Owing to the fact that the size of the book was necessarily limited by the price of it; and to the fact that the poems of three of the writers were not obtained until after a large part of the book had been printed, it was impossible to give some of the writers, whose proper places were in the latter part of the book, as much space as was desirable. For the reason just stated, the editor was compelled to omit a large number of excellent poems, written by David Scott (of James,) and others.
Contents.
David Scott (of John.)
- [Biography]
- [Lines Suggested by the Singing of a Bird]
- [An Eastern Tale]
- [The Market-Man’s License]
- [Lines on the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott]
- [My Schoolboy Days]
- [The Donation Visit]
- [Lines on the death of Miss Mary Hayes]
- [Lines on the death of Miss Eleanora Henderson]
- [Lines on the death of Mrs. Burnite]
- [Stanzas read at the Seventy-second Anniversary of the birthday of Joseph Steele]
- [To Mary]
- [Impromptu to Mrs. Anna C. Baker]
- [Lament for the year 1877]
- [Verses presented to my Daughter]
- [Lines on the death of a young lady of Wilmington]
- [Youthful Reminiscences]
- [Stanzas to a little girl on her birthday]
- [To Miss Mary Bain]
- [Stanzas addressed to Mr. and Mrs. T. Jefferson Scott]
- [Birthday Verses written for a little girl on her ninth birthday]
- [Roll Call]
- [In Memoriam Rensellaer Biddle]
- [Stanzas written on the fly leaf of a child’s Bible]
- [Christmas Greeting, 1877]
- [Anniversary Poem read at the anniversary of the Seventieth birthday of Mrs. Ann Peterson]
- [Lines on the death of Jane Flounders]
- [What is Matter?]
- [Anniversary Hymn]
- [The Intellectual Telegraph]
- [Lines on an Indian Arrow-Head]
- [Acrostic to Miss Annie Eliza McNamee]
- [Minutes of the Jackson Hall Debating Society, Dec. 5, 1877]
- [Retrospection]
- [Acrostic to Miss Florence Wilson McNamee]
- [The Book of Books]
- [The Lesson of the Seasons]
- [John A. Calhoun, My Joe John]
Emma Alice Browne.
- [Biography]
- [My Brother]
- [My Father. In Memoriam, 1857]
- [At the Nightfall]
- [The Midnight Chime]
- [May-Thalia]
- [Memories]
- [The Old Homestead]
- [Gurtha]
- [In Memoriam. John B. Abrahams]
- [Missive to ——]
- [Chick-A-Dee’s Song]
- [To My Sister]
- [Measuring the Baby]
- [The Light of Dreams]
- [Ben Hafed’s Meed]
- [Winter Bound]
- [Misled]
- [At Milking time]
- [The Singer’s Song]
- [Aunt Betty’s Thanksgiving]
- [In Hoc Signo Vinces]
- [How Katie Saved the Train]
- [Off the Skidloe]
- [Life’s Crosses]
Nathan Covington Brooks.
- [Biography]
- [The Mother to her dead boy]
- [To a Dove]
- [Fall of Superstition]
- [The Infant St. John the Baptist]
- [Shelley’s Obsequies]
- [The Fountain Revisited]
- [Death of Samson]
- [An Infant’s prayer]