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Author Index

Including Biographies, Collections,
and Commentaries


B.·. Wayne T. Adams

B.·. Bill Armstrong

B.·. Troy Bagley

S.·. Helen E.C. Balmer (1847-1943)
A Song Service for the Order of the Eastern Star BookBalmer
A Most Worthy Matron: Helen BalmerLorion

B.·. John Bancks 1924

B.·. David Barker (1816-1874)
The Bard of ExeterLeighton & Lorion
Biography of David BarkerJohn E. Godfrey
Poems by David Barker BookBarker

B.·. John Edmund Barss, (1871-1944)
Latin Master: J. E. Barss

B.·. Mike Bauer

B.·. Ted Berry
Who is Ted Berry?

B.·. G. Berthold

B.·. Matthew Birkhead (d.1722)

B.·. John Stuart Blackie 1884

B.·. C. M. Boutelle 1924

S.·. Josephine B. Bowman 1924

B.·. Andrew Bradley

B.·. Seymour Brandes 1924

S.·. Jessica Braucher

S.·. Jennie Marlene Braun

B.·. Tim Bryce

B.·. Stephen Brockelman

B.·. John P. Brown 1884

B.·. Wallace Bruce (flourished c.1890-1900)

B.·. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
A Dark And Stormy...E. Bulwer, Baron LyttonBC&Y

B.·. Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Poet Laureate of Freemasonry: Robbie Burns
A collection of articles about Burns from The Builder Magazine, January 1928:
The Masonic Activities of Robert Burns ArticleB.·. Albert Frost
The Man, Burns ArticleCambridge Edition

B.·. James Alston Cabell 1924

B.·. John Campbell 1924

B.·. Patrick Carré (1953- )
Les Franc-Maçon: P.CarréCarré

B.·. Anse Cates

B.·. Chris Christianson

B.·. Carl Claudy (1879-1957)
Heart of the MSA: C.H. ClaudyLorion

B.·. Robert I. Clegg 1924

B.·. Tommie Closson

B.·. Joseph Covell 1884

B.·. Cummings 1924

B.·. Jim Ellis

B.·. Hercules Ellis 1884

B.·. Thomas Quitman Ellis (1890-1971)
Tom Q-Riosities: T.Q. EllisGrand Lodge of Mississippi

B.·. Henry Ridgely Evans 1924

B.·. William "Fergy" Ferguson

B.·. W. W. Fernie 1884

B.·. Montgomery M. Folsom 1924

B.·. Charles Frederick Forshaw (1863-1917)
The Amateurs' Poet: Chas. ForshawLorion

B.·. Charles Fotheringham (1895-1978)
Rambling With FotheringhamGrand Lodge of Ontario

B.·. Geoff Fox

B.·. George H. Free (c.1920)
Mystery Mason: G.H. Free

B.·. Benjamin B. French 1884

B.·. Roe Fulkerson (1870-1949)
The Kiwanis BuilderLorion

B.·. John George Gibson 1924(2)

B.·. J. Gierlow 1924

B.·. S. M. Gilpins 1884

B.·. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
The German Shakespeare: GoetheLorion

B.·. Dan Goldstein (1910- )

B.·. Richard A. Gould, Jr.
Masonic Light Through Poetry: R.A. GouldLeighton

B.·. Art Grant

B.·. Herbert R. Grassman 1924

B.·. Lawrence N. Greenleaf (1838-1922)
Colorado Craftsman: L.N. GreenleafLorion
The Pioneer Poet: L.N. GreenleafStone

B.·. Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959)
The Poet of the People: E.A. GuestLorion

B.·. David E. Guyton 1924

B.·. Benjamin L. Hadley

B.·. Conrad Hahn (1906-1977)
Poet of the M.S.A.: Conrad HahnM.S.A.

B.·. Frank Hanna

B.·. Thaddeus Mason Harris 1884

B.·. William Harvey 1924

B.·. William Hay (1794-1854)
The Songbird Of MorayRhind et al.
The Lintie O' Moray BookHay

B.·. H. L. Haywood (1886-1956)
The Dean of Masonic Scholars: H.L. HaywoodDenslow

B.·. Michael Hodge, Jr. 1884

B.·. George Sanford Holmes 1924

B.·. Alan Heath

B.·. Fay Hempstead (1847-1934)
Autobiographical notes by F.H.Hempstead
Arkansas Laureate: Fay HempsteadLorion
Complete Poems by Fay Hempstead Book(.pdf file)Hempstead

B.·. Arthur R. Herrmann

B.·. Oliver Holdin 1884

B.·. Montford C. Holley (?-?)

