Research Catalog

Title

Poems / by H. Cordelia Ray.

Author

Ray, H. Cordelia (Henrietta Cordelia), 1852?-1916.

Publication

New York : The Grafton Press, MCMX. [1910]

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Details

Additional Authors

Grafton Press, publisher.

Description

ix, [2], 6-169, [1] pages; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Black author
• American poetry > African American authors

Note

• "Copyright 1910 by H. Cordelia Ray."--verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic form, digitized by NYPL.

Source (note)

• from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• A Rosary of fancies: The sculptor's vision -- Fancy and imagination -- Repose -- The mist maiden -- May's invocation -- The poet's ideal -- The perfect orchestra -- Wood carols -- A dream of Elfland -- Dawn's carol -- On the picture of a child -- A dream within a song -- Song -- A picture -- Sunset picture -- An idyl of spring -- A group of musings -- In a nook called Fairyland -- On the Concord River -- Cloud fantasy -- Invocation to the muse -- The vision of Eve -- Ode on the twentieth century.
• Meditations: The hour's glory -- Reverie -- God's ways, not our ways -- Nature's minor chords -- At nature's shrine -- Cloud song -- My Easter dove -- Questioning -- Hidden essence -- A fragment -- Star song -- Easter carol -- An ideal -- The hermit and the soul -- Compensation -- A vision of moonlight -- Sea cadences -- A thought on Lake Ontario -- Sky picture -- Hymn to the Thousand Islands -- On the rapids of the St. Lawrence -- Voices of the rain -- Our task -- Echo reverie -- Lines written on a farewell view of the Franconia Mountain at twilight -- The coming of spring -- Failure -- The triple Benison -- Verses to my heart's sister -- Among the Berkshire Hills -- Evening prayer -- Retrospection -- At Christmas-Tide -- Broken heart -- Prayer -- Shadow and sunshine -- Soul incense.
• Sonnets: To my mother -- Life -- Aspiration -- Incompleteness -- Self-mastery -- Niobe -- The two musicians -- The poet's ministrants -- Milton -- Shakespeare -- Raphael -- Beethoven -- The tireless sculptor -- The soul's courts -- Limitations -- The Venus of Milo -- The Quest of the ideal -- An ocean musing -- Emerson -- To Laura.
• Champions of freedom: To my father -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Wendell Phillips -- Charles Sumner -- Robert G. Shaw -- Toussaint L'Ouverture.
• Ballads and other poems: Rhyme of the antique forest -- Musidora's vision -- Echo's complaint -- Antigone and Oedipus -- Anita and Giovanni -- Listening Nydia -- Mignon -- The fisherman's story -- Snow song -- Pastoral -- Idyl -- The enchanted shell -- Chateaux en Espagne -- The fading skiff -- The Maid of Ehrenthal -- Mildred's doves -- Little Fay's Thanksgiving.
• Chansons d'amour: The dawn of love -- The siren bird -- Reunited -- Love's vista -- My spirit's complement -- Recompensed? -- The messengers -- O restless heart, be still! -- Boat song -- Cuckoo song.
• Quatrains: At sunset -- Life's boundary -- Charity -- Awakening -- Lost opportunities -- Ambition -- Full vision -- After the storm -- At the cascade -- Nature's uplifting -- Instability -- The afterglow.
• The procession of the seasons: January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December.
• The seer, the singer, and the sage: Dante -- Longfellow -- A thought at Walden.
• Heroic echoes: Quebec -- In memoriam, Frederick Douglass -- Greeting to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe on her eighty-fifth birthday -- In Memorian [sic], Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Lincoln.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-R (Ray, H. C. Poems)

LCCN

11009931 /rev

OCLC

• 7769596
• NYPGR7769596-B

Author

Ray, H. Cordelia (Henrietta Cordelia), 1852?-1916.

Title

Poems / by H. Cordelia Ray.

Publisher

New York : The Grafton Press, MCMX. [1910]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available in electronic form, digitized by NYPL.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-R (accession no. B594104) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Source

Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 811-R (Ray, H. C. Poems), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Grafton Press, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-R (Ray, H. C. Poems)

*WIY 97-19