Katydid's Poems

by Kate Slaughter McKinney

82 chapters3h 8mEnglish1887

About this book

This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid. The poems are cute and amusing, children will enjoy them. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (82)

1Dedication and Letter

121

2To A Katydid

167

3A Day Dream

232

4The Old Ravine

132

5Some Day You’ll Wish For Me

130

6To Hallie

7I’ve Asked You to Forget Me

8Little Blanche

9The Little Front Gate

10Drifting

11Looking Back

121

12Scotta

193

13The Lover and Flower

173

14My Cloud

110

15The Decision

146

16Autumn

101

17A Sister’s Love

18In Memory of Fannie Johnson White

19The Heliotrope’s Soliloquy

20A Problem

142

21My Palace

319

22Death of Summer

139

23Spring and Summer

24Under the Snow

142

25The Prettiest Girl in Town

110

26I Am Musing To-night

156

27A Curl

28Somebody’s Face

105

29Good-bye, Maggie

104

30The Hermit’s Farewell

164

31A Window I Love

145

32Thistle Down

104

33Bitter Memories

218

34An Acrostic

35My Angel Visitor

121

36Keep a Bright Face, Darling

37My Neighbor’s Mill

162

38Dripping Springs

239

39In Memoriam

40The Old Orchard Trees

135

41On the Hill-top Grow the Daisies

172

42Ella Lee

122

43What is the West Wind Saying

115

44To a Mountain Stream

45Pen Pictures

186

46To Mother

47The Broken Heart

172

48A Year Ago

200

49A Christmas Peep

50Winnie’s Christmas Eve

166

51My Heart’s Little Room

134

52The Three Muses

132

53A Recollection

113

54Don’t Question Him Why

142

55Why?

126

56A Sunset Longing

160

57Journeys

208

58The Lost Poem

314

59A Maple Leaf

176

60A Gallop With Santa Claus

244

61Home Memories

103

62Sunshine and Shadow

211

63Only a Fern Leaf

64A Dream

262

65Those Soft Airs She Played

156

66To Albert

112

67The Reunion of the Flowers

168

68Children of the Brain

257

69A Lily of the Valley

70Lines to the Old Year

153

71Why I Smile

72My Phantom Ships

264

73The Weight of a Word

184

74An Apology

160

75Speak Kindly

131

76Those Willing Hands

121

77Look Into the Past

78A Little Face

79The Canary and Rose

140

80A Sigh or a Tear

132

81Snow-flakes

82A Foot-print

Katydid's Poems

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