1888 Poetry Collection Book Titles and Authors Pgs 0-106 Complete (This is editor Ron Huber's pagination - not the 19th century compiler)
Pg 00. Image with "Alone" by Robert J. Burdette
Pg 3. "The Convict's Christmas Eve (cont'd)
Pg 3. "Out at Sea" from Chambers Journal
Pg 3. "Patient-Doctor dialog"
Pg 3 "A Home Scene-Tit for Tat"
Pg 3. "Outriding Care" Marion Douglas. In Harper's Bazar
Pg 3. "What It Is To Be Forty" (No author)
Pg 9. "The Last Journey"(continued)
Pg 9. "The Bell of Happiness" from the German of Seidl by C. O'Conor Eccles in the Irish Monthly.
Pg 9 "Angel or Demon" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
PG 11 (copy of page 10)
Pg 12 "Ben Hazard's Guests (cont'd)
Pg 12 "Marching Through Georgia" "official version" - printed by request
Pg 12 "Time Enough" from The Methodist
Pg 12 "Caraway" by Mary E. Wilkins, in Wide Awake
Pg 13 "Twenty Years" (no attribution)
Pg 13 "Weeds" (no attribution)
Pg 13 "At the Window" "By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman"
Pg 13 "Bad Prayers" (no attribution)
Pg 13 "The Sunshine Never Failed Us Yet" by Celia Thaxter
Pg 14 "The Sunshine Never Failed Us Yet" (Cont'd)
Pg 14 "The Legend of Dead Man's Lake" (No attribution)
Pg 14 The Twisted Tree" by M.W. Curry in "Zion's Herald"
Pg 14 "A Little" from Harper's Weekly
Pg 15 "The Little Match Girl" "From the Danish of Hans Christian Anderson."
Pg 16 "The Little Match Girl" Continued)
Pg 17 "Leaves from the Tree of Poetry
Pg 17 "There is No Color in the World" by Celia Thaxter
Pg 17 "Who said November's Face was Grim?" by Lucy Larcom
Pg 17 "Stern November drives a Field" James Riley
Pg 17 "Next November" by Henry Austin Dobson in "The Masque of the Months"
Pg 17 "Wrapped in His Sad Colored Cloak" by Bayard Taylor from "A November Pastoral"
Pg 17 "Autumn's Sighing" by Thomas Buchanan Read
Pg 17 "It was a soft November Eve" Edward Cates, from "A November Scene."
Pg 17 "Where are the Flowers" from "The Death of the Flowers" by Bryant
Pg 17."So Live, that when thy Summons comes" from "Thanatopsis"
Pg 18 (a copy of page 12, above))
Pg 19 "Little Mamma" by Charles Henry Web in "Century Bric-a-Brac"
Pg 19 "Sometime Somewhere" by Robert Browning
Pg 19 "The Wheel of the World" (No attribution)
Pg 19 "The Cat" by R.J. Burdette
Pg 20. "Little Honora Mullally" by Margaret Eytinge in "Harper's Young People"
Pg 20. "Bunker Hill Poem" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Subtitle Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry."
Pg 21 "Bunker Hill Poem" (Continued)
Pg 21 "The Bachelor. A Study in Strained Sentiment" by F. Anstey
Pg 22 "The Bachelor. .." Continued
Pg 22 "The Stocking" No attribution
P2 22 "What Women Talk About" No attribution
Pg 23 "Childhood and its Visitors" By Edward Lytton Bulwer
Pg 23 "Parting" No attribution
Pg 23 "A Reminisce" "Written for the Journal by a lady born in 1820."
Pg 23 "Only One Mother" by H.C. Dodge
Pg 24 "Castles in the Air" and "The Silver Lining" by Helen Keith.(From "Sweet Pinks of Poesy."
