THE LEGEND OF GRAPE ISLAND
AND
OTHER POEMS
BYWILL W. PFRIMMER
Printed By The Times-Democrat,
Watseka, Illinois.
Copyrighted 1907
By WILL W. PFRIMMER.
TO MY WIFE.
page: [6][View Page [6]]FIRST EDITION.
page: 7[View Page 7]CONTENTS.
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- Proem 9
- The Old Trapper's Story 13
- The Boat Song 16
- Morning on the Marsh 17
- Zeke Hardy's Farewell 17
- Old Richard 18
- Upon The Stream 20
- In Camp 21
- Old Richard's story 23
- The Dreamer 25
- The Poet's Lament 26
- The Awakening 28
- The Bee Hunt 29
- The Return 31
- Rhe Major's Story 32
- Rainy Day in Camp 37
- The Legend of Gappe Island 39
- A Confession 64
- Compensation 65
- The Old Settler's Story 67
- The Old Man Talks 71
- A Common Place Story 73
- Sam 75
- The Old Feather Bed 78
- Now As Good As Any Time 80
- Mid Summer 83
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- In The Woods At Night 84
- Wanted, Men 86
- Oh I Wish It Were Christmas All The Year 88
- Life's Aim 90
- The Country Boy 91
- The Legend Of The Lady Slipper 93
- Marg 96
- The New Education 100
- The Little Frame School House 102
- The Man From Terre Haute 104
- The Teacher's Soliloquy 106
- Caleb Shaw 107
- Honest Praise 110
- Our Dreams Grow Sweeter 111
- My Jolly Neighbor 112
- A Tribute to The Old Year 114
- Down Aroun' The Depo' 115
- Reserved Opinions 117
- Fishin' 120
- In Memoriam 123
- A Ramble 125
- On The Death of McKinley 126
- Farmer John and Farmer Ned 127
- Warsaw 128
- John Carr of Anderson 130
- The Unanswerable 132
- As I Wuz Goin' to Say 134
- Ashes 137
- My Neighbor 136
- The Pillar of The Constitution 140
- A Parting Thought 141
