Archive Record
Metadata
Accession # |
A2010.117 |
Title |
Random Rhymes by William Wallace Moore, 1885. |
Date |
1860-1885 CIRCA |
Description |
Random Rhymes, a book of poetry by William Wallace Moore, Moorefield, Ontario, written ca.1860-1880; published by Hunter, Rose & Company, Toronto, 1885. Title page missing; includes preface noting the book has been published "by subscription"; the titles listed below have been taken from the Contents pages, with additional explanation in square brackets: The Author's Lineage 9 Fishing at the Canestoga River 10 "Be Patient" 10 A Father's Advice to His Daughter's Suitor 11 The Toothache 11 Life, like the Snow 12 The Irishman's last Request 13 Sorrow's Tears 14 Ingratitude 14 Detached Thoughts about Money 15 Invitation 16 [Lecture on astronomy, Grammar School, Elora] Love Song 17 A Cry for Bread 18 The Maple 19 Dr. Livingstone's Death 20 Curious Epitaphs 22 Must I Die? 22 A Short Prayer 22 To Miss [Sally] Hamilton of Dublin 23 Short Prayer 23 Song of Thanksgiving 24 No Peace 25 A Request 27 ["To my beloved wife Ann Shaver Moore"] Acrostic 27 [Miss Kitchen] A Scuffle on the Train 28 The Ciphering Dog 30 An Acrostic 31 [The subject is the son of the late Thomas Gostick, Twp. of Pickering] Three Dreams 32 The Perishing Drunkard's Soliloquy 33 Warning 35 The Time I'd like to Die 36 The Girl that's at the Brick 37 Advice 37 To Maggie [Moore, born 25 Dec. 1877], when a Baby 38 Insurrection in the North-West 39 Thomas Scott, the Red River Martyr 41 Our Valentine 42 Written for Miss C.J. Boothe's Autograph Album 43 Only One 43 "I Pray Thee have Me Excused" 43 To Mr. Alfred Schell of Moorefield 44 Parsons 44 Captain Bates and Lady 45 [Captain Bates weighed 478 lbs; his wife, remembered as Miss Anna Swan, also known as the Nova Scotia Giantess from Barnum's Broadway Museum] The Danger of Bad Example 47 Life is Short 48 The Devil 49 Miss Emma Davidson, the Belle of Hustonville 51 Freedom 52 Life in Toronto 52 Jealousy 54 There is a God 56 The Best Theology 57 To Mrs. Ira Edmunds [of Hollin] 57 Fair Thistlehill 58 Farewell to Glen-Allan 58 The Best Education 59 Tempus Fugit 59 The Cherry-Tree 60 [To Miss Sarah Edmonds] A Difference 61 ["Hollin's dark disgrace"] The Flooded River 61 Ministerial Vow 62 The Snow 63 Philosophy 63 Even-Song 64 Heaven 64 An Invalid to His Wife 65 The Quail 66 Verse in response to a request for payment of a bill, 8 Dec. 1875, 67 Our Lot is Cast; All have Cares 68 The Pet Pig [Glenallan, Oct. 1868] 70 "Young Man, Go West" 7 Ode to the Sun 72 Grace 76 Bithiah to Naomi 77 [While at the Collegiate Institute, Brantford] On the Flysheet of "Bigotry Demolished" 77 [Mr. Bailie] Hustonville Requiem 78 A Lone Watch-Meeting 1876-1877 82 Acrostic 85 ["My lovely friend, Miss [Maggie] Munro ..." Hell's Location 86 The Nest of Golden Robins 87 Hymn 88 Love Never Dies 89 [A Scotch Legend] To Brother 90 Pat and Sir Walter 91 An Irish Halloween 92 Office Rent 100 Glen-Allan Laughing 100 Vice Regal Example 101 Thee 101 Peace 102 Selfishness 103 Forlorn 104 [An acrostic: Fat and Golden] A Fact About Poets 104 Moorefield Post-Office Store Placard [J.W. Lowes] 105 "Look to He" 105 A Comedy 106 ["In the happy town of Moorefield ..."] The Sparrow 108 Fear Not 109 [Presented to the teacher, S.S. No.6, Peel Twp.] Fear Not 109 To Naomi Mara 110 The Canestoga River III To Lieutenant