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Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 447 Collections and/or Records:

Smith Young

 Item — Box 3: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550266], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 1421 Series 3
Dates: 1870-1973
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1421, Zina Presendia Young Williams Card papers / Personal and family papers

"Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch", 1893

 Item — Volume 4: [Barcode: 31197232549516]
Identifier: Vault MSS 805
Scope and Contents

A book of poems and illustrations made for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Edited by Emmeline B. Wells and illustrated by Edna Wells Sloan. Poems are typeset and flowers are hand-painted. Printed by George Q. Cannon and Sons in 1893.

Dates: 1893
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 805, Emmeline B. Wells collection

Songs and poems about shoreline towns in Connecticut, 1994-1995

 File — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197227635783], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 1 Sub-Series 1 File 2
Dates: 1994-1995
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2219, Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow family papers / Helen Foster Snow papers on family history, genealogy, and early life

"Soulful Thoughts of Loving Hearts", 1898

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197232549474], Folder: 3
Identifier: Vault MSS 805
Scope and Contents

Unpublished, handwritten and hand-painted book of poetry given to Emmeline B. Wells in honor of her seventieth birthday. Includes the subtitle: "In Honor of the Seventieth Birthday Anniversary of Emmeline B. Wells, Poet, Journalist, Philanthropist, True Friend of Woman and Saint of God." Compiled by numerous close friends and family. Includes poems, paintings of flowers and dried plants. Addressed to Wells with many autographs of Utah women. Dated 1898.

Dates: 1898
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 805, Emmeline B. Wells collection

Sterling M. Crandall papers, approximately 2000, 1942-1945

 File — Box 22: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15; Series 18; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005163], Folder: 26
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 576
Scope and Contents note Materials contain a memoir written by Sterling M. Crandall regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Describes being drafted into the Army, his training, travels, and combat experience. Relates encountering his brother, an officer in the Army Engineering Group, by surprise near Aachen. Describes sites and destruction during and after Battle of the Bulge. Describes seeing a concentration camp and the conditions of the prisoners as well as medical efforts to help them. ...
Dates: approximately 2000; 1942-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Infantry

May Swenson poetry

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2172
Scope and Contents

Folder one includes several drafts of Swenson's poem, "My Name Was Called," with a cover letter to Dennis Rowley dated November 6, 1989, giving background information. Folder two contains drafts of four poems which appear in her book, Half sun, half sleep: new poems (New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967), bearing her corrections. The four poems are entitled: "Naked in Borneo," "News from the Cabin," "A Yellow Circle," and "Dear Elizabeth."

Dates: 1964-1988
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Swenson poetry

Talkative Lucy, approximately 1930-1963

 Item — Oversize-folder 5: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197239133595]
Identifier: MSS 2344 Series 1 Item 13
Dates: approximately 1930-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2344, Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon collection / Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon papers

The astronomer's vision / by Richter

 Item — Box 23: Series 12 [Barcode: 31197227605679], Folder: 8
Identifier: MSS 229 Series 12
Dates: 1871-1933
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 229, James E. Talmage papers / James E. Talmage ecclesiastical papers

The blackberry girl, approximately 1930-1963

 Item — Oversize-folder 5: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197239133595]
Identifier: MSS 2344 Series 1 Item 16
Dates: approximately 1930-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2344, Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon collection / Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon papers

The Book of Mormon poems / by Mildred T. Hunt, 1975

 File — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232592136], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 8235 Series 1
Dates: 1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8235, Andrew and Charlene Hunt collection on Austin George and Mildred Tobler Hunt / Mildred Tobler Hunt papers

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