CONTENTS

Advice to a Street-Pavement 13
Advice to a Butter-Cup 14
Advice to a River Steamboat 15
Foundry Workers 16
Advice to a Hornèd Toad 18
Advice to a Forest 19
Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I 21
Advice to a Bluebird 23
To a Friend 24
Advice to a Woman 25
Rattlesnake Mountain Fable II 26
Advice to a Butterfly 28
Advice to a Pool 29
When Fools Dispute 30
Advice to a Grass-Blade 31
East-Side: New York 32
To a Man 33
The Child Meditates 34
Pierrot Objects 36
Columbine Reflects 37
Rattle Snake Mountain Dialogue 38
Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet     41
Smiles 43
The Courtesan Chats 45
The Mountebank Criticizes 47
To Li T’ai Po 49
Insanity 51
Track-Workers 53
Figure 55
Negroes 56
Broadway 58
Fifth Avenue 60
Young Woman 62
Two Women on a Street 64
Advice to Maple Trees 66
Boarding House Episode 67
Vaudeville Moment 70
To Orrick Johns 72
Young Poet 73
Steel Mills: South Chicago 74
South State Street: Chicago 81

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