| Page |
| The Birds’ Orchestra | [ 7] |
| My Prayer To Truth | [14] |
| A Scene in Washington, N. C. | [16] |
| Little Naples by the Sea | [17] |
| The Family of My Friend Jones | [17] |
| The King’s Marriage | [19] |
| The Hermit Thrush | [19] |
| My Retreat | [23] |
| The Mocking-Bird | [24] |
| The Jay and I—A Dialogue | [26] |
| Nature’s Heart | [27] |
| A Nigger and a Mule | [28] |
| Virginia’s Natural Bridge | [30] |
| The Might of Matutinal Music | [30] |
| A Perpetual King | [31] |
| The Cotton Gin | [32] |
| The Cotton Mill | [32] |
| My Own Little Girl | [32] |
| My Butterfly | [33] |
| Was That Somebody I? | [34] |
| My Sabbath Sermon | [35] |
| Pilot Mountain | [36] |
| Her Prison Life | [37] |
| Aurelius Augustinus | [38] |
| O, That Income Tax! | [40] |
| In Florida | [41] |
| Two Little Orphans | [42] |
| Trouble and Play | [43] |
| Some Small Surprises | [43] |
| The Rhythm Universal | [44] |
| The Stone Crosses and the Fairies | [45] |
| The Sun Flower | [46] |
| Colonel Diamond and Grand-daughter | [47] |
| The Wild Wood | [48] |
| The Beginning of Things | [49] |
| The End of Things | [49] |
| When the Junco Comes | [50] |
| James Bradley Jackson | [51] |
| A Story of Colonial Times | [53] |
| “Come on wid yer Money fur Me” | [55] |
| Good Out of Evil | [56] |
| Christmas | [57] |
| Mrs. Josephine F. Hamill | [58] |
| A Chick’s Cry | [59] |
| The Kid and the Cop | [59] |
| The Over Favored and The Chanceless Child | [61] |
| The Slanderer | [61] |
| The World’s Greatest Egotist | [62] |
| Little River Royal | [63] |
| Give Me Both | [64] |
| Manifold Beauty and the Man | [64] |
| Chimney Rock | [66] |
| The Elephant Dance | [67] |
| Least Yet Greatest | [67] |
| Old Ship Church | [67] |
| A Little Toast to the Men of the Press | [68] |
| Mother Indeed | [68] |
| Nathan O’Berry | [68] |
| The Bishop’s Garden | [69] |
| My Triolet | [70] |
| Ye Bonny Boys | [71] |
| A Ballade to the Girls | [71] |
| A Mountain Top View | [72] |
| One Aged John Smith and His Youthful Confessions | [73] |
| Ode on Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations | [74] |
| Another Birthday | [77] |
| Oh, Baby Mine | [77] |
| The Snake That’s King | [78] |
| The Heart of France | [79] |
| The Red Maple | [81] |
| A Sonnet to Mrs. O. C. Bullock | [81] |
| The Strikers | [81] |
| November Gloom | [82] |
| James Mitchell Rogers | [83] |
| Erwin Holt | [83] |
| Just an Introduction | [83] |
| Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt | [84] |
| A Little Index of the Coming Day | [85] |
| Winged Tourists | [86] |
| How My Easter Dawned | [86] |
| Helen Keller | [88] |
| The Dancing Tassel | [89] |
| Walter Malone | [91] |
| The Dutiful Flower | [92] |
| My Holiday | [92] |
| The Aeolian Harp | [92] |
| The God-Man and Myself | [93] |
| Death’s Doom | [94] |
| The Dying Year | [96] |