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This is an index for Vol. 1 (July 1933 - June 1934) of the North Carolina Poetry Review, published monthly in Gastonia, North Carolina, by the North Carolina Poetry Society. This volume may be requested at the Reference Desk of the Main Library.

Entries are identified by volume and number: "1.1" means Vol. 1, No. 1.

Articles

  • Amendment to the Constitution [Poetry Society] - 1.6
  • Among Our Contributors
    • Cullen, Countee - 1.5
    • Keiser, Albert - 1.8
    • Musser, Benjamin - 1.7
    • Musser, Benjamin Francis - 1.4
    • Melton, Wightman F. - 1.5
    • Northe, James Neill - 1.7
    • Pearson, James Larkin - 1.3
    • Rutledge, Archibald - 1.3
    • Wedemeyer, Mary - 1.5
    • Whitsett, William Thornton - 1.6
  • Announcing Changes - 1.11
  • Announcing Contests - 1.10
  • An Appreciation of John Charles McNeill, by Jasper L. Memory Jr. - 1.4
  • Appreciation from Dr. Few - 1.5
  • April Meeting of Society - 1.10
  • Attention, Member - 1.5
  • Begins With Next Issue - 1.12
  • Book Review, by Father Placid: With Lips of Rue, by LeGarde S. Doughty - 1.11
  • Book Review, by Helen Harriet Salls: Chimes of Oglethorpe, by Wightman F. Melton - 1.9
  • Book Reviews, by Zoe Kincaid Brockman: Chaplet of Sanctuaries, by Benjamin Musser - 1.12
  • Brief Reviews, by Father Placid
    • The Moon Mender, by John Richard Moreland - 1.10
    • Poems, 1930 -1933, by Benjamin Musser - 1.6
    • Poet's Gold, by David Ross - 1.6
  • Byron, by Father Placid - 1./11
  • Christmas and Poetry - 1.6
  • Congratulations [contest winners] - 1.10
  • Cotton Mill Poetry - 1.2
  • Death of Dr. Whitsett - 1.10
  • Exchange Notes - 1.11
  • Father Placid Honored - 1.7
  • Growing Interest - 1.6
  • Helen Welshimer, A "Human" Poet - 1.10
  • An Honor Worthily Bestowed [Archibald Rutledge] - 1.9
  • Is Free Verse Really Dead?, by Bernice Kenyon - 1.2
  • John Charles McNeill; John Charles McNeill: A Sketch - 1.4
  • Lecture on Sidney Lanier - 1.10
  • March - 1.9
  • March Meeting - 1.9
  • Members N. C. Poetry Society - 1.5
  • Men in Gray - 1.12
  • Milton, by Father Placid - 1.9
  • Mr. Dixon's Lecture - 1.7
  • Mrs. Brockman - 1.10
  • Musser to Lecture November 27th - 1.5
  • National Poetry Week - 1.11
  • The New President [of Society] - 1.10
  • New Prizes Offered - 1.12
  • November, by Stewart Atkins - 1.4
  • The November Meeting - 1.5
  • North Carolina Poetry Society Constitution and By -Laws - 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
  • Our Aim - 1.1
  • Posies - 1.4
  • Poetry -- And Poets, by Dom Placid - 1.1
  • Poetry Racketeers - 1.2
  • Prize Winners - 1.10
  • Progress - 1.10
  • September, by Stewart Atkins - 1.3
  • Shakespeare, by Father Placid - 1.8
  • Should Get Together - 1.3
  • Sketches of Immortals - 1.8
  • Sketches of Tar Heel Poets - 1.11
  • Society Sponsors Two Events - 1.4
  • Society's February Meeting - 1.8
  • Some Markets - 1.9
  • A Source of Inspiration [Valentine's Day] - 1.8
  • Sylvestre Dorian [death] - 1.11
  • Sylvestre Dorian Heard - 1.3
  • Thomas Dixon Coming - 1.5 - 1.6
  • A Visit With Ben Musser, by Father Placid - 1.3
  • Where Are the Brickbats? 1.2
  • Why Is Poetry?, by Benjamin Musser - 1.7
  • With Mrs. Heinzerling - 1.11
  • Wordsworth, by Father Placid - 1.10

