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• The Book of Bubbles: A Contribution to the New York Fair in Aid of The Sanitary Commission (New York: Endicott and Co., 1864) (page images at Florida)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The New Frontier Joke Book (New York: Macfadden Books, 1963), ed. by Gene Wortsman, illust. by Robert Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Republican Bird Book: A Study in Ornerythology (c1964), by Jack L. Cross and Geoffrey L. Cross (PDF at archive-it.org)

• A Pretty Story Written in The Year of Our Lord 2774, By Peter Grievous, Esq.; A.B.C.D.E. (second edition; Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1774), by Francis Hopkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times (6 chapters (all that were published); 1774-1775), by John Leacock
  • based on a 20th-century transcription: HTML at Github
  • page images of first 4 chapters as printed in Boston in the 1770s by J. Boyle: multiple formats at archive.org
• The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times: Chap. I (early printing of the first installment, sometimes attributed to Samuel Adams, but by Leacock; Boston: Printed by J. Boyle, 1774), by John Leacock (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Hymns to the Gods, and Other Poems (Little Rock: F. W. Allsopp, 1916), by Albert Pike, ed. by Lilian Pike Roome
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Letters from Colorado (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1887), by H. L. Wason (page images at Harvard)

• The Rape of Florida, by Albery Allson Whitman (HTML at Michigan)

• Hilo Rains (published as Bamboo Ridge issue #37-38; Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1988), by Juliet S. Kono (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Amusement of Idle Hours: The Poems of S. Attwood Butterfield, M.D. (Indianapolis: C. S. Butterfield, 1887), by S. Attwood Butterfield (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns (popular edition; New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), by Alice Cary (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns (popular edition; New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876), by Alice Cary (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Husks and Nubbins (Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1899), by Alice Davis Odekirk Greenwood (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Legend of Grape Island, and Other Poems (Watseka, IL: Printed by the Times Democrat, c1907), by Will W. Pfrimmer (multiple formats at Indiana)
• A Little Book of Hoosier Verse (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1922), by Omar William Coxen (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Nye and Riley's Railway Guide (Chicago et al.: Dearborn Pub. Co., 1888), by Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley, illust. by Baron DeGrimm, E. Zimmerman, and Walter Hugh McDougall (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1888), by James Whitcomb Riley (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1895), by James Whitcomb Riley (Gutenberg text)
• Poems and Hymns (Crown Point, IN: Printed at the "Register" Office, 1888), by T. H. Ball (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary, With a Memorial of Their Lives (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1877), by Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary, contrib. by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• With Pad and Pencil (ca. 1910), by Carl Anderson (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Oh Millersville! (published under "Fern Gravel" persona; Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1940), by James Norman Hall (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Kansas Poems, by Kenneth Wiggins Porter (HTML at Washburn)
• Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill (fifth edition, 1896), by Eugene F. Ware (HTML at kancoll.org)

• Creole Voices: Poems in French by Free Men of Color, First Published in 1845 (poems in French, commentary in English and French; Washington: Associated Publishers, 1945), ed. by Edward Maceo Coleman and Armand Lanusse, contrib. by Henry Carrington Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forest Buds, From the Woods of Maine, by Elizabeth Akers Allen (page images at MOA)

• Maryland, My Maryland, and Other Poems, by James Ryder Randall (page images at MOA)

• New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1923), by Robert Frost, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Centralia Mine Fire, by Leonard Kress (HTML at CAPA)

• Aquidneck: A Poem (Providence: C. Burnett, Jr., 1848), by Charles T. Brooks (page images at MOA)

• Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country (New York et al.: MacMillan, 1922), by DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen (Gutenberg text)

• Hillsboro People, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (Gutenberg text)
• Poets and Poetry of Vermont (revised edition; Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase; Brattleboro: W. Felton, 1860), ed. by Abby Maria Hemenway
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poems of House and Home, by John James Piatt (page images at MOA)
• Landmarks: The Lost Farm and Other Poems (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by John James Piatt
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • page images at MOA

• Sketches of Southern Life, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at Virginia)

• Landmarks: The Lost Farm and Other Poems (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by John James Piatt
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • page images at MOA

• Know Nothing: A Poem for Natives and Aliens (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854), by Samuel R. Phillips (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Know Nothing: A Poem for Natives and Aliens (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854), by Samuel R. Phillips (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poems of Religion and Society, by John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States, With Notices of His Life and Character (New York: W. H. Graham, 1848), by John Quincy Adams, contrib. by John Davis and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at MOA)

• Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin, by Ralph Chaplin, ed. by Scott Nearing (Gutenberg text)

• The Sorrows of Yamba, or The Negro Woman's Lamentation (London: J. Marshall et al., 1797), contrib. by Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith (HTML with commentary at brycchancarey.com)

• The Anti-Slavery Alphabet (Philadelphia: Printed for the Anti-Slavery Fair, 1847), by Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont, by John Pierpont (HTML at Michigan)
• Chivalry, Slavery, and Young America (New York: F. A. Brady, 1866), by John Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Pantheon, or The Age of Black (New York: Rollo, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Night of Freedom: An Appeal, in Verse, Against the Great Crime of Our Country, Human Bondage! (Boston: S. Chism, 1857), by William Wallace Hebbard (multiple formats at Google)
• The Slave-Mother (1855), by John Collins, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at Wayback Machine)
• Slavery: A Poem (Concord, NH: McFarland and Jenks, 1856) (multiple formats at Wayback Machine)
• The Social Conflict of Ages: A Rhyme for the Time (Salem, MA, 1857) (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thoughts on Slavery: A Poem (1854), by Lewis Stevens (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Sketches of Southern Life, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at Virginia)
• The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems (Charleston, SC: McCarter and Co., 1856), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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