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Hiram Peck McKnight. Prison Poetry
Prison Poetry
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PRELUDE
My Prison Garden
Rhyme and Reason
Freedom
God Bless Them
Forget? No, Never!
Mother
A Prisoner's Thanksgiving
Hope—Eternity
The Prisoner's Mother
How To Be Happy In Prison
In Prison
Erratic Musings of Unfettered Thought
INFLUENCE
Perfect Peace
Be Lenient to the Errant One
Last Night in the Dungeon
HOPE
Would They Know?
Guilt's Queries and Truth's Replies
A Letter From Home
The Reformer
Reflections
The Prisoner Released
Prison Pains
The under Dog
Kindness
There Is No Death
Dreams
The Great "O. P."
Coming in and Going Out
Soul Sculpture
Weight and Immortality of Words
Which Loved Her Best?
The Storms of Life
Love's Victim
A Prisoner's Lamentation
Our Board of Managers
A TRIBUTE TO Assistant Deputy Warden L. H. Wells
One and a Few
Midnight Musings
A Query
Stray Thoughts
Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged
The Convict's Prayer
Wine vs. Water
The Fall of Sodom
The Fall of Sodom—Canto Second
A TRIBUTE TO. THE WOLFE SISTERS
Prisoners
Two Letters
A Prayer For Justice
Birthday Musings
A TRIBUTE TO. THE WOLFE SISTERS
To A Departed Idol
Acrostic To Warden and Mrs. E. G. Coffin
A Prison Vision
ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO. CAPT. J. S. ACHESON
My Mother
A Memorial Ode
Lines To My Cell
A TRIBUTE TO. Dr. G. A. Tharp
An Appreciated Friend
Salome's Revenge
A TRIBUTE TO. CAPT. GEORGE W. HESS
My Lawyer
A Sad Warning
ACROSTIC TO. J. C. LANGENBERGER, Captain of the O. P. Night Watch
She Loves Me Yet
ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO. HARRY SMITH
The Phantom Boat
AN INITIAL ACROSTIC
ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO. DR. H. R. PARKER
Lines To My Wife
Out of the Depths
Ella Ree's Revenge
The Murderer's Dream
ACROSTIC TRIBUTE TO. GOD'S MESSENGERS, CHAPLAIN AND MRS. C. L. WINGET
The Mind is the Standard of the Man
Cell Thoughts
THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL
CONCLUSION
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Hiram Peck McKnight
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Like you, he can not corner all the brains of man!
See, yonder is our Congress, where wits and fools unite,
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