Poems [by author]

  • A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z

A
  • Alderman, Frank L.
    • Exposing A Dream - 1.6
    • Life Is A Market - 1.9
    • The Moon Tonight - 1.7
    • One Hungry For Beauty - 1.5
    • Sunset Road - 1.5, 1.8 [on cover]
    • Wild Geese - 1.12
  • Allen Hattie Bell
    • Mother Heart - 1.12
  • Ariail, Warren
    • Fortune - 1.9
  • Arthur, Jessie
    • Retrospection - 1.11
  • Atkins, Stewart
    • Belated Heartbreak - 1.8
    • Bum - 1.3
    • Cotton Mill Funeral - 1.5
    • Gambler's Wife - 1.6
    • Parade's End - 1.2
    • Parting - 1.1
    • Recompense - 1.7
    • Reflection - 1.9
    • Remembered Moment - 1.11
    • Robert E. Lee - 1.1
    • To A Jazz Pianist, Dead - 1.12
    • To John Charles McNeill - 1.4
  • Avery, Claribel Weeks
    • Home Fires - 1.11

B
  • Bair, Tom
    • A Poor Man - 1.12
  • Bass, Althea
    • Beethoven - -Symphony In C Minor - 1.10
  • Beaudry, Goldie
    • Barren Lands - 1.10
  • Benson, Carrie Fall
    • In An Old Trunk - 1.8
  • Berry, Catherine E.
    • There Will Be Nights - 1.9; To One Who Understands - 1.8
  • Berry, J. Howard
    • Arma Virumque - 1.1
  • Brockman, Zoe Kincaid
    • After Love - 1.2
    • Christmas Eve - 1.6
    • Cinquains: In Winter - 1.3
    • Concerning Evergreens - 1.5
    • Half Gods - 1.3
    • Harlequin - 1.9
    • January Jasmine - 1.7
    • Lilacs - 1.2
    • Mending Street - 1.4
    • Night Voices - 1.3
    • Orchids - 1.1
    • Parade - 1.11
    • Scissors And Paste - 1.3
    • To You - 1.8
  • Bromberger, Anne
    • Madness - 1.10
  • Bunting, Norma Jean
    • Italgio - 1.12
    • Love Leaves A Manuscript - 1.10
  • Burt, Katharine Newlin
    • The Sudden Thrush - 1.7
    • To My Mother - 1.5
    • Unafraid - 1.1
    • The Wind Walked - 1.2
  • Burt, Struthers
    • Assignation - 1.1

C
  • Carr, Mary Beale
    • At Timber -Line - 1.11
  • Cooke, Roland
    • Country Home - 1.11
  • Copeland, Margaret Scott
    • Should Silence Ever Be Complete - 1.11
  • Corpening, Sara Serles
    • To One Gone - 1.11
  • Cranford, Willodine
    • Sappho - 1.7
  • Cullen, Countee
    • Sonnet - 1.5

D
  • Dargan, Olive
    • Coward - 1.1
  • Deshaies, Emelda
    • Daybreak - 1.12
  • Diamond, Raymond
    • Sky Song - 1.12
  • Dorian, Sylvestre
    • After - 1.11 [on cover]
    • Concession - 1.5
    • Last Rose - 1.6
    • The Rose Jar - 1.4
    • The Two Tragedies - 1.6
  • Doughty, LeGarde S.
    • Of The Chaste - 1.9
    • Words By A Monastery Wall - 1.11
  • Douglass, John Jordan
    • Edgar Allan Poe - 1.12
  • Draper, Jessamine Kimball
    • To Lady Alice - 1.9

