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Songs Ysame

This is a volume of poetry written by the sisters Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie Fellows Johnston. Both of the sisters reached quite a level of fame in their own right, Ms Bacon primarily as a social reformer and Ms Johnston as an author of children's books. In this volume of poetry, they bring their two sets of skills together to write beautiful verses. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 39 min)

Chapters

Prelude

The Lighting of the Candles

At Early Candle-lighting

'Bob White'

Grandfather

The Old Church

An Old-time Pedagogue

Her Title-deeds

Voices of the Old, Old Days

Silent Keys

Retrospection

Echoes from Erin

An Alpine Valley

Through an Amber Pane

At a Tenement Window

A Song

Eclipse

In the Dark

Felipa, Wife of Columbus

'Twixt Creek and Bay

When Youth is Gone

The Fickle Heart

Banditti

The Silent Brotherhood

Spendthrift

Lost

The Robber

My Carol

'In this Cradle-life of Ours'

Here and There

The Milky Way

Interlude

'Oh, Dreary Day'

May-time

Spring's Cophetua

Winter Beauty

October

At Twilight

The Prophet

The Potter's Field

Left Out

'Our Father'

A Madrigal

The Time o' Day

Trailing Arbutus

A Mood

The Legend of the Pansies

The Tower of Babel

The Old Bell

The Sea

Married

Motherhood

Sufficiency

Ophelia

Requiem

Elizabeth

Elinor

On a Fly-leaf of 'Flute and Violin'

Inspiration

On a Fly-leaf of Irving

On a Fly-leaf of 'Afterwhiles'

Chiaro-Oscuro

When She Comes Home

A Resolve

Stranded

At Last