Poems
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1. Front matter2. S. C. MERCER3. P O E M S BY S. C. M E R C E R4. FOREWORD.5. INDEX6. THE TWO KENTUCKIANS.7. THE HUNTER’S LAST RIDE.8. THE OLD ROCK SPRING.9. A LYRIC FOR LILIAN.10. THE STRAWBERRY BOWL11. HYMN.12. JOHN MORGAN AND HIS MEN.13. THE WHIPPOORWILL.14. THE NEW SOUTH.15. A FEVER DREAM.16. MAJOR BASSETT’S CHASE.17. THE TEN BROTHERS.18. ECHO RIVER.19. THE ANGEL OF THE HOSPITAL.20. THE TWO SINGERS.21. BATTLE OF MILL SPRING.22. THE GREEK SLAVE.23. ODE TO IMPUDENCE24. MY BIRTHDAY.25. BATTLE OF NASHVILLE26. BLONDE AND BRUNETTE.27. GRAY AND BLUE.28. BISHOP DUDLEY’S DIRGE.29. THE DRESS CIRCLE.30. IN MEMORIAM.31. THE SORROWS OF HINDA AND KLEINFELTER.32. DR. JOHN A. BROADDUS.33. TO LEONORA.34. AT HIS POST.35. RECONCILIATION.36. OPHELIA37. DEATH OF THE SEASONS.38. NEW YEAR ODE, 1861.39. MONODY40. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY ODE.41. TO APRIL.42. ODE ON THE DEATH OF LEO XIII.43. CHIABRERA’S EPITAPH.44. ELEGY45. TO THE LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE.46. “WITH THY SHIELD, OR UPON IT.”[D]47. CONFIRMATION AT ST. ANDREW’S.48. THE CHRISTMAS FLOWER.49. TO THE SOLDIERS OF GENERAL DUMONT’S COMMAND.[E]50. THE TWO GORDONS.51. THE WESTFIELD HOME.52. THE HARP IN THE AIR; OR A NIGHT WITH GERARDI IN SEELBACH’S ROOF-GARDEN.53. DEDICATION HYMN.54. LYING IN STATE AT PRINCETON.55. IN THE MORNING.