Lays in Summer Lands

by Menard, John Willis; Rivers, Larry Eugene; Mathews, Richard; Brown, Canter

• ISBN13: 9781879852747
• ISBN10: 1879852748
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Tampa

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition	p. IX
Preface to the First Edition	p. XI
Poems
To President Lincoln	p. 3
Grant's First Election	p. 4
The Wife's Invocation	p. 5
To E. M. T., of Jamaica	p. 7
First Sabbath of the Year	p. 8
Stanzas on Cuba	p. 9
Just over the Sea	p. 10
Estella	p. 11
Florida	p. 13
Waiting at Live Oak	p. 15
Sabbath Eve Musings	p. 16
A Glance	p. 18
Musings	p. 19
To My Wife	p. 20
To Madame Selika	p. 22
On the Banks of the St. Johns	p. 23
Homeward Bound	p. 25
Perhaps You'd Like to Know	p. 26
My Sister	p. 27
Music	p. 28
We Are Parted Now Forever	p. 29
Charles Sumner	p. 30
To General Grant	p. 32
A Retrospect	p. 33
To My Love	p. 35
A Peace Offering	p. 36
Is It Worth While?	p. 37
Easter Hymn	p. 38
Speak to Me Kindly	p. 39
My Talisman	p. 40
To L. E. M.	p. 41
To the Same	p. 42
A Love Song	p. 43
The Murdered Bride	p. 44
In Mama's Bed	p. 46
Parted	p. 47
A Visit to My Native Home	p. 48
Free Cuba	p. 49
Under the Pine and Palm	p. 50
Absence	p. 52
Frederick Douglass	p. 53
So Near and Yet So Far	p. 54
The Negro's Lament	p. 55
To E. W. S.	p. 58
A Sonnet	p. 59
The Erring	p. 60
The Return	p. 62
In Memoriam	p. 63
Centennial Hymn	p. 64
On the Death of Wm. Lloyd Garrison	p. 66
I Dare Not Tell Thee	p. 68
Autumn	p. 70
The Solid South	p. 71
To a Lady Friend	p. 72
Good-Bye! Off for Kansas	p. 73
To Lucy	p. 74
Lines Written in "Pet's" Album	p. 75
Our District School Teachers	p. 76
Acrostic	p. 77
Phillis Wheatley	p. 78
To M. E. T.	p. 79
To Susie	p. 80
Adieu!	p. 81
John Willis Menard and Lays in Summer Lands	p. 90
The Poetry of J. Willis Menard: Rediscovering an American Voice and Vision	p. 123
Indexes	p. 145
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