DON BLANDING
"A Grand Time Living"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1950
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 159 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
To All Friends
Living or Dear Ghosts
Whose Names are Scrawled
on the Pages
of the Guest Book
of Vagabond's House
I dedicate
This Book
Acknowledgement made to Earnest Holmes, Maude Alison Lathem, editor of Science of Mind, and to Hamilton Riddell, editor, and the Godfrey Thomas', publishers of Let's Live, to Rexford Sharpe, editor of American Bard, for permission to use poems which first appeared in their magazines.
Contents:
| A Grand Time Living Travel Red Light A Pass-Along Eyes Front! What Distance Lends The Word to Fit Stratosphere Trip Cornfield Romance Dangerous Man A Letter to You Source Seven Yellow Roses Sequoia Reunion Know What? Brother Tree Forest Morning Chained Flame Sequoia Afternoon Sequoia Night Success Story Reincarnation? Proof of the Walk The Careless Guest Hour of Love Hustle-Britches and the Grand Canyon Shining Moment Is This My Friend? It's A Good Idea, Anyhow Dog and a Cockleburr Jack Spratt's Choice Magdalene Remembers Do Not Fear Where? |
Moment Malaysia Odd Treasure Follow the Leader Panaroma Vagabond's House Panaroma Desert Panaroma Each to Its Own Sea Panaroma Four Candles Boyhood Panaroma Hawaiian Panaroma And You? Sequoia Panaroma Spring Poem Good Intentions Hour of Knowing In Focus Hour of Change Seclusion... Hah! Go Forth! The Fourth! Wrath and Aftermath Three Portraits in Porcelain Death of Summer Mood Autumn They Speak of Winter The Waiting Cup Forgive Us... Peak Climbed at Eighteen Mountain Woman Borrowed "Ma" Not Bread Alone Condiment Shelf Have Your Cake Blue Desire |
What Do Ye Lack? The Measure of Tragedy Formal Call Light So Is He... Sierra Sunset Polyglot And What of Grays? Mountain Song Time is Comparative Tense Moment Where There's A Will... So What! Values Crystal Gazing By What Scales We Measure No Sense of Time Not Chance Alone Conversion and Conviction Dancing Heart Fence for a Maverick Reluctant Saint Faith is a Wood Fire Descent... Summer's End The Search Lost Loveliness Sigh-ence of Mind Spendthrift Coin, Call for Volunteers Beyond Rust and Moth The Opal Path Circle Flashlight Restless Treasure |
Illustrations:
| Frontispiece A Grand Time Living What Distance Lends Cornfield Romance A Letter to You Sequoia Romance Brother Tree Sequoia Afternoon Reincarnation (Semiramis) Reincarnation (Yucatan) Proof of the Walk Hustle-Britches and the Grand Canyon |
Shining Moment Magdalene Remembers Moment Malaysia Vagabond's House Panaroma Desert Panaroma Sea Panaroma Boyhood Panaroma Hawaiian Panaroma (Hawaiian Flowers) Hawaiian Panaroma (Hawaiian Moon Pattern) Spring Poem Hour of Change Death of Summer |
Mood Autumn They Speak of Winter Mountain Woman Blue Desire And What of Grays? Mountain Song Values By What Scales We Measure Dancing Heart Lost Loveliness A Grand Time Living (Finale) |
Notes:
Eyes Front! was written for Johnny McReynolds.
Success Story was written for J. Plankton Stotts.
Panaroma was written for Paul and Estrella Jones.
Mountain Woman and Borrowed "Ma" were written for Sarah
Frances Zimmerman.
Not Chance Alone was written for Thomas Gaskins.
Dancing Heart was written for June.
Fence for a Maverick was written for A. & J.
Flashlight was written for Carl.
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