Poems

By Henry Reed Conant

Presenting a beautiful collection of the most beloved poems by Henry Reed Conant. These verses reflect the poet's love for nature and religious and moral strength. The direction of his thoughts is toward the more solemn and religious aspects of nature and human experience. Conant takes the readers on a journey to the fascinating world of poetry through his words. It features Life, Dream of a Fairy, Together, Be Not Discouraged, and many other delightful poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547058502

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Henry Reed Conant

Poems

EAN 8596547058502

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.

POEMS.

LIFE.

DREAM OF A FAIRY.

TOGETHER.

BE NOT DISCOURAGED.

FOREST DELIGHTS.

PARTING.

SONG.

GOD’S LOVE.

DREAMS.

LINES ON LIFE.

WHERE ARE THE HEARTS WE CHERISHED SO?

CONTENTMENT.

THE TELULAH SPRING.

DAYBREAK.

TO A BROWN THRUSH ,

HOPE.

THE ANGEL OF HOME.

TO MY SISTER.

WOMAN.

THE FOX RIVER.

A LITTLE GRAVE.

AUTUMN DAYS.

IN HEAVEN.

IDLENESS.

THE RIVER.

THE CROWN OF FAME.

ELEGY ,

A REVERIE.

OPPORTUNITY.

LINES

MY LADY FAIR.

TO A FIRE-FLY.

MY OLD NEW ENGLAND HOME.

A LOVER’S LAMENT.

FACES THAT ARE GONE.

THE TRUE WAY.

PITCHER OR JUG.

TWO LIVES.

MEDITATION.

TEMPUS FUGIT.

GLADNESS.

THE RAINBOW.

Miscellaneous Verses.

THE DAWN O’ SPRING.

ZEEKE BULLARD’S FARM.

UNCLE NICK, ON EDDICATION.

UNCLE NICK, ON GOSSIPERS.

THE ART O’ KNOWIN’ HOW.

MOTHER’S PHOTOGRAPH.

FIFTY YEARS.

A MAIDEN WONDROUS FAIR.

WEALTH AND WANT.

CHILDHOOD.

THE LASSIE O’ER THE WAY.

INTRODUCTION.

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Henry Reed Conant was born in Janesville, Wis., on the seventeenth day of February, 1872. When four years of age he removed to Vermont, the native state of his parents Henry Clay and Dora Evaline (Reed) Conant. Henry was educated in the public schools and at the Morrisville People’s Academy, Vermont, and in his fifteenth year returned to the west.

He inherited from his New England ancestors a deep love of nature, and pronounced religious and moral strength, which tinge the whole body of his rhymes and poems. Like many poets in their juvenile days Mr. Conant’s first lines were simple and artless, and the world of critics can hardly assail him for penning his first rhymes in honor of his first love, thus:

"Of all the lassies in the land

That e’er I chanced to view,

Methinks the fairest one I saw

Had sparkling eyes of blue."

His first published poem appeared in a little