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Mary Hunt Affleck

Scrapbook compiled by Mary Hunt Affleck consisting of newspaper clippings of various poems glued into the book. Dated August 9, 1875.

"In Chaleur Bay" verse by Hezekiah Butterworth.
"Lee" verse by Henry T. Stanton.
"Song of the Mystic" verse by Father Ryan.
"Unseen" verse, author unknown.
"The Swan Song of Parson Avery, 1635" verse by John G. Whittier.
"The Reason Why" verse, author unknown.
"The Temptations of St. Anthony" verse by T.H.S.
"Baby's 'Good Night'" verse by Paul Michel.
"At Last" verse by Marianne Farningham.
"Old Times" verse, author unknown.
"Saturday Night" verse, author unknown.
"The Reveille" verse by Bret Harte.
"Where is Pleasure" verse by Alice Cary.
"Knitting" verse by Mary Kyle Dallas.
"Ode to Flowers" verse by Horace Smith.
"The Unknown Future" verse, author unknown.
"Going to School" verse by Henry T. Stanton.
"The Herald of Summer" verse, author unknown.
"Dolores" verse by Annie Chambers Ketchum.
"The Stammering Beauty" verse, author unknown.
"She Stands on a Flowery Island" verse, author unknown.
"In Silk Attire" verse by Florence Percy.
"Come to Me Dearest" verse by Charles Brennan.
"Reconciled" verse by Nellie Marshall McAfee.
"Tokens" verse, author unknown.
"The Heavenly Secret" verse, author unknown.
"Only A While" verse by Perl Rivers.
"By and By" verse by Preston.
"Over the River" verse, author unknown.
"Mary's Little Lamb" verse, author unknown.
"Beatrice" article.
"Have Charity" verse by Francis S. Smith.
"The Loved and Lost" verse, author unknown.
"Tennysonian" verse by Punch.
"Every Day" verse by Elizabeth Akers Allen.
"Thou and I" verse, author unknown.
"Jewels" verse by R.E.G.
"The Quaker's Golden Wedding" verse, author unknown.
"The Outside of the Window" verse by John James Piatt.
"The Old Couple" verse, author unknown.
"May Evening" verse by William Cullen Bryant.
"Dies Irae, Dies Illa" verse by W.B. Smith.
"If We Knew" verse, author unknown.
"The Harvest of the Sea" verse, author unknown.
"An Extract from J.G. Whittier's New Poem" verse.
"Si Douce Si Douce" verse by Nelly Marshall.
"Divorce" article.
"My Mother's Spinning Wheel" verse by J.B. Roberts.
"Who'll Buy Tresses?" verse, author unknown.
"Deep Sea Soundings" verse, author unknown.
"How Short Is Life" verse, author unknown.
"The Prayer" verse by Charlotte Cordner.
"Casa Bianca, An Old Plantation Home in Florida" article by W.G. Warington.
"An Emblem" verse by Alice Cary.
"One of Many" verse by Alice Cary.
"Letter From Tennessee, Trials of Travel; an Enterprising Yankee; Danville; a Daring Deed" article by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"Beautiful Hands" verse, author unknown.
"Letter from Mississippi, The Political Condition of the state Historical Reference Two Places of Interest, etc." article by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"Desert Ways" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). February 5, 1874.
"Living and Dead" verse by Appleton.
"Commencement Day at the University of Mississippi" article.
"The Trophy of Peace" verse by Ethel Lynn.
"A New Years' Greeting" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"Why Is It So?" verse by Father Ryan.
"Daylight on the Wreck" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"Anchored" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"Be Strong, O Heart!" verse, author unknown.
"Mebane Dare" article by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"Our Dove" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). January 23, 1874.
"After Years" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). January 13, 1874.
"Lilacs" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). Dedicated to Miss Sallie Casey, of Covington, Kentucky. November 4, 1873.
"A Holy Life" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). Dedicated to the memory of Mrs. R.W. Sea. June 31, 1874.
"Lines" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). February 23, 1875.
"The Babie" verse by Hugh Miller.
"Over A Cup of Coffee" verse by Mrs. Cornie L. St. John.
"The Two Angels" verse by J.G. Whittier.
Quote by Sidney Dobbell.
