Poems by Arthur Guiterman

This legend, grim and wild yet rich in truth,
Was framed in Cordova in Gothic days:
By Guada...

As Father Time came speeding where I stood,
I boldly grasped him by the scanty forelock
Exactl...

The funny, furry little chap,
His coat is red an' so's his cap;
He gathers pennies where he ...

"I love, you love, we love!"
Trilled the pipes of Pan
On the golden lea, Love,
When the wo...

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS Ho! Heimdal sounds the Gjallar-horn:
The hosts of Hel rush forth
And...

Off the coast of the Isle of Peril,
In the depths of the heaving tides,
All aglow through its...

The circling swallows twittered all the morn;
At noon the bluebirds called amid the corn;
At ...

Its eyes are gray;
Its hair is either brown
Or black;
And, strange to say,
Its dresses bu...

'Twas in the drowsy Moon of Falling Leaves,
And waning summer gave a softer glow,
And apples ...

A HINDU THRENODY The day our sinews thrilled with wholesome toil,
When bullocks lowed, when p...

There's terrible trouble in Fairyland,
I hear from a humming-bird fresh from the border,
The ...

AS THE NAVAJO SEES IT The Hero-god, returned from deeds of might
In underworlds of terrors unr...

I'm such a quiet little ghost,
Demure and inoffensive;
The other spirits say I'm most
Absurd...

Thunder-lizard, Brontosaurus,
You that lived so long before us,
You that ruled this mundane ...

On order that must be obeyed
I sing of a dear little maid;
A mirthfully serious,
Sober, del...