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This is the only volume of poetry published during John Charles McNeill's lifetime, containing 59 of his 400+ poems. McNeill was considered the unofficial poet laureate of his home state North Carolina until this position was established officially after World War II. His poetry enjoys enduring popularity, and is favoured by teachers and students for its accessibility.
- Chapters
- The Bride
- 'Oh, Ask Me Not'
- Isabel
- To ---
- To Melvin Gardner: Suicide
- Away Down Home
- For Jane's Birthday
- A Secret
- The Old Bad Woman
- Valentine
- A Photograph
- Jesse Covington
- An Idyl
- Home Songs
- M. W. Ransom
- Protest
- Oblivion
- Now!
- Tommy Smith
- Before Bedtime
- 'If I Could Glimpse Him'
- Attraction
- Love's Fashion
- Alcestis
- Reminiscence
- Sonnet
- Lines
- An Easter Hymn
- A Christmas Hymn
- When I Go Home
- Odessa
- Trifles
- Sunburnt Boys
- Gray Days
- An Invalid
- A Caged Mocking-Bird
- Dawn
- Harvest
- Two Pictures
- October
- The Old Clock
- Tear Stains
- A Prayer
- She Being Young
- Paul Jones
- The Drudge
- The Wife
- Vision
- September
- Barefooted
- Pardon Time
- The Rattlesnake
- The Prisoner
- Sonnet
- Folk Song
- '97': The Fast Mail
- Sundown
- At Sea
- L'Envoi