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Poems of home and country
Also, Sacred and Miscellaneous Verse
Smith, Samuel Francis (1808-1895)
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ECHOES OF “AMERICA.”
1.
Part I. POEMS OF HOME.
FAMILY PICTURES.
I. DOMESTIC BEGINNINGS.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.
TO LITTLE MARY WHITE.
CRADLE SONG.
SALLIE.
TO MY BLESSED WIFE.
OUR FRANK.
TO LITTLE ANN.
DANIEL APPLETON WHITE.
II. ANNIVERSARIES.
TO MY DAUGHTER MARY, ON HER EIGHTEENTH BIRTH-DAY.
TO MY DAUGHTER MARY, ON HER WEDDING DAY.
TO MY DAUGHTER, MARY W. JONES,
TO SALLIE, ON HER EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY.
TO FRANK, ON HIS TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY.
EWING AT TWENTY-ONE.
TO MY WIFE AT FIFTY.
OUR GOLDEN WEDDING.
TO CARRIE ON HER FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY.
MY WIFE, TO A FRIEND WHO WOULD GUESS HER AGE.
OUR FIFTY-NINTH MARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY.
SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR WEDDING.
TO MARY REED (FRANK'S WIFE), AT FIFTY.
TO MY BELOVED WIFE, AT SEVENTY.
TO MY WIFE ON HER SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY.
TO MY WIFE ON HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY.
TO MY WIFE, AT EIGHTY-ONE.
TO MY WIFE ON HER EIGHTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY.
III. TENDER PARTINGS.
ELIZABETH, THE INFANT ANGEL.
THE JEWEL AND ITS SETTING.
IN MEMORY OF MARY WHITE SMITH.
TWO GARDENS,
IV. REUNIONS.
SALLIE'S HOME.
AT THE OLD HEARTHSTONE AGAIN.
SOCIAL AMENITIES.
KIND GREETINGS.
THE FRIENDSHIPS WE FORMED.
TO A YOUNG FRIEND AT TWENTY-ONE.
TO A YOUNG MAIDEN.
REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE'S 70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.
DEACON GEORGE W. CHIPMAN, AT SEVENTY.
LYMAN JEWETT, D.D., ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY.
TO DEACON J. W. CONVERSE, ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY.
A GOLDEN WEDDING SONG.
A GOLDEN WEDDING.
MRS. JOSEPH W. PARKER, LOS ANGELES, CAL., ON HER EIGHTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY.
GEORGE C. LORIMER.
ADONIRAM JUDSON GORDON.
IN MEMORY AND CONDOLENCE.
WILLIAM HAGUE, D. D.
GARDNER COLBY.
REV. ISAAC BACKUS,
A LOVING BEQUEST.
MARY POND.
“BLIND ANNA.”
BLOSSOMING ON THE OTHER SIDE.
TO A SORROWING MOTHER.
AGATHA E. CLAFLIN.
HARRIET J. WARDWELL.
EPITAPHS.
IN MEMORY OF A YOUNG MAIDEN.
2.
Part II. POEMS OF COUNTRY.
AMERICA.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS.
SENTIMENTAL.
THE SEAL ONCE LAID ON PLIANT WAX.
NOTHING WITHOUT EFFORT.
WHERE ARE THE BOYS OF EARLIER YEARS?
THE LADY AND THE POET.
HOW BLEST THE ART THAT LINKS IN SACRED BONDS.
THE GENTLE MUSE OF TO-DAY.
ANNIVERSARIES AND DEDICATIONS.
COME TO THE FESTAL DAY.
IN LOVING FAITH THIS STONE WE PLACE.
IN FAITH THIS CORNER-STONE WE LAY.
NOT YET COMPLETE,—THE HALL WE REAR.
HYMN FOR THE DEDICATION OF A SCHOOL-HOUSE.
FAIR SEAT OF LEARNING! WHO SHALL TELL.
FAIR WORCESTER.
FAIR SUFFIELD, THY CHILDREN RETURN TO THY HALLS.
RE-UNIONS.
HYMN
HYMN FOR NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.
A SONG OF “LANG SYNE.”
NOT YET THE FROST OF AGE.
'MID THE TEMPEST AND THE STRIFE.
TRIBUTES.
TO MR. SETH DAVIS, SCHOOL-MASTER.
THE DEPARTED TEACHER.
REQUIEM.
