Potential Titles: Annie Fellows Johnston

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Through mullein stalks and jimson-weeds - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

That kings might well dispense - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

My hand still lingers on the latch - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"

Each year demands its toll - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"

Whose golden silences are stirred - Annie Fellows Johnston "Bob White"

The whistle of the quail repeat - Annie Fellows Johnston "Bob White"

Can startle the voices of the peaks - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"

The past will sometimes rise - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"

To hear the wind's footfalls - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"

Where the Sisters three are weaving - Annie Fellows Johnston "Elinor"

Who once has lost an Eden - Annie Fellows Johnston "Felipa, Wife of Columbus"

And waited not to join the caravan - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

The World pressed toward its Jericho - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

A hoard of gold it bore along - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

They kill our holiest of Hopes - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

And who has oil and wine enough? - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

When all the court held carnival - Annie Fellows Johnston "The Legend of the Pansies"

A lute with one string left unstrung - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"

That caught its shadow in a dream - Annie Fellows Johnston "Through an Amber Pane"

Remembering we are dust - Annie Fellows Johnston "Through an Amber Pane"

The forms my heart recalls - Annie Fellows Johnston "Voices of the Old, Old Days"


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