INDEX OF FIRST LINES
- A bee that was searching for sweets one day 19
- A blue-bell springs upon the ledge 26
- A cloud fell down from the heavens 288
- A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in 8
- A hush is over all the teeming lists 6
- A knock is at her door, but she is weak 73
- A life was mine full of the close concern 103
- A lilt and a swing 226
- A little bird with plumage brown 78
- A little dreaming by the way 114
- A lover whom duty called over the wave 29
- A maiden wept and, as a comforter 11
- A man of low degree was sore oppressed 111
- A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need 196
- A song is but a little thing 4
- A youth went farming up and down 55
- Across the hills and down the narrow ways 120
- Adown the west a golden glow 263
- Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days 208
- Ah, I have changed, I do not know 270
- Ah, love, my love is like a cry in the night 222
- Ah me, it is cold and chill 186
- Ah, Nora, my Nora, the light fades away 62
- Ah, yes, 't is sweet still to remember 31
- Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day 101
- Ain't it nice to have a mammy 239
- Ain't nobody tol' you not a wo'd a-tall 181
- Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah 77
- All de night long twell de moon goes down 253
- All hot and grimy from the road 224
- Along by the river of ruin 265
- An angel robed in spotless white 65
- An old man planted and dug and tended 60
- An old, worn harp that had been played 17
- As a quiet little seedling 12
- As in some dim baronial hall restrained 94
- As lone I sat one summer's day 122
- As some rapt gazer on the lowly earth 106
- Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust 103
- At the golden gate of song 179
- Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! 105
- Back to the breast of thy mother 113
- Because I had loved so deeply 256
- Because you love me I have much achieved 238
- Bedtime's come fu' little boys 144
- Belated wanderer of the ways of spring 179
- Beyond the years the answer lies 41
- Bird of my lady's bower 19
- Bones a-gittin' achy 153
- Break me my bounds, and let me fly 285
- Breezes blowin' middlin' brisk 78
- Bring me the livery of no other man 92
- By Mystic's banks I held my dream 204
- By rugged ways and thro' the night 215
- By the pool that I see in my dreams, dear love 198
- By the stream I dream in calm delight, and watch as in a glass 50
- Caught Susanner whistlin'; well 149
- Come away to dreamin' town 254
- Come, drink a stirrup cup with me 125
- Come, essay a sprightly measure 97
- Come on walkin' wid me, Lucy; 't ain't no time to mope erroun' 164
- Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart 120
- Come when the nights are bright with stars 61
- Cool is the wind, for the summer is waning 163
- Cover him over with daisies white 258
- Daih's a moughty soothin' feelin' 187
- Darling, my darling, my heart is on the wing 202
- Days git wa'm an' wa'mah 239
- De axes has been ringin' in de woods de blessid day 143
- De breeze is blowin' 'cross de bay 145
- De 'cession's stahted on de gospel way 194
- De da'kest hour, dey allus say 165
- De dog go howlin' 'long de road 247
- De night creep down erlong de lan' 166
- De ol' time's gone, de new time's hyeah 192
- De sun hit shine an' de win' hit blow 256
- De times is mighty stirrin' 'mong de people up ouah way 158
- De trees is bendin' in de sto'm 193
- De way t'ings come, hit seems to me 225
- De win' is blowin' wahmah 236
- De win' is hollahin' "Daih you" to de shuttahs an' de fiah 174
- Dear critic, who my lightness so deplores 189
- Dear heart, good-night! 23
- Dear Miss Lucy: I been t'inkin' dat I'd write you long fo' dis 151
- Deep in my heart that aches with the repression 25
- Dey been speakin' at de cou't-house 205
- Dey had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night 83
- Dey is snow upon the meddahs 168
- Dey is times in life when Nature 57
- Dey was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot 268
- Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall 182
- Dey's a so't o' threatenin' feelin' in de blowin' of de breeze 171
- Dinah stan' befo' de glass 206
- Dis is gospel weathah sho'— 26
- Do' a-stan'in' on a jar, fiah a-shinin' thoo 196
- Dolly sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stitch 240
- Done are the toils and the wearisome marches 22
- Dream days of fond delight and hours 287
- Dream on, for dreams are sweet 100
- Driftwood gathered here and there 277
- Duck come switchin' 'cross de lot 275
