Frank Barbour Coffin's Poetry, by title

• A Chat With the Boys

  I've been a boy myself,
  And with boys I play,

  37 lines
• A Christmas Gift (Bible)

  Do you know that this is Christmas,
  And this little book is sent

  21 lines, 2 comments
• A Human Artist

  Would that I were an artist
  And while I stand in time

  18 lines
• A Mother's Rage. Fruits of Lynching

  A mother stood at the river brink
  Holding in her arms a dear child,

  57 lines
• Ajax at the Centennial. 1897

  Ajax went over to Nashville,
  To attend the great centennial;

  81 lines
• Ajax is Chastised

  Ajax, in the stillness of the night,
  Lie down and take thy rest;

  25 lines
• Ajax Looks Beyond

  I have tried to be contented
  In this land of vale and tears,

  25 lines
• Ajax Votes for McKinley

  Ajax went out to vote
  On election day;

  57 lines
• Ajax' Appeal to America

  My country, noble spectre of the past;
  Along thy rivers, and within thy vales,

  132 lines
• Ajax' Bashfulness

  I was once out of social circles,
  As bashful as a young man could be;

  41 lines
• Ajax' Conclusion

  My friends, our race is ostracised,
  Long standing tears are in our eyes,

  57 lines
• Ajax' Death (A DRAMA)

  DRAMATIS PERSONÆ:
  * Eli.

  497 lines
• Ajax' Dream

  Ajax of the Southland
  Was walking out one day,

  71 lines
• Ajax' Fright

  There's a dreadful horror 'bout me,
  That nothing drives away;

  33 lines
• Ajax' Kindred's Soliloquy. In Africa.

  The thoughts of the future doth puzzle my mind,
  And O'how I shudder at flitting of time;

  36 lines
• Ajax' Meditations

  If I should die
  Today or tomorrow,

  49 lines
• Ajax' Monument

  When in the shadow of the tomb,
  My heart shall rest,

  25 lines
• Ajax' Second Dream

  I dreamed I was with the lynchers,
  And in their arms I lay,

  89 lines
• Ajax' Soliloquy

  Riches, which once I held in light esteem,
  And inspired me—now I laugh to scorn;

  32 lines
• Ajax' Song

  (Tune: "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.")
  We are thinking today of the loved ones lost,

  31 lines
• Alone with Jesus

  Over the hills and dales, Jesus, that I strolled in the long ago,
  I am wandering once again my Lord, where dame nature's teaching glow;

  25 lines
• At My Mother's Grave

  I never see the burial place,
  Where my dear mother lies;

  16 lines
• Best Thing in the World

  What is the best thing in the world?
  This question to a crowd was hurled.

  28 lines
• Bishop Daniel A. Payne (Deceased).

  He has gone forth in the light of light,
  Out of the long watch and the heavy night,

  25 lines
• Cain and Abel

  "To thine ownself be true,
  And it must follow as the night the day,

  12 lines
• Children and Mother. I John, 1:4.

  Isn't it noble children dear,
  To have a mother's voice to hear,

  33 lines
• Children's Corner

  "Little Children Love One Another."
  —Bible.

  17 lines
• Children's Day. I John, 4:4

  Children, when you read that sweet story of old,
  When Jesus was here among men,

  81 lines
• Children's Kisses. I John, 3:7

  Sometimes we kiss for passion's sake,
  Sometimes we kiss through love;

  25 lines
• Class Valedictorian

  To A. R.
  The struggles you have made in school,

  66 lines

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