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My Valued Ruby

by Perry Honce McGee

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  1. 1Dedication — The Star of Liberia
  2. 2Defense
  3. 3Love’s Precaution
  4. 4On the Sunny Side of Life
  5. 5Eight Noblemen
  6. 6My Ruby Montrose
  7. 7A Lifelong Happiness
  8. 8The Evils of Alcohol
  9. 9The Sunshine of Yesterday
  10. 10Ginger Bay Outing
  11. 11My Wife
  12. 12E’er Januwah De 2
  13. 13Fate and Time
  14. 14After de Toun Hall Supper
  15. 15What We Ought to Know
  16. 16Sie Rankens and His Wife Lizz (Satisfied)
  17. 17Lieutenant Ruff
  18. 18The Parson’s Resolution
  19. 19On Sunday Morn
  20. 20Toast — My Little Girl
  21. 21A Poet’s Wife
  22. 22A Frosty Morn
  23. 23The Little Toe Dancer
  24. 24A Spark of Love
  25. 25The Death of Mrs. Wormsley
  26. 26Easter Roses — (To Mrs. Perry Honce McGee)
  27. 27Eyes
  28. 28Lazy Mule
  29. 29Through the Mill
  30. 30A Drooping Rose
  31. 31Becker’s Jealousy
  32. 32Truelet — Inch by Inch
  33. 33The Place Where Little Mary Lives
  34. 34A Question — Mr. Fink
  35. 35Gray Heads
  36. 36Her Solemn Thoughts
  37. 37Your Eyes and My Eyes
  38. 38Natural Born Colored Man
  39. 39A Blot on Love — De Golden Cow
  40. 40Memories
  41. 41You Are
  42. 42Gray Eyes
  43. 43Picnic Day
  44. 44Just an Irishman’s Way
  45. 45Often Told — Violet and You
  46. 46My Will — Olegria — Composed May 27, 1920
  47. 47In an All Old Rose
  48. 48Love’s Reflections
  49. 49Summer Is Gone
  50. 50Idleness — A Shadow on the Beauty of Life
  51. 51Happy and Sorrow
  52. 52The Shawl of Sin
  53. 53Nature
  54. 54Democracy
  55. 55Breath of Love
  56. 56The Convict
  57. 57Always
  58. 58All
  59. 59Faded Love
  60. 60Where the Sun Ne’er Kissed
  61. 61The Breath of a Rose
  62. 62The Wild Rose
  63. 63A Song of a Broken Heart
  64. 64The End of Life
  65. 65A Poet’s Dark Day
  66. 66My Thoughts of You
  67. 67Good Spirit
  68. 68A Poet’s Power
  69. 69Rough Road
  70. 70A Poet’s Thoughts
  71. 71What We Get
  72. 72Hidden Thoughts
  73. 73The Bee and the Rose
  74. 74Easter Greeting — (To My Wife Ruby)
  75. 75A Difference — Mildred and Marie
  76. 76Love Dream
  77. 77Sadness
  78. 78There Must Be
  79. 79My Daily Prayer — The Thought of a Husband
  80. 80My Likes
  81. 81To All — Unacquainted
  82. 82A Smile
  83. 83Mother’s Day
  84. 84The Birds That Sing to Me
  85. 85Dream of Bygones
  86. 86Whene’er Conscience Speaks
  87. 87The Pluck of a Poet
  88. 88Life Plain as Day
  89. 89One Sad Morn
  90. 90My View
  91. 91The Fading Roses
  92. 92For a While
  93. 93Hearts That Are True
  94. 94My Love for You
  95. 95My Love
  96. 96Eve Dropper — My Dear Beloved Mother
  97. 97His Last Hour
  98. 98If I Dare
  99. 99Just Now
  100. 100The Voice of a Rose
  101. 101A Photo
  102. 102Good Fate
  103. 103Springtime
  104. 104My Heavenly Thoughts
  105. 105A Poet’s Pier
  106. 106Welcome Spring
  107. 107My Ruby Montrose
  108. 108Beauty and Ugly — The Blessing of God
  109. 109Sixty-One
  110. 110A Vision From the Fireside
  111. 111Thorny Love
  112. 112The Battle of Hearts
  113. 113To Remind You — Just to Remind You
  114. 114The Sinking Ship
  115. 115Spring’s Easter Lily — (To My Wife Ruby)
  116. 116My Ship of Thoughts
  117. 117The Soul of a Bud
  118. 118One’s Next Best Friend
  119. 119Creation — Humin Tu de Air
  120. 120In My Thoughts of You
  121. 121My Dearest Darling Ruby
  122. 122Here and There
  123. 123One Sweet Dream
  124. 124Darling Edna May — (To Mr. and Mrs. Poindexter)
  125. 125Life’s Pretty Way
  126. 126Ras Baylem’s Speech
  127. 127My Dream
  128. 128A Sailor’s Fate
  129. 129At Eve · She Said. Then He Said the Rest — True
  130. 130Cupid · My Thoughts of It · The Thought of a Child · A Genius · For…

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