 'hills' of god Last Line: Thy memory dearer than thyself shall be. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Ada J. Subject(s): Mount Mansfield, Vermont MENDING BRUSH FENCE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the spring the cattle moo Last Line: Of that old fence. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MID-APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out his heavenly sallyport Last Line: Right here by uncle cully's. Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas NATURE FAKIRS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I've read about enough Last Line: In ethan allen's honest land. Subject(s): Nature; Vermont NEW VERMONT NAMES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to like the lowery days Last Line: And every horsepond crystal lake. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Vermont NO VERMONTERS IN HEAVEN, by ERNEST F. JOHNSTONE Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I went to the city of gold Last Line: "then hikes his way back to vermont." Subject(s): Vermont OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers OPIATE, by O'NEAL CALLAHAN Poem Text First Line: I dream to rid myself Last Line: Than those of crude realities. Subject(s): Dreams; Vermont ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around our center meetinghouse Last Line: As our poor meetinghouse. Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Public Worship; Social Problems; Vermont; Cathedrals; Church Attendance OUR OLD VERMONT APPLE POLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on along through life I go Last Line: A picture of our apple pole. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Fruit; Harvest; Trees; Vermont OUR OLD VERMONT LUMBER WAGON, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thing that often 'pears to me Last Line: Our old blue lumber wagon. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Woodsmen OUR OLD VERMONT PARLOR-ROOM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of tiptoeing through our parlor-room Last Line: I tiptoe fast away. Subject(s): Dreams; Vermont; Nightmares PAN IN VERMONT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's forty in the shade today the spouting eaves declare Last Line: He's left us (I'll forgive him all) the may-flower 'neath her snow! Subject(s): Vermont PAPERMILL GRAVEYARD, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: In that country of thresholds we move like vandals Last Line: Works in the wafer's paste, hardens the knife's edge, and delivers %our unhaunted world to the princ Subject(s): Cemeteries; Vermont PEARL HARBOR DAY 1970, by RICHARD LOURIE Poem Source First Line: Just this morning I signed the contract Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees; Vermont PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep." Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PITCHING HAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's opposites, go where you will Last Line: Of pitching off and on. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers PLANTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learnt soon after I was born Last Line: "no crows are working johnson's corn." Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers PLAYING CHECKERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afore the game of goff come 'round Subject(s): Vermont POEM TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING ABOUT A CERTAIN DAY IN VERMONT, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty wizzards working in the wind Last Line: Galaxies were thick, weather was clear Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Vermont PRE-TOWNMEETING TALK IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About a week before town meeting Last Line: "will make our wallets mighty sick." Subject(s): Public Service; Towns; Vermont PUTTING THE CREAM IN THE WELL OF VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We all have seen a sultry spurt Last Line: We storaged down the well. Subject(s): Business; Vermont; Wells; Businessmen; Businesswomen RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could only spin a top Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RIDING HORSE TO CULTIVATE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hottest seat in any state Last Line: This riding horse to cultivate. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell Last Line: They're passing not to come again. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SHALL VERMONTERS RAISE SHEEP?, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the boston papers say Last Line: Until there's more demand for sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF THE VERMONTERS, 1779, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho - all to the borders! Vermonters, come down Last Line: In the name of vermont we defy all the world! Subject(s): American Revolution; Vermont SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPRING BEHIND ASCUTNEY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the pussy-willow shows Last Line: Shall brand her image, bright with mutability. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ascutney, Vermont; Spring ST. ALBANS; CENTENARY POEM: 1788-1888, by SARAH ANN MOONEY WATSON Poem Text First Line: Along the outposts of time's stately march Last Line: To bid us guard them well. Subject(s): Saint Albans, Vermont STOCK AND VERMONT PUNKINS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what 'twas fun to do Last Line: The same as hide and hair. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Migrant Labor; Pumpkins; Vermont; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers SUNRISE ON MANSFIELD MOUNTAIN, by ALICE BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O swift forerunners, rosy with the race! Subject(s): Mount Mansfield, Vermont THAT'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any stranger thinks vermont Last Line: Or boom! Bing! Bang! Wow! Wang! And zip! Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers THE 'TRUE VERMONTER', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said the true vermonter's gait Last Line: Is thunderation on a guess. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE CHESTNUT TREE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Misshapen seed! Thy uncouth form Last Line: Bloom in immortal verdure there. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Brattleboro, Vermont; Chestnut Trees; Industrial Revolution; Kennicott, Benjamin (1718-1783) THE CROWS AT 3 A.M., by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The politically correct, perfect snow of vermont Last Line: In the air live in a lonelness we can only imagine Subject(s): Vermont; Crows; Solitude; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountains, that far off lift up your heads Last Line: O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 9 Subject(s): Green Mountains, Vermont THE HILLS OF OLD VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'native' hills of old vermont Last Line: Amidst the hills of old vermont. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THE LAKE IN VERMONT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lake once lay, where the thunder clouds sail Last Line: And where the flower smiles is the serpent of death. Subject(s): Lakes; Vermont; Pools; Ponds THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plantin' time's already here Last Line: As to lose his soul. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Seeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer wilderness, a blue light Last Line: The real and only sanity to me Subject(s): Birds; Loons; Mountain Life - Vermont; Summer THE MEN OF WINDSOR, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HEWITT Poem Text First Line: Why wage these men of windsor Last Line: Whatever joys they want! Subject(s): Vermont; Windsor, Vermont THE MIDDLEBURY, VERMOUNT, FAIR, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thirteen teams go past your door Last Line: Wound up the merry fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Middlebury College; Vermont; Fairs; Pageants THE MOUNTAIN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black summer, black vermont. Who sees Last Line: Really there? Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont THE OLD VERMONT FARM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every day some village care ...' Last Line: It's good enough for me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers THE PASSING OF THE OLD VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go up and down these days Last Line: Of course, must pass away. Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Vermont; Cathedrals THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PROCTORSVILLE AND WINDSOR, VERMONT, STAGE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was 'round the wide-eyed age Last Line: You bet, he glorified that stage. Subject(s): Country Life; Vermont THE RIVER OTTER, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A hundred times the summer's fragrant blooms Last Line: And young romance knew not its winding shore. Subject(s): Otter (river), Vermont THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It surely does you good Last Line: Will guard your honor still. Subject(s): Education; Flags - United States; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Vermont; American Flag; Students THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man we knew of yore Last Line: The past and present hired man. Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE VERMONT THRASHERS ARE COMING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yep; there they come there down the road Last Line: "say; jabe, you've got to 'feed 'er in.'" Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE VERMONTER DEPARTING, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He drove alone beside his sugar bush Last Line: All that last hour before the evening train. Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips TOO MUCH LAKE CHAMPLAIN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If lake champlain was ten times smaller Last Line: Might try and have the lake made smaller. Subject(s): Lake Champlain; Vermont TRIBUTE TO BURLINGTON, by SEWALL SYLVESTER CUTTING Poem Text First Line: Fair burlington! I bring a song to thee Last Line: Thou lovely naples of our midland sea! Subject(s): Burlington, Vermont VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters VERMONT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's french, of course - our name. And I must think Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Vermont; Warren, Josiah (1798-1874) VERMONT, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide and shallow in the cowslip marshes Last Line: Blinding crystal is the sunlit steep. Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: But what to us are centuries dead Last Line: Pale tinted with rose and amethyst! Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is where the hills fling up Last Line: Lady of liberty! Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here green is king again Last Line: Comes further south Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here green is king again Last Line: Comes further south Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT 'TAVERN STANDS', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hope our quaint old tavern stands Last Line: Before a tavern stand. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Public Meetings; Vermont; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons VERMONT CHEESEMAKING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When white grass makes the pasture white Last Line: Your man is 'mazing fond of cheese. Subject(s): Cheese; Milk; United States; Vermont; Milkmen; Milkmaids; America VERMONT CONVERSATION, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Good weather for hay.' Last Line: Way o' the lord.' %'that's right.' Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT CORN MEAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What fun it used to be to feel Last Line: To husky boys and yellow meal. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT DRIED BEEF, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sure 'twould give the world relief Last Line: The supreme substance mortals know. Subject(s): Beef; Food & Eating; Vermont VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing." Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont Last Line: As dry as our insides. Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers VERMONT FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two hundred-forty towns, or more Last Line: And now I'd like to hear from you. Subject(s): Names; Towns; Vermont VERMONT HOUSEKEEPING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shan't forget how much I learnt Last Line: To book the dates for carrie nation. Subject(s): Housekeeping; Vermont VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week Last Line: The goldenrod and asters. Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips VERMONT KITCHEN POLES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's lots of old vermontish sights Last Line: Above the kitchen stove. Subject(s): Vermont VERMONT MEMORY TRACKS - SUMMER, by LEONARD TWYNHAM Poem Text First Line: I pause and ponder as I pass the fields Last Line: Will soon be veiled beneath the weeping grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Twinem, Leo Leonard Subject(s): Summer; Vermont VERMONT MORGANS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice in my car, when nearing Last Line: He hands him out a morgan mare. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT OYSTER SUPPERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing that I think of more Last Line: Them oyster-suppered nights of yore! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Oysters; Vermont VERMONT SPRING, by LETHA ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: Walking in spring Last Line: To breathe the wooded air Subject(s): Nature; Vermont VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VERMONT WILL DO HER PART, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be free himself must strike Last Line: Will do her glorious part. Subject(s): Freedom; Vermont; World War I; Liberty; First World War VERMONT WOOL CARDING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-when we used to shear the sheep Last Line: The greeley hat and paisley shawl. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VERMONT, FR. CENTENNIAL ODE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O woman-form, majestic, strong and fair Last Line: From this day forth, o goddess, worthier thee! Subject(s): Vermont VOTING THE PAUPERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No choice again? Say, that makes twice Last Line: "the ""lister fight"" is won." Subject(s): Charity; Homeless; Poverty; Vermont; Philanthropy WASHING SHEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's folks that look like other folks Last Line: There's nothing, sure, like washing sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WESTMINSTER ODE; FOR THE 4TH OF JULY, 1799, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Join to hail this festive morn Last Line: Peace and independence. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Westminster, Vermont; Independence Day WHAT CONSTITUTES A 'TEAM' IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life flows quite smoothly through our house Last Line: "as ride around in half a ""team." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Vermont WHY DISTRICT SCHOOL USED TO KEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When district school was almost done Last Line: From which she bought her watch and chain. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors WINDSOR ODE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blushing east displays the dawn Last Line: Shout! Shout columbia's &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Bennington, Battle Of (1777); Fourth Of July; Truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822); Windsor, Vermont; Independence Day; Truxton, Thomas WINDSOR, VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The windsor that I used to know Last Line: Has voted democratic. Subject(s): Towns; Windsor, Vermont WINTER CHURNING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's joy to churn on juney morns Last Line: "a piece of custard pie." Subject(s): December; Vermont; Winter |
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