Poems of friendship, love, and hope

Preface

5 The Author of this book was bom about three

* miles southwest of Delta, Fulton County, Ohio, on February 4th, 1854. He grew up on a farm and ^ was educated in a country school, Wauseon High t and Elkhart, Indiana. He began teaching at 18. ^ In the spring of 1877 was admitted to practice p law at Goshen, Indiana. He was married on October first, 1880, to Ella Frances Grumman, at Berlinville, Erie County, Ohio. He has a family of three sons and two daughters. He is now engaged in the law and real estate, together with his son, Kenneth, at Lorain, Ohio, where all communications will reach him ; and now, I take up the beginning of the end. In 1876, I was to publish a volume of poems; all I lacked was the means, and I have been fighting in the industrial world ever since. Have I won? Well, yes! and now I am going to the press. After taking up and dropping a name at each decade, I will call it "Poems of Frienship, Love and Hope" for what else of this earth interests me ? Let me be a monarch of Love and thou mayest rule all else. My object is to build up and better Humanity. I go before the Public of my own free will and accord, whether for praise or condemnation, you will find me still writing. I come at eventide but salute you by saying. Good morning, here I am. Now I really hope you will be pleased for where do I get my cost if I fail to get praise? All else I was forced to get before I went to press. From my earliest memory, I liked things sweet and would I be an Author if I did not like praise ? I always wanted my butter spread thickly and whether condemnation or praise, do not be afraid to spread it on and I will greet both with a smile. Mr. Critic, wade in, I love a fracas; if you will fight, we will postpone dinner and put on the gloves; but for all who praise, God be with you.

THE AUTHOR.

POEMS OF ROSWELL DERBY, SR.

The Soul 19

Passion 20

Friend of my Heart, Adieu ! 20

POEMS OF ROSWELL DERBY, JR.

How Little 25

The Great Divide 26

Bob White 28

Calumny 28

Fate 29

My Vision 30

Strength to Bear 30

I Think of Her 31

Bitter Root Valley 31

My Love 32

Where Am 1 32

Waiting 33

Faith 34

A Serpent 35

To 35

My Castle 36

Treat Me Gently 36

False 37

My Song Bird 37

My Prayer 38

Time Passes On 38

The Gifts Love Gave 39

The Wreckage 40

Why Should We Mourn? 40

Minnie's Grave 41

Inhumanity 43

The Great Censor 43

Emily 45

Guernsey's Dream 51

We Parted 53

Sweet Home Above 54

To 54

Scotland 55

Love's Battle 56

A Point of Order 56

Let Me In 57

To 57

Bernice 58

I Wondered 59

The Blessed Land 59

My Musical Bird 60

Crossing the Stream 60

The Castle Love Built for My Bride 61

My Childhood Home 61

To 65

One More Message 65

My Pledge to Thee 67

We Met 67

At Zoar, N. Y 68

To Ella 69

Queen Elizabeth 70

'TisFell 71

Fifteen Years 72

Childhood Home 73

Earth , 76

My School 76

Clarence Smith 77

Just a Fight 78

Luck 79

What is Man 80

Could You 81

My Little Girl With the Auburn Hair 82

Meet Me 83

The Last Hope of Friendship 83

Mabel 84

Where Justice Reigns 85

The Autumn Rain 85

My Native Land Farewell 86

Billows o' Sea 87

rii Go 90

As We See It 93

"I Am a Viper" 94

A Drunkard's Home 94

Freed From Bondage 96

Give Me 97

The Memory I Owe 98

Have Flown 98

The Skies Will Brighten Again 99

Guard Me O'er lOO

He is Caring for Me lOO

No Good loi

Minnie With the Golden Hair 102

I Received a Wireless To-Night 103

Thou Knowest Well 104

I Came 104

What Care 1 106

Who Feel 106

I Could Not Believe 107

Greed 108

They Tell Me 108

The Lady of the Glen 109

Father and Mother 127

In Our Silent Home 128

God of Heaven is Caring for Me 129

May 130

Silence 131

If I Fall 133

To My Love. 135

They Both Will Praise 135

The Stream 135

Love 136

Friendship 137

No Such Man as I 138

Stanza 138

The Poet 139

Lost 140

Passing the Church- Yard 141

Let Me Drift 142

Let Fortune Smile 142

The Ruins 143

Let Me Go. 144

In This Life 146

They Are Knaves 147

If We Knew 148

Love 148

Let Me Paint a Picture 150

When Youth Awoke 151

Still I Think of Thee 151

To a False Friend 152

In the Gloaming 153

Oh! Tell Me ..156

^^ 157

Seldom 1^3

Am I Forgotten. 159

England 160

Our Habitation 161

God Only Knows 163

Edna 16'^

Almost Despaired 164

'Will You Meet Me in the Lane To-night?'*'.' iG'i

Beware, Young Girl ! 166

Great Men 153

Sad Words i6g

"Let the Dead Past Bury Its Dead". ..!.!. 169

Our Union i yo

Delusion ^no

The Robe That Shines the Most 171

**To Bear It or Not to Bear It?" 172

Did You Know *. . . . 173

Bernice 174

Purity 175

Forgotten 176

Shall We Love Again ? 176

To Ella, Jan. ist, 1913 , 177

Silently 173

I Called Thee Friend 173

Our Future Home 179

The Last Hope of Friendship 181

The Guiding Hand 182

My Ship 184

Friend I'm Weeping 185

The Golden Chain 186

Rest From Burden of Care 186

Hope 187

Nearing the Shore 188

Only Trust Him 189

Cupid 190

This Day is Dreary 190

To igi

Mabel 191

Beware of Evil Companions 192

There is Light 194

The Girl Across the Aisle 195

Kenneth D 196

Acrostic ig6

Did You Not 197

The Lost in Life 200

Fame 204

Departed Friendship 204

The Early Flight 206

Dearly Bought 206

Poverty 208

Pain 208

This World 208

The Way 209

Clara 212

My Boat 21s

Bind Me 214

Graduation Poem Written for M. I. T 215

Departed 220

Think of Me 220

I Love to Dream of Thee 221

Land of Youth 222

As He Will 222

Friendship Severed 223

Too Long This Parting 225

Forgive 226

Lament 226

ToM. LT 228

Decline 229

I Trusted Thee 230

Dismal 231

Must Pass Away 232

ToM. L T 233

As I Pass 234

I've Loved for Thee 235

Farewell 236

What Will I Do? 237

Lament 237

Spring 240

Eighteen Hundred and Eighty 240

Sweet Home Above 242

Autumn 243

The First Honey 245