Pg 24 "Johnny's Wants" "Written for the Lewiston Journal)
Pg 24 "War Memories: "The Picket Guard"
Pg 24 "The House of Hate" from: Lippincotts May
Pg 25 "The House of Hate" (continued)
Pg 25 "The Legend of the Bell" by Clara Marcelle Greene
Pg 25 "The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh" by John Elliot Bowen, in Harper's Weekly
Pg 26 "Safe on Maple Wood Farm" By David Rill. Written for "The New England Farmer)
Pg 26 "The Work That is Best" by Carlotta Perry, from the Independent
Pg 26 "A Child That's Still". By Mrs M.F. Butts. From" Christian Union
Pg 27 "Burned Out" By David Hill
Pg 27 "The Work That Is Best." from: The Independent
Pg 27 "Ladies' Whist" by Judge
Pg 28 "Ladies' Whist" (continued
Pg 28 "Charles MacKay's Last Poem" December 22 1889. from Blackwood's Magazine
Pg 28 "The Way It Is Said" From: "Hebrew Journal"
Pg 29 "Poem" by D.S. Fifield, Esq, of Leroy, Minn. Read at the Reunion at Levant, Sept 7th, 1876
Pg 30 "The Patriot." From "Merchant Traveler"
Pg 30 "Dorothy" From: "The Century"
Pg 30 "Angry Words". from Waverly Magazine
Pg 30 "Selections for Public Speaking"
Pg 30 "The Night-Watch." from
Pg 31 "The Night-Watch." (Continued)
Pg 31 They Turned Her Out In The Streets
Pg 32 "Turned Her Out In The Streets "(Continued)
Pg 32 "A Ballad of the Were-Wolf" By Graham Thom
Pg 32 "Uncle Ephraim" By Eugene Field,
Pg 33 "His Old Yellow Almanac" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox From: November Century
Pg 33 "RIAR" H.S. Keller
Pg 33 "Fair Inez of Seville; a story in Rhyme"
Pg 34 "Fair Inez of Seville; (continued)
Pg 34 "Shown Herself a Shrew" - From Life
Pg 34 "Tellin' What the Baby Did." By S. W. Fosse
Pg 34."While We May." by George Klingle
Pg 35. "Away" No attribution
Pg 35. "FAITH" No attribution
Pg 35. "The World's Verdict" By Flavel Scott Mines. From Harper's Weekly
Pg 35. "John Chinaman" by Rowe Livingston
Pg 36. COPY OF PAGE 35
Pg 37. "Copy of Page 35
Pg 38. "Amoris Integratio." Source: "The Academy"
Pg 38. "Patience - A true Story" From: Lilian Street in "Mylapore Catholic Register"
Pg 38. "Before The Gate" by William Dean Howells
Pg 38. "Her Dream" by Emily H. Hickey
Pg 39. "A Thanksgiving Feast" From: Harper's Bazar
Pg 39. "A Complaint" By Tudor Jenks in December St Nicholas."
Pg 39 "A Sermon in Rhyme" No attributions
Pg 40 "A Mortgage on the Farm" by David Hill
Pg 40 "Sequel to Mortgage on the Farm" David Hill
Pg 41 "Sequel to Mortgage on the Farm"(CONTINUED)
Pg 41 "The Mortgage" by S.W.Foss . In "The Yankee Blade"
Pg 42 "The Mortgage" (Continued )
Pg 42 "Van Alen's Ride" By Josephine Pollard
Pg 43 "Homesickness" By Henry Bernard Carpenter
Pg 43 "An Evening Prayer" No attributions
Pg 43 "The Contrast" by Helen Gray Cone
Pg 43 "The Fatal Answer." From: "The Exchange"
Pg 43 "An Average Man". By San Walter Foss in Yankee Blade
Pg 43 "What Could the Farmer Do?" By George William Ogden, in January St. Nicholas
Pg 44 What Could the Farmer Do?" "Continued)
Pg 44 "Henrietta's Gone To Vassar"
Pg 44 "Uncle Amos and his Christmas gifts.
Pg 45 "Uncle Amos" Continued
Pg 46 Uncle Amos continued to end
Pg 46 "Good Measure" by Robert Underwood Johnson, in St Nicholas.
Pg 46 "The Passing of the Summer Girl." From New York Sun
Pg 47 "The Sick Bushman In The City" Source" The Bulletin, Australia.
Pg 47 "This Life" D. M. Bruce, in Murray's Magazine
Pg 47 "The Eleventh Commandment" bu Alice O. Darling
Pg 47 "Beside Her Hammock" No attributions
Pg 47 "Puzzled Professor" by Tudor Jenks, in St Nicholas for October
Pg 48 "The Farmer's Springtime" by David Will, from "The Farmer and Homes"
Pg 48 "His Firm Resolve"
Pg 48 "The Watches of the Night"
Pg 48 "The Daguerreotype" Source "Harper's Weekly"
Pg 49 "The Hawk and the King Birds" "Reprinted by Request"
Pg 49 "Thanksgiving Day." From Harper's Magazine.
Pg 49 "The Doctors Disagree." Sam Walter Foss. Written for the Farmer and Homes
Pg 49 "The Old Homestead" No attributions.
