- Farm Ballads
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Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston.
- Chapters
- Preface
- Betsey and I Are Out.
- How Betsey and I Made Up.
- Gone with a Handsomer Man.
- Johnny Rich.
- Out of the Old House, Nancy.
- Over the Hill to the Poor-House.
- Over the Hill from the Poor-House.
- Uncle Sammy.
- Tom was Goin' for a Poet.
- Goin' Home To-Day.
- Out o' the Fire.
- The New Church Organ.
- The Editor's Guests.
- The House where We were Wed.
- Our Army of the Dead.
- Apple-Blossoms.
- Apples Growing.
- One and Two.
- The Fading Flower.
- Autumn Days.
- Death-Doomed.
- Up the Line.
- How we Kept the Day.