B.·. Raymond A. Holmes II

B.·. Dale Iness

B.·. Tyge E. Irskens (1930-2006)

B.·. George Jack 1924

B.·. Mark L. Jarvie (1956- )

B.·. J.M. Jenkins (c.1920)

B.·. Richard Jenkins

B.·. Jack M. Kelley

B.·. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

B.·. Brad Koehler (1955- )

B.·. Robert Landry

B.·. David Thomas Lang

S.·. Betty Langenberg

B.·. Kenneth Lawtie

B.·. Franklyn W. Lee (1864-1898)
Nothing Unworthy: Frank LeeTalman

B.·. Gerald S. Leighton
A Letter To Jesse ArticleLeighton
Birth of the Masonic Poets Society ArticleLeighton
Founder of the M.P.S.: Jerry LeightonGrand Lodge of Maine

B.·. Francis E. Lester (1868-1945)
A Rose in the DesertLorion

B.·. Bryan M. Long

B.·. O. E. Looney 1924

B.·. Owen Lorion (1950- )
Betty & Doris, A Poetic Anecdote ArticleLorion
Masonic Poets Laureate, Part I ArticleLorion
Masonic Web Poet: O.K. LorionLorion

B.·. Tom Lyle
I'll Never Forget You ArticleLyle

B.·. Edward Bulwer- Lytton (1803-1873) [Main entry under Bulwer]

B.·. Andrew S. MacBride
The Scottish Lecturer: A.S. MacBrideNewton

B.·. Walter MacDougal

B.·. Charles H. Mackay 1884

B.·. Albert Gallatin Mackey (1807-1881)
The Encyclopedia of FreemasonryPreface
Entered Apprentice's Song ArticleMackey
Poetry, Masonic ArticleMackey
Poetry Of Freemasonry ArticleMackey
Songs Of Freemasonry ArticleMackey
Square, Triangle And Circle ArticleMackey
The Encylopediast: A.G. MackeyH. L. Haywood?

B.·. Matthew Magill (c.1830-c.1875)

B.·. Douglas Malloch (1877-1938)
The Lumberman Poet: Douglas MallochLorion

B.·. Carl W. Mason 1924

B.·. Robert P. May

B.·. Neal A. McAulay (1854-c.1922)

B.·. Russell J. McLauchlin (1894-c.1960)

B.·. Owen Meredith 1884

B.·. L. B. Mitchell (1849-1928)
Michigan Laureate: L.B.M.Haywood

B.·. Thomas Moore 1884

B.·. George P. Morris 1884

B.·. Robert Morris (1818-1888)
The Poet of Freemasonry: Rob Morris
The Poetry Of Masonic Literature ArticleMorris
The Poetry of Freemasonry Booksee below

B.·. Lester Morrow

B.·. Audie Leon Murphy (1924-1971)
Hero and Mason: A.L. MurphyLorion

B.·. G. Naylor

B.·. Neil Neddermeyer

B.·. Wilbur D. Nesbit (1871-1927)
Sermons in Song: Wilbur D. NesbitLorion

B.·. Joseph Fort Newton (1880-1950)
Masonic Poetry ArticleNewton
The Baptist Builder: J.F. NewtonRoberts

B.·. Joe Ohlandt

B.·. F. G. Oliver 1924

B.·. Thomas W. Olzak

The Internet Oracle

B.·. Earl W. Owens

B.·. James G. Percival 1884

B.·. Henry G. Perry 1884

B.·. J.V. Perry

B.·. Arthur Peterson

B.·. Albert Pike (1809-1891)
Southern Poet: Albert PikeLorion

B.·. Robert W. Pinkerton (1925-1994)
The Feast of Life
A Tribute to Brother PinkertonSandi Pinkerton Copeland
Gateway to his complete poemssee below

B.·. Richard Pierce

B.·. Thomas Power (1786-1868)
Masonic Melodies Power
A Melodious Mason: T. Power C.W.Moore

B.·. C. Pylate Price

B.·. Robert Prince

B.·. Frank W. Reed 1924

B.·. James Jackson Hamilton Reedy (1853-1941) 1924

B.·. J. S. Reeves 1884

B.·. James Perkins Richardson 1924

B.·. Ron Richardson

B.·. Robert Southwick Richmond

B.·. William S. Rinehart

B.·. Joseph Robbins (1834-1909)
Illinois Orator: J.RobbinsHaywood

B.·. Hiram N. Rucker 1884

B.·. Michael N. Salmore

B.·. John G. Saxe 1884

B.·. Charles Scott 1884

B.·. J. Hubert Scott 1924

B.·. Frank H. Sellery (1866-1942) 1924

B.·. Joe Servocky (c.1950?)

