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Morning Glories :

Second Edition :
Heard, Josephine Delphine Henderson
  
Dedication
  
[dedication]
  
PREFACE.
  
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE Life of the Author.
  
INTRODUCTION.

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PART FIRST. POEMS, Sentimental and Sacred, Couplets, Etc.
  
RETROSPECT.
  
TO WHITTIER.
  
WELCOME TO HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
  
THE PARTING KISS.
  
THE QUESTION.
  
FAREWELL TO ALLEN UNIVERSITY.
  
NIGHT.
  
THE PARTING.
  
ASSURANCE.
  
HOPE.
  
“FAME.”
  
“TRUTH.”
  
SUNSHINE AFTER CLOUD.
  
SLUMBERING PASSION.
  
THE ADVANCE OF EDUCATION.
  
MOTHER.
  
THE OUTCAST.
  
THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1886.
  
TO YOUTH.
  
ON “GENESSARET.”
  
HE COMES NOT TO-NIGHT.
  
WELCOME HOME.
  
SABBATH BELLS.
  
THE DAY AFTER CONFERENCE.
  
THE QUARREL.
  
THOU LOVEST ME.
  
GENERAL ROBERT SMALLS.
  
ADMIRATION.
  
MY HUSBAND'S BIRTHDAY.
  
DECORATION DAY.
  
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
  
ETERNITY.
  
THE QUARTO CENTENNIAL OF THE BIRTH OF BISHOP RICHARD ALLEN.
  
HEART-HUNGRY.
  
I WILL LOOK UP.
  
HOPE THOU IN GOD.
  
TO CLEMENTS' FERRY.
  
THE BIRTH OF TIME.
  
TENNYSON'S POEMS.
  
THINE OWN.
  
LOVE LETTERS.
  
MATIN HYMN.
  
I LOVE THEE.
  
MY CANARY.
  
MY MOCKING BIRD.
  
MORN.
  
DO YOU THINK?
  
MUSIC.
  
A MOTHER'S LOVE.
  
MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT.
  
WHERE DO SCHOOL DAYS END?
  
THE BIRTH OF JESUS.
  
A HAPPY HEART.
  
WHEN I WOULD DIE!
  
DECEMBER.
  
JUDGE NOT.
  
UNUTTERED PRAYER.
  
WHOSO GIVES FREELY SHALL FREELY RECEIVE.
  
WILBERFORCE.
  
EASTER MORN.
  
THE CITY BY THE SEA.
  
FORGETFULNESS!
  
THE NEW ORGAN.
  
DECEPTION.
  
OUT IN THE DESERT.
  
THE BLACK SAMPSON.
  
“THEY ARE COMING.”
  
RT. REV. RICHARD ALLEN.
  
HE HATH NEED OF REST!
  
REV. ANDREW BROWN, OVER THE HILL TO REST.
  
BISHOP JAMES A. SHORTER.
  
A MESSAGE TO A LOVED ONE DEAD.
  
BEREFT.
  
RESTING.
  
IN MEMORY OF JAMES M. RATHEL.
  
THE NATIONAL CEMETERY, BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
  
SOLACE.
  
AN EPITAPH.
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PART SECOND. LATER POEMS,
  
THE DESERTED WIFE.
  
“THE WOUNDED HEART.”
  
THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
  
WOULD YOU REGRET?
  
TRUSTING THEE.
  
WHERE HAST THOU GLEANED?
  
THE STRICKEN DEER.
  
I LOVE THEE YET.
  
INDIFFERENCE.
  
THE LADDER OF LIFE.
  
MASTER, STILL THE TEMPEST.
  
RESIGNATION.
  
LORD I WOULD LOVE THEE.
  
TEARS.
  
GONE.
  
THE BLACK ELM.
  
TO BISHOP H. TURNER, D. D., LL. D.
  
FRIENDSHIP.
  
VIRTUE.
  
LOVE.
  
IMPOSSIBILITIES.
  
TRUISMS.
  
TO MRS. BISHOP LEE.
  
GRAYSTONE CREST, LOGAN STATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
  
WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT DAY WILL BE OUR LAST.
  
TIME'S FLIGHT.
  
MOVING.
  
TO MY FRIEND.
  
THY WILL, O LORD, NOT MINE.
  
THE SPAN OF LIFE.
  
WHEN, LOVE, I NEED THEE MOST.
  
TO BISHOP ALLEN'S MEMORY.
  
THE WANDERER RECLAIMED.
  
THE RETURNED LETTERS.
  
HYPOCRISY.
  
TO MY FATHER.
  
IN MEMORIAM OF MOTHER.
  
CONSOLATION.
  
WILL E'ER THERE COME A TIME?
  
EXTRACTS FROM THE AUTHORS.
  
TO BISHOP TURNER.
  
EXTRACTS FROM THE AUTHORS.
  
A DREAM.
  
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EXTRACTS AND QUOTATIONS.
  
FORSAKEN
  
AMBITION.
  
THE FIRST FLAKES THAT FELL ON MOTHER'S GRAVE.
  
WHEN WE ARE DEAD.
  
FADED FLOWERS.
  
“AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS.”
  
THE DYING SLAVE'S REQUEST.
  
IN MEMORY OF THE HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, THE SAGE OF ANACOSTIA.
  
GOOD BYE.
  
DOING.
  
THE SLAVE MOTHER'S CRIME.
  
WHERE ARE THE PRAYERS.
  
COULD YOU TELL ME A FALSEHOOD?
  
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GOD IS NEAR THEE.
  
JESUS, SAVIOUR, PILOT, SAVE.
  
HE THAT COMETH TO ME I WILL IN NOWISE CAST OUT.
  
LEND A HAND.
  
CHORUS.
  
TIMES AND THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

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Dedication

TO MY DEVOTED HUSBAND IS THIS LITTLE BOOK LOVINGLY DEDICATED.
GOD SPEED! Say I, and all Good Cheer,
May fair winds fill thy sails—
Go proudly on thy Mission sent,
Fearless of adverse gales.
J. D. H. H.
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