Sam Walter Foss (1858 - 1911) was a librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American. Beginning in 1898, he served as librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts. Back Country Poems was first published in 1892. Back Country Poems includes The Voluntary Organist, The railroad Through the Farm, The Grave within the Glen, The Road to Boston, New Year Righteousness, JimZs Future, A ChildZs Question, The Bursting of the Boom and many more.