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W. D. HOWELLS

DEDICATIONS

ERE SLEEP COMES DOWN TO SOOTHE THE WEARY EYES

THE POET AND HIS SONG

RETORT

ACCOUNTABILITY

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

LIFE

THE LESSON

THE RISING OF THE STORM

SUNSET

THE OLD APPLE-TREE

A PRAYER

PASSION AND LOVE

THE SEEDLING

PROMISE

FULFILMENT.

SONG

AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON

ODE TO ETHIOPIA

THE CORN-STALK FIDDLE

THE MASTER-PLAYER

THE MYSTERY

NOT THEY WHO SOAR

WHITTIER

TWO SONGS

A BANJO SONG

LONGING

THE PATH

THE LAWYERS' WAYS

ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY

PREMONITION

RETROSPECTION

UNEXPRESSED

SONG OF SUMMER

SPRING SONG

TO LOUISE

THE RIVALS

THE LOVER AND THE MOON

CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE

I

II

III

RELIGION

DEACON JONES' GRIEVANCE

ALICE

AFTER THE QUARREL

I

II

III

AFTER A VISIT

CURTAIN

THE SPELLIN'-BEE

KEEP A-PLUGGIN' AWAY

NIGHT OF LOVE

I

II

III

A BORDER BALLAD

AN EASY-GOIN' FELLER

A NEGRO LOVE SONG

THE DILETTANTE: A MODERN TYPE

THE COLORED SOLDIERS

I

II

THE OL' TUNES

MELANCHOLIA

THE WOOING

MERRY AUTUMN

WHEN DE CO'N PONE'S HOT

BALLAD

THE CHANGE HAS COME

COMPARISON

A CORN-SONG

DISCOVERED

DISAPPOINTED

INVITATION TO LOVE

HE HAD HIS DREAM

GOOD-NIGHT

A COQUETTE CONQUERED

NORA: A SERENADE

OCTOBER

A SUMMER'S NIGHT

SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT

THE DELINQUENT

DAWN

A DROWSY DAY

DIRGE

HYMN

PREPARATION

THE DESERTED PLANTATION

THE SECRET

THE WIND AND THE SEA

RIDING TO TOWN

WE WEAR THE MASK

THE MEADOW LARK

ONE LIFE

CHANGING TIME

DEAD

A CONFIDENCE

PHYLLIS

RIGHT'S SECURITY

IF

THE SONG

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

WHY FADES A DREAM?

THE SPARROW

SPEAKIN' O' CHRISTMAS

LONESOME

GROWIN' GRAY

TO THE MEMORY OF MARY YOUNG

WHEN MALINDY SINGS

THE PARTY

LOVE'S APOTHEOSIS

THE PARADOX

OVER THE HILLS

WITH THE LARK

IN SUMMER

THE MYSTIC SEA

A SAILOR'S SONG

THE BOHEMIAN

ABSENCE

HER THOUGHT AND HIS

THE RIGHT TO DIE

BEHIND THE ARRAS

WHEN THE OLD MAN SMOKES

THE GARRET

A BRIDAL MEASURE

VENGEANCE IS SWEET

JUST WHISTLE A BIT

THE BARRIER

DREAMS

THE DREAMER

WAITING

THE END OF THE CHAPTER

SYMPATHY

LOVE AND GRIEF

LOVE'S CHASTENING

MORTALITY

LOVE

SHE GAVE ME A ROSE

DREAM SONG I

DREAM SONG II

CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART

THE KING IS DEAD

THEOLOGY

RESIGNATION

LOVE'S HUMILITY

PRECEDENT

SHE TOLD HER BEADS

LITTLE LUCY LANDMAN

THE GOURD

THE KNIGHT

THOU ART MY LUTE

THE PHANTOM KISS

COMMUNION

MARE RUBRUM

IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN

THE CRISIS

ALEXANDER CRUMMELL—DEAD

WHEN ALL IS DONE

THE POET AND THE BABY

DISTINCTION

THE SUM

ON THE SEA WALL

TO A LADY PLAYING THE HARP

CONFESSIONAL

MISAPPREHENSION

PROMETHEUS

LOVE'S PHASES

FOR THE MAN WHO FAILS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

VAGRANTS

A WINTER'S DAY

MY LITTLE MARCH GIRL

REMEMBERED

LOVE DESPOILED

THE LAPSE

THE WARRIOR'S PRAYER

FAREWELL TO ARCADY

THE VOICE OF THE BANJO

THE STIRRUP CUP

A CHOICE

NOW

AT CHESHIRE CHEESE

MY CORN-COB PIPE

IN AUGUST

THE DISTURBER

EXPECTATION

LOVER'S LANE

PROTEST

HYMN

LITTLE BROWN BABY

TIME TO TINKER 'ROUN'!

