William Channing Gannett

  • God ploughed one day with an earthquake,
      And drove his furrows deep!
    The huddling plains upstarted,
      The hills were all a-leap!

    But that is the mountains’ secret,
      Age-hidden in their breast;
    “God’s peace is everlasting,”
      Are the...

  • St. Helena Island, South Carolina, in 1863
    I WAS young and “Harry” was strong,
    The summer was bursting from sky and plain,
    Thrilling our blood as we bounded along,—
    When a picture flashed, and I dropped the rein.

    A black sea-creek, with snaky run
    ...

  • Somewhere in the world there hide
    Garden-gates that no one sees
    Save they come in happy twos,—
    Not in one, nor yet in threes.

    But from every maiden’s door
    Leads a pathway straight and true;
    Map and survey know it not,—
    He who finds, finds...