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Poetry · 1906

Songs, Merry and Sad

John Charles McNeill

Reading time
about 40 min
Length
9,174 words · 69 pages
Structure
55 sections · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Songs, Merry and Sad, first published in 1906, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. The Bride
  2. “Oh, Ask Me Not”
  3. Isabel
  4. To—
  5. To Melvin Gardner: Suicide
  6. Away Down Home
  7. For Jane’s Birthday
  8. A Secret
  9. The Old Bad Woman
  10. Valentine
  11. A Photograph
  12. Jesse Covington
  13. An Idyl
  14. Home Songs
  15. M. W. Ransom
  16. Protest
  17. Oblivion
  18. Now!
  19. Tommy Smith
  20. Before Bedtime
  21. “If I Could Glimpse Him”
  22. Attraction
  23. Love’s Fashion
  24. Alcestis
  25. Reminiscence
  26. Sonnet
  27. Lines
  28. An Easter Hymn
  29. A Christmas Hymn
  30. When I Go Home
  31. Odessa
  32. Trifles
  33. Sunburnt Boys
  34. Gray Days
  35. An Invalid
  36. A Caged Mocking-Bird
  37. Dawn
  38. Harvest
  39. Two Pictures
  40. October
  41. The Old Clock
  42. Tear Stains
  43. A Prayer
  44. She Being Young
  45. Paul Jones
  46. The Drudge
  47. The Wife
  48. Vision
  49. September
  50. Barefooted
  51. Pardon Time
  52. The Rattlesnake
  53. The Prisoner
  54. Sonnet
  55. Folk Song
  56. “97”: The Fast Mail
  57. Sundown
  58. At Sea
  59. L’envoi
  60. Notes

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