Grandmother Reads A Quiet Hymn In Easy Chair
Barbara Aufrecht writes of a grandmother in an easy chair softly humming an old-time air while a lamp flickers and fades. The poem reflects on the grandmother's fading life and the hope of heavenly reunion as mourners stand by her vacant chair.
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Kentucky
Bascom
Bascom’s
G. W
New York
Mackrelvville
Delaware
Congris
Wood
Kevin
Bible Societies
Spelin Books
Pennibacker
Laflies
Massychoosits
Sumnerville
Speer
New York City
John Morrissey
Little Boy Pocket Tale And Its Hidden Treasure
A child describes a pocket stash of a toy ball and slate pieces kept in a potter. He mentions an aunt named Mary who gave him items and plans to buy a spade tomorrow. The voice hints at secrecy and a safe place for the pocketful of trinkets.
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John, Allen
Kit Burns
New York
Killin
Neo York
Petroleum V. Nasey
P. M
Wich
Lady Margaret Caryll and the Valentine Mystery
In Kempton, Lady Margaret Caryll is described as a paragon of gentleness and beauty. A mysterious young man known as the Valentine attracts attention, altering village gossip as her devotion to him grows through public days, nursing, and secret meetings, culminating in a dramatic funeral and a revelation that the sick man was a woman.
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Kempton
Margaret
Geoffry Caryll
Pier Tide
Miss Smithers
Lady Margaret
James Royds
Falarie Bathathod Reales
Caryll
Sir
Eoffray
Eady-Margaret
Geoffrey
London
Osdars
Dervante
Granby
Kempton Court
Nekr
India
Dacquennee
Duran Uy
Toll
Queen Victoria
Sir Geoffrey
Nan
Mary
Ottage
Beeches
Valentine
Miss Nancy Bennet
Miss Nancy
Bond
Votetioa
Ligaret
Apollo
Robin
Mother
Bondy
Mart
Tova
Argaret
Mrs. Bond
Martin
Mr. Lisle
Capt. Granby
Lisle
Tey Margaret
Bank of England
London Society
Vast array of odds and ends from the era
A miscellany of figures and curiosities reports 3693 life insurance agents in town, 60 cents an hour rents in Boston, 8 million acres in Maine unoccupied, and a Cincinnati boast about wages. It notes many trivial items including hotel destruction in St Paul, teacher wages in Illinois, a Paris shop fined for mispricing, and a jumble of names and oddities such as 803 Simpsons in Boston and a Worcester ferret obituary.
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Boston
Maine
Cincinnati
Engand
St. Paul
Minn
Illinois
Paris
Smrra
Brown
Jones
Sullivan
Minjeard
America
Bissc
Worcester
Mass
Charlottesville
Alaska
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
New York
England
France
Calais
Boulogne
Dieppe
Havre
Tue
New York City
Burlington Vt
Duke of Portland
Brigham Young
Atlantic
Cleve
Joseen
Inauguration Ode from Lippincott's March
Poem excerpt celebrating civil war aftermath and nation’s peace. Images of New England mills and national renewal. References to a soldier in the ruler’s seat emphasize unity, Christian virtue, and lasting strength as the century turns.
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New England
Lippincott's
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Barbara Aufrecht
Heaven
Lady Margareds Valentine
Sidney
Father
Lady Margaret Caryll
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