Robert Burns Wilson
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A DARKENED hut outlined against the sky,
A forward-looking slope,—some cedar trees,
Gaunt grasses stirred by the awaking breeze,
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IT is in Winter that we dream of Spring;
For all the barren bleakness and the cold,
The longing fancy sees the frozen mould
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SUCH is the death the soldier dies:
He falls,—the column speeds away;
Upon the dabbled grass he lies,
His brave heart following, still, the fray.
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BROAD bars of sunset-slanted gold
Are laid along the field, and here
The silence sings, as if some old
Refrain, that once rang long and clear,
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BOLD, amiable, ebon outlaw, grave and wise!
For many a good green year hast thou withstood—
By dangerous, planted field and haunted wood—
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SURE and exact,—the master’s quiet touch,
Thus perfect, was his art;
Ambitious, generous, sad, and loving much,
Was his pain-haunted heart.
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The braggart March stood in the season's door
With his broad shoulders blocking up the way,
Shaking the snow-flakes from the cloak he wore,
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Robert Burns Wilson Biography
Robert Burns Wilson (b. 1850, Parker, Pennsylvania; d. March 30, 1916, Brooklyn, New York) was an American painter and poet. Wilson was born in Parker, Pennsylvania in 1850. In his teens, he moved to Pittsburgh and, with little formal training, he became a self-taught painter and poet. Wilson eventually traveled to and settled in Frankfort, Kentucky, where he achieved his greatest fame. In 1901, Wilson married Anne Hendrick, daughter of General William J. Hendrick, a former Attorney-General of Kentucky, during a visit to New York. Wilson moved from Kentucky to New York in 1904, and died there in 1916. His body was returned for interment to Frankfort, Kentucky, which he considered his home. He is buried in the Frankfort Cemetery near Daniel Boone's grave. As a painter, Wilson is best known for his landscapes of the Kentucky countryside. Wilson found success as a poet, publishing poems in the major monthly magazines of his day, including Harper's Magazine. Perhaps his most famous poem is "Remember the Maine", based on the battle cry that spurred the United States into the Spanish-American War. While his martial poetry met the spirit of the times, Wilson was best known during his day as a nature poet. After achieving success as a poet, Wilson tried his hand at prose fiction, producing Until the Day Break in 1900.)
The Best Poem Of Robert Burns Wilson
The Sunrise Of The Poor
A DARKENED hut outlined against the sky,
A forward-looking slope,—some cedar trees,
Gaunt grasses stirred by the awaking breeze,
And nearer, where the grayer shadows lie,
Within a small paled square, one may descry
The beds wherein the Poor first taste of ease,
Where dewy rose-vines drop their spicy lees
Above the dreamless ashes, silently.
A lonely woman leans there,—bent and gray:
Outlined in part against the shadowed hill,
In part against the sky, in which the day
Begins to blaze. O earth, so sweet,—so still!—
The woman sighs, and draws a long, deep breath:
It is the call to labor,—not to death.
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