Frederic Lawrence Knowles

  • Rough pasture where the blackberries grow!—
      It bears upon its churlish face
      No sign of beauty, art, or grace;
    Not here the silvery coverts glow
    That April and the angler know.

    There sleeps no brooklet in this wild,
      Smooth-resting on its...

  • Such hints as untaught Nature yields!
      The calm disorder of the sea,
    The straggling splendor of the fields,
      The wind’s gay incivility.

    O workman with your conscious plan,
      Compass and square are little worth;
    Copy (nay, only poets can)...