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Coffin's Poems with Ajax' Ordeals

Coffin, F. B.

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I.

At My Mother's Grave.

Memory of Mother.

Mother's Songs.

Motherly Emotions.

Life What We Make It.

Frances E. Harper.

Voice From The South.

Bishop Daniel A. Payne.

The Easter Man.

Man's Imperfections.

[The angel who unfetter'd St. Peter]

Lincoln's Call.

Hurrah for McKinley!

The Call All Must Obey.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Works.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Monument.

Sonnet, October.

Maceo—Cuba's Liberator.

Y. M. C. A. Founder.

Best Thing in the World.

From Degradation Through Supplication to Education.

The Model Girl.

Love's Labor Lost.

Love and Fear Contest.

New Year's Greeting.

Miss Snow Flake and the Lovers.

The Trip I Would Like to Take.

Alone with Jesus.

A Human Artist.

Maid and Mosquito.

Magna est Veritas.

Woman in Congress.

A Christmas Gift.

The Negro's “America.”

Fleeting Spring.

Time—Eternity.

Class Valedictorian.

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II.

Children's Corner.

Children's Kisses.

“The Time of the Singing of Birds is Come.”

Children and Mother.

Santa Claus on New Years Eve.

A Chat With the Boys.

He Knoweth and Loveth You.

Industry in Children.

Vacation's Ending.

Telephone to Heaven.

Where are the Boys.

Children's Day.

The Simple Reason.

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III.

Ajax' Second Dream.

Ajax' Soliloquy.

Ajax' Kindred's Soliloquy.

Ajax' Monument.

Ajax' Meditations.

A Mother's Rage.

Ajax' Bashfulness.

Ajax Looks Beyond.

Ajax Votes for McKinley.

Ajax' Conclusion.

Ajax is Chastised.

Ajax at the Centennial.

Ajax' Appeal to America.

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[The angel who unfetter'd St. Peter]

The angel who unfetter'd St. Peter,
When bound in Jerusalem's jail;
Is no greater than the angel Lincoln
Who heeded the Negro's wail.

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And never in all ages,
Since John on Patmus wrote;
Have words been put on pages
As great as Lincoln spoke.