E
  • Ellis, Gray
    • Ambition - 1.12
    • Pardon Me - 1.8
    • Recompense - 1.6
    • To A Cynic - 1.9
    • To A Rival - 1.4
    • To An Old-Fashion Girl - 1.11
    • To Ellen - 1.5
    • White Roses - 1.7

F
  • Fair, Victor N.
    • The Last Parade - 1.12 [on cover]
  • Ferguson, Mary L.
    • Days - 1.10
  • Freeman, M.
    • This Moon - 1.8
  • Foster, Charles T.
    • Thus Spake - - - 1.10
  • Fuller, Susan Clayton
    • Because Of Beauty - 1.2
    • Changed Laughter - 1.6
    • Cinquains: Take Care - 1.6
    • An Idler In The Sun - 1.7
    • Illusion - 1.5
    • Old Trees Remembering - 1.1
    • On The Threshold - 1.9
    • Portrait Of A Woman Sweeping - 1.4
    • Reawakening - 1.6
    • Siren Sea - 1.8
    • Taps Magnificent - 1.3
    • Wisteria - 1.1

G
  • Gardner, Winfred W.
    • The Dog Brigade - 1.12
  • Gessler, Clifford
    • Bulge The Hours - 1.10
  • Ginsburg, Louis
    • Moonlit Backyard - 1.12
  • Graves, Grace M.
    • Progress - 1.12
    • The Trail Of The Storm - 1.8

H
  • Hanman, Bert L.
    • To Barbara - 1.8
  • Harris, Eva Berry
    • Afterward - 1.7
    • Finality - 1.2 Full Moon - 1.8 A Sonnet - 1.3
  • Hedges, Ada Hastings
    • Mission Garden - 1.10
  • Heinzerling, Sarah A.
    • Dreams - 1.8 "Mad Moon" - 1.1
    • To My Country - 1.7 Villanelle - 1.6
  • Hewitt, Andrew
    • Ballad of Little Tired Words - 1.1
    • Blue -Gold Day - 1.2 Bright Season - 1.10 Late Portrait - 1.9 Rain Comes At Midnight - 1.3 Sailor's Will - 1.2 Stripped Field - 1.11 When Two Orioles Invaded My Garden - 1.3
  • Hopkins, Ruth
    • Oh, May Your Sleep - 1.10
  • Howell, Louise H.
    • Broken Altars - 1.12
    • Surrender - 1.5 To Lafcadio Hearn - 1.2
  • Huffman, Mina B.
    • Inequitable - 1.7
  • Hughes, Aline
    • Sailor's Wife - 1.8
    • Skyscraper - 1.6
  • Hutchines, W. L.
    • A Prayer To Spring - 1.12

I

J
  • Jordan, T.
    • Beloved, If You Only Had The Power - 1.11

K
  • Keiser, Albert
    • Do Even If You Die - 1.8
  • Keith, Joseph Joel
    • Miss Thompson: Teacher of Romantic Languages - 1.12
  • Kemp, Lelia Rush
    • A Daguerreotype Of My Mother - 1.11
    • My Shadow - 1.2
  • Kemp, Roy Zell
    • Fear - 1.12
  • Kruger, Fania
    • Jewish Grandmother - 1.10

L
  • Law, Bessie Trull
    • Happiness - 1.6
    • Librarian - 1.12
    • Life - 1.1
    • Light Of Loveliness - 1.3
    • Miracle - 1.2
    • My Golden Book - 1.8
    • Service After -Glow - 1.5
    • To A Hungry Heart - 1.8
  • Ledbetter, Margaret
    • Prayer - 1.11
  • Lilly, Elizabeth
    • The Magic Key - 1.9
    • Sealed Rapture - 1.6
    • Seeking Release - 1.7
  • Linham, Helen Loomis
    • Six Years Old In Heaven - 1.10
  • Little, Pearl S.
    • Broom Fields - 1.6
    • Curtain Call - 1.9
    • Madonna Of The Lamps - 1.2
  • Long, Grady McCarty
    • Ashes of Desire - 1.12
    • Promise - 1.4
    • Reminder - 1.7
    • Your Voice - 1.8

