{"product_id":"2940013232204","title":"BALLADS","description":"Contents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BALLADS.\u003cbr\u003e       Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving\u003cbr\u003e       St. Nicholas\u003cbr\u003e       Barbara's Courtship\u003cbr\u003e       The Confession\u003cbr\u003e       Rose in the Garden\u003cbr\u003e       Phoebe's Wooing\u003cbr\u003e       The Lost Heart\u003cbr\u003e       John Maynard\u003cbr\u003e       Friar Anselmo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.\u003cbr\u003e       In the Church at Stratford-on-Avon\u003cbr\u003e       Mrs. Browning's Grave at Florence\u003cbr\u003e       My Castle\u003cbr\u003e       Apple-Blossoms\u003cbr\u003e       Summer Hours\u003cbr\u003e       June\u003cbr\u003e       Little Charlie\u003cbr\u003e       The Whippoorwill and I\u003cbr\u003e       Carving a Name\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IN TIME OF WAR.\u003cbr\u003e       Gone to the War\u003cbr\u003e       Where is my Boy To-night?\u003cbr\u003e       A Soldier's Valentine\u003cbr\u003e       Last Words\u003cbr\u003e       Song of the Croaker\u003cbr\u003e       King Cotton\u003cbr\u003e       Out of Egypt\u003cbr\u003e       The Price of Victory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     HARVARD ODES.\u003cbr\u003e       I. Fair Harvard, Dear Guide of Our Youth's Golden Days\u003cbr\u003e       II. As We Meet in Thy Name, Alma Mater, Tonight\u003cbr\u003e       III. Fair Harvard, The Months Have Accomplished Their Round\u003cbr\u003e       IV. there's a Fountain of Fable, Whose Magical Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     OCCASIONAL ODES.\u003cbr\u003e       Bi-Centennial Ode\u003cbr\u003e       For the Consecration of a Cemetery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBALLADS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGRAND'THER BALDWIN'S THANKSGIVING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e UNDERNEATH protected branches, from the highway just aloof;\u003cbr\u003e Stands the house of Grand'ther Baldwin, with its gently sloping roof.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Square of shape and solid-timbered, it was standing, I have heard,\u003cbr\u003e In the days of Whig and Tory, under royal George the Third.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many a time, I well remember, I have gazed with Childish awe\u003cbr\u003e At the bullet-hole remaining in the sturdy oaken door,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Turning round half-apprehensive (recking not how time had fled)\u003cbr\u003e Of the lurking, savage foeman from whose musket it was sped..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Not far off, the barn, plethoric with the autumn's harvest spoils,\u003cbr\u003e Holds the farmer's well-earned trophies--the guerdon of his toils;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Filled the lofts with hay, sweet-scented, ravished from the meadows green,\u003cbr\u003e While beneath are stalled the cattle, with their quiet, drowsy mien.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Deep and spacious are the grain-bins, brimming o'er with nature's gold;\u003cbr\u003e Here are piles of yellow pumpkins on the barn-floor loosely rolled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Just below in deep recesses, safe from wintry frost chill,\u003cbr\u003e There are heaps of ruddy apples from the orchard the hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many a year has Grand'ther Baldwin in the old house dwelt in peace,\u003cbr\u003e As his hair each year grew whiter, he has seen his herds increase.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sturdy sons and comely daughters, growing up from childish plays,\u003cbr\u003e One by one have met life's duties, and gone forth their several ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hushed the voice of childish laughter, hushed is childhood's merry tone,\u003cbr\u003e the fireside Grand'ther Baldwin and his good wife sit alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Turning round half-apprehensive (recking not how time had fled)\u003cbr\u003e Of the lurking savage foeman from whose musket it was sped.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145609330928,"sku":"2940013232204","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013232204_p0.jpg?v=1763578308","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013232204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}