Pg 50 "Polly Dakin on Columbus" by Polly Dakin
Pg 50 "Which Road Would You Take?" By George MacDonald
Pg 50 "The Lost Summer" By M.A. Lanckton
Pg 50 "The Turkey's Soliloquy" By Leigh Richmond Miner, From Evenings at Home.
Pg 51 "On the War Path" from the Atlanta Constitution.
Pg 51 "Wolf Ethics" By E.A. Hickey, from "The Leisure Hour"
Pg 51 "Deserted Farms" by Sam Walter Foss, from Yankee Blade
Pg 51 "A Rare Drug" by Addison Fletcher andrews
Pg 51 "Just Common Folks" by Nixon Waterman pt 1
Pg 52 "Just Common Folks" (continued)
Pg 52 "The Way of It" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Pg 52 "Impromptu Verse" by Philips Brooks
Pg 52 "Our Two Options" by Eugene Field
Pg 52 "The Auction" from Scribner's Magazine
Pg 53 "The Auction" (continued)
Pg 53 "Two Truths" by Helen Hunt Jackson
Pg 53 "Charlie's Men" by Nimmo Christie in Longman's Magazine
Pg 53 "Yesterday and Tomorrow" by John Boyle O'Reilly
Pg 53 "After the Manner of His Mother" from New York Evening Sun
Pg 53 "Sequel to "Bringing Home the Cows" by M.A. Lanckton, The New England Farmer 12/31
Pg 53 "If We Knew" (No attribution)
Pg 54 "If We Knew" (continued)
Pg 54 "The Gift of Tritemius" by John G Whittier
Pg 54 "A Difference in Opinion"...."The City Girl's Opinion" By Will Templer
Pg 54 "The Thunderstorm" By Will Templer
Pg 55 "The Thunderstorm" (continued)
Pg 55 "Deacon Jones Grievance" by Paul Dunbar
Pg 55 "Her Friend" by Tom Masson. from The Jester
Pg 55 "The Old Jersey Cow" by J.T. Armeress
Pg 56 "An Old Ballad" (No attribution)
Pg 56 "What the Old Cow Said" (No Attribution)
Pg 56 "In the Gloaming" (No attribution)
Pg 56 "Sable Optimism" (no attribution)
Pg 56 "Faith and Reason" (No attribution)
Pg 57 "Life" by Tennyson
Pg 57 "The Boy's Cartoon" by Margaret J. Preston, in March St Nicholas
Pg 57 "Well Brought Up" from Life
Pg 57 "Two Pussy Cats" by Ellen Wheeler Wilcox
Pg 57 "Autumn" by Bayard Taylor, in St James' Gazette
Pg 58 "A Dollar or Two" (No attrib)
Pg 58 "A Rare old Volume" by Louisa H. Bruce, in New York Independent
Pg 58 "Little Things" (No attribution)
Pg 59 "The Ballad of Little Liza" by Gascoigne Mackie, in Longman's Magazine
Pg 59 "June Again" by Eugene Field
Pg 59 "At Night When the Chores is Done." by Will Templer
Pg 60 "False Peace" by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, in The Independent
Pg 60 "Mr. Peters of Schoharie Moralizes" from Harper's Magazine
Pg 60 "A Kitchen Garden Conversation" by St. Nicholas
Pg 60 "A Queer Spell" from the Minneapolis Journal
Pg 60 "My Property" by Sadie F. Cox, from The Farmer and Homes
Pg 60 "The Old Stump Fence" by Jean La Rue Burnett
Pg 60 "Ben Burlap's Barn"
Pg 61 "Efrum" Harry J. Shellman
Pg 61 "Seven Up With George" from Atlanta Constitution
Pg 61 "A Tale Without No Moral" Written for: the Farmer and House
Pg 62 "A Tale Without No Moral (cont'd)
Pg 62 "A Clear Case" by Minnie L. Upton
Pg 62 "A Young Man" From: Judge
Pg 62 "The Heavenly Crown of Lias Rich" by Holman F. Day
Pg 63 "The Heavenly Crown of Lias Rich" Cont'd
Pg 63 "A Summer Campaign" by Will Templer
Pg 63 "Forgive and Forget" No Attrib.
Pg 63 "That Hat" from: New York Sun
Pg 63 "Uncle Dave's Boarders" by Nella H. Chapman
Pg 64 "Uncle Dave's Boarders" (cont'd)
Pg 64 "The Pants Jemima Made" in Lewiston Journal. By Holman Day, Portland ME, December.