B.·. John H. Sheppard 1884

B.·. Daniel Sickels 1884

B.·. Jay Cole Simser

B.·. Richard "Red" Skelton (1913-1997)
Masonic Clown: Red SkeltonSawyer

B.·. Odillon B. Slane 1924

B.·. W. Sneling 1884

B.·. George B. Staff (c.1890-c.1930)

B.·. Palmer H. Taylor (1819-1911)
Ionia Poet: P.H. TaylorLorion

B.·. R. H. Taylor 1884

B.·. John W. Teegarden

B.·. David Terrell

B.·. Wayne Thigpen

B.·. William Valles

B.·. A. Paul Van Oene

B.·. David Vinton (1774-1833)
The Masonic Minstrel: David VintonLorion

S.·. Tiffany Ann Wagner

B.·. Thomas Smith Webb (1771-1819)
The American Ritualist: T.S. WebbLorion

B.·. Donald Weisse, Sr. (d.2001)

S.·. Harriet Annie Wilkins (1829-1888)
Poetess of Hamilton: Harriet AnnieLorion, et al.

B.·. William Mercer Wilson (1813-1875)
Grand Canadian: W.M. WilsonLorion

B.·. Walter Wingham 1924

B.·. J. Werge 1884

B.·. Edward West-Zeno III

B.·. Samuel Whiting 1884

Note on David Barker

An entire book of David Barker's poems is online at the University of Michigan Digital Library. Included were an 11 page biography and other materials, edited posthumously by his brother Lewis. The link here is to an edited version, which contains everything except the poems: the biography, topical index (listed as the table of contents), and a true table of contents, compiled by the transcriber and added on to the end. The Masonic poems are on David's MPoets page, which also has a link to the original photocopied version and uncorrected OCR rendering of the text from the UM Library.

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Note on Robert Morris

One of our supporters offered us a share of his labor of love, a complete scanned version of the 1895 edition of Robert Morris' 1884 book, The Poetry of Freemasonry. All 420+some pages. Our many thanks go to

B.·. Ralph Omholt, P.M.
Renaissance Lodge 312
Redmond, Washington
skydrifter@spamprotect@comcast.net

for this work. We have integrated all the poems in this volume with our own site, but a few of them haven't been formatted yet into proper HTML. You can access the text of it as one huge HTML file by clicking Morris' Poetry, but this does not include any of the pictures, and the OCR renderings have not been corrected. Thanks to some cooperation with Hugh Young of "One More Time, Please", a Masonic ezine at http://www.linshaw.ca/omtp/, this book is also available, with pictures, on CD or in PDF format.

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Note on Robert Pinkerton

The Feast of Life was a memorial site set up for a departed Brother and poet, Robert Pinkerton, by his daughter and son-in-law. The entire site has been reconstructed here, although only the Masonic and a few inspirational poems are included in our general index here. All poems on that site are by Brother Pinkerton.

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Themed collections

by multiple authors

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Dues Notices
Haiku
Knife And Fork Degree
4/08Legends Of Strasbourg Cathedral
Prayers
Tetractys
Toasts
Traditional and Anonymous
Youth: Job's & Rainbow

Masonic Song Books and Poetry Collections

Freemason’s Monitor, or, Illustrations of Masonry (1797) all written by Thomas Webb
3/08Masonic Guide (1818) compiled by James Hardie
3/08The True Masonic Chart (1819) compiled by Jeremy Ladd Cross
3/08Masonic Melodies (1844) all written by Thomas Power
3/08The Lintie O' Moray (1851) nearly all written by William Hay
3/08Melodies For The Craft (1852) published by Cornelius Moore
3/08The Masonic Vocal Manual (1859) compiled by Robert Macoy
3/08Odes For Masonic Occasions (1859) compiled by Thomas Webb and Rob Morris
3/08The Mystic Chord (1866) compiled by Chester W. Mabie
3/08The Freemasons Hymnal (1875) compiled by Waldemar Malmene
Poems by David Barker (1876) all written by David Barker
The Poetry of Freemasonry, Sections 1-4 (1884) all written by Rob Morris
The Poetry of Freemasonry, Section 5 (1884) compiled by Rob Morris
3/08The New Masonic Music Manual (1898) compiled by William H. Janes
A Song Service for the Order of the Eastern Star (1904) all written by Helen Balmer
Complete Poems by Fay Hempstead (1922) .pdf file all written by Fay Hempstead
4/08MSA: Masonic Poems (1924) compiled by Carl Claudy
Ramblings In Masonry And Other Poems (1970) all written by Charles Fotheringham
3/08Index of First Lines alphabetized by Owen Lorion

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