Better known for his boys’ novels, Alger also wrote verse, and this small collection gathers his ballads and lyrics. The title poem recalls a New England farmhouse with a Revolutionary bullet-hole in its door; others tell of St Nicholas, of Barbara’s courtship and Phoebe’s wooing, a lost heart, and the heroic steersman John Maynard.
A curiosity for Alger readers and a pleasant sampler of homely nineteenth-century American verse. Download the free EPUB.