Home Ballads

This work is with illustrations. This is a collection of verse by the poet and travel writer, Bayard Taylor, who produced popular chronicles of his journeys at home and abroad, as well as novels and collections of poetry. His poetry is striking for qualities that appeal to the ear and eye, finished, sonorous in diction and rhythm, at times too rhetorical, but rich in sound, color, and metrical effects. Contents: The Quaker Widow ; The Holly-Tree ; John Reed ; Jane Reed ; and The Old Pennsylvania Farmer . See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.