Sam Walter Foss
Sam Walter Foss
Sam Walter Fosswas an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 June 1858
CountryUnited States of America
home men boston
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
dream song nature
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.
sweet prayer night
Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer -- Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.
men house sides
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.