"A Sinner's Prayer" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck).
"A Leaf" verse, author unknown. December 1875.
"In School Days" verse by John Greenleaf Whittier.
"Beside the Sea" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). 1876.
"The Song of Nature" verse by John G. Whittier.
"The Death of the Flowers" verse by W.C. Bryant.
"Two Little Pairs of Boots" verse, author unknown.
"The Last Supper" verse, author unknown.
"This World" verse, author unknown.
"Cares I Have Not" verse by Ethel Lynn.
"Early Rising" verse by John G. Saxe.
"Reunited" verse by D. Brainard Williamson.
"Gone Before" verse, author unknown.
"Anxious Song of A Lover to His Sweetheart" verse, author unknown.
"In Memory of Mrs. W.H. Bassett" verse, author unknown. August 19, 1905.
"The Future Life" verse by William Cullen Bryant.
"The Dead Letter" verse by John G. Saxe.
"Old Age" verse, author unknown.
"Rain in the Heart" verse, author unknown.
"From the Sierras" verse by Emma Alice Browne.
"The Spinner's Stint" verse by Emma Alice Browne.
"After Christmas" verse by Emma Alice Browne.
"Optical Illusion" verse by Francis Gerry Fairfield.
"A Remarkable Prophecy" verse, author unknown. First published as "Mother Shipton's Prophecy" in 1488.
"Wanted A Preacher" verse, author unknown.
"Sonnet Spring" verse, author unknown.
"The Moneyless Man" verse, author unknown.
"Answer to 'The Moneyless Man'" verse by Mrs. Florence Anderson Clark.
"The Revenge of Rain in the Face" verse by Longfellow.
"Willy's Wife" verse by Mary B. Dodge.
"Live Truly" verse, author unknown.
"Memories" verse by Surrey Keene.
"Song of the Mechanic" verse, author unknown.
"Two Loves and A Life" verse from drama by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade.
"Come to me, Night!" verse, author unknown.
"A Cry of Pain" verse, author unknown.
"The Transition" verse, author unknown.
"Why Do I Love Thee?" verse by Annie Chambers Bradford.
"Have Mercy on Me" verse, author unknown.
"Life and Death: An Extract" verse by Byron.
"My Sheaves" verse, author unknown.
"Driving Home the Cows" verse by Kate P. Osgood.
"Milking Time" verse, author unknown.
"Maggie" verse by Leonard Lloyd.
"The Empty Place" verse by Ada Cambridge.
"Cast of Thoughts" verse, author unknown.
"The Idyl of Battle Hollow" verse, author unknown.
"The Magdalen" verse by Nellie Marshall McAfee.
"Sun and Shadow" verse by O.W. Holmes.
"Sold for Gold" verse by Mrs. M.A. Kidder.
"Their Story" verse, author unknown.
"The Oration by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll at the Funeral of His Brother Ebon C. Ingersoll" article and verse.
"October" verse by Willis Gaylord Clark.
"Tomorrow" verse by H.W. Longfellow.
"Life is not sweet..." verse, author unknown.
"Not My Will But Thine Be Done" verse, author unknown.
"The Price Imperial's Death!" verse by Father Ryan.
"My Loss" verse, author unknown.
"St. Theresa's Half Pence" verse by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston.
"My Work" verse, author unknown.
"'Tis not for me, ye Heavens..." verse by Alexander Smith.
"The Bonny Hands that Make Good Bread" verse by John S. Aitcheson.
"The Conscience and Future Judgment" verse, author unknown.
"The Little Fair Soul" verse, author unknown.
"Henry Clay" verse by Prentice.
"We draw around the old familiar hearth..." verse by Prentice.
"In the Lane" verse by Celia Thaxter.
"Letter from Harrodsburg" article by Vale.
"The Bobolink" verse, author unknown.
"The Modern Meetin' House" verse by Will S. Hays.
"My Neighbor and I" verse by Lucy Lamb.
"Betsy and I Are Out" verse by Will M. Carleton.
"Wishes" verse by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey.
"New Every Morning" article.
"Our Life" article.
"By James Parton" article.
Handwritten diary entry in this scrapbook describing several cities she has visited. Written from Caldwell, Texas.