- Ef dey's anyt'ing dat riles me 141
- Ef you's only got de powah fe' to blow a little whistle 250
- Eight of 'em hyeah all tol' an' yet 243
- Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire 115
- Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes 3
- Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits 5
- Folks is talkin' 'bout de money, 'bout de silvah an' de gold 135
- Four hundred years ago a tangled waste 47
- Fu' de peace o' my eachin' heels, set down 222
- God has his plans, and what if we 81
- "Good-bye," I said to my conscience 31
- Goo'-by, Jinks, I got to hump 64
- Good hunting!—aye, good hunting 237
- Good-night, my love, for I have dreamed of thee 93
- Granny's gone a-visitin' 242
- Grass commence a-comin' 176
- Gray are the pages of record 205
- Gray is the palace where she dwells 180
- G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy 82
- Hain't you see my Mandy Lou 173
- He had his dream, and all through life 61
- He loved her, and through many years 129
- He sang of life serenely sweet 191
- He scribbles some in prose and verse 49
- Heart of my heart, the day is chill 207
- Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now 216
- Heel and toe, heel and toe 170
- Hello, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray 80
- Hit's been drizzlin' an' been sprinklin' 180
- Home agin, an' home to stay 259
- How shall I woo thee to win thee, mine own? 289
- How sweet the music sounded 284
- How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell 114
- Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound 184
- Hyeah come Cæsar Higgins 145
- Hyeah dat singin' in de medders 208
- "I am but clay," the sinner plead 114
- I am no priest of crooks nor creeds 38
- I am the mother of sorrows 89
- I be'n down in ole Kentucky 42
- I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night 212
- I did not know that life could be so sweet 252
- I done got 'uligion, honey, an' I's happy ez a king 146
- I don't believe in 'ristercrats 140
- I grew a rose once more to please mine eyes 13
- I grew a rose within a garden fair 12
- I had not known before 240
- I has hyeahd o' people dancin' an' I's hyeahd o' people singin' 156
- I have no fancy for that ancient cant 94
- I have seen full many a sight 188
- I held my heart so far from harm 255
- I found you and I lost you 251
- I know a man 235
- I know my love is true 58
- I know what the caged bird feels, alas! 102
- I never shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin 42
- I sit upon the old sea wall 115
- I stand above the city's rush and din 275
- I stood by the shore at the death of day 69
- I think that though the clouds be dark 53
- I was not; now I am—a few days hence 17
- If Death should claim me for her own to-day 210
- If life were but a dream, my Love 75
- If the muse were mine to tempt it 50
- If thro' the sea of night which here surrounds me 256
- If 'twere fair to suppose 258
- If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day 21
- In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way 124
- In de dead of night I sometimes 260
- In Life's Red Sea with faith I plant my feet 110
- In the east the morning comes 199
- In the heavy earth the miner 107
- In the forenoon's restful quiet 95
- In the silence of my heart 110
- In this sombre garden close 209
- In the tents of Akbar 223
- In this old garden, fair, I walk to-day 111
- I's a-gittin' weary of de way dat people do 244
- I's boun' to see my gal to-night 142
- I's feelin' kin' o' lonesome in my little room to-night 202
- It is as if a silver chord 216
- It may be misery not to sing at all 225
- It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day 137
- It's all a farce,—these tales they tell 56
- It's hot to-day. The bees is buzzin' 279
- It's moughty tiahsome layin' 'roun' 195
- I've a humble little motto 46
- I've always been a faithful man 267
- I've been list'nin' to them lawyers 22
- I've been watchin' of 'em, parson 39
- I've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things 147
- Key and bar, key and bar 201
- Kiss me, Miami, thou most constant one! 277
- Know you, winds that blow your course 40
- Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass 142
- Lead gently, Lord, and slow 98
- Let me close the eyes of my soul 261
- Let those who will stride on their barren roads 214
- 'Lias! 'Lias! Bless de Lawd! 190
- Like sea-washed sand upon the shore 202
- Like the blush upon the rose 282
- Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes 134
