Lyrics of Lowly Life, 1896

• Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
• The Poet and His Song
• Retort
• Accountability
• Frederick Douglass
• Life
• The Lesson
• The Rising of the Storm
• Sunset
• The Old Apple-Tree
• A Prayer
• Passion and Love
• The Seedling
• Promise and Fulfillment
• Song
• An Ante-Bellum Sermon
• Ode to Ethipoia
• The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
• The Master-Player
• The Mystery
• Not They Who Soar
• Whittier
• Two Songs
• A Banjo Song
• Longing
• The Path
• The Lawyers' Way
• Ode for Memorial Day
• Premonition
• Retrospection
• Unexpressed
• Song of Summer
• Spring Song
• To Louise
• The Rivals
• The Lover and the Moon
• Conscience and Remorse
• Ione
• Religion
• Deacon Jones' Grievance
• Alice
• After the Quarrel
• Beyond the Years
• After a Visit
• Curtain
• The Spellin'-Bee
• Keep a-pluggin' Away
• Night of Love
• Columbian Ode
• A Border Ballad
• An Easy-goin' Feller
• A Negro Love Song
• The Dillettante: A Modern Type
• By the Stream
• The Colored Soldiers
• Nature and Art
• After While
• The Ol' Tunes
• Melancholia
• The Wooing
• Merry Autumn
• When De Co'n Pone's Hot
• Ballad
• The Change has Come
• Comparison
• A Corn-Song
• Discovered
• Disappointed
• Invitation to Love
• He had His Dream
• Good-Night
• A Coquette Conquered
• Nora: A Serenade
• October
• A Summer's Night
• Ships that Pass in the Night
• The Delinquent
• Dawn
• A Drowsy Day
• Dirge
• Hymn
• Preparation
• The Deserted Plantation
• The Secret
• The Wind and the Sea
• Riding to Town
• We Wear the Mask
• The Meadow Lark
• One Life
• Changing Time
• Dead
• A Confidence
• Phyllis
• Right's Security
• If
• The Songs
• Signs of the Times
• Why Fades a Dream?
• The Sparrow
• Speakin' o' Christmas
• Lonesome
• Growin' Gray
• To the Memory of Mary Young
• When Malindy Sings
• The Party