M
  • Marx, Olga
    • The Gesture of Love - 1.11
    • In Pace - 1.12
  • McCain, John Walker Jr.
    • Washington - 1.9
  • McDill, Thomas H.
    • December Fog - 1.1
    • Dusk - 1.2
    • Evening - 1.8
    • Retrospection - 1.5
  • McMeeking, Isabel McLennan
    • Judge Simeon Prendergast - 1.12
  • McNeill, John Charles
    • October - 1.4
  • Medford, William
    • Change - 1.11
  • Melton, Wightman F.
    • I Wonder - 1.9 [on cover]
    • Remembering - 1.5
  • Metcalfe, James Juan
    • Song Of Returning - 1.2
    • Time Is A Digger Of Graves - 1.1
  • Michael, Clara Alda
    • Tribute - 1.7
  • Milling, Chapman J.
    • To A Luna Moth Found Dying - 1.10
  • Mireck, Edith
    • Talisman - 1.11
  • Murrell, E. Ernest
    • San Fernando's Garden - 1.10
  • Musser, Benjamin
    • Purple Clover - 1.4
  • Myers, Claire Reid
    • Silence - 1.11
    • Valentines - 1.8

N
  • Nobbs, O. B.
    • Monkey Hill - 1.10
  • Northe, James Neill
    • Beauty Of Pain - 1.7
    • Portrait of an Honest Woman - 1.11

O
  • Oldham, Edward A.
    • The Tryst - 1.11
  • Owen, Audrey Lee
    • Divorce - 1.8
    • Goodbye - 1.11
    • Neighbor - 1.9

P
  • Parmley, Dorothy
    • Wanton - 1.12
  • Payne, Anne Blackwell
    • A Gorgeous Game - 1.3
    • Words For April - 1.9
  • Pearson, James Larkin
    • Blood - 1.9
    • Helen - 1.5
    • I Will Be A Hermit - 1.7
    • If I Loved You - 1.8
    • Let Me Put You In A Song - 1.6
    • Quietude - 1.3
    • Source of Song - 1.12
    • Theocritus - 1.4
    • Wild Garden - 1.11
  • Picton, Nina
    • Consecration - 1.12
  • Placid, Dom aka Father Placid O. S. B.
    • Arcturus - 1.1
    • Drama In Miniature - 1.5
    • Duke University - 1.4
    • Golden Pavilion Of Jehol - 1.2
    • A New Day Comes To The Cloister Garth - 1.1
    • Poeta Exultans - 1.3
    • Respite - 1.6
    • Robins Going North - 1.9
    • Thought In My Soul - 1.6
    • Twelve O'clock Cat - 1.7
  • Pluth, Josephine C.
    • Interpretation - 1.10
  • Price, Merle
    • Feast After Absence - 1.10
    • I Shall Go Striving - 1.11

Q

R
  • Regnat, William [Father, O. S. B.]
    • Fall - 1.3
    • Nature's Crown Jewel - 1.11
    • October Reveries - 1.4
    • The Price - 1.6
    • Retort Courteous - 1.2
    • The Violet - 1.8
  • Reid, Nancy
    • Beauty On A Hill - 1.8
    • The Little Years - 1.5
    • Winter Night - 1.12
  • Reynolds, Cosa Elizabeth
    • On Passing A Town By Moonlight - 1.10
  • Rice, Inez
    • Spring - 1.11
  • Roach, Abby Meguire
    • A Slave at Angkor - 1.11
  • Roper, Florence Wilson
    • To A Faint Heart - 1.11
  • Rutledge, Archibald
    • Baby Jean - 1.4
    • Brothers Of Great Defeat - 1.3