"Lines written on seeing the picture of little Katie Gathright" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). Written at A & M College, Bryan, Texas. October 1876. Handwritten entry in this scrapbook.
"Before the Shrine" verse by Kate Putnam Osgood.
"The Sun and the Rose" verse, author unknown.
"Song of Fire" verse, author unknown.
"Kittery Annie's Dream" verse by Celia Thaxter
"Better Luck Another Year" verse by W. Gilmore Simms.
"I Know" verse by Caleb Dunn.
"George and I" verse, author unknown.
"Slander" verse, author unknown.
"A Song of Age" verse, author unknown.
"Daylight on the Wreck" verse by Mary F. Hunt (Affleck). August 25, 1874.
"The Long Ago" verse, author unknown.
"Our Dead" verse by Col. A.M. Hobby.
"The Farmer Feedeth All" verse by Charles G. Leland.
"The Kingdom of Home" verse by William Bankin Duryee.
"The Dead Letter" verse by John G. Saxe. November 1871.
"A Modern Romeo" verse, author unknown.
"Tacking Ship Off Shore" verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"Charles Leland Frost Pictures" verse, author unknown.
"An Old Man's Dream" verse, author unknown.
"Murder" verse by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey.
"A Prayer" verse by Matthew Arnold.
"Mary" verse, author unknown.
"The Death of a Young Soldier" verse by Adai.
"Last Words" verse, author unknown.
"The Covenanters" verse by Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
"The Two Roads" article by Richter.
"At home or away..." verse, author unknown.
"The Two Homes" verse by Bayard Taylor.
"The Beverly Pride" verse by Josephine Pollard.
"Hymn for a Little Child" verse, author unknown.
"Autumnal Anthem" verse by William Ross Wallace.
"Autumnal Elegiac" verse by the "Peasant bard."
"Comfort" verse by Emily C. Huntington.
"Angus Del" verse by Emma Alice Browne.
"A Spring Thought" verse, author unknown.
"The Love Knot" verse, author unknown.
"Heartsease" verse, author unknown.
"The Wind" verse, author unknown.
"Coming Back" verse, author unknown.
"Scenes of Revelry Not Soon to be Forgotten - The Roman Flea Philosophically Considered - Mark Twain's Sad Work Rome's Fascinations" article.
"To A Beautiful Girl" verse by George D. Prentice.
"Every Year" verse by Albert Pike.
"The Paragrapher" verse by A.T. Worden.
"The Skeptic's Prayer" verse by James W. Riley.
"Farewell to Mexico" verse by Alice Ashley Townsend.
"Marriage" article by Josh Billings.
"Flize" article by Josh Billings.
"What My Lover Said" verse by Horace Greeley.
"The Three Fishermen" verse, author unknown.
"A Wail From the South" verse by Edward J. O'Reilly.
"To The Desponding" verse by Alice Cary.
"Work and Wait" verse, author unknown.
"Faint Heart" verse, author unknown.
"How the Farmer Missed It" verse, author unknown.
"The Waste of War" verse by E.P. Jordan.
"The Engine" verse, author unknown.
"Thy Will Be Done" verse, author unknown.
"One By One" verse, author unknown.
"Wood Anemones" verse, author unknown.
"Only a Woman's Hair" verse by J. Chadborne Normille.
"Only A Soldier" verse by Agnes MacDonell.
"My Little Woman" verse, author unknown.
"At Poe's Grave" verse, author unknown.
"All Soul's Day" verse, author unknown.
"Our Ships at Sea" verse by Samuel Gale.
"A Woman's Question" verse, author unknown.
"One the eve of the Wedding" verse, author unknown.
"The Old Fair Story: A Song" verse, author unknown.
"How to Ask and Have" verse, author unknown.
"Example" verse, author unknown.
"Red and White" verse, author unknown.
"Mizpah" verse, author unknown.
"The Song of the Camp" verse by Bayard Taylor.
"Ante Mortem" verse by Margaret J. Preston.
"Miss Flynn and Her Lover" article.
"The Hospital Bell" verse by Eli Omal.
"The Changed Cross" verse, author unknown.
"The Glory Flower" article and verse by Mary Hunt Affleck. August 1904.
"Personal" article.
"Thoughts" handwritten verse, author unknown.
"Literary Fables" article and verse.