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Katydid's Poems

Katydid's Poems

by Kate Slaughter MCKINNEY (1857 - 1939)

This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid. The poems are cute and amusing, children will enjoy them. - Summary by Carolin


A Christmas Peep

A Curl

A Day Dream

A Dream

A Foot-print

A Gallop With Santa Claus

A Lily of the Valley

A Little Face

A Maple Leaf

A Problem

A Recollection

A Sigh or a Tear

A Sister’s Love

A Sunset Longing

A Window I Love

A Year Ago

An Acrostic

An Apology

Autumn

Bitter Memories

Children of the Brain

Death of Summer

Dedication and Letter

Don’t Question Him Why

Drifting

Dripping Springs

Ella Lee

Good-bye, Maggie

Home Memories

I Am Musing To-night

In Memoriam

In Memory of Fannie Johnson White

I’ve Asked You to Forget Me

Journeys

Keep a Bright Face, Darling

Lines to the Old Year

Little Blanche

Look Into the Past

Looking Back

My Angel Visitor

My Cloud

My Heart’s Little Room

My Neighbor’s Mill

My Palace

My Phantom Ships

On the Hill-top Grow the Daisies

Only a Fern Leaf

Pen Pictures

Scotta

Snow-flakes

Some Day You’ll Wish For Me

Somebody’s Face

Speak Kindly

Spring and Summer

Sunshine and Shadow

The Broken Heart

The Canary and Rose

The Decision

The Heliotrope’s Soliloquy

The Hermit’s Farewell

The Little Front Gate

The Lost Poem

The Lover and Flower

The Old Orchard Trees

The Old Ravine

The Prettiest Girl in Town

The Reunion of the Flowers

The Three Muses

The Weight of a Word

Thistle Down

Those Soft Airs She Played

Those Willing Hands

To A Katydid

To a Mountain Stream

To Albert

To Hallie

To Mother

Under the Snow

What is the West Wind Saying

Why?

Why I Smile

Winnie’s Christmas Eve