Sunflowers, a Book of Kansas Poems (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: World Company Subjects: American poetry American literature Poetry / General History / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Kansas By Harry Kemp Let other countries glory in their Past, But Kansas glories in her days to be, In her horizons limitless and vast, Her plains that storm the senses like the sea; She has no ruins grey that men revere -- Her Time is "Now," Her Heritage is "Here." -- Helmetta, N. J. chapter{Section 4 Morning in Kansas By Walt Mason. There are lands beyond the ocean which are gray beneath their years, where a hundred generations learned to sow and reap and spin; where the sons of Shem and Japhet wet the furrow with their tears -- and the noontide is departed, and the night is closing in. Long ago the shadows lengthened in the lands across the sea, and the dusk is now enshrouding regions nearer home, alas There are long deserted homesteads in this country of the free -- but it's morning here in Kansas, and the dew is on the It is morning here in Kansas, and the breakfast bell is rung We are not j'et fairly started on the work we mean to do; we have all day before us, for the morning is but young, and there's hope in every zephyr, and the skies are bright and blue. It is morning here in Kansas, and the dew is on the sod; as the builders of an empire it is ours to do our best; with our hands at work in Kansas, and our faith and trust in God, we shall not be counted idle when the sun sinks ...