N. P. WILLIS.
EDWARD EVERETT.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
CIVIC INTERESTS AND OCCASIONS.
THE WORLD'S NEED.
TRUE GREATNESS.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
DEDICATION HYMN.
FOR THE DINNER OF THE FIRST CITY GOVERNMENT OF NEWTON, MASS.
SACRED, O GOD, TO THEE.
THE CONSECRATION OF A CEMETERY.
CHANGE AND WORK.
PROEM.
POEM.
PATRIOTIC EXAMPLES AND INCENTIVES.
THE FATHERS AND THEIR STRUGGLES.
A TRIBUTE TO COLUMBUS.
AMERICA, THE WESTERN FLOWER.
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
TEA-DRINKING.
PAUL REVERE'S RIDE.
PATRIOT'S DAY.
INDEPENDENCE DAY, JULY 4, 1776.
THE CHILDREN'S INDEPENDENCE DAY.
THE FOURTH OF JULY REMEMBERED.
HYMN FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY.
THE FATHERS REMEMBERED.
ODE IN MEMORY OF FRANKLIN.
THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON.
THE SONS AND THEIR STRUGGLES.
PATRIOT SONS OF PATRIOT SIRES.
THE CINCINNATAE.
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
FLING OUT THE BANNER.
WAVE THE FLAG ON HIGH.
THE PINE AND THE PALM.
THE MORNING COMETH.
MEMORIAL HONORS.
THE EVE OF DECORATION DAY.
DECORATION DAY.
PRECIOUS LIVES.
CHERISHED NAMES.
OUR FALLEN COMRADES.
BURIAL OF GENERAL GRANT.
THE STUDENT SOLDIERS.
AFTER THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL.
“SLEEP, COMRADES, SLEEP!”
“LIVING STILL.”
ON THE ERECTION OF A SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
MEMORIAL HYMN.
THE ILLINOIS NINETEENTH REGIMENT AND CAPTAIN BREMNER.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT, 1893.
THE VETERANS.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
A CENTURY HYMN. 1789–1889.
MEMORIAL DAY, 1894.
MY NATIVE LAND.
3.
Part III. POEMS: SACRED AND RELIGIOUS.
INCENTIVES TO EARLY PIETY.
OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
MORNING PRAYER.
THINGS SMALL AND GREAT.
THE DEWDROP AND THE SOUL.
RELIGION.
REMEMBER THY CREATOR.
THANKSGIVING.
MARTHA AND MARY.
PERFECT IN CHRIST.
FLEETING BLESSINGS.
EARLY CONSECRATION.
OUR BELOVED TEACHERS.
THE WORD OF GOD.
THE CLOSING WEEK.
SATURDAY EVENING.
SABBATH MORNING.
THE LORD'S DAY.
ANNIVERSARY HYMN.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL HYMN.
SABBATH EVENING.
GOD BE OUR STAFF AND FRIEND.
THE YOUNG FOR CHRIST.
ONWARD! CHRISTIAN WARRIORS.
THE GOSPEL MINISTRY.
HARVEST-TIME.
SOWING AND REAPING.
WELCOME TO A PASTOR.
A BLESSING SOUGHT UPON A PASTOR.
THE DIVINE PRESENCE INVOKED.
BENEFITS OF THE MINISTRY.
GREAT IS THE WORK, BUT THINE THE POWER.
THE CHOSEN OF GOD.
THE SICKLE AND THE SHEAF.
CHRIST, THE CORNER-STONE.
THE REAPERS.
THE AGED PASTOR.
STEWARDSHIP.
GOD OF THE STARRY WORLDS ABOVE.
COME, O DIVINE SHEKINAH, COME!
DEDICATION OF CARYVILLE CHAPEL.
GOD OF THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA.
THE FATHERS, WHERE ARE THEY?
SWEEP ON, O CAR OF LIGHT!
FAREWELL TO THE OLD CHURCH.
THE LIVING CHURCH.
THE ROCK OF AGES.
GOD ALL IN ALL.
DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
THE REDEEMER'S TEARS.
THE LAST SUPPER.
GETHSEMANE.
THE LORD IS RISEN!
THE LIVING CHURCH SWEEPS ON.
A RICH BEQUEST.
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
THE PRESENT AND THE ETERNAL.
DESPONDENCY.
CONSECRATION.
IMPORTUNITY IN PRAYER.
FAR FROM EARTH.
PASSING ON, PASSING UP.
