Samuel Minturn Peck

Poems (6)

• A Knot of Blue

  For the Boys of Yale / SHE hath no gems of lustre bright …

• A Southern Girl

  Her dimpled cheeks are pale; / She ’s a lily of the vale, …

• Dollie

  She sports a witching gown, / With a ruffle up and down …

• My Little Girl

  My little girl is nested / Within her tiny bed, …

• Sassafras

  Fringing cypress forests dim / Where the owl makes weird abode, …

• The Captain's Feather

  The dew is on the heather, / The moon is in the sky, …