- Katydid's Poems
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This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid. The poems are cute and amusing, children will enjoy them.
- Chapters
- Dedication and Letter
- To A Katydid
- A Day Dream
- The Old Ravine
- Some Day You’ll Wish For Me
- To Hallie
- I’ve Asked You to Forget Me
- Little Blanche
- The Little Front Gate
- Drifting
- Looking Back
- Scotta
- The Lover and Flower
- My Cloud
- The Decision
- Autumn
- A Sister’s Love
- In Memory of Fannie Johnson White
- The Heliotrope’s Soliloquy
- A Problem
- My Palace
- Death of Summer
- Spring and Summer
- Under the Snow
- The Prettiest Girl in Town
- I Am Musing To-night
- A Curl
- Somebody’s Face
- Good-bye, Maggie
- The Hermit’s Farewell
- A Window I Love
- Thistle Down
- Bitter Memories
- An Acrostic
- My Angel Visitor
- Keep a Bright Face, Darling
- My Neighbor’s Mill
- Dripping Springs
- In Memoriam
- The Old Orchard Trees
- On the Hill-top Grow the Daisies
- Ella Lee
- What is the West Wind Saying
- To a Mountain Stream
- Pen Pictures
- To Mother
- The Broken Heart
- A Year Ago
- A Christmas Peep
- Winnie’s Christmas Eve
- My Heart’s Little Room
- The Three Muses
- A Recollection
- Don’t Question Him Why
- Why?
- A Sunset Longing
- Journeys
- The Lost Poem
- A Maple Leaf
- A Gallop With Santa Claus
- Home Memories
- Sunshine and Shadow
- Only a Fern Leaf
- A Dream
- Those Soft Airs She Played
- To Albert
- The Reunion of the Flowers
- Children of the Brain
- A Lily of the Valley
- Lines to the Old Year
- Why I Smile
- My Phantom Ships
- The Weight of a Word
- An Apology
- Speak Kindly
- Those Willing Hands
- Look Into the Past
- A Little Face
- The Canary and Rose
- A Sigh or a Tear
- Snow-flakes
- A Foot-print