Wm. Jamieson 113 Erin 114 The Windowman 115 Verse for poet's father, Glenallan, 1869 116 Death 117 My Mother's Grave 118 Dear Father's Grave 118 William Wallace Moore, Jr. 120 [Died at Glenallan 1 Sept. 1869] A Chat with Dear Little Jennie 121 [Who died 13 Aug. 1873, aged 2 mos. 23 days] In Memoriam 122 [To Mr. and Mrs. George Noble, Elora, on the death of their son Charles R. Noble, 27 June 1870] The Late Henry Shaver, Esq. 123 [Includes 1-page obituary from the Toronto Christian Guardian; he died 28 June 1870] To Mrs. George F. Howell [of Jerseyville] 124 Miss Mary Cameron [Daughter of Doctor Cameron] 125 [Addressed to Mrs. Benjamin Smith, Jerseyville, 23 April 1870] An Afflicted Minister's Prayer 126 [Rev. W.H. Cameron] Cassie Clarke [Daughter of Rev. Elijah Clarke] 127 Rev. Ezra Adams [an acrostic] 128 To Mrs. James Hughes [of Gilford] 129 To Mrs. Captain John Booth [of Moorefield] 130 The Graves of Messrs. James and John Gray 131 [At St. John's, Moorefield, burying ground] Miss Maudsley's Tomb 133 [At St. John's, Moorefield, burying ground] "The Wee Baby" 133 [Dedicated to Mrs. George Rolls, Moorefield] Lines on the Tragical Death of William Findlay 134 [Addressed to his mother, Mrs. Matthew Burns, Palmerston] Lines on the Death of Mrs. Henry Blackwell 136 [Late of Maryborough Twp.] Lines on the Death of Annie Maria Maddigan [Rothsay] 137 Lines written at the Tomb of Miss [Catherine Preston] Jack 138 In Memoriam [Mrs. Robert King, Moorefield] 140 Robert King, Esq. [Moorefield] 141 William Richey, Esq. [Moorefield] 143 Henry Butterworth 144 [Drowned at Hustonville; son of Dr. Butterworth] Lines on the Death of Mrs. David Welch [Moorefield] 146 The Late Mr. David Welch [Moorefield] 148 In Memoriam 149 [Nathan Case, died at Hustonville, 12 April 1879] Lines on the Death [17 Sept. 1879] of Grace A. Bettenson 150 Lines on the Death of Mr. Thomas Morgan [Moorefield] 151 An Elegy on the Death of Mrs. Sergeant Morgan [nee Annie Gray] 152 An Elegy 153 [On the death of George Graham, 26 Sept. 1879] On the Death of Master Richard Jones 154 Lines on the Death of William Graham, Esq. 155 [One of the first settlers of Maryborough Twp] Mrs. William Loughran to Her Little Orphan Grandaughter 156 [Effie Allanna Walls] Lines to Commemorate the Death of Mr. Thomas Alfred Scott 157 [Died Palmerston, 2 Dec. 1882] Thomas T. Driver [Maryborough; died 9 April 1881] 159 Lines on the Death of Miss Mary Ellen Kirby [Moorefield] 159 "Our Own Dear Mary" 161 [Mrs. John Holt, died Moorefield 20 May 1878] Mr. Josiah Ross [Maryborough; drowned in Manitoba] 162 To A Friend Whom I Helped Through A Difficulty 165 In Memoriam 166 ["On the tragic demise of Mr. William Duncan who was crushed to death by the gearing of the flouring mill of Messrs Ogilvie & Co., at Wroxeter ...9 Dec. 1882"] Obituary Lines on the Death of [Annie], Mrs. Burton's Baby 168 To Dr. Middleton 168 An Acrostic [Miss Augusta Venton] 169 Acrostic [Mrs. W.W. Moore] 169 Lines Addressed to William Medill, Esq. 170 [On the death of his infant daughter, 22 Sept. 1877] Pa to Bertie 171 Gospel Harvest 172 Waiting 173 Lines to J. B. Williams [Editor, The Enterprise] 174 To a Nephew 175 Vote for [G.A.] Drew. 176 Hustonville Election Battle 177 In a Letter to Naomi Mara [Moore], July 16th, 1879 180 Conundrum 180 The Hustonville Quack 181 How to Cheat the Printer 183 [Addresed to James