Songs of the Wind on a Southern Shore, and other Poems of Florida
“My Sweetheart Bird”
by George E. Merrick
The Florida Landscape changes as sunrise moves to sunset.
The Florida Landscape changes as sunrise moves to sunset.
They please me not—these solemn songs
A poem about the speaker as a piper who writes his songs down so that every child may enjoy them.
"Heart of my heart, the day is chill,"
"No matter what you call it, Whether genius, or art,"
"Not o’er thy dust let there be spent"
A poem about escaping from the sorrows and loneliness of the night by reading great works of literature
So bashful when I spied her
A funny limerick about a pieman and his wares.
The Whip-Poor-Will sings a sad song throughout the night.
"I ‘ve been watchin’ of ‘em, parson,"
A fable about a farmer who cares for a snake that then turns to bite him
"Once it smiled a silent dell"
"My cot was down by a cypress grove,"
A child creates a world from imagination.
The aftermath of a hurricane is described.
I sit upon the old sea wall,
Farmer Brown’s boy decides to become friends with Whitefoot and begins to feed him crumbs to get his attention until he is able to gain his trust.
First a farmer chases cranes out of his field. When they keep returning he shoots rocks at them with a sling shot. If words don’t work you must fight.
The lighthouse guides the way, remaining steady and sure.
The night sky reminds the author of a distant love.
"The rain streams down like harp–strings from the sky;"
"When summer time has come, and all"
Whitefoot enjoys his new home and becomes too comfortable as he plays around the sugar-house. He was heedless of a jump and fell into a pail of sap.
Whitefoot loses all hope as Farmer Brown’s boy returns and rescues him. Although exhausted and still scared, Whitefoot recovers.