Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
"Literary Curiosity" poem
Collection — Folder S2002
Identifier: S2002
Scope and Contents
The poem entitled "Literary Curiosity," is an unfavorable poem written about women by an unknown poet circa 1900s.
Dates:
1900s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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"Literary Curiosity" poem
Lois Fuller papers
Collection — Folder S494
Identifier: S0494
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed, signed letter from Lois Compton Fuller in New Castle, Indiana on December 18, 1934 regarding the donation of her autographed book, "When the World is New," to the Indiana State Library.
Dates:
1933
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Lois Fuller papers
L.S. Bowman papers
Collection — Folder S151
Identifier: S0151
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a mimeographed, hand-corrected copy of a typed document and a typed copy of a poem from Lewis Smith Bowman in Indiana ranging from 1957 to 1959 regarding the results of presidential elections in Indiana from 1860 to 1959.
Dates:
1957-1959
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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L.S. Bowman papers
Marcus A. Wolfe collection
Collection — Folder S2338
Identifier: S2338
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three original items stemming from correspondence of Marcus A. Wolfe in Santa Barbara, CA, in a letter he wrote to Governor Ralph Gates, January 29, 1946.Wolfe requested that the Governor forward a poem he wrote in honor of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, to the Nancy Hanks Memorial Association. Because the Hanks Memorial Association had been disbanded several years earlier, Governor Gates forwarded Wolfe’s letter and poem to the Director of the...
Dates:
1946
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Marcus A. Wolfe collection
Margaret M. Scott collection
Collection
Identifier: L139
Scope and Contents
The papers consist primarily of Margaret M. Scott's correspondence, essays, short stories, and unpublished novels from 1920 to 1930s. The collection also includes papers regarding the work of the Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association, a scrapbook of newspaper stories by and about her, and poetry of her father, John Scott.
Dates:
1873-1955
Marjorie Kahl Lawrence papers
Collection
Identifier: L231
Scope and Contents
This collection includes handwritten and typed poems and poetry volumes, correspondence from students, Christmas cards with poems and woodcut illustrations, scrapbooks, newsletters, writings, scrapbooks, travel journals, and a wax grooved disc from Marjorie Kahl Lawrence in Mulberry, Lawrence, and other places in Indiana and Nebraska, ranging from 1922 to 1989, regarding her literary work and career, education and teaching, family life, and travel in Europe.
Dates:
1922-1989
Martin Riley poem
Collection — Page S1118
Identifier: S1118
Scope and Contents
The poem entitled "Tulip Tree" is written in pencil on a single sheet, thus:
A flower grows within the woods upon a tulip tree Blooming near the end of Spring a joyful sight to see.
Petals of the palest green Crowned by crest of orange flame rarest blossom ever seen Tulip poplar is its name.
A flower grows within the woods upon a tulip tree Blooming near the end of Spring a joyful sight to see.
Petals of the palest green Crowned by crest of orange flame rarest blossom ever seen Tulip poplar is its name.
Dates:
circa 1940-1980
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Martin Riley poem
Mary Alexander Kaufman collection
Collection — Folder S1891
Identifier: S1891
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one poem titled, "Major's Only Son," the tale of an ill-fated and fatal love affair. It is handwritten on four pages and is composed of sixty-seven rhymed couplets or one hundred and thirty-four lines. When asked when the poem was written, Darwin Kelley, Mary Alexander Kaufman's great grandson, answered that it was "probably written and revised over a long period, 1855-1890."
Dates:
1855-1890
Minnie S. Etter papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0436
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed diary entries, photographs and mimeographed and carbon copies of short stories from Minnie S. Etter in Indiana circa 1904; undated, regarding family history and fictional stories.
Dates:
1904, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Minnie S. Etter papers
Mrs. L. D. Temple collection
Collection — Folder S1292
Identifier: S1292
Scope and Contents
Two items are in this collection. The main item is a booklet with poems handwritten in ink. The first page gives the date of 1832. No other dates are found in the pages.
The second item is one page listing the way to count numbers from "Tens" at the top of the page and "Hundred thousand of millions" at the bottom. This is handwritten on one side of the lined paper.
The second item is one page listing the way to count numbers from "Tens" at the top of the page and "Hundred thousand of millions" at the bottom. This is handwritten on one side of the lined paper.
Dates:
1832
