Golden Thoughts

Davis, Ok: John W. Williams, 1910. Very good plus.. [14]pp. Narrow octavo. Original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear; discrete ink stamp on rear cover and verso of title page. Internally clean. "Golden Thoughts" by "The Oklahoma Poet." This slim volume contains eight poems, most of them with a prayerful or religious theme. The most striking is a piece entitled "Murdered by Mama" wherein the author sees an angel child who tells a tragic story of having been murdered by her mother: "'My mama loved society;' / The baby sadly cried, / 'And I would but a burden be / So from a drug I died, / And all I might have ever been / Was thus to denied to me...'". The poem closes with the line, "For woman's curse, society." We find no copies in OCLC.