- Boys and Girls
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A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each poem is written from the point of view of children or about children.
- Chapters
- Away
- The Reciprocity of Smiles
- A Domestic Ripple
- The Adams’s Boys
- Billy Peeble’s Christmas
- The Way He Used to Do
- A Boy’s Vacation Time
- A Boy’s Choice
- A Discouraged Kindergartner
- The Delusion of Ghosts
- A Story of Self-Sacrifice
- The Lost Child
- Doughnutting Time
- A Modern Miracle
- Nervoustown
- Song of Summer Days
- What Mother Doesn’t Know
- So Lonesome Now
- A Little Love Story
- On a Noiseless Fourth
- Conscious Ignorance
- The Playtime of Bachelor Bill
- How Henry Blake Knows
- The Land of Blow Bubbles
- The Gingercake Man
- Lonesome
- The Garden of Play
- We Ain’t Scared of Pa
- A Pearl of Price
- Dear Little, Queer Little Man
- Girl of Mine
- Chums
- The Lost Boy
- Lines to a Baby Girl
- Little Mischefuss
- The Travels of Mortimer Brown
- Adventurers Three
- When They Love You So
- Somebody Did
- The Waders
- The Prisoned Pupil
- A Prayer for Jimmy Banks
- A Child’s Christmas Prayer
- Henry Blake’s Chum
- Once Upon a Time
- The Way to School
- A Present for Little Boy Blue
- The Evolution of an Adoption
- Some Girls that Mamma Knew
- Gone
- The Neighbor’s Boys
- A Quiet Afternoon
- The Ownerless Toys
- The Stranger
- In Vacation Time
- Bereaved
- Two Little Maids
- A New Christmas Carol
- The Reconciliation of Pa
- A World without Care
- Right After School
- A Plea for Old Friends
- The Boyville Cadets
- A Little Boy I Know
- Asleep at the Circus
- The Barriers
- The Plaint of the New Doll
- A Child’s Almanac
- The Loser
- Back to School
- Disenchantments
- A Rainy Night
- Kitchen Miracles
- Jim Brady’s Big Brother
- The Scapegoat
- A Tragedy of Center Field
- In Swimming
- An Unusual Chum
- And Just Then
- Afterwards
- Circus Day
- The Tour of a Smile
- When Grandpa Plays
- The Parted Ways
- A Message Home
- Lullaby
- Disguising Toil
- Little Girl with the Curls
- My Wonderful Dad
- Remembrances, Bill
- The Bereavement
- In Childhood Time
- Don’t
- Extinguished
- The Uncheered Hero
- Old Hallowe’en Friends
- A Refuge in Distress
- The Lost Heart
- Verses of a Little Child
- Golden Days in Slowville
- The Heart of a Child
- The Strenuous Life
- A Song of Motherhood
- Youth
- After the Years
- A Verse to Memory
- Lest I Forget
- Echo of a Song
- Lovers’ Lane
- To Children at the Hearth
- Daddy Knows
- A Toast to the Small Boy
- An Adventurous Day
- Poem of the Foragers