- Little brown face full of smiles 267
- Little lady at de do' 177
- Long had I grieved at what I deemed abuse 106
- Long since, in sore distress, I heard one pray 123
- Long time ago, we too set out 119
- Long years ago, within a distant clime 104
- Love hath the wings of the butterfly 117
- Love is the light of the world, my dear 231
- Love me. I care not what the circling years 89
- Love used to carry a bow, you know 258
- Lucy done gone back on me 136
- Mammy's in de kitchen, an' de do' is shet 241
- Mastah drink his ol' Made'a 213
- Men may sing of their Havanas, elevating to the stars 129
- Mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two 79
- My cot was down by a cypress grove 8
- My heart to thy heart 13
- My lady love lives far away 288
- My muvver's ist the nicest one 247
- My neighbor lives on the hill 192
- My soul, lost in the music's mist 76
- Night, dim night, and it rains, my love, it rains 227
- Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy 90
- Not o'er thy dust let there be spent 18
- No matter what you call it 287
- Not they who soar, but they who plod 18
- Not to the midnight of the gloomy past 214
- O li'l' lamb out in de col' 133
- O Lord, the hard-won miles 11
- O Mother Race! to thee I bring 15
- October is the treasurer of the year 63
- Oh, de clouds is mighty heavy 169
- Oh, de grubbin'-hoe's a-rustin' in de co'nah 67
- Oh, de weathah it is balmy an' de breeze is sighin' low 207
- Oh, dere's lots o' keer an' trouble 20
- Oh for the breath of the briny deep 92
- Oh, I am hurt to death, my Love 72
- Oh, I des received a letter f'om de sweetest little gal 266
- Oh, I haven't got long to live, for we all 48
- Oh, summer has clothed the earth 91
- Oh the breeze is blowin' balmy 262
- Oh, the day has set me dreaming 107
- Oh, the little bird is rocking in the cradle of the wind 245
- Oh, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes 26
- Oh to have you in May 166
- Oh, what shall I do? I am wholly upset 131
- Oh, who is the Lord of the land of life 268
- Oh, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying 236
- Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of May 221
- On a summer's day as I sat by a stream 248
- On the wide veranda white 59
- Once Love grew bold and arrogant of air 102
- One night in my room, still and beamless 109
- Our good knight, Ted, girds his broadsword on 108
- Out in de night a sad bird moans 194
- Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing 64
- Out of my heart, one day, I wrote a song 117
- Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day 102
- Out of the sunshine and out of the heat 167
- Outside the rain upon the street 253
- Over the hills and the valleys of dreaming 90
- Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day 74
- Place this bunch of mignonette 66
- Poor withered rose, she gave it me 286
- Pray, what can dreams avail 104
- Pray why are you so bare, so bare 219
- Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire 117
- Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother 211
- Search thou my heart 116
- See dis pictyah in my han' 144
- Seems lak folks is mighty curus 139
- Seen my lady home las' night 49
- Seen you down at chu'ch las' night 60
- Shadder in de valley 226
- She gave a rose 103
- She sang, and I listened the whole song thro' 121
- She told the story, and the whole world wept 119
- She told her beads with downcast eyes 106
- She wrapped her soul in a lace of lies 240
- Silence, and whirling worlds afar 263
- Silently without my window 54
- Since I left the city's heat 263
- Slow de night's a-fallin' 186
- Slow moves the pageant of a climbing race 211
- So we, who 'we supped the selfsame cup 40
- Some folks t'inks hit's right an' p'opah 201
- Standin' at de winder 253
- Step me now a bridal measure 248
- Step wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle 269
- Storm and strife and stress 227
- Summah night an' sighin' breeze 132
- Summah's nice, wif sun a-shinin' 132
- Summer is de lovin' time 262
- Sunshine on de medders 168
- Sweetest of the flowers a-blooming 237
- Swing yo' lady roun' an' roun' 200
- Tek a cool night, good an' cleah 150
- Tell your love where the roses blow 238
- Temples he built, and palaces of air 100
- The air is dark, the sky is gray 65
- The change has come, and Helen sleeps 58
- The cloud looked in at the window 72
- The draft of love was cool and sweet 252
- The gray dawn on the mountain top 248
- The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky 93
- The lake's dark breast 8
