The Silver Oar
and Other Poems
By
AUGUST DWIGHT BABCOCK
Published by the Author Goodland, Ind. 1914
[View Figure]The Author.
Copyrighted by A.D. Babcock, 1914
All rights reserved
Printed by
the
Benton Review Shop,
Fowler Indiana.
CONTENTS.
- Could We Know 13
- A Beautiful Home 14
- Could I Write With the Pen of An Angel 15
- Thanksgiving 18
- Thine All Protecting Care20
- A Prayer 22
- The Land of Yesterday 24
- You Are Leaving Home To-Night, Jim26
- My Childhood 28
- The Soldier's Story31
- Two Minds 36
- Only a Fallen Woman40
- The Hope of To-Morrow44
- To a Child46
- The Man of Galilee48
- Does God Hear Me When I Pray50
- Mists and Shadows52
- I Am Following After Thee54
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- What Though You Know You Have Genius 56
- Galilee58
- The Little Stranger 61
- I Am Tired of Life's Battle 64
- The River Road67
- In a Dream 70
- The Last Leaf is Fallen 73
- Children of My Pen75
- I Would Write 78
- I Would Speak to Thee, My Father 79
- You and I 82
- The House Clock Ticks Upon the Wall85
- To the Iroquois88
- Beauty91
- We Do Not Understand92
- When the Lilacs are in Blossom95
- The Fairies98
- The Old Man is Dreaming To-Night 102
- The Old Scrap Book105
- The Shadow on the Wall108
- The First Man111
- I Know That My Redeemer Lives113
- The Vacant Chair 115
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- Opinions of Dad 117
- The Silver Oar 121
- I Would I Were a Child Again 124
- A Spirit Passed Before Me 126
- My Mother's Picture130
- Only a Little Girl Baby 132
- Plant Some Old Kentucky Blue Grass on My Grave135
- When You and I Were Friendly, Bill 139
- The Girl I Loved in My Youth142
- Jim is Home From College144
- 'Tis Finished148
- Though Your Hair Has Turned To Silver150
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Illustrations
- Author ................... Frontispiece
- Author's Mother .........................7
- My Childhood ...............................29
- The Little Stranger ....................60
- You and I ............................81
- View on the Iroquois .............88
- The Old Man is Dreaming Tonight ........... 103
- The Silver Oar .....................122
- Plant Some Old Kentucky Blue Grass on My Grave ........... 136