Walls of Corn and Other Poems

Ellen P. Allerton
Padonia, Kansas ^__ 1835-1893
 

A
Annabelle	4
A Sweet Woman	34
An Autumn Picture	64
A Housekeeper's Question	65
A Storm on the Frontier	77
At the Falls	81
A Wayside Tree	114
A Song of Peace	115
A Kansas Prairie and Its People	116
Acceptance	117
A Lesson for the New Year	118
A Morning Call	147
A Message	157
At the Garden Gate	158
A Little Longer	161
A Home Out West	165
A Dirge	171
Agassiz	181
An Evening Monologue	182
A Country Home	185
A Bride of a Day	188
A Dream	189
A Race for Life	200
A Dedicatory Hymn	227
A Summer Night	238
After the Wedding	248
B
Becalmed	98
Bubbles	120
Beyond the River	132
Blackbirds	140
Beautiful Things	166
Birthday Greeting	176
C
Choice	40
Coming Home	63
Confidence	121
Carrier's Address	127
Carrier's Address (MDLXXV)	150
Crazy Nell	178
D
Died of Want	85
Dick and I	87
Down Stream	93
Dreams	96
Deep Waters	102
Don't You Tell	139
Down Below	140
Discontent	167
Departed	173
Days We Remember	190
Day by Day	232
E
Every Day Work	201
F
Farmer Jones on Inflation	47
Foreboding	67
Fourscore	152
Fame	153
Found--Not Too Late	186
Friends That I Used to Know	194
Farmer John	202
Farmer Jones on Corn	246
G
Good Night	24
Good Luck--A Christmas Ballad	32
God Knows	76
Grandmother	109
Gentle Spring	168
Greenleaf	242
H
High and Low	112
Harvest-Home	133
Hours of Pain	142
Harvest	143
Hazard	146
How Two Knights Rode to London	224
Haunted	245
I
In Memoriam	52
Is Marriage a Failure?	98
Indian Summer	110
Indiana	148
In The Caboose	177
If I Were You	210
K
Kansas, The Prairie Queen	37
Keep Your Temper	56
Knitting	239
L
Litle Things	57
Love	60
Leave Me Alone	67
Laura	99
Love	112
Love and Hate	148
Labor	204
M
My Ambition	1
My Darling	34
My Wild Rose	59
Moods of March	68
My Mother's Wheel	86
My Hickory Tree	89
Magic Stones	95
Morning View of Lake Michigan	135
My Stalk of Corn	196
Machine Poetry	199
Mrs. Hattie Tyng Griswold	216
N
November Rain	122
Night and Sleep	174
No Such Thing As Love	195
O
Out West	42
Only One	55
Our Friendship	90
Over Niagara	91
October Days	97
Over the Hill	124
One Hour	136
Our Chart	213
On the Farm	229
On the Prariie	191
Old Letters	241
Only a Woman	244
Old Flames	247
P
Poetic Pies	54
Peace After War	207
Pity Her	231
Probably Not	235
R
Rescue the Perishing	71
S
Summer	53
Smiles	55
Seeing the Editors	81
Shadows	123
Spring	226
Struggle	228
September	234
Spinning Tow	237
T
The Mortgage--A Christmas Tale	21
The Stepmother	25
The Fields of Corn	27
To Mary	28
The Tower of Silence	30
The Summer's Tale Is Told	36
The Renter's Exodus	49
The Man for the Hour	62
Two Farewells	69
The Thread of Gray	70
The Snow Blockade	74
To the Memory of a Young Friend	78
The Old Soldier	80
Taught by a Bird	83
Tar-and-Feather Reform	84
The Whip-po-wil	101
The Sod House on the Prairie	103
The First Breath of Spring	105
The Wayside Trough	106
The Talking Fiend	108
The First Bird	125
Trailing Clouds	137
The Trail of Forty-Nine	144
The Fate of a Genius	153
The Night Lamp	150
The Old Butternut Tree	162
The Pity of It	163
The Sleeping Village	169
The Old Stone Quarry	172
Trouble	183
Then and Now	184
The Old Farmhouse	192
The Nation's Patient	198
The Wild Rose	205
To Mrs C. H. Phillips	206
Tragedy and Farce	208
The Last Hour of the Year	211
Thanksgiving Night	212
To Mr and Mrs John Young	214
Two Christmas Guests	216
The Last Hour	218
The Storm	221
The Farther Shore	250
To Emma, On Her Wedding Day	251
U
Unbelief	156
W
Walls of Corn	2
Why?	138
Wants	44
Weighing the World	189
Westward	46
Who Knows	220
Will He Come To-Night?	104
When Days Grow Dark	223
Woman's Work	109
Wooing	252

Walls of Corn and Other Poems
Collected and Published by Eva Ryan
(Hiawatha: The Harrington Printing Co. 1894)
Pages v-viii