- The lark is silent in his nest 61
- The little bird sits in the nest and sings 67
- The Midnight wooed the Morning-Star 99
- The mist has left the greening plain 252
- The moon begins her stately ride 276
- The moon has left the sky, love 46
- The night is dewy as a maiden's mouth 64
- The November sun invites me 282
- The poor man went to the rich man's doors 106
- The rain streams down like harpstrings from the sky 270
- The river sleeps beneath the sky 9
- The sand-man he's a jolly old fellow 235
- The sky of brightest gray seems dark 59
- The smell of the sea in my nostrils 91
- The snow lies deep upon the ground 105
- The sun has slipped his tether 100
- The sun hath shed its kindly light 281
- The sun is low 285
- The trees bend down along the stream 249
- The wind is out in its rage to-night 244
- The wind told the little leaves to hurry 258
- The word is writ that he who runs may read 209
- The world is a snob, and the man who wins 118
- The young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair 52
- Ther' ain't no use in all this strife 49
- There are no beaten paths to Glory's height 21
- There is a heaven, for ever, day by day 106
- There's a fabulous story 246
- There's a memory keeps a-runnin' 10
- These are the days of elfs and fays 251
- They please me not—these solemn songs 125
- This is the debt I pay 213
- This is to-day, a golden summer's day 223
- This poem must be done to-day 122
- Thou arrant robber, Death! 284
- "Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart 5
- Thou art my lute, by thee I sing 109
- Thou art the soul of a summer's day 271
- Though the winds be dank 71
- Thy tones are silver melted into sound 116
- Tim Murphy's gon' walkin' wid Maggie O'Neill 261
- 'Tis an old deserted homestead 283
- 'Tis better to set here beside the sea 186
- 'Tis fine to play 235
- To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath 97
- Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane 167
- 'Twas the apple that in Eden 251
- 'Twas three an' thirty year ago 27
- 'Twixt a smile and a tear 241
- Two little boots all rough an' wo' 163
- Villain shows his indiscretion 42
- Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not 189
- We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs 13
- We wear the mask that grins and lies 71
- W'en daih's chillun in de house 199
- W'en de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky 176
- W'en de colo'ed ban' comes ma'chin' down de street 178
- W'en de evenin' shadders 185
- W'en de snow's a-fallin' 188
- W'en I git up in de mo'nin' an' de clouds is big an' black 172
- W'en us fellers stomp around, makin' lots o' noise 264
- W'en you full o' worry 250
- What are the things that make life bright? 238
- What dreams we have and how they fly 166
- What if the wind do howl without 75
- What says the wind to the waving trees? 68
- What's the use o' folks a-frownin' 249
- When all is done, and my last word is said 113
- When August days are hot an' dry 130
- When de fiddle gits to singin' out a ol' Vahginny reel 138
- When first of wise old Johnson taught 129
- When I come in f'm de co'n-fiel' aftah wo'kin' ha'd all day 155
- When I was young I longed for Love 98
- When labor is light and the morning is fair 70
- When Phyllis sighs and from her eyes 175
- When storms arise 66
- When summer time has come, and all 280
- When the bees are humming in the honeysuckle vine 215
- When the corn's all cut and the bright stalks shine 16
- When to sweet music my lady is dancing 175
- When winter covering all the ground 275
- When you and I were young, the days 24
- Who dat knockin' at de do'? 184
- Who say my hea't ain't true to you? 133
- Whose little lady is you, chile 198
- Whut dat you whisperin' keepin' f'om me? 136
- Whut time 'd dat clock strike? 254
- Whut you say, dah? huh, uh! chile 153
- Why fades a dream? 77
- Why was it that the thunder voice of Fate 221
- Will I have some mo' dat pie? 203
- Win' a-blowin' gentle so de san' lay low 191
- Wintah, summah, snow er shine 178
- Wintah time hit comin' 241
- With sombre mien, the evening gray 123
- With what thou gavest me, O Master 276
- Within a London garret high 96
- Woman's sho' a cur'ous critter, an' dey ain't no doubtin' dat 170
- Yes, my ha't 's ez ha'd ez stone 62
- Yesterday I held your hand 257
- You ask why I am sad to-day 220
- You bid me hold my peace 286
- You kin talk about yer anthems 53
- You'll be wonderin' whut's de reason 131
- Your presence like a benison to me 266
- Your spoken words are roses fine and sweet 270