Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction and Acknowledgments
	On the Portrait of	3
	Niagra	5
	To the Mickingbird	5
	For ***, on Seeing Her Portrait	5
	Child Cupid	7
	To Priscus	7
	To a Beautiful and Misshapen Woman	7
	For Cinna	9
	For Emile	9
	On Paulla	9
	To Bithynicus	11
	The Perfect Couple	11
	On Chloe	13
	For Milo	13
	The Wrestler	15
	The Two Rabbits	17
	To Spring	21
	The Oak and the Reed	23
	The Oyster and the Adversaries	25
	The Hare and the Tortoise	25
	Lines Written in the Album of Mademoiselle ***	29
	Declaration	29
	"Lazarus is the nameless, sickly pauper"	33
	The Orphan Girl	35
	The Drop of Water	37
	The Lion	39
	The Tapeworm	41
	The Log and the Saw	41
	For Madame F. B.	43
	Brunette or Blonde?	43
	The Troubadour to His Queen	45
	The Oyster and the Pearl	45
	The Wasp and the Bee	47
	The Tree and the Mast	49
	An Evening in Jackson Square	53
	Memories of the Wilderness	57
	What Makes Me Dream	61
	Memory of the Ball	61
	Love	63
	Jealousy	63
	The Firefly and the Violet	65
	Pansy	67
	Stella Maris	69
	Sonnet	71
	Heavenly Angel	73
	Yes and No	75
	For Nina	79
	The Cricket and the Ant	83
	The Wolf and the Stork	89
	The South's Constant Revolt	91
	Epigram	95
	Mardi Gras	95
	Mosaic	99
	For Mademoiselle Adele ***	101
	On the Death of H. Boussuge	103
	For Corinne ***	105
	For Madame C ***	107
	Lines in the Album of Monsieur ***	109
	To Pere Chocarne	111
	For a Friend Who Accused Me of Plagiarism	115
	An Impression	117
	My Old Hat	119
	For Ida	121
	The Melon	123
	The Preacher's Hat	125
	Fatherland	129
	The Flower Moon over Louisiana	133
	The Oak and Its Moss	137
	Reply to My Friend Monsieur St. Pierre	139
	To My Friend P., Who Asked Me for My Opinion on Marriage	141
	For Magda	143
	Love and Devotion	149
	The Coward	153
	Double Rondeau	155
	Evening Stroll on the Levee	159
	Man, Bird of Passage on This Earth	161
	Recollection of Kentucky	165
	To the Ladies of New Orleans	167
	Imitation from the German	171
	The Whippoorwill	173
	For a Child	173
	For Monsieur Hilarion Huc	175
	The Bachelor	177
	For a Dissolute Old Man	181
	For Monsieur ***	183
	For M ***	185
	The Louisianan	187
	On the Death of a Friend	189
	Beranger	189
	On a Little Child	191
	Woe unto Him Who Wrongs Me	191
	Lines (Concerning a young lady who had been shot at)	193
	For a Young Lady	195
	Two Years Later	195
	For Monsieur Alex. Latil	199
	Washington	203
	Farewell	207
	The Return	209
	On the Death of the Author of Les Ephemeres	211
	The Poor Man's Funeral Procession	215
	You	217
	Fallen Woman	219
	Moonlight	223
	To My American Miss	223
	The Incubus	225
	To My Muse	227
	An Old Mulatress's Lament; or, Sanite Foueron's Despair	229
	For Hermina	231
	Suggestions for Further Reading	233