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Title: Debris
Selections from Poems

Author: Madge Morris

Release Date: June 22, 2005 [eBook #16108]

Language: English

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DEBRIS

Selections from Poems

by

MADGE MORRIS

Sacramento
H. S. Crocker & Co., Printers

1881

_To the one who, reading, may fancy--
With a kindly thought for me--
There's a grain of gold in its driftings,
I dedicate this "Debris."_

PREFACE

The waif is born of emergency, and timidly launched on the rough
sea of opinion. Critic, touch it gently; it assumes nothing--has
nothing to assume; and your scalpel can only pain its
AUTHOR

CONTENTS

Mystery of Carmel
Wasted Hours
Rocking the Baby
"I Don't Care"
A Stained Lily
A Valentine
Which One
Life's Way
Uncle Sam's Soliloquy
Nay, Do Not Ask
A Picture
Hang Up Your Stocking
Opening the Gate for Papa
White Honeysuckle
Estrangement
Bring Flowers
Good-Bye
In the Twilight
Home
Why?
Out in the Cold
To Jennie
Watching the Shadows
I Give Thee Back Thy Heart
Light Beyond
A Neglected "Woman's Right"
Would You Care?
A Thought of Heaven
Consolance
When the Roses Go
The Difference
Beware
A Regret
"It is Life to Die"
O, Speak it Not
A Shattered Idol
Poor Little Joe
Fate
The Ghosts in the Heart
Only a Tramp
Put Flowers on My Grave
Old Aunt Lucy
Unspoken Words
O! Take Away Your Flowers
Rain
I love Him for His Eyes
Only
Somebody's Baby's Dead
The Withered Rosebud
My Ships Have Come From Sea

MYSTERY OF CARMEL.

The Mission floor was with weeds o'ergrown,
And crumbling and shaky its walls of stone;
Its roof of tiles, in tiers and tiers,
Had stood the storms of a hundred years.
An olden, weird, medieval style
Clung to the mouldering, gloomy pile,
And the rhythmic voice of the breakin