Guy Wetmore Carryl

  • A Raven sat upon a tree,
      And not a word he spoke, for
    His beak contained a piece of Brie,
      Or, maybe, it was Roquefort:
        We ’ll make it any kind you please—
        At all events, it was a cheese.

    Beneath the tree’s umbrageous limb
      A...

  • To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o’er mapless miles of sea,
    On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost isles are free,
    And the furthermost isles make answer, harbor, and height, and hill,
    Breaker and beach cry each to each, “’T is the Mother who...