Jaffrey resident Walter Heath, the self-appointed "Poet of Monadnock", published a book of poems in 1930. In the foreward he writes: "The writer was born in the shadow of Monadnock, in Jaffrey, N.H., March 25, 1858. And here my home has always been. From a child, I have always had a desire to be writing something, especially rhymes -- an inherited condition, for my mother was a poet."
The following poems are included in the volume.
- A Dream
- A Gem
- A Little Boy's Soliloquy
- A Reverie
- A Song of Spring
- A Winter Reverie
- All for Gold
- An October Day
- Autumn
- Carrie's Pets
- Christmas
- Cottage Music
- Grandma
- I Wonder
- Jaffrey
- Just for Tonight
- Looking for a Husband
- May
- May at the Farm
- Memory of School Days
- My Boy
- My Country Home
- My Ship
- Obituary
- One Step at a Time
- Our Granite Hills
- Over the Fence
- Reunion Song
- Song, The Country is Calling
- Spring and the Poets
- Spring School Song
- The Brooklet
- The Days Before
- The Kitchen Dance
- The Little Dog that Died
- The Little Flower Boy
- The Old Mill
- The Stagecoach
- The Summer People
- Three City Boys
- To the Mountain Herald
- Wanted -- A Wife
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| Title: |
Mountain Echoes |
| Author: |
Walter F. Heath |
| Date: |
A1930 |
| Place: |
Jaffrey, N.H. |
| Publisher: |
Self-published. Printed by the Transcript Printing Co., Peterborough, NH. |
| Volume: |
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| Pages: |
3-39 |
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