| Farm Legends: | Page |
| The School-master's Guests. | [17] |
| Three Links of a Life. | [26] |
| Rob, the Pauper. | [40] |
| The Three Lovers. | [51] |
| The Song of Home. | [63] |
| Paul's run off with the Show. | [69] |
| The Key to Thomas' Heart. | [73] |
| The Doctor's Story. | [76] |
| The Christmas Baby. | [80] |
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| Decoration-day Poems: |
| Cover Them Over. | [87] |
| The Loves of the Nations. | [92] |
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| College Poems: |
| Rifts in the Cloud. | [103] |
| Brothers and Friends. | [113] |
| Our March through the Past. | [121] |
| That Day we Graduated. | [131] |
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| Poems of Sorrow and Death: |
| The Burning of Chicago. | [137] |
| The Railroad Holocaust. | [145] |
| Ship "City of Boston". | [147] |
| Gone Before. | [149] |
| The Little Sleeper. | [151] |
| 'Tis Snowing. | [153] |
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| Poems of Hope: |
| Some Time. | [157] |
| The Good of the Future. | [160] |
| The Joys that are Left. | [161] |
| When my Ship went Down. | [163] |
| To the Carleton Circle. | [164] |
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| The Sanctum King. | [169] |
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| Stray Stanzas: |
| Lines to James Russell Lowell. | [185] |
| To Monsieur Pasteur. | [185] |
| To a Young Lady. | [186] |
| Death of the Richest Man. | [186] |
| To the Smothered Miners. | [186] |
| The Deathless Song. | [187] |
| On a "Poet"-Critic. | [187] |