WOULD YE BUT UNDERSTAND.

CONTENTS.

THE WORLDPage
Birth[1]
Nature’s Answer[2]
The Commonplace[4]
Homes—A Sestina[7]
A Common Inference[8]
The Rock and the Sea[9]
The Lion Path[12]
Reinforcements[13]
Heroism[14]
Fire with Fire[16]
The Shield[18]
To the Preacher[19]
A Type[20]
Compromise[21]
Part of the Battle[22]
Step Faster, Please[23]
A New Year’s Reminder[23]
Out of Place[24]
Little Cell[25]
The Child Speaks[26]
To a Good Many[28]
How would You?[29]
A Man must Live[33]
In Duty Bound[33]
Desire[34]
Why Not?[35]
Out of the Gate[36]
The Modern Skeleton[39]
The Lesson of Death—to S. T. D.[40]
For Us[43]
Thanksgiving[44]
Christmas Hymn[44]
Christmas[46]
The Living God[48]
A Prayer[50]
Give Way![50]
Thanksgiving Hymn—for California[51]
Christmas Carol—for Los Angeles[52]
New Duty[54]
Seeking[55]
Finding[56]
Too Much[57]
The Cup[58]
What Then?[59]
Our Loneliness[60]
The Keeper of the Light[61]
Immortality[62]
Waste[63]
Wings[64]
The Heart of the Water[66]
The Ship[67]
Among the Gods[67]
Songs[69]
Heaven[71]
Ballad of the Summer Sun[71]
Pioneers[74]
Exiles[74]
A Nevada Desert[75]
Tree Feelings[76]
Monotony—from California[77]
The Beds of Fleur-de-Lys[78]
It is Good to be Alive[79]
The Changeless Year—Southern California[80]
Where Memory Sleeps—Rondeau[81]
California Car Windows[81]
Limits[82]
Powell Street[82]
From Russian Hill[85]
“An Unusual Rain”[86]
The Hills[88]
City’s Beauty[89]
Two Skies—from England[90]
Winds and Leaves—from England[91]
On the Pawtuxet[92]
A Moonrise[93]
Their Grass!—A Protest from California[93]
The Prophets[95]
Similar Cases[95]
A Conservative[100]
An Obstacle[102]
The Fox who had Lost his Tail[104]
The Sweet Uses of Adversity[105]
Connoisseurs[106]
Technique[107]
The Pastellette[108]
The Pig and the Pearl[109]
Poor Human Nature[111]
Our San Francisco Climate[111]
Criticism[113]
Another Creed[113]
The Little Lion[114]
A Misfit[115]
On New Year’s Day[116]
Our East[117]
Unmentionable[118]
An Invitation from California[120]
Resolve[121]
WOMAN
She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping[125]
To Man[125]
Women of To-Day[128]
To the Young Wife[129]
False Play[131]
Motherhood[132]
Six Hours a Day[136]
An Old Proverb[137]
Reassurance[138]
Mother to Child[140]
Services[142]
In Mother-Time[144]
She who is to Come[146]
Girls of To-Day[147]
“We, as Women”[148]
If Mother Knew[150]
The Anti-Suffragists[152]
Women do not Want It[154]
Wedded Bliss[157]
The Holy Stove[158]
The Mother’s Charge[160]
A Brood Mare[161]
Feminine Vanity[164]
The Modest Maid[166]
Unsexed[168]
Females[169]
A Mother’s Soliloquy[171]
They Wandered Forth[173]
Baby Love[174]
THE MARCH
The Wolf at the Door[177]
The Lost Game[179]
The Looker-on[181]
The Old-Time Wail[184]
Free Land is Not Enough[186]
Who is to Blame?[187]
If a Man may not eat neither can he Work[189]
His Own Labor[190]
As Flew the Cross[193]
To Labor[194]
Hardly a Pleasure[195]
Nationalism[197]
The King is Dead! Long Live the King![199]
“How Many Poor!”[200]
The Dead Level[203]
The Cart before the Horse[204]
The Amœboid Cell[205]
The Survival of the Fittest[208]
Division of Property[209]
Christian Virtues[210]
What’s That?[213]
An Economist[215]
Charity[217]

THE WORLD.

BIRTH.

Lord, I am born!

I have built me a body

Whose ways are all open,

Whose currents run free,

From the life that is thine