Frank Barbour Coffin's Poetry, by written

• Motherly Emotions

  A mother came passing by my door,
  Her son was near by my side;

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• Our Country

  This star spangled banner country,
  Is styled as the "Land of Free;"

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• A Human Artist

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

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• Telephone to Heaven

  A little child with her aunty came
  Into a certain store,

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• Excelsior. Rev. 21:11. 19:1

  (To the memory of Alma, a little niece, born September 12th, 1888, died May 30th, 1891. An angel.)
  'Twas in the bleak September,

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• Where are the Boys

  A question I would like to ask,
  To answer it may be a task.

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• Douglass Dead?

  Across the nation's broad domain,
  On every hill, and every plain,

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• Spotless (James 1:21)

  Spotless, spotless, spotless, spotless,
  At the sounding of that word,

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• Mother's Songs

  The summer's sun was beaming hot,
  The boys had played all day;

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• Only

  Only Afric's jungles
  Satisfied his mind,

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• At My Mother's Grave

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

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• Memory of Mother

  The last time mother walked with me,
  October skies were blue;

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• Consolation

  Friends can't you tell me something?
  I am weary and worn tonight.

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• Life What We Make It

  My life is a wearisome journey;
  I'm sick with the times and the heat,

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• Frances E. Harper Tribute

  Dear friend, to me one vision craved,
  Alas! has been denied;

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• Cain and Abel

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

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• Voice From The South

  To Mrs. Annie Julia Cooper.
  I read that book, "Voice from the South,"

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• Bishop Daniel A. Payne (Deceased).

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

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• The Easter Man

  So crushed by sinful oppression,
  Through the ages long and drear,

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• Man's Imperfections

  O life why so imperfect?
  And life cried in elation,

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• My Sweetheart

  I went to bed the other night,
  My sleep was sweet in part;

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• The Angel Who Unfetter'd St. Peter

  The angel who unfetter'd St. Peter,
  When bound in Jerusalem's jail;

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• Lincoln's Call

  You know 'twas eighteen sixty-one,
  The civil war had just begun,

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• Hurrah for McKinley!

  Hurrah for McKinley!
  Hurrah for Hobart!

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• The Call All Must Obey

  A voice whispered to an infant,
  Sitting on its mother's knees,

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe's Works. "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

  That grand and noble woman dear,
  Called Harriet Beecher Stowe,

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe's Monument

  She has builded a human monument
  The walls of which will stand,

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• October

  Here in sweet Nature's lonely gale,
  The leaves are gone;

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• Maceo—Cuba's Liberator

  While Washington at Valley Forge,
  Endured the winter's pest;

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• Y. M. C. A. Founder. Sir Geo. Williams.

  Sir George Williams, noble man,
  Half 'cent'ry 've passed away,

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