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Avenging the Maine
A Drunken A. B. and other poems
McGirt, James E.
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PREFACE.
EXPLAINING DIALECT POEMS.
AVENGING THE MAINE.
THE MEMORY OF MACEO.
THE SIEGE OF MANILA.
SIEGE OF SANTIAGO.
THE STARS AND STRIPES SHALL NEVER TRAIL THE DUST.
SLAVERY.
WAVE ON, THOU FLAG.
SEEKING HER BOY.
MEMORY OF LINCOLN AND THE YANKEES.
THE DEATH OF HECTOR.
A DRUNKEN A. B.
ENVY.
A LECTURE.
THE GIRL AND THE BIRDS.
SUMMER IS GONE.
THE END OF DAY.
THE EVENING.
AFRICA'S CRY.
THE STARS.
NOTHING TO DO.
THE SIGNS OF DEATH.
SATAN.
LIFE'S ROAD.
CLASSES.
FORTUNE'S WHEEL.
SHOW YOUR LOVE.
MEMORY OF THE OLD TIME.
DON'T LAUGH, BOYS.
MY SONG.
OUR PIC-NIC.
EDITH.
ODE TO LOVE.
HEROD'S SLAUGHTER OF THE BABES.
AMBITION.
A VIEW OF CHILDHOOD.
REASON, SAD WORLD.
THE WELTHY NIGAH.
THE BOYS' OPPORTUNITY.
“NO USE IN SIGNS.”
MEMORY OF FRANCES WILLARD.
I'LL ENTER THE SALOON NO MORE.
UNKER ISREL.
ODE TO CONSCIENCE.
TWO SPIRITS.
FOR THE PRIVATE SOLDIER.
MY LONELY HOMESTEAD.
AN APPEAL.
OUR FATHERS' ERRORS.
VIRTUE ALONE CAN MAKE GREAT MEN.
TO HER THAT WEEPS.
THE HEATHEN LAND.
BLAME NOT THE POET.
TO W. W. BROWNE.
MEMORY OF W. W. BROWNE.
DE 'SCURSION DAT YER RODE.
WHY SHOULD I DEPLORE?
GOD BLESS THE SAILORS.
GIB TER ME ER LOCK OB YER HAIR.
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BLAME NOT THE POET.
Blame not the poet who daily seeks the woods;
Call him not idle, thy verdict may be wrong,
For there he meets with nature face to face,
He hears her voice, to him it's song.
Avenging the Maine