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The Birds’ Orchestra 7
My Prayer To Truth 14
A Scene in Washington, N. C. 16
Little Naples by the Sea 17
The Family of My Friend Jones 17
The King’s Marriage 19
The Hermit Thrush 19
My Retreat 23
The Mocking-Bird 24
The Jay and I—A Dialogue 26
Nature’s Heart 27
A Nigger and a Mule 28
Virginia’s Natural Bridge 30
The Might of Matutinal Music 30
A Perpetual King 31
The Cotton Gin 32
The Cotton Mill 32
My Own Little Girl 32
My Butterfly 33
Was That Somebody I? 34
My Sabbath Sermon 35
Pilot Mountain 36
Her Prison Life 37
Aurelius Augustinus 38
O, That Income Tax! 40
In Florida 41
Two Little Orphans 42
Trouble and Play 43
Some Small Surprises 43
The Rhythm Universal 44
The Stone Crosses and the Fairies 45
The Sun Flower 46
Colonel Diamond and Grand-daughter 47
The Wild Wood 48
The Beginning of Things 49
The End of Things 49
When the Junco Comes 50
James Bradley Jackson 51
A Story of Colonial Times 53
“Come on wid yer Money fur Me” 55
Good Out of Evil 56
Christmas 57
Mrs. Josephine F. Hamill 58
A Chick’s Cry 59
The Kid and the Cop 59
The Over Favored and The Chanceless Child 61
The Slanderer 61
The World’s Greatest Egotist 62
Little River Royal 63
Give Me Both 64
Manifold Beauty and the Man 64
Chimney Rock 66
The Elephant Dance 67
Least Yet Greatest 67
Old Ship Church 67
A Little Toast to the Men of the Press 68
Mother Indeed 68
Nathan O’Berry 68
The Bishop’s Garden 69
My Triolet 70
Ye Bonny Boys 71
A Ballade to the Girls 71
A Mountain Top View 72
One Aged John Smith and His Youthful Confessions 73
Ode on Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations 74
Another Birthday 77
Oh, Baby Mine 77
The Snake That’s King 78
The Heart of France 79
The Red Maple 81
A Sonnet to Mrs. O. C. Bullock 81
The Strikers 81
November Gloom 82
James Mitchell Rogers 83
Erwin Holt 83
Just an Introduction 83
Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt 84
A Little Index of the Coming Day 85
Winged Tourists 86
How My Easter Dawned 86
Helen Keller 88
The Dancing Tassel 89
Walter Malone 91
The Dutiful Flower 92
My Holiday 92
The Aeolian Harp 92
The God-Man and Myself 93
Death’s Doom 94
The Dying Year 96