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Prison Poetry

by Hiram Peck McKnight

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Author
McKnight, Hiram Peck
Credits
Produced by Giovanni Fini, Caroluyn Jablonski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Prisoners' writings, American -- Ohio -- Columbus
Category
Text
eBook-No.
45674
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45674
Release Date
May 17, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Prison Poetry, BY H. P. McKNIGHT .
  2. 2.DEDICATION.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
  5. 5.CONTENTS.
  6. 6.PRELUDE.
  7. 7.My Prison Garden.
  8. 8.Rhyme and Reason.
  9. 9.Freedom.
  10. 10.God Bless Them
  11. 11.Forget? No, Never!
  12. 12.Mother.
  13. 13.A Prisoner's Thanksgiving.
  14. 14.Hope—Eternity.
  15. 15.The Prisoner's Mother.
  16. 16.How To Be Happy In Prison.
  17. 17.In Prison.
  18. 18.Erratic Musings of Unfettered Thought.
  19. 19.INFLUENCE.
  20. 20.Perfect Peace.
  21. 21.Be Lenient to the Errant One.
  22. 22.Last Night in the Dungeon.
  23. 23.HOPE.
  24. 24.Would They Know?
  25. 25.Guilt's Queries and Truth's Replies.
  26. 26.A Letter From Home.
  27. 27.The Reformer.
  28. 28.Reflections.
  29. 29.The Prisoner Released.
  30. 30.Prison Pains.
  31. 31.The under Dog.
  32. 32.Kindness.
  33. 33.There Is No Death.
  34. 34.Dreams.
  35. 35.The Great "O. P."
  36. 36.Coming in and Going Out.
  37. 37.Soul Sculpture.
  38. 38.Weight and Immortality of Words.
  39. 39.Which Loved Her Best?
  40. 40.The Storms of Life.
  41. 41.Love's Victim.
  42. 42.A Prisoner's Lamentation.
  43. 43.Our Board of Managers.
  44. 44.A TRIBUTE TO Assistant Deputy Warden L. H. Wells .
  45. 45.One and a Few.
  46. 46.Midnight Musings.
  47. 47.A Query.
  48. 48.Stray Thoughts.
  49. 49.Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged.
  50. 50.The Convict's Prayer.
  51. 51.Wine vs. Water.
  52. 52.The Fall of Sodom. — The Fall of Sodom—Canto Second.
  53. 53.A TRIBUTE TO THE WOLFE SISTERS.
  54. 54.Prisoners.
  55. 55.Two Letters.
  56. 56.A Prayer For Justice.
  57. 57.Birthday Musings.
  58. 58.A TRIBUTE TO THE WOLFE SISTERS.
  59. 59.To A Departed Idol.
  60. 60.Acrostic To Warden and Mrs. E. G. Coffin.
  61. 61.A Prison Vision.
  62. 62.ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO CAPT. J. S. ACHESON.
  63. 63.My Mother.
  64. 64.A Memorial Ode.
  65. 65.Lines To My Cell.
  66. 66.A TRIBUTE TO Dr. G. A. Tharp.
  67. 67.An Appreciated Friend.
  68. 68.Salome's Revenge.
  69. 69.A TRIBUTE TO CAPT. GEORGE W. HESS.
  70. 70.My Lawyer.
  71. 71.A Sad Warning.
  72. 72.ACROSTIC TO J. C. LANGENBERGER, Captain of the O. P. Night Watch .
  73. 73.She Loves Me Yet.
  74. 74.ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO HARRY SMITH.
  75. 75.The Phantom Boat.
  76. 76.AN INITIAL ACROSTIC.
  77. 77.ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO DR. H. R. PARKER.
  78. 78.Lines To My Wife.
  79. 79.Out of the Depths.
  80. 80.Ella Ree's Revenge.
  81. 81.The Murderer's Dream.
  82. 82.ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO GOD'S MESSENGERS, CHAPLAIN AND MRS. C. L. WINGET.
  83. 83.The Mind is the Standard of the Man.
  84. 84.Cell Thoughts.
  85. 85.THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL.
  86. 86.CONCLUSION.

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