Research Catalog

Title

Leo's poetical works.

Author

Martin, Egbert, approximately 1861-1890.

Publication

London : Printed for the author by W.H. and L. Collingridge, Aldergate St. Sold by E.W. Allen, 4, Ave Maria Lane, Paternoster Row, 1883.

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Additional Authors

• A Allen, Edward William, active 1863-1900
• W.H. and L. Collingridge, printer.

Description

xi, [1], 224 p.; 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

West Indian poetry (English)

Note

• "Leo" was the pen-name of Egbert Martin, a West Indian poet.
• "London: Printed by W.H. and L. Collingridge, Aldersgate Street, E.C."--printer statement, verso of title page; and also "W.H. and L. Collingridge, Aldersgate Street, E.C.", colophon.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• 1. Inscription -- The poet -- Ruth (a poet's story) -- The joys of night (a meditation).
• 2. Silver chords, or heart poems: The poem -- Human hearts -- Sympathy -- The heart -- Thanksgiving -- Absent friends -- Musing -- Dreams -- Sages contradicted -- The almshouse -- Erring ones -- A thought -- Resuscitation -- Calm -- Cleft -- Dawning -- Slowly and dim -- Sky pictures -- Man's immortality -- Nature's comfort -- Meditation -- The city houses -- Along yon stretch -- The memory of lost ones -- Twilight thoughts -- Rapture -- Vanishing -- Looking back -- A little grave -- The unfolding rose -- The broken cord -- Sing to me -- The new year -- If we only knew -- The sigh -- Je pense -- Judge not thy brother -- We should be careful -- We have a mission -- Man's faith -- Of lowly ones -- A fragment -- Faith, hope, charity -- Comfort -- Rest -- The voice -- Earthly hope -- Life -- Some bosom is yearning for you -- To the breeze -- Be helpful in a quiet way -- Eventide -- Onward -- Apostrophe to trust -- A dark day -- Analogy -- Forsaken -- Something left us yet -- Give -- Smiles -- Desolation -- The sea -- Moonrise -- On hearing a song familiar in childhood -- Consolation -- Elegy -- Of human life -- Seeking -- In the sick-room -- Made perfect through suffering -- Loose thy standard to the breeze -- Absent chords -- Sunday -- Duty -- To a jasmine -- Forebodings -- Children's voices -- Esto quod esse videris -- Lines -- Death -- For ever -- Disappointment -- Departure of the old year -- The old year.
• 3. Celestial echoes, or poems of the soul: In communion with my soul -- "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy" -- "For so he giveth his beloved sleep" -- "He healeth the broken in heart" -- "The memory of the just is blessed" -- "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick" -- "Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning" -- "He lifteth up the meek" -- Sowing beside all the waters -- "As wax before the fire" -- Elim -- Marah -- In prayer -- Te Deum -- Angels are floating around -- On seeing the lame lead the blind -- "Peace, be still" (Mark iv. 39) -- "In her tongue is the law of kindness" (Prov. xxxi. 26) -- The waters of Babylon -- "Out of the eater" -- Solitude.
• 4. Domestic chords, or narrative poems: The magic view -- The beggar -- The Negro village -- The Indian's return -- The hammock maker (an Indian eelogue) -- The first prayer -- Three links -- The dog and the mirror -- Reconciliation -- Death levels the pride of high degree -- Maternal love -- A plea for the children -- On seeing a beautiful spider's web -- The wren -- A rustic ode -- Leaving the old home -- To the masters.

Call Number

Sc Rare 821-M (Martin, E. Leo's poetical works)

OCLC

27464528

Author

Martin, Egbert, approximately 1861-1890.

Title

Leo's poetical works.

Imprint

London : Printed for the author by W.H. and L. Collingridge, Aldergate St. Sold by E.W. Allen, 4, Ave Maria Lane, Paternoster Row, 1883.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 821-M (accession no. B527126) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

A Allen, Edward William, active 1863-1900, bookseller.

W.H. and L. Collingridge, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 821-M (Martin, E. Leo's poetical works)