Lays in summer lands / John Willis Menard ; edited by Larry Eugene Rivers, Richard Mathews, Canter Brown, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menard, John Willis, 1838-1893.

Contributor:

Rivers, Larry E., 1950-

Mathews, Richard, 1944-

Brown, Canter, Jr., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tampa, Fla. : University of Tampa Press, 2002.

Contents:

Poems

To President Lincoln 3

Grant's First Election 4

The Wife's Invocation 5

To E. M. T., of Jamaica 7

First Sabbath of the Year 8

Stanzas on Cuba 9

Just over the Sea 10

Estella 11

Florida 13

Waiting at Live Oak 15

Sabbath Eve Musings 16

A Glance 18

Musings 19

To My Wife 20

To Madame Selika 22

On the Banks of the St. Johns 23

Homeward Bound 25

Perhaps You'd Like to Know 26

My Sister 27

Music 28

We Are Parted Now Forever 29

Charles Sumner 30

To General Grant 32

A Retrospect 33

To My Love 35

A Peace Offering 36

Is It Worth While? 37

Easter Hymn 38

Speak to Me Kindly 39

My Talisman 40

To L. E. M. 41

To the Same 42

A Love Song 43

The Murdered Bride 44

In Mama's Bed 46

Parted 47

A Visit to My Native Home 48

Free Cuba 49

Under the Pine and Palm 50

Absence 52

Frederick Douglass 53

So Near and Yet So Far 54

The Negro's Lament 55

To E. W. S. 58

A Sonnet 59

The Erring 60

The Return 62

In Memoriam 63

Centennial Hymn 64

On the Death of Wm. Lloyd Garrison 66

I Dare Not Tell Thee 68

Autumn 70

The Solid South 71

To a Lady Friend 72

Good-Bye! Off for Kansas 73

To Lucy 74

Lines Written in "Pet's" Album 75

Our District School Teachers 76

Acrostic 77

Phillis Wheatley 78

To M. E. T. 79

To Susie 80

Adieu! 81

John Willis Menard and Lays in Summer Lands / Larry Eugene Rivers, Canter Brown Jr. 90

The Poetry of J. Willis Menard: Rediscovering an American Voice & Vision / Richard Mathews 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1879852748

OCLC:

48559491