THE REAL QUESTION

JILTED

THE NEWS

CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION

ANGELINA

FOOLIN' WID DE SEASONS

MY SORT O' MAN

POSSUM

ON THE ROAD

A DEATH SONG

A BACK-LOG SONG

LULLABY

THE PHOTOGRAPH

JEALOUS

PARTED

TEMPTATION

POSSUM TROT

DELY

BREAKING THE CHARM

HUNTING SONG

A LETTER

CHRISMUS IS A-COMIN'

AT CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME

WHISTLING SAM

HOW LUCY BACKSLID

TWO LITTLE BOOTS

TO THE ROAD

A SPRING WOOING

JOGGIN' ERLONG

IN MAY

DREAMS

THE TRYST

A PLEA

THE DOVE

A WARM DAY IN WINTER

SNOWIN'

KEEP A SONG UP ON DE WAY

THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED

THE DANCE

SOLILOQUY OF A TURKEY

FISHING

A PLANTATION PORTRAIT

A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET

THE VALSE

REPONSE

MY SWEET BROWN GAL

SPRING FEVER

THE VISITOR

SONG

THE COLORED BAND

TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY

INSPIRATION

MY LADY OF CASTLE GRAND

DRIZZLE

DE CRITTERS' DANCE

WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS

LINCOLN

ENCOURAGEMENT

THE BOOGAH MAN

THE WRAITH

SILENCE

WHIP-POOR-WILL AND KATY-DID

'LONG TO'DS NIGHT

A GRIEVANCE

DINAH KNEADING DOUGH

TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC

DAT OL' MARE O' MINE

IN THE MORNING

THE POET

A FLORIDA NIGHT

DIFFERENCES

LONG AGO

A PLANTATION MELODY

A SPIRITUAL

THE MEMORY OF MARTHA

W'EN I GITS HOME

"HOWDY, HONEY, HOWDY!"

THE UNSUNG HEROES

THE POOL

POSSESSION

THE OLD FRONT GATE

DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER

A FROLIC

NODDIN' BY DE FIRE

LOVE'S CASTLE

MORNING SONG OF LOVE

TO THE EASTERN SHORE

RELUCTANCE

BALLADE

L'ENVOI.

SPEAKIN' AT DE COU'T-HOUSE

BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE

THE LOOKING-GLASS

A MISTY DAY

LI'L' GAL

DOUGLASS

WHEN SAM'L SINGS

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

THE MONK'S WALK

LOVE-SONG

SLOW THROUGH THE DARK

THE MURDERED LOVER

PHILOSOPHY

A PREFERENCE

THE DEBT

A ROADWAY

LOVE'S SEASONS

TO A DEAD FRIEND

THE HAUNTED OAK

WELTSCHMERTZ

ROBERT GOULD SHAW

ROSES

A LOVE SONG

ITCHING HEELS

TO AN INGRATE

IN THE TENTS OF AKBAR

THE FOUNT OF TEARS

LIFE'S TRAGEDY

DE WAY T'INGS COME

NOON

AT THE TAVERN

DEATH

NIGHT, DIM NIGHT

I

II

III

IV

V

A BOY'S SUMMER SONG

THE SAND-MAN

JOHNNY SPEAKS

WINTER-SONG

A CHRISTMAS FOLKSONG

THE FOREST GREETING

THE LILY OF THE VALLEY

ENCOURAGED

TO J. Q.

DIPLOMACY

SCAMP

WADIN' IN DE CRICK

THE QUILTING

PARTED

FOREVER

THE PLANTATION CHILD'S LULLABY

TWILIGHT

CURIOSITY

OPPORTUNITY

PUTTIN' THE BABY AWAY

THE FISHER CHILD'S LULLABY

FAITH

THE FARM CHILD'S LULLABY

THE PLACE WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS

HOPE

APPRECIATION

A SONG

DAY

TO DAN

WHAT'S THE USE

A LAZY DAY

ADVICE

LIMITATIONS

A GOLDEN DAY

THE UNLUCKY APPLE

THE DISCOVERY

MORNING

THE AWAKENING

LOVE'S DRAFT

A MUSICAL

TWELL DE NIGHT IS PAS'

BLUE

DREAMIN' TOWN

AT NIGHT

KIDNAPED

COMPENSATION

WINTER'S APPROACH

ANCHORED

THE VETERAN

YESTERDAY AND TO-MORROW

THE CHANGE

THE CHASE

SUPPOSE

THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN

BEIN' BACK HOME

THE OLD CABIN

DESPAIR

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES

TILL THE WIND GETS RIGHT

A SUMMER NIGHT

AT SUNSET TIME

NIGHT

AT LOAFING-HOLT

WHEN A FELLER'S ITCHIN' TO BE SPANKED

THE RIVER OF RUIN

TO HER

A LOVE LETTER

AFTER MANY DAYS

LIZA MAY

THE MASTERS

TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN

CHRISTMAS

ROSES AND PEARLS

RAIN-SONGS

A LOST DREAM

A SONG

THE CAPTURE

WHEN WINTER DARKENING ALL AROUND

FROM THE PORCH AT RUNNYMEDE

EQUIPMENT

EVENING

TO PFRIMMER

TO THE MIAMI

CHRISTMAS CAROL

A SUMMER PASTORAL

IN SUMMER TIME

A THANKSGIVING POEM

NUTTING SONG

LOVE'S PICTURES

THE OLD HOMESTEAD

ON THE DEATH OF W. C.

AN OLD MEMORY

A CAREER

ON THE RIVER

POOR WITHERED ROSE

WORN OUT

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

A MADRIGAL

A STARRY NIGHT

A LYRIC

HOW SHALL I WOO THEE

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