Author: Moses Mitchell Hodson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331790174
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Excerpt from Dusty Lyrics Such is the title by which the author of Dusty Lyrics prefers to be known to the pubic at large, as it has fitted him so well during the twenty years that he has "had one hand in the hopper and the other in the sack." Mr. Hodson is a typical verification of the truth that "poets are born, not made," for to him the writing of "Jingles" came as naturally as breathing. For many years he composed verses at the mill, and recited them to customers while they waited for their grists; and each of these told his neighbor of the witty sayings Mose had recited. Sometimes it was a pathetic verse or two, when a Serious incident or searching sermon touched and warmed his heart. Until five or six years ago Mose hid his poetical gift among the meal sacks, but when an ardent admirer of his writings suggested that a certain poem should be published, he timidly sent it to one of the county papers. Possibly the poem that first attracted wide attention was the one entitled "That Man Jim," and dedicated to James Whitcomb Riley on a birthday anniversary. A copy of this published poem was sent to Mr. Riley by a personal friend of both gentlemen, accompanied by a letter praising some of the writings of Mr. Hodson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Magaret E. Sangster
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483879324
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Excerpt from Lyrics of Love: Of Hearth and Home Field and Garden Gentle Reader, will let them slip into the midst of your busy mornings and quiet evenings with a message of comfort and cheer. They are songs of the nest and the home, songs of the way and the inn, songs of love and fidelity and the eternal peace. The Gentle Reader is not supposed to be a rigid critic, nor to ask a symphony when one plays only a slender pipe. If these lyrics shall add a thread of melody to the toiling, dusty, monotonous way, which, after all, is the way that leads us home, the author will be content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Walt Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332153015
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Excerpt from Lumber Lyrics Walt Mason is a poet and the world knows it. He is read by more people than any other living writer. His prose rhymes are published in 200 daily newspapers with an aggregate circulation of about 12 millions. Walt says his only claim on the nation's gratitude is that he does not go about the country reading from his "works." Indeed, he doesn't have to, for his writings are read with avidity by hosts of people. Walt Mason lives in Emporia, Kansas, most of the time, but spends his summers in Estes Park, Colorado. He does nothing but write prose rhymes. And at this job he is one of the hardest working men living. He is probably the only poet who makes his living solely by the sweat of his brow. Many people have wondered what Walt Mason gets for his contributions to Curtis Service. This is rather a personal question but it is sufficient to say that he gets enough money from work of this kind so that his monthly income has totalled as high as $875.00. At any rate, this was the figure he gave out in an interview in a Kansas City paper in 1914, and like everything else, prose rhymes weren't as high then as they are now. As Mr. Mason himself explains, he was never a lumber dealer, though he has tried to sell everything from hardware to hogs. How, then, can he write lumber lyrics that hit such a responsive chord in every lumber dealer's mind? The Lord knows. He was born that way. His prose rhymes "get under your hide" and under every other lumber dealer's hide, because Walt Mason has an interest in you and your fellow human beings. Walt Mason was born in Columbus, Ontario, May 4th, 1862. He was the fifth of six sons of poor parents. When Walt was four years old his father was accidentally killed. After his mother died, when he was fifteen, he went to Port Hope, Ontario, and worked in a hardware store for $2.50 a week, boarding himself. He soon forsook the hardware business, in 1880, and crossed Lake Ontario into New York State, where he hoed beans until he decided that there wasn't any sense in hoeing beans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John. Francis Glynn
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483817135
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Excerpt from Songs From the Silence: A Book of Prison Verse Met him and he put his poems into my hands. Read ing them, I had a poignant sense of beauty and pathos; the beauty that is song, the pathos of human Fate. I felt like one who finds a flower, dewy and fragrant, beside a dusty road. The wind bloweth where it list eth. There are lyrics in this book, so truly lovely, so unfeignedly simple and sincere, with such an infectious lilt and shine of color, that one's heart melts before them. I mean such things as Unfettered, Rose Petals, Song, Rube Robin, Dust Sanctuary, and others yet, bits of entrancing melody, thrusts into the deeps of living. They constitute the testament of a very gen uiuc poet. They have the unmistakable ring, the lyric cry that makes music in the ear, and goes to the uni ersal heart of man. The voice is so authentic, the vision often so spiritual in its homely, disarming way, that it matters little if there be an occasional stammer in the utterance; I almost think it adds to the charm. And so I wish the book the good luck it deserves, and predict that many will be grateful for this gift. That it comes out of a prison cell, lends a wistful qual ity to its note. But that appeal, save as it begets a sympathetic mood to receive the message, is not to be overstressed. Mr. Glynn's work can stand on its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Adrian Boot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747518532
Category : Reggae musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The legend of Bob Marley continues to grow. Since his death in 1981 he has gained an icon-like stature, especially in the Third World where his status is that of a redeemer-come-rebel hero. A deeply personal, private man, Bob Marley was born in 1945 with a poet's understanding of life, an asset in a land like Jamaica where a kind of magic realism holds sway. Even before he was five years old, Marley's abilities as a reader of palms was revealed. By the time he died at the age of 36, the apocalyptic predictions contained in his song lyrics were beginning to come true.;This book has been written with the cooperation of Marley's family and friends. Placing the musician's life in its context of the extraordinary island of Jamaica, it considers exactly who Bob Marley was, this man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Equally at home with the ghetto gunmen or the rulers of nations, he was aware that his ability and confidence came from only one source: God Almighty, Jah Rastafari.;This book is illustrated throughout with over 500 pictures, many of which have never been seen before. They range from unique, intimate portrai
Author: Cale Young Rice
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500552831
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Plays and Lyrics by Cale Young Rice
Author: Gulzar
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143418203
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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From 'Mora gora ang lai le', his first film lyric written for Bimal Roy's Bandini in 1963, to the Oscar-winning 'Jai ho' from Slumdog Millionaire, Gulzar has brought a rare poetic sensibility to popular Hindi film music over a five-decade-long career. His sophisticated insights into psychological complexities, his ability to capture the essence of nature's sounds and spoken dialects in written words, and above all his inimitable-and often surprising-imagery have entertained his legions of fans over successive generations. It represents Gulzar's most memorable compositions of all time, and feature anecdotes about the composition of the lyrics as well as sketches by Gulzar.
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501141171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525539085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review "[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, it is a true feast for the reader.
Author: John G. Neihardt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803283938
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. This complete edition features a new introduction by historian Philip J. Deloria and annotations of Black Elk’s story by renowned Lakota scholar Raymond J. DeMallie. Three essays by John G. Neihardt provide background on this landmark work along with pieces by Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond J. DeMallie, Alexis Petri, and Lori Utecht. Maps, original illustrations by Standing Bear, and a set of appendixes rounds out the edition.
