Sketches of Southern Life

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper · 1872

Two printings are on disk and they differ. The 1872 first edition (archive.org scan) contains 9 of the poems assigned here; the 1891 enlarged printing (Gutenberg 69249, whose title page reads 1891) adds 5 more — Fishers of Men, Out in the Cold, Signing the Pledge, The Jewish Grandfather's Story, Wanderer's Return. Those five are in the book but not in the 1872 edition, and their first_published records say 1891 rather than inheriting the volume year.

Numbers rank the poems whose position in the book is known; they are not page numbers.

  1. 1Aunt Chloe 1872
  2. 2The Deliverance 1872
  3. 3Aunt Chloe’s Politics 1872
  4. 4Learning to Read 1872
  5. 5Church Building 1872
  6. 6The Reunion 1872
  7. 7“I Thirst” 1872
  8. 8The Dying Queen 1872
  9. 9Out in the Cold 1891?
  10. 10Wanderer’s Return 1891?
  11. 11“Fishers of Men” 1891?
  12. 12Signing the Pledge 1891?
  13. ·Our English Friends 1872
  14. ·The Jewish Grandfather’s Story 1891?