The poems of noted African-American poet Effie Waller Smith were popular in magazines and in book form. Collected in this volume, they provide insight into the life and experience of this admired turn-of-the-century poet. The Beautiful Woman After Reading The Song Of Hiawatha. After The Last Lesson After The Storm Among The Breaks Of Big Sandy River Answer To Verses Addressed To Me By Peter Clay Apple Sauce And Chicken Fried April At Daniel Boone's Monument At Pool Point At The Locks. At The Close Of School At The Grave Of One Forgotten August An August Sunset Autumn Beauties Autumn Winds The Bachelor Girl. Beauties Of The Cumberland Beautiful Moon Beautiful Snow Benefaction Benignant Death Berrying Time The Best Of All, God Is With Us. Bridal Blossoms Bring Them Back Bryant Christmas Christmas Wishes Closer To Thee The Colored Soldiers Of The Spanish-american War The Corn-husking Country Courtship Courtship Among The Cumberlands Courtshop Among The Mountains The Cuban Cause Daisies Decatur's Daring Deed December December Snow Decoration Day Decoration Day--1899 Despondency Do You Know? Easter Easter Lilies Elkhorn City Ensign Worth Bagley Evening Among The Cumberlands Evening Among The Cumberlands The Evening Star. The Faded Blossoms Fallen Leaves The Farmer's Boy February Forever Four-leafed Clover The 'frisco Earthquake Future Days Ghosts Gifts Good Night A Good-bye He Is Risen He Leadeth Me Her Hopes Lie Buried With Her Hero Dead. Heredity Heroes The Hills Historic Ground Hoisting The Flag Hollyhocks How Beautiful It Is To Be With God. I Need Thee Every Hour If Christ Should Come In Fuller Measure In Memory In Memory Of William Hughes In The Years That Are To Come In Thy Secret Place Indian Summer January Jasper At Fort Moultrie Jonquils July June Katherine The King's Daughter The Lake On The Mountain The Lone Grave On The Mountain A Longing For The Woods Maple Leaves In Autumn The Maple's Leaves Were Scarlet March May A Meadow Brook Memorial Day Memories Of Home A Memory A Mountain Picture A Mountaingraveyard Musings On The Old Year My Brother My Native Mountains A New Year's Hope No One Like Mother No Solitude In Nature November Nutting-time O Spruce Pines On The Cumberlands October October The Old Attic Room The Old Mill-pond The Old Walnut Cradle An Old-fashioned Garden On Big Sandy River On Duty's Knob On Receiving A Deer-skin On Receiving A Souvenir Postcard Once On A Time Only A Drunkard. The Patchwork Quilt The 'possum Hunt The Preacher's Wife Preparation Rain In The Night The Rainbow A Recollection The Recompense 'remember The Maine' Return Of Our Soldier Boys--1899 The Road To Church Safe At Home September Shall We Know Our Dear And Loved Ones? The Shepherds' Vision Shining For Jesus A Sign Of Spring Sing A Song Of Autumn Sing Me A Song Smile And Speak Kindly Some Day Somebody's Father Spring Again Story Of The Christ-child The Summer Is Dying Sunrise On The Cumberlands Sunset On The Cumberland The Sword In Its Scabbard The Test Thanksgiving A Thanksgiving There's A Bright And Beautiful City There's A Mound In West Virginia There's Beauty All Around Us Thou Wilt Keep Them To A Dead Baby To A Silver Dollar To A Spring In The Cumberlands To An Old Class-mate To Mary Elliott Flanery To Mr. And Mrs. G. E. Staley To Mrs. Louisa Steele To My Love To S. E. D To The Cumberland Mountains To The Cumberland Mountains To W.a To---- ---- Toward Sunrise True Love Never Dies Trust The Uncultured Man Under Roofs The Unreturning Vesper Song Violets The Wagon Ride Washington When A Hundred Years Have Passed When Daisies Bloom When You Are With Me The Wood Fire Yankee Doodle. -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® This text is a supplement to the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. This collection is the result of years of research and will serve as an indispensable resource in future investigations of black women writers.These works are invaluable sources for readers intent on understanding the complex interplay of ethnicity and gender, of racism and sexism- of how 'race' becomes gendered and how gender becomes racialized- in American society.