S
  • Salls, Helen Harriet
    • Chalices - 1.6
    • Miss Tremaine of Towertown - 1.12
    • Sonnet - 1.7
  • Sedgwick, Jessie Rankin
    • Wood Of The Cross - 1.2
  • Smalley, Walter B.
    • Ashes - 1.3
    • Awakening - 1.12
    • Biologic - 1.5
    • They Can Go On Saying... - 1.2
    • Veritas - 1.1
    • We Faced The Dawn - 1.1
  • Smedes, Henrietta R.
    • Vogel Als Prophet - 1.8
  • Smith, Conrad Frederick
    • Cinderella - 1.6
  • Spiker, Virginia
    • "I Think That I Shall Never Understand" - 1.11
  • Squires, Ruamie
    • Like New: Fallen Snow - 1.10
  • Stearnes, Florence Dickinson
    • Possession - 1.10
  • Steffan, ____ [Mrs. George H.}
    • The Night After Christmas - 1.10
  • Steffan, Marguerite
    • Feet and Wings - 1.12
  • Stewart, Winifred Gray
    • Desire - 1.12
  • Stoddard, Hope
    • Broken Friendship - 1.10
  • Stone, Leo
    • The Cynic In The Graveyard - 1.7
    • Truth - 1.12

T
  • Talley, Edna Wilcox
    • Fates - 1.8
    • Funeral Pyre - 1.2
    • Heart's Desire - 1.3
    • Saga Of The River - 1.7
    • Three Pictures - 1.5
    • Trees Transformed - 1.1
  • Thomas, Richard A. Jr.
    • Life Stumbles - 1.11
    • Obit - 1.10
  • Thomas, Theresa Meroney
    • Two Heads - 1.11
  • Ticknor, Mary D.
    • Necromancy - 1.8
    • Queen of the Months - 1.12

U

V

W
  • Walser, Richard D.
    • Triste Printemps - 1.12
  • Ward, Mard [sic] B.
    • Some Go Alone - 1.10
  • Ward, Mary B.
    • A Poet Passes - 1.12
  • Ward, William Allen
    • Butte - 1.9
    • History - 1.11
  • Wedemeyer, Mary
    • La Dame - 1.5
  • Weller, Nan M.
    • Day's End - 1.3
    • Fragment - 1.3
  • Welshimer, Helen
    • The Roads That Hunt For Heaven - 1.10
  • Wenner, Harriett Ann
    • Echo - 1.10
  • Whitehead, Daisy Crump
    • In Careless Calm - 1.8
    • Of One Who Went Too Soon - 1.7
    • A Prayer - 1.11
  • Whitsett, William Thornton
    • At Yuletide - 1.6
  • Wilde, Irene
    • Survival - 1.8
    • Sustenance - 1.11
    • Testimony - 1.10
  • Williams, Harriet
    • The Treasure - 1.11
  • Wood, Ethel D.
    • Consecration - 1.6
    • Reunion - 1.2
    • To Whistler's Mother - 1.1
  • Wood, James Playsted
    • 1934 - 1.12
  • Wray, Augusta
    • Cinquains: Winter Delusion - 1.9
    • The Cycle - 1.9
    • Pyrotechnics - 1.9
    • Full Moon - 1.6
    • Futility - 1.2
    • An Irish Ballad - 1.4
    • The Late -Born - 1.5
    • Monuments - 1.1
    • A Painting of Autumn - 1.1
    • Rain - 1.7
    • Wanderlust - 1.3

X

Y
  • Young, Eva M.
    • Alpha And Omega - 1.5
    • Boxwoods - 1.1
    • Life's Cavalcade - 1.7
    • Wedding Gift - 1.11
    • Worthwhile - 1.2

Z
  • Zeigler, John
    • I Shall Remember - 1.7
    • On Hearing The "Liebestod" Of "Tristan And Isolde" - 1.4
    • Say But The Word - 1.10
    • Smith - 1.3; Sonnet - 1.2
    • Then - 1.8
    • To Lachesis - 1.5
    • When We First Knew Silence - 1.9

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