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Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.
Born in West Salem, Wisconsin, he lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing. His first ... more »
Hamlin Garland Poems
Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.... more »
WE had been long in mountain snow,
In valleys bleak, and broad, and bare,
Where only moss and willows grow,... more »
Somewhere, in deeps
Of tangled, ripening wheat,
A little prairie-chicken cries-... more »
Through wild and tangled forests
The broad, unhasting river flows-
Spotted with rain-drops, gray with night;
Upon its curving breast there goes... more »
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... more »
And all night long we lie in sleep,
Too sweet to sigh in, or to dream,
Unnoting how the wild winds sweep,... more »
“IS water nigh?”
The plainsmen cry,
As they meet and pass in the desert grass.
With finger tip... more »
Hamlin Garland Quotations
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''There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.''
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), U.S. author. "Melons and Early Frost," Boy Life on the Prairie (1899).
On The Mississippi
Through wild and tangled forests
The broad, unhasting river flows-
Spotted with rain-drops, gray with night;
Upon its curving breast there goes
A lonely steamboat's larboard light,
A blood-red star against the shadowy oaks;
Noiseless as a ghost, through greenish gleam
Of fire-flies, before the boat's wild scream-
A heron flaps away
Like silence taking flight.
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