Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (Harper, 1857)

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

For works with similar titles, see Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects.

POEMS

ON

MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS,

BY

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS.

TENTH THOUSAND.

PHILADELPHIA:

Merridew & Thompson, Printers

Lodge street, North side Pennsylvania Bank.

1857.

Contents (not listed in original)

• Preface
• The Syrophenician woman
• The slave mother
• Bible defence of slavery
• Eliza Harris
• Ethiopia
• The drunkard's child
• The slave auction
• The revel
• That blessed hope
• The dying christian
• Report
• Advice to the girls
• Saved by faith
• Died of starvation
• A mother's heroism
• The fugitive's wife
• The contrast
• The prodigal's return
• Eva's farewell
• The Tennessee hero
• Free labor
• Lines
• The dismissal of Tyng
• The slave mother, a tale of the Ohio
• Rizpah, the daughter of Ai
• Ruth and Naomi
• Christianity
• The colored people in America
• Breathing the air of freedom