Pg 64 "The Fiddler of Dooney" by Y.B. Yeats
Pg 64 "Farmer Brown's Conclusion" by E.L. Waldron, in Yankee Blade
Pg 65 "Farmer Brown's Conclusion" (continued)
Pg 65 "When Horace Used to Sing" by Frank H. Colley, in Belfast Age
Pg 65 "A Pop-Corn Tragedy" By J.E. Craigen
Pg 65 "The Coming of the Lord?" (no attribution)
Pg 65 "The Old Man Sings" by E.M. Storey
Pg 66 "The Deacon's Strategem" By James Buckham
Pg 66 "The Old Red Schoolhouse" By Julia H. May, in "Education".
Pg 66 "Marrying A Pig for His Pen" by Will Templer
Pg 67 "Marrying A Pig for His Pen" (cont'd)
Pg 67 "The Calf Path" by Sam Walter Foss
Pg 67 "Mr Wayback on the Rainmakers" by Clara Augusta.
Pg 68 "Farmer Stebbins at Football" by Will Carlton, in Harper's Magazine.
Pg 68 "Two Points of View" No attribution
Pg 69 "Looking For Work. (An Idyl of the Times)" Will Templer
Pg 69 "The Forsaken Farm-House" by John J. Whittier
Pg 69 "In the Homestead Barn" by Ellerton.
Pg 70 "The Calf Path" by Sam Walter Foss
Pg 70 "Deacon Pettigrew's Unfortunate Prayer" (subtitle The Tramp's Christmas Prayer)
Pg 71 "Deacon Pettigrew's Unfortunate Prayer" (cont'd)
Pg 71 "The Old Tenor (A Monologue)"Richard Burton in Harper's Weekly"
Pg 71 "The Weaver" By Emily Judson
Pg 72 "The Weaver" cont'd
Pg 72 "Rock of Ages" From The Exchange
Pg 72 "Allus Dressed Up" Jenny E.T.Dowe
Pg 72 "Bringing Home the Cows" by Charles E.D. Roberts
Pg 72 "Laugh a Little Bit" by J.E.V.Cooke from: Cheerful Moments"
Pg 72 "Woman Sufferage" by Milo Leon Morton
Pg 73 "Woman Sufferage" (continued)
Pg 73 "Bishop Brooks and the Baby" by Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Bazar
Pg 74 "The Little Fellar's Dream" by Fred Warner Shirley
Pg 75 "The Little Fellar's Dream" (continued)
Pg 75 "This, Too, Shall Pass Away" by Paul Hamilton Hayne
Pg 75 "Some Current Book-Talk" by Matilda Blind
Pg 76 "The House With Closets" (No attribution)
Pg 76 "The Bunco Steerer" by Milo Leon Norton , written to the Farmer and Homes
Pg 76 "Small Things" by E.H. Kerr
Pg 77 "A Handful Of Earth" by Celia Thaxter
Pg 77 "The Grumbler's Song" by William S. Mills
Pg 77 "Mr. Snapp" from Chicago Inter-Ocean
Pg 77 "When It's Cold" by St. Nicholas
Pg 77 "The Barn Window" By Lucy Larcom
Pg 78 "Keep Still" By R.T. Warner in Boston Globe
Pg 78 "Have You Even Noticed That?" by Clara Augusta Trask
Pg 79 "Have You Even Noticed That?" (continued)
Pg 79 "The Society on the Stanislow" by Bret Harte
Pg 79 "The Old Navy." By Frederick Marryat
Pg 79 "Somewhere" by Alfred Capel Shaw. In Elmira Facts
Pg 80 (COPY OF PAGE 79)
Pg 81 "Somewhere" (cont'd)
Pg 81 "An Old Played Out Song" by James Whitcomb Riley
Pg 81 "A Little Lad's Answer" (No Attibution)
Pg 81 "The Difference" (No attribution)
Pg 81 An empty rectangle reveals original page. Topics: Manure and gardening
Pg 82 "Senator Morrill Dead of Grip at 88" Portrait from photo
Pg 82 "The Father of the Senate" (penciled-in: "1898" twice)
Pg 83 "The Father of the Senate" (continued)
Pg 83 "Thirty Years With a Shrew" From Kansas City Mail
Pg 84 "Thirty Years With a Shrew" (cont'd)
Pg 84 "Evenings At Home. Old Jim" by Will Templer
Pg 84 "If I were a Man"
Pg 85 "Not Understood" (no attribution)
Pg 85 "The Country Road" by Gussie Parkard Du Bois. In St Nicholas
Pg 85 "The New England Primer Improved" Printed by James Loring
Pg 86 "The Farmhouse on the Hill" by William Curtis Stiles
Pg 86 "At the Fall of the Curtain" by Phillips Brooks
Pg 86 "Only To-Day is Mine" by Reverend Henry Burton, in Christian Advocate.
