| PAGE |
| A Word on California, Photoplays, and Saint Francis | [xiii] |
| FIRST SECTION |
| THE LONGER PIECES, WITH INTERLUDES |
| The Golden Whales of California | [3] |
| Kalamazoo | [11] |
| John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston | [14] |
| Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan | [18] |
| Rameses II | [31] |
| Moses | [32] |
| A Rhyme for All Zionists | [33] |
| A Meditation on the Sun | [38] |
| Dante | [42] |
| The Comet of Prophecy | [43] |
| Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down | [46] |
| The Last Song of Lucifer | [59] |
| SECOND SECTION |
| A RHYMED SCENARIO, SOME POEM GAMES, AND THE LIKE |
| A Doll’s “Arabian Nights” | [71] |
| The Lame Boy and the Fairy | [77] |
| The Blacksmith’s Serenade | [83] |
| The Apple Blossom Snow Blues | [87] |
| The Daniel Jazz | [91] |
| When Peter Jackson Preached in the Old Church | [95] |
| The Conscientious Deacon | [97] |
| Davy Jones’ Door-Bell | [99] |
| The Sea Serpent Chantey | [101] |
| The Little Turtle | [104] |
| THIRD SECTION |
| COBWEBS AND CABLES |
| The Scientific Aspiration | [107] |
| The Visit to Mab | [108] |
| The Song of the Sturdy Snails | [110] |
| Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration | [113] |
| Dancing for a Prize | [114] |
| Cold Sunbeams | [116] |
| For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines | [117] |
| My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree | [120] |
| To Eve, Man’s Dream of Wifehood, as Described by Milton | [121] |
| A Kind of Scorn | [123] |
| Harps in Heaven | [125] |
| The Celestial Circus | [126] |
| The Fire-Laddie, Love | [128] |
| FOURTH SECTION |
| RHYMES CONCERNING THE LATE WORLD WAR, AND THE NEXT WAR |
| In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier | [133] |
| The Tiger on Parade | [136] |
| The Fever Called War | [137] |
| Stanzas in Just the Right Tone for the Spirited Gentleman Who Would Conquer Mexico | [138] |
| The Modest Jazz-Bird | [140] |
| The Statue of Old Andrew Jackson | [144] |
| Sew the Flags Together | [146] |
| Justinian | [149] |
| The Voice of St. Francis of Assisi | [150] |
| In Which Roosevelt Is Compared to Saul | [151] |
| Hail to the Sons of Roosevelt | [153] |
| The Spacious Days of Roosevelt | [155] |
| FIFTH SECTION |
| RHYMES OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS |
| When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana | [159] |
| The Fairy from the Apple-Seed | [161] |
| A Hot Time in the Old Town | [163] |
| The Dream of All of the Springfield Writers | [166] |
| The Springfield of the Far Future | [168] |
| After Reading the Sad Story of the Fall of Babylon | [170] |
| Alexander Campbell | [172] |