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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Southern treasury of life and literature. New York : C. Scribner's Sons, ©1937 (OCoLC)610467222 |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stark Young |
| OCLC Number: | 494320 |
| Notes: | Includes brief biographical sketch of each author except George Washington. Includes index. |
| Description: | xviii, 748 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | The dividing line / William Byrd -- Some adventures with the Indians / Cabeza de Vaca -- The star-spangled banner ; Lord, with glowing heart I'd praise thee / Francis Scott Key -- Boone in Kentucky / Daniel Boone -- Reminiscences / William C. Preston -- The mocking-bird / Alexander Beaufort Meek -- from The Speech in the convention of delegates, March 23, 1775 / Patrick Henry -- from Farewell address / George Washington -- George Washington ; Letter to his daughter Martha / Thomas Jefferson -- from Swallow barn / John Pendleton Kennedy -- A Health / Edward Coote Pinkney -- American in Europe / Lyle Saxon -- Theatre [i.e., theater] at Natchez / Tyrone Power -- Travels in 1825-26 / Bernard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach -- Stirring days / David Crockett -- The fall of the Alamo ; The Goliad massacre / Henderson Yoakum -- The daughter of Mendoza / Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar -- Passages on slavery / Ulrich Bonnell Phillips -- Pioneer days in Tennessee / James Ross -- Preservation of the Union / Andrew Jackson -- Selling a dog ; Christmas night in the quarters / Irwin Russell -- The cotton-boll ; Spring ; Ode / Henry Timrod -- The horse-swap / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- Murrell and Virgil Stewart / Robert M. Coates -- The Swamp Fox ; Letter / William Gilmore Simms ; The conclusion of Calhoun's last speech / John Caldwell Calhoun -- A visit to President Houston ; The American white pelican ; The mocking-bird / John James Audubon -- The fall of the house of Usher ; The masque of the red death ; The Raven ; Leonore ; To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Plantation days in Louisiana / Lestant Prudhomme -- My spirit's bride ; The mirage ; Little boy blue -- a new song ; Rosalie Lee / Thomas Holley Chivers -- In the beginning ; The lost San Saba mine / J. Frank Dobie -- Mountain ballads : She'll be comin' round the mountain ; He's come away ; The false knight upon the road ; Edward ; The wife wrapt in wether's skin ; The riddle song ; The cruel mother ; The cuckoo -- My study ; The will and the wing ; Aspect of the pines ; Sonnet -- poets ; A little while I fain would linger here / Paul Hamilton Hayne -- The Confederate flag -- Little Giffen / Francis Orray Ticknor -- Dixie / Daniel Decatur Emmett -- The burial of the guns / Thomas Nelson Page -- A ballad of trees and the master ; The marshes of Glynn ; Marsh song -- at sunset ; Corn ; Evening song; Letters / Sidney Lanier Café des exilés / George W. Cable -- Maryland! My Maryland! / James Ryder Randall -- The death of Stonewall Jackson / John Esten Cooke -- Stanzas / Richard Henry Wilde -- The bivouac of the dead / Theodore O'Hara -- Memorials of a Southern planter / Susan Dabney Smedes -- The capture of Jefferson Davis / Varina Howell Davis -- Jefferson Davis' farewell address to the United States Senate, January 21, 1861 / Jefferson Davis -- The conquered banner ; The sword of Robert Lee / Abram Joseph (Father) Ryan -- Family incidents / Sara Anne Pryor -- A grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond / Margaret Junkin Preston -- Ashby / John Reuben Thompson -- General Lee at the surrender / Douglas Southall Freeman -- Negro spirituals in the South : Deep river ; Swing low, sweet chariot -- Epitaphs -- Cowboy songs : Billy Venero ; The dying cowboy -- The English language in the South / Cleanth Brooks, Jr. -- Mr. Terrapin shows his sstrength; Old Mr. Rabbit, he's a good fisherman / Joel Chandler Harris -- An old family servant / F. Hopkinson Smith -- form The First annual address / Andrew Johnson -- from The Eulogy of summer / Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar -- The acquittal of Andrew Johnson / George Fort Milton -- The Grangerford pages from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" / Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) -- The old Virginian gentleman / George W. Brady -- The wounded soldier / Henry W. Grady -- Hemp / James Lane Allen -- The grapevine swing / Samuel Minturn Peck -- When the doctors disagree / Edwin Mims -- The star in the valley / Charles Egbert Craddock -- On trial for his life / John Fox, Jr. -- Mere literature / Woodrow Wilson -- To the lady Rebecca Rolfe, called Pocahontas / James Branch Cabell -- April weather ; Compensation ; Spinning tops ; The common lot / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Irrepressible conflict / Frank Lawrence Owlsley -- When the moon rises / Martha Berry -- I am chosen instead of the prayer-meeting virgin ; I build for myself a monument more enduring than brass / Corra Harris -- Eve and the snake ; Mrs. Lot ; The romance and education of Moses / Roark Bradford -- Autumn love ; Spectral lovers ; Blue girls ; Judith of Bethulia / John Crowe Ransom -- Beauregard / Hamilton Basso -- Perspectives are precipices ; Apparition ; Southern pines / John Peal Bishop -- One of the brothers travelled on the continent during the Civil War; Neo-classicist / Merrill Moore Portrait of a cavalryman / John William Thomason, Jr. -- Black Ulysses / Howard Washington Odum -- To a dogwood in summer ; A ballad of St. Sebastian ; Agricolæ ; A volunteer's grave / William Alexander Percy -- An old man remembers ; Sea-drinking cities / Josephine Pinkney -- Bitten by a snake / Caroline Miller -- Afterword / Hudson Strode -- All lovely things ; "Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket" ; "Music I heard with you" ; "Queen Cleopatra, now grown old" ; "When trout swim down Great Ormond Street" ; "This is the shape of the leaf" / Conrad Aiken -- Kalicz / Evelyn Scott -- The sound of rain ; To a firefly by the sea ; Dusk from a train window / Cale Young Rice -- Sectionalism and nationality / Edwin Anderson Alderman -- The gift of the magi / O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) -- The annexation of Cuby (Alice Hegan Rice) -- "It will be a hard winter" ; Fatherland / Olive Tilford Dargan -- Visit to Roncal / Grace Elizabeth King -- Summer ; October / Madison Julius Cawein -- The integrated view and spiritual values from the university today / Frank Porter Graham -- In which I throw Ambs-Ace / Mary Johnston -- A little boy's bath / Karle Wilson Baker -- Beethoven / Henry L. Mencken -- Scourge / Virginia Moore -- Breeze and his mother / Julia Mood Peterkin -- Profits and losses in the life of Joel Chandler Harris ; My star ; The half-ring moon / John Bannister Tabb -- In an old print shop ; Treasure / David Morton -- Circus at dawn ; from the last chapter of "Look homeward, angel" / Thomas Wolfe -- Lee in the mountains ; Fire on Belmont Street / Donald Davidson -- How to kill an owl ; Sweet chile ; A fisherman / Edward C. L. Adams -- Molly Cotton-tail / Erskine Caldwell -- The visit / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- History among the rocks ; When the light gets green / Robert Penn Warren -- Mister McGregor / Andrew Nelson Lytle -- The ice house / Caroline Gordon -- The Old South ; The passing of the South ; Rhapsody of Indian summer / John Gould Fletcher -- The shade of distinction / Emily Clark -- Spotted horses / William Faulkner -- Backwater / Thomas Sigismund Stribling -- Sunday races ; from "So red the rose" / Stark Young -- The hot iron / Paul Elliot Green -- Lethe and Aunt Amy / R. Emmet Kennedy -- A prairie prayer ; Poet-earth / Hilton Ross Greer -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The storm / DuBose Heyward -- from "The romantic comedians" ; from "The sheltered life" / Ellen Glasgow -- Pioneers ; Æneas at Washington ; The Mediterranean ; Mother and son ; Ode to fear ; Ode to the Confederate dead / Allen Tate. |
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