Selected Poems Book

	Introduction	xi
	Bibliography	xxvii
	Suggestions for Further Reading	xxix
	From Oak and Ivy (1893)
	A Banjo Song	3
	A Career	5
	Columbian Ode	6
	James Whitcomb Riley	7
	Life	8
	Lullaby	9
	Melancholia	10
	My Sort o' Man	12
	Ode to Ethiopia	14
	Sympathy	15
	The Ol' Tunes	16
	The Seedling	18
	From Majors and Minors (1895)
	After the Quarrel	23
	Alice	24
	Ballad	24
	By the Stream	25
	The Change Has Come	26
	Changing Time	26
	The Colored Soldiers	27
	A Corn-Song	29
	Dawn	31
	Dirge	31
	Disappointed	32
	Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes	33
	Frederick Douglass	35
	A Frolic	37
	He Had His Dream	38
	Hymn	38
	Invitation to Love	39
	Ione	40
	The Master-Player	48
	Ode for Memorial Day	48
	One Life	49
	The Poet and His Song	50
	A Prayer	52
	Retort	52
	Ships That Pass in the Night	53
	A Summer's Night	53
	We Wear the Mask	54
	To Pfrimmer	54
	From Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)
	Accountability	59
	An Ante-Bellum Sermon	60
	The Corn-Stalk Fiddle	62
	The Lawyers' Ways	64
	Religion	65
	After a Visit	65
	The Spellin'-Bee	66
	Keep A-Pluggin' Away	70
	An Easy-Goin' Feller	71
	The Wooing	72
	When de Co'n Pone's Hot	73
	Discovered	75
	The Delinquent	76
	A Confidence	77
	The Party	79
	From Poems of Cabin and Field (1899)
	The Deserted Plantation	87
	Little Brown Baby	88
	Chrismus Is A-Comin'	89
	From Lyrics of the Hearthside (1899)
	Love's Apotheosis	93
	The Paradox	94
	The Right to Die	95
	Behind the Arras	96
	A Hymn	96
	Dream Song I	97
	Dream Song II	97
	The King Is Dead	98
	Theology	99
	Resignation	99
	Thou Art My Lute	99
	The Phantom Kiss	100
	The Crisis	101
	Alexander Crummell Dead	102
	Sonnet	102
	Misapprehension	103
	For the Man Who Fails	103
	Harriet Beecher Stowe	104
	The Warrior's Prayer	105
	The Voice of the Banjo	106
	A Choice	107
	The Real Question	107
	Jilted	108
	Chrismus on the Plantation	109
	Foolin' wid de Seasons	110
	A Death Song	112
	Jealous	112
	Parted	113
	A Letter	114
	At Candle-Lightin' Time	116
	How Lucy Backslid	117
	Protest	121
	From When Malindy Sings (1903)
	When Malindy Sings	125
	The Colored Band	127
	The Memory of Martha	128
	The Tryst	129
	The Boogah Man	130
	Noddin' by de Fire	131
	My Sweet Brown Gal	133
	In the Morning	134
	The Plantation Child's Lullaby	135
	Curiosity	137
	Opportunity	138
	Puttin' the Baby Away	139
	Faith	140
	The Fisher Child's Lullaby	141
	From Lyrics of Love and Laughter (1903)
	Joggin' Erlong	145
	In May	146
	Dreams	146
	The Dove	147
	The Valse	147
	Song	148
	Inspiration	149
	When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers	149
	Lincoln	151
	To a Captious Critic	151
	The Poet	152
	A Spiritual	152
	W'en I Gits Home	153
	The Unsung Heroes	154
	The Pool	156
	Speakin' at de Cou't House	156
	Black Samson of Brandywine	158
	Douglass	159
	Booker T. Washington	160
	Philosophy	160
	The Debt	161
	By Rugged Ways	161
	To the South	163
	The Haunted Oak	166
	Weltschmertz	168
	Robert Gould Shaw	169
	A Love Song	170
	A Negro Love Song	171
	The Fount of Tears	172
	At the Tavern	173
	From Li'l' Gal (1904)
	Li'l' Gal	177
	A Plea	178
	Soliloquy of a Turkey	178
	When Sam'l Sings	180
	From Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
	A Boy's Summer Song	185
	The Sand-Man	186
	Johnny Speaks	186
	Scamp	187
	A Christmas Folksong	188
	The Farm Child's Lullaby	189
	Hope	190
	The Awakening	191
	A Musical	191
	Twell de Night Is Pas'	192
	Compensation	192
	Anchored	193
	Yesterday and To-morrow	193
	At Sunset Time	194
	At Loafing-Holt	195
	When a Feller's Itchin' to Be Spanked	196
	A Love Letter	197
	Trouble in de Kitchen	198
	The Quilting	199
	Forever	199
	Parted	200
	Christmas	200
	From Howdy, Honey, Howdy (1905)
	"Howdy, Honey, Howdy!"	205
	Encouragement	205
	Twilight	207
	From Joggin' Erlong (1906)
	The Capture	211
	Uncollected Poems
	Emancipation	215
	Welcome Address	216
	Comrade	217
	Love Is a Star	219
	The Making Up	219
	A Toast to Dayton	220
	Sold A C.H.S. Episode	220
	After the Struggle	221
	The Builder	221
	Lullaby (II)	222
	Index of Titles	225
	Index of First Lines	231