Farm Ballads
Will Carleton
24 chapters · 1 h 45 min · English
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Poetry
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Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Preface 3 min 2 Betsey and I Are Out 6 min 3 How Betsey and I Made Up 5 min 4 Gone with a Handsomer Man 6 min 5 Johnny Rich 7 min 6 Out of the Old House, Nancy 5 min 7 Over the Hill to the Poor-House 7 min 8 Over the Hill from the Poor-House 5 min 9 Uncle Sammy 5 min 10 Tom was Goin' for a Poet 3 min 11 Goin' Home To-Day 3 min 12 Out o' the Fire 6 min 13 The New Church Organ 4 min 14 The Editor's Guests 10 min 15 The House where We were Wed 2 min 16 Our Army of the Dead 3 min 17 Apple-Blossoms 1 min 18 Apples Growing 1 min 19 One and Two 2 min 20 The Fading Flower 2 min 21 Autumn Days 1 min 22 Death-Doomed 6 min 23 Up the Line 2 min 24 How we Kept the Day 9 min
