John Vance Cheney Poems

  • 1.
    Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly,
    Doing nothing sits the chore boy, Billy:
    "Seconds reckoned,
    Seconds reckoned;
    ...
  • 2.
    Who drives the horses of the sun
    Shall lord it but a day;
    Better the lowly deed were done,
    And kept the humble way.
    ...
  • 3.
    The weasel thieves in silver suit,
    The rabbit runs in gray;
    And Pan takes up his frosty flute
    To pipe the cold away.
    ...
Total 3 Poems by John Vance Cheney

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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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