McIntosh, Elora] Advertisement 184 ["William Wallace Moore lends money / To buy land and keep you funny ..." Burlesque 186 To H. Duggan, Esq. [Arthur] 187 William Donnelly, the Biddulph Champion 190 Dr. [George T.] Orton and Judge Drew 192 The Belle of the Times 192 Miss [Sarah] Sheehan, Brantford 193 [An acrostic; she became Mrs. Sills] "Thomasonian" 194 Dunkin 197 The Dunkin Act 198 A Reply 201 [On the death of Moorefield's new gristmill] "The Whistler at the Plough" [Alexander Somerville] 203 To Naomi 204 Miss Margaret E. Hamilton 205 [Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hamilton, Maryborough Twp.] Niagara Falls 206 In Memoriam 211 Henry Maudsley, M.D., Moorefield] 212 Elegy [Mrs. James Cummings, Maryborough Twp.] 215 Lines on the Death of G.H.M. Johnston 216 Lines on the Death of Minnie Rumrell [Huston] 219 In Memoriam [Albert Greig Leslie McBeth, Hustonville] 219 Appendix 220 For The Enterprise; dedicated to W.W. Moore Esq., of Moorefield by H. Duggan, Arthur, 23 Feb. 1881 220 Reply to W.W. Moore, Esq. 221-224 by H. Duggan, Arthur, 2 April 1881 |
Creator \ Maker |
Hunter, Rose and Company [Publisher] |
Creator \ Maker |
Moore, William Wallace [Author] |
Item Name |
Book Poem |
Person \ Organization |
Adams, Ezra (Rev.) Arthur Enterprise News Bailie Bates, Captain Bettenson, Grace A. Blackwell, Henry (Mrs.) Booth, John Captain (Mrs.) Boothe, C. J. Miss Burns, Matthew (Mrs.) Burton, Annie Butterworth, (Dr.) Butterworth, Henry Cameron, (Dr.) Cameron, Mary Cameron, W. H. (Rev.) Case, Nathan Christian Guardian Clarke, Cassie Clarke, Elijah (Rev.) Cummings, James (Mrs.) Davidson, Emma (Miss) Donnelly, William Drew, (Judge) Drew, G. A. Driver, Thomas T. Duggan, H. Duncan, William Edmunds, Ira (Mrs.) Edmunds, Sarah (Miss) Elora Grammar School Findlay, William Gostick, Thomas Graham, George Graham, William Gray, Annie (Miss) Gray, James Gray, John Hamilton, John (Mr. and Mrs.) Hamilton, Margaret E. (Miss) Hamilton, Sally (Miss) Holt, John (Mrs.) Holt, Mary Howell, George F. Hughes, James (Mrs.) Jamieson, William Johnston, G. H. M. Jones, Richard King, Robert King, Robert (Mrs.) Kirby, Mary Ellen (Miss) Kitchen, (Miss) Loughran, William (Mrs.) Lowes, J. W. Maddigan, Annie Maria Maudsley, (Miss) Maudsley, Henry (Dr.) McBeth, Albert Greig Leslie McIntosh, James Medill, William Middleton, (Dr.) Moore, Ann Shaver Moore, Maggie Moore, Maomi Mara Moore, W. W. (Mrs.) Moore, William Wallace Moorefield Post Office Morgan, Sergeant (Mrs.) Morgan, Thomas Munro, Miss Maggie Noble, Charles R. Noble, George Ogilvie and Company Orton, George T. (Dr.) Preston, Catherine (Miss) Richey, William Rolls, George (Mrs.) Ross, Josiah Rumrell, Minnie S. S. #6 Peel Township Schell, Alfred Scott, Thomas Scott, Thomas Alfred Shaver, Henry Sheehan, Sarah (Miss) Sills, (Mrs.) Smith, Benjamin (Mrs.) Somerville, Alexander St. John's Anglican Church, Moorefield Swan, Anna Venton, Augusta (Miss) Walls, Effie Allanna Welch, David Welch, David (Mrs.) Williams, J. B. |
Place |
Arthur Brantford Conestogo River Elora Glen Allan Glenallan Hollin Hustonville Maryborough Twp. Moorefield Niagara Falls Northwest Territories Palmerston Peel Twp. Rothsay Toronto Wroxeter |
Subject |
Biography History Poetry |
Year Range from |
1860 |
Year Range to |
1885 |
Accession # |
A2010.117 |
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STACKS |