| Poems |
| PAGE |
| The Burial of My Past Self |
17 |
| Night on the Graves |
18 |
| The Christian's Faith |
18 |
| The Freethinker's Plea |
22 |
| To My Mother |
26 |
| Betrayed |
27 |
| Optimism |
33 |
| At the Grave in Waldheim |
33 |
| The Hurricane |
34 |
| Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes |
36 |
| Bastard Born |
36 |
| Hymn |
42 |
| You and I |
42 |
| The Toast of Despair |
44 |
| In Memoriam—To Dyer D. Lum |
45 |
| Out of the Darkness |
47 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft |
49 |
| The Gods and the People |
50 |
| John P. Altgeld |
56 |
| The Cry of the Unfit |
56 |
| In Memoriam—To Gen. M. M. Trumbull |
58 |
| The Wandering Jew |
58 |
| The Feast of Vultures |
59 |
| The Suicide's Defense |
62 |
| A Novel of Color |
64 |
| Germinal |
65 |
| "Light Upon Waldheim" |
66 |
| Love's Compensation |
66 |
| The Road Builders |
68 |
| Angiolillo |
69 |
| Ave et Vale |
70 |
| Marsh-Bloom |
74 |
| Written—in—Red |
75 |