Page 5 - Poetry-Family

CONTENTS

Introduction, by Moira Allen .............................................................. 5
Friend Godey... ..................................................................................... 7
Culinary Couplets ................................................................................ 9
Dear Editor ........................................................................................... 11
Single Blessedness .............................................................................. 13
The “Old Oaken Bucket” That Hangs on the Wall,
by J. Albert Kimball ...................................................................... 15
What Is Home Without a Bridget? by Sue Murdock ....................... 16
Shut the Door ...................................................................................... 17
The Bald-Headed Tyrant, by Mary E. Vandyne................................ 18
Patient Mercy Jones ........................................................................... 20
Absence of Mind ................................................................................. 23
The Head of the House, by Josephine Pollard ................................. 24
Little Whimpy ..................................................................................... 25
The Music-Stool, by Margaret Vandegrift ....................................... 26
Fourteen, by Edward Irenæus Stevenson ..........................................27
The Housekeeper’s Soliloquy, by Mrs. F. D. Gage .......................... 29
Little Mamma, by Charles Henry Webb ........................................... 30
Before the Baby Came, by Fanny Windsor ....................................... 33
House-Cleaning ................................................................................. 34
A Fin-de-Siècle Mama, by Alice Ames Winter ................................. 35
A Serious Time ................................................................................... 36
Sary “Fixes Up” Things, by Albert Bigelow Paine ............................. 37
Naming the Baby ............................................................................... 38
Mr. Finney’s Turnip, by Longfellow .................................................. 39
That Boy ............................................................................................. 40
That Girl .............................................................................................. 41
The Married Man ............................................................................... 42
Ballad of the Burglar .......................................................................... 43
Goo-Wah! ........................................................................................... 44
A Moving Lay, by Queerquill ............................................................ 45
A Culinary Problem ........................................................................... 46
Only a Pin ........................................................................................... 47
Zek’el Brown Unburdens Himself .................................................... 47