Poet
Benjamin Franklin King
1857–1894
English
- 'Rastus King
- A Casual Observation
- A Frog's Thanksgiving
- A Negro Song of Home
- A Summer's Afternoon
- Appearances
- Asphodel
- Baby Up at Battenberg's
- Ben King's Verse
- Benton Harbor, Mich
- Beulah Land
- But Then
- Cleopatra and the Charmian
- De Blackbird Fetched De Spring
- De Bugle On De Hill
- De Circus Turkey
- De Clouds Am Gwine Ter Pass
- De Eyarfquake
- De Good Ship
- De Ribber Ob Life
- De Spring-house
- De Sun's Comin' Back
- Didn't We, Jim?
- Down in Walhallalah
- Down the Mississippi
- Dreamy Days
- Ec-a-lec-tic Fits
- Elopement
- Evolution
- Gedder in Yo' Grain
- Gettin' Inter Shape
- Gord Only Knows
- Hank Spink
- Her Folks An' Hiz'n
- How Hank Died
- How Often
- I Fed the Fishes
- I'm a Bluejay
- If I Can Be By Her
- If My Wife Taught School
- Jane Jones
- Lef' De Ole Hoss Out
- Like De Ole Mule Bes'
- Like the New Friends Best
- Little 'Rasmus
- Lovey-Loves
- No Harm Done
- Nobody Knows
- Old Bossie Cow
- Old Bossie Cow
- Old St. Joe
- Paper: a Poem
- Paraphrase
- Pinkey
- Presque Isle
- S'posin'
- Say Wen, And Say It
- She Does Not Hear
- Sofie Jakobowski
- Sunrise
- That Cat
- That Valentine
- The Blackbird and the Thrush
- The Cat O'Nine Tales
- The Chautauquan Maid
- The Cow Slips Away
- The Fates
- The Flowers' Ball
- The Girl With the Jersey
- The Hair-Tonic Bottle
- The Mermaid
- The Nile
- The Old Spinning Wheel
- The Owl and the Crow
- The Pessimist
- The Post Driver
- The River St. Joe
- The Tramp
- The Woodticks
- The Yaller Jackets' Nest
- Toboggan
- Under Obligations