Poem by Hamlin Garland

On the Mississippi

THROUGH wild and tangled forests
  The broad, unhasting river flows--
  Spotted with rain-drops, gray with night;
    Upon its curving breast there goes 
A lonely steamboat's larboard light,
    A blood-red star against the shadowy oaks; 
Noiseless as a ghost, through greenish gleam
Of fire-flies, before the boat's wild scream--
      A heron flaps away 
      Like silence taking flight. 

1. The Herald Crane
2. In August
3. Boyish Sleep
4. The Ute Lover
5. The Toil of the Trail

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