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Poems
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The apples are water, Dearest, The dates are only sweet, There is no ?esh in the juice of the grape, Nor life in the berry we eat In the blood of the kid we have slain In our new and terrible greed, Lies the gristle and marrow we need, In the pitiful yield of the The barley that beards the wild rain, The corn that the crow contests, The milk in the white wheat's breasts, Behold my red hands as I speak, And the curse of the sweat on my cheek!
The apples are water, Dearest, The dates are only sweet, There is no ?esh in the juice of the grape, Nor life in the berry we eat In the blood of the kid we have slain In our new and terrible greed, Lies the gristle and marrow we need, In the pitiful yield of the The barley that beards the wild rain, The corn that the crow contests, The milk in the white wheat's breasts, Behold my red hands as I speak, And the curse of the sweat on my cheek!
164 pages, Paperback
First published June 24, 2015
About the author
George Alfred Townsend
92 books6 followers1841-1914
War correspondent during the American Civil War and novelist.
He wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer, in 1861 he started to write for the New York Herald.
By 1868, he became a Washington correspondent, working for the "Chicago Tribune," and after 1874, for the "New York Graphic.
His novels included The Entailed Hat (1884), which fictionalized a true story of a woman named Patty Cannon who kidnapped free blacks and sold them into slavery. Townsend's other works include the short story collection Tales of the Chesapeake (1880) and the novel Katy of Catoctin (1887).
Townsend wrote under the pen name "Gath", which was derived by adding an "H" to his initials, and inspired by the biblical passage II Samuel 1:20.
War correspondent during the American Civil War and novelist.
He wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer, in 1861 he started to write for the New York Herald.
By 1868, he became a Washington correspondent, working for the "Chicago Tribune," and after 1874, for the "New York Graphic.
His novels included The Entailed Hat (1884), which fictionalized a true story of a woman named Patty Cannon who kidnapped free blacks and sold them into slavery. Townsend's other works include the short story collection Tales of the Chesapeake (1880) and the novel Katy of Catoctin (1887).
Townsend wrote under the pen name "Gath", which was derived by adding an "H" to his initials, and inspired by the biblical passage II Samuel 1:20.
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