by John Charles McNeill

[American (North Carolina) poet. 1874-1907.]

To

JOSEPH P. CALDWELL
("The Old Man")

CONTENTS

SONGS, MERRY AND SAD

The Bride

"Oh, Ask Me Not"

Isabel

To ———

To Melvin Gardner: Suicide

Away Down Home

For Jane's Birthday

A Secret

The Old Bad Woman

Valentine

A Photograph

Jesse Covington

An Idyl

Home Songs

M. W. Ransom

Protest

Oblivion

Now!

Tommy Smith

Before Bedtime

"If I Could Glimpse Him"

Attraction

Love's Fashion

Alcestis

Reminiscence

Sonnet

Lines

An Easter Hymn

A Christmas Hymn

When I Go Home

Odessa

Trifles

Sunburnt Boys

Gray Days

An Invalid

A Caged Mocking-Bird

Dawn

Harvest

Two Pictures

October

The Old Clock

Tear Stains

A Prayer

She Being Young

Paul Jones

The Drudge

The Wife

Vision

September

Barefooted

Pardon Time

The Rattlesnake

The Prisoner

Sonnet

Folk Song

"97": The Fast Mail

Sundown

At Sea

L'envoi

SONGS, MERRY AND SAD