Pg 87 "Grandpop's Lullaby" by J Holman; includes illustration
Pg 88 "Knew the Man" (No attribution)Pg 88 "The New Boy" By Harrison Eastman PattenPg 88 "Widder Green's Last Words" (No attribution)
Pg 89 "The Poor City Boy" from: Cleveland LeaderPg 89 "Spring Fever" by Will TemplerPg 89 "In Spite of the Funny Man" from :Tit BitsPg 89 "April" by Celia Baxter
Pg 90 "The History of Life" by Barry CornwallPg 90 "Indian Summer" Mrs Whiton-Stone, in "Boston _?Pg 90 "The Power of a Mother's Voice" by Charles Carter, in Ladies' Home JournalPg 90 "The Fool's Prayer" by Edward Rowland Sill
Pg 91 "The Fool's Prayer" (continued)Pg 91 "Blair, the Regular. An incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill" Ida Reed Smith in "The Youth's Companion.
Pg 91 "Marjorie's Feast" By E.E.M In "American Kitchen M___"Pg 91 "What Matter's It?" No attribution
Pg 92 "A-Hunting The Buffalo Bug" by Mabel ElsingerPg 92 "A Song of the April Winds" by Mabel Leavitt ElsingerPg 92 "We Met and Passed" No attributionPg 92 "Some Other Day" No AttributionPg 92 "The Thinning of the Thatch" by Mr W.D.Carruthers of Portland, w/Biddeford Orchestra.
Pg 93 "Mother's Fool" (No attribution)
Pg 93 "I've Been There" Source Boston Globe
Pg 93 "Overproduction" No attribution
Pg 94 "I'm Growing Old" by John G Saxe
Pg 94 "The Spoiler" from Boston Congregation
Pg 94 "Life's Scars" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Pg 94 "Father Used to Make" From the Schoharie Republican.
Pg 95 "I Got To Go To School" by Nixon Waterman
Pg 95 "Isaac Buys A Pool" from "the Buffalo Courier"
Pg 95 "Love One Another" unattributed
Pg 95 "There's No Use In Complaining"
Pg 96 "Declaration of the Free" by Ingersoll, In: The truth Seeker
Pg 96 "The Good Old Times" by Reverend A. McArthur
Pg 97 "The Good Old Times" (continued)
Pg 97 "The Kings of England In Rhyme"
Pg 97 "The Death of the Flowers" by W.C. Bryant
Pg 98 "Unanswered" by Elizabeth Porter Gould
Pg 98 "Old Spookses Pass" by Isabella Valancy
Pg 98 "Annunciation" by Richard Realf
Pg 98 "Down the Road" No attribution
Pg 99 "Down the Road" continued
Pg 99 "Break Break Break" no attribution
Pg 99 "Town and Country" by Sam Walter Foss
Pg 99 "Interpretation" by Bertha G. Davis. From Cosmopolitan
Pg 99 "The Old, Old Story" by Madeline S. Bridges. from Ladies Home Journal
Pg 99 "Long Ago" No attributionPg 100 "Long Ago" (continued)
Pg 100 "Fourth of July"
Pg 101 "Fourth of July" (continued)
Pg 101 "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe, with commentary
Pg 101 "Tramp, Tramp Tramp" By George Frederick Root. Selections,
Pg 101 "The Battle Cry of Freedom" George Frederick Root
Pg 102 "The Battle Cry of Freedom" (continued)
Pg 102 "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Pg 102 "Ye Sons of Columbia"
Pg 103 "Ye Sons of Columbia (continued)
Pg 103 "The Faded Coat of Blue"
Pg 104 "The Faded Coat of Blue" (continued)
Pg 104 "The Faded Coat of Blue" (cont'd)
Pg 104 "The Worth of a Match"
Pg 104 "A Thought in Prose"
Pg 104 "Grampy Sings a Song"
Pg 105 "Grampy Sings a Song" (continued)
Pg 106 "Admiral Dewey's Only Son; George Goodwin Dewey" Portrait
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