Christopher Tucker: Music Gallery

Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) was born in the Creek Nation near Eufaula. During his lifetime, he held several posts in education, journalism, and fieldwork. Posey served as secretary of the Constitutional Convention for the proposed state of Sequoyah (now Oklahoma). He wrote poetry under the name of Chinnubbie Harjo and political satire as Fus Fixico.


Nightfall
As evening splendors fade
From yonder sky afar,
The Night pins on her dark
Robe with a large bright star,
And the new moon hangs like
A high-thrown scimitar.
Vague in the mystic room
This side the paling west,
The Tulledegas loom

In an eternal rest,

And one by one the lamps are lit
In the dome of the Infinite.


Autumn
In the dreamy silence,
Of the afternoon, a
Cloth of gold is woven
Over wood and prairie;
And the jaybird, newly
Fallen from the heaven,
Scatters cordial greeting,
And the air is filled with
Scarlet leaves, that, dropping
Rise again, as ever,
With a useless sigh for
Rest--and it is Autumn.