A strong and simple-souled Ohio boy Who came to be a Cambridge gentleman, Printer, reporter, editor, and then The realist observer of mankind. Nothing unreal had value in his view Except by way "of sportive interlude" And everything had value that was real: So triumphed this firm-fibred Westerner. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE POET'S SONG FOR HIS WIFE by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER SENEX TO MATT. PRIOR by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN TO A BIRD IN THE CITY by MATTHIAS BARR THE POET, AND HIS INTERPRETERS by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON SPRING PLOWING by RUTH E. BILLEY OLD THINGS by THOMAS T. BLEWETT ASPIRATIONS: 1 by MATHILDE BLIND A GOLDEN WEDDING: C.B.-E.A.B., 1825-1875 by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER |