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- Prison Poetry, BY H. P. McKNIGHT.
- DEDICATION.
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- 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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