THY WILL, O LORD, BE DONE.
YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN.
ALL THINGS ARE YOURS.
A PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE.
THERE'S REST FOR THEE.
ALL ONE IN CHRIST.
FOLLOWING CHRIST.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
JESUS IS PASSING BY.
A FORETASTE OF HEAVEN.
ABOUNDING MERCY.
UP! YE SAINTS!
SALVATION.
THE TRUSTING SOUL.
BLEST BE THE HOLY BANDS.
BLEST BE THE BONDS OF CHRISTIAN LOVE.
A CENTENARY HYMN.
MISSIONARY HYMNS AND ODES.
PRAYER FOR THE HEATHEN.
HERALDS OF SALVATION.
THE MISSIONARY ANGEL.
GOD BE WITH THEE.
CHRIST'S DISCIPLES DIVIDE THE FIELD.
THE MISSIONARY'S FAREWELL.
LIGHT O'ER THE HILLS.
THY KINGDOM COME, IMMORTAL KING!
PRINCE OF PEACE, OH, COME!
TO A DEPARTING MISSIONARY.
WELCOME TO A RETURNING MISSIONARY.
THE KING OF GLORY.
THE LONE STAR.
FAITH'S TRIUMPH.
THE WORD OF GOD GLORIFIED.
THE LIVING BREAD.
JEHOVAH REIGNS.
“AROUSE YE, O SERVANTS OF GOD!”
FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN.
COME UNTO ME.
O LORD, REMEMBER ME!
THE ALL-SUFFICIENT REFUGE.
THE EVERLASTING SHELTER.
LIFE'S RAPID RIVER.
AS SUMMER CLOUDS.
HOW BLEST ARE THEY, IN CHRIST, WHO DIE!
TO DIE IS GAIN.
THE DYING CHRISTIAN.
THE GRAVE.
WHERE IS THY VICTORY, O GRAVE!
HEAVEN.
RE-UNION IN HEAVEN.
A REDEEMED WORLD.
YOUR THOUSAND VOICES RAISE.
MORN OF ZION'S GLORY.
THE GREAT SALVATION.
THE SUCCESS OF THE GOSPEL ASSURED.
JESUS EVER REIGNS.
THE LORD IS COME.
TRIUMPHS OF THE GOSPEL.
SPEED ON THY VICTORY, MIGHTY KING!
THE PRINCE OF SALVATION IN TRIUMPH IS RIDING.
AMERICA'S CHRISTIAN CENTENNIAL.
THE DOXOLOGY OF REDEMPTION.
4.
Part IV. MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS AND ODES.
INTERVIEWS WITH NATURE.
THE FLAG IN NATURE.
FLOWERS.
FLOWERS IN WINTER.
A SONG OF SPRING.
THE LITTLE CRICKET.
WILD STRAWBERRIES.
THE CANARY AT SEA.
TREE-PLANTING, OR ARBOR DAY.
THE ELOQUENCE OF NATURE.
RUSTIC SCENES.
MY HUMBLE HOME.
PLEASURES OF NATURE.
THE PLEASURES OF INNOCENCE.
MY DELIGHT.
ON WAKING IN THE MORNING.
THE RAIN.
PRAYER BEFORE SCHOOL.
THE SPRING IS COME.
THE GARDEN.
SPRING FLOWERS.
THE THREE FLOWERS.
A SONG IN THE WOODS.
THE HUNTSMAN'S SONG.
INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY.
THE LITTLE WEAVER.
THE LITTLE STAR.
OUR PLEASANT VILLAGE.
SALUTATION TO THE VILLAGE.
FAREWELL TO THE VILLAGE.
HAIL, BETHLEHEM'S STAR!
NATIVE LAND, SO LOVELY.
SUMMER EVENING.
VERSES FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
FREEDOM ADVANCES.
WOMAN.
WOMAN, A “SIDE-ISSUE.”
THE GOOD AND GREAT MAN.
DANGEROUS PRECOCITY.
“A LITTLE UPPISH.”
THESE MODERN TIMES.
A MERRY HOUR.
Humorous Fragments, No. 1.
Humorous Fragments, No. 2.
Humorous Fragments, No. 3.
ELOQUENCE.
SOUL-LIBERTY, THE WATCHWORD OF THE WORLD.
THE UNFETTERED CONSCIENCE.
BE JOYFUL.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
SIBYLLINE LEAVES.
DORCAS.
OUR YEARS ROLL ON.
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