Research Catalog

Title

Songs of the months / Effie Waller.

Author

Smith, Effie Waller, 1879-1960.

Publication

• New York : Published by the Broadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway, 1904.
• ©1904

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Details

Description

xviii, 175 pages : portrait; 19 cm

Subjects

• African American women > Poetry
• Nature > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors
• Black author

Note

• "Copyright, 1904, by Effie Waller."
• A collection of nature poetry.
• Includes index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Contents

To the Reader -- To Mary Elliott Flanery -- To Mrs. Louisa Steele -- To Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Staley -- Old-fashioned garden -- Daisies -- When daisies bloom -- Once on a time -- Thou wilt keep them -- January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December -- Musings on the old year -- Beautiful snow -- Sign of Spring -- Spring again -- Easter -- Easter lilies -- Decoration Day -- Sword in its scabbard -- Memorial Day -- Berrying time -- August sunset -- Good-bye -- Nutting-time -- Indian Summer -- Thanksgiving -- Christmas wishes -- Hills -- Lone grave on the mountain - To W. A. -- Hoisting the flag -- Wagon ride -- Farmer's boy -- Evening among the Cumberlands -- Hollyhocks -- Somebody's father -- Washington -- 'Possum hunt -- "Evening Star" -- Country courtship -- Rain in the night -- At the close of school -- Smile and speak kindly -- Bridal blossoms -- Despondency -- Safe at home -- Bring them back -- In thy secret place -- Preacher's wife -- Closer to thee -- In memory of Rev. Jesse Ball -- Shining for Jesus -- Four-leafed clover -- Shall we know our dear and loved ones? -- "Remember the Maine" -- Cuban cause -- Return of our soldier boys-1899 -- Decoration Day-1899 -- To --------- ----------- -- "Only a drunkard" -- Future days -- Corn-husking -- After the storm -- Maple leaves in autumn -- Autumn beauties -- Old mill-pond -- Uncultured man -- Longing for the woods -- Colored soldiers of the Spanish-American War -- "Her hopes lie buried with her hero dead" -- No solitude in nature -- Jonquils -- Apple sauce and chicken fried -- To my love -- Courtship among the mountains -- No one like Mother -- Summer is dying -- Bryant -- At the "Locks" -- After reading the "Song of Hiawatha" -- To the Cumberland Mountains -- Old walnut cradle -- King's daughter -- At Daniel Boone's monument -- True love never dies -- Memory -- To S. E. D. -- "Yankee Doodle" -- Ensign Worth Bagley -- Old attic room -- Sing me a song -- Story of the Christ-child -- Memories of home -- Decatur's daring deed -- Answer to verses addressed to me by Peter Clay -- Jasper at Fort Moultrie -- In memory of William Hughes -- Vesper song -- He leadeth me -- Katherine.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Waller, E. Songs of the months)

OCLC

• 27377032
• NYPGR27377032-B

Author

Smith, Effie Waller, 1879-1960.

Title

Songs of the months / Effie Waller.

Publisher

New York : Published by the Broadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway, 1904.

Copyright Date

©1904

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

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Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-W (Waller, E. Songs of the months)