My Valued Ruby

POEMS
BY
PERRY HONCE McGEE
WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA
1920
Copyright 1920. Perry Honce McGee

DEDICATION

With love and hope,
To bring the day foresighted,
I dedicate this book to my race.
—Perry Honce McGee

CONTENTS

Page
[A Blot on Love][33]
[A Difference][56]
[A Drooping Rose][26]
[After de Toun Hall Supper][13]
[A Frosty Morn][20]
[A Genius][89]
[A Lifelong Happiness][7]
[All][47]
[Always][47]
[A Poet’s Wife][19]
[A Poet’s Dark Day][51]
[A Poet’s Power][53]
[A Photo][73]
[A Poet’s Pier][75]
[A Poet’s Thoughts][54]
[A Question][29]
[A Sailor’s Fate][87]
[A Shadow on the Beauty of Life][43]
[A Smile][61]
[A Song of a Broken Heart][50]
[A Spark of Love][22]
[At Eve][88]
[A Thought We Should Have][89]
[A Vision From the Fireside][78]
[Beauty and Ugly][76]
[Becker’s Jealousy][26]
[Breath of Love][46]
[Cupid][88]
[Creation][82]
[Defense][2]
[De Golden Cow][34]
[Democracy][45]
[Dream of Bygones][63]
[Darling Edna May][85]
[Easter Greeting][56]
[Easter Roses][23]
[Eight Noblemen][5]
[E’er Januwah De 2][12]
[Eve Dropper][69]
[Eyes][23]
[Faded Love][48]
[Fate and Time][12]
[For a While][67]
[For My Heart][89]
[Ginger Bay Outing][10]
[Good Fate][73]
[Good Spirit][52]
[Gray Eyes][36]
[Gray Heads][31]
[Happy and Sorrow][43]
[Her Solemn Thoughts][31]
[Here and There][84]
[His Last Hour][70]
[Hidden Thoughts][55]
[Hearts That Are True][68]
[Humin to De Air][83]
[Idleness][42]
[If I Dare][71]
[In an All Old Rose][40]
[In My Thoughts of You][83]
[Inch by Inch][28]
[Just an Irishman’s Way][38]
[Just Now][72]
[Just to Remind You][79]
[Love Dream][57]
[Love’s Reflections][41]
[Love’s Precaution][3]
[Life Plain as Day][65]
[Lazy Mule][24]
[Lieutenant Ruff][16]
[Life’s Pretty Way][86]
[Memories][35]
[Mildred and Marie][57]
[Mother’s Day][62]
[Mr. Fink][30]
[My Daily Prayer][59]
[My Dear Beloved Mother][70]
[My Dearest Darling Ruby][84]
[My Dream][87]
[My Heavenly Thoughts][74]
[My Likes][60]
[My Little Girl][19]
[My Love for You][68]
[My Love][69]
[My Ruby Montrose][76]
[My Ruby Montrose][6]
[My Ship of Thoughts][81]
[My Thoughts of It][89]
[My Thoughts of You][52]
[My View][66]
[My Wife][10]
[My Will][39]
[Nature][44]
[Natural Born Colored Man][33]
[Often Told][38]
[Olegria][40]
[One Sad Morn][65]
[One’s Next Best Friend][82]
[One Sweet Dream][85]
[On Sunday Morn][18]
[On the Sunny Side of Life][4]
[Picnic Day][36]
[Ras Baylem’s Speech][86]
[Rough Road][53]
[Round by Round][89]
[Sadness][58]
[She Said. Then He Said the Rest][88]
[Sie Rankens and His Wife Lizz][15]
[Sixty-One][77]
[Spring’s Easter Lily][80]
[Springtime][74]
[Summer Is Gone][42]
[The Battle of Hearts][79]
[The Bee and the Rose][55]
[The Birds That Sing to Me][62]
[The Blessing of God][77]
[The Breath of a Rose][49]
[The Convict][46]
[The Death of Mrs. Wormsley][22]
[The End of Life][50]
[The Evils of Alcohol][8]
[The Fading Roses][66]
[The Little Toe Dancer][20]
[The Parson’s Resolution][17]
[The Place Where Little Mary Lives][28]
[The Pluck of a Poet][64]
[The Star of Liberia][1]
[The Shawl of Sin][44]
[The Sinking Ship][80]
[The Soul of a Bud][81]
[The Sunshine of Yesterday][9]
[The Thought of a Child][89]
[The Thought of a Husband][59]
[The Voice of a Rose][72]
[The Wild Rose][49]
[There Must Be][58]
[Thorny Love][78]
[Through the Mill][25]
[Toast][18]
[To All][60]
[To Remind You][79]
[True][88]
[Truelet][27]
[Unacquainted][61]
[Violet and You][39]
[What We Ought to Know][14]
[What We Get][54]
[Whene’er Conscience Speaks][63]
[Welcome Spring][75]
[Where the Sun Ne’er Kissed][48]
[Your Eyes and My Eyes][32]
[You Are][35]