EARLY VANITIES
BYN. J. CLODFELTER
NEW YORK :
HURST & CO., PUBLISHERS,
122 NASSAU STREET.
Copyright, 1886, by HURST & CO
page: [4][View Page [4]]DEDICATION,
To her who gave me being, and made that early being the source of my greatest enjoyment, and whose tender care and faithful affection soothed the little ills of afflicting childhood--to my aged Mother--these early poems are affectionately inscribed by her son,
THE AUTHOR.
page: [5][View Page [5]]CONTENTS.
- A Closing Scene 11
- A June Ramble 108
- Almighty God 66
- A Monody 145
- An Acrostic 150
- A Punch at the Bee Gum 18
- At Rest 138
- Autumn (Scotch) 120
- A Visit to the Rock River--Mary's Home 31
- Birthday Dinner 148
- Dedicating Ode 68
- Disappointment 142
- Early Religious Songs 66
- Epitaph 248
- Farewell 133
- Farewell to the Meanest People on Earth 69
- For a Funeral Occasion 67
- For a Common Place Book 61
- For an Album 65
- Fortunate 30
- For Willard Fink 157
- Hail Beautiful Spring 119
- Hope 107
- Humphrey's Forest 45
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- In Memoria 135
- In Memoria of my Dead Sister 10
- Inspiration 124
- Introduction 161
- Introductory Acrostic Sonnet 9
- I Stood upon the Little Hill 79
- Lines on the Death of Our Darling Little Daughter, Alma Nina 261
- Longfellow 99
- Lord Byron 117
- Mary's Mansion 30
- Mary's Sward 32
- Midday in a Gorge in the Ozard Mountains 110
- Miscellaneous Poems 112
- Ode to my Lyre 263
- On Being Tormented by Some Boys 63
- On Hearing a Band Play 13
- Orphan and Thunderstorm 19
- Our Best Friend 97
- Patience Contrasted 94
- Purity 17
- Read at the Fortieth Anniversary of Fathers and Mothers Marriage 82
- Roseland--A Song 114
- Spirits of the Storm 267
- Si-ous-Ka, or the Wildflower 185
- Sonnet 116
- Sonnet, A 259
- Sonnet to Jessica 160
- Sonnet to the Soldiers in Heaven 106
- Sonnet to Vivien 151
- Storm at Sea 100
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- The Belle o' the Town 28
- The Buzz o' the Wheel and the Clash o' the Loom 92
- The Deserted Home 122
- The Fair Sex 64
- The Fallen Peri 26
- The Fatal Leap 154
- The Fate of the Bride 158
- The Fate of the Leaves 85
- The Fates ; or the Dance on the Lethe 228
- The Grave of my Myrtle 25
- The Haunted Chamber 140
- The Horrid Reel 16
- The Images--Founded on Facts 14
- The Last Sad Adieu 87
- The Little Grave 102
- The Old Indian Chiefs Return to the Wabash 128
- The Pleasures of Home 250
- The Ring--To Mary 34
- The Rural Scotch Home in April 95
- There are Questions 104
- The same View by Moonlight 111
- The Three Sons 71
- The Venomous Bowl 89
- Threnody 260
- Time 131
- To Bennet While in Prison 152
- To a Concert Troupe 62
- To James Milliken and Teddy Wray 38
- To Mary in Heaven 44
- To Mary on Receiving her Picture before I had Seen Her 29
- To Miss Nettie Wyand 70
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- To My Wife While Away from Home, and Despondent 112
- To Prof. J. F. Vaughn 88
- To the One that Can Best Understand It 35
- To Those Editors, who can Best Understand It 156
- Unlorded Soil--A Fragment 40
- What is it (E.) 81
- Why is a Conqueror so much Admired? 36
- Written by the Death Bed of a Dear Friend 37
- Written in Mary's Album 33