Contents

Portrait and Autograph of the Author Frontispiece
Publishers’ Announcement 4
Prefatory 9
POEMS
A Happy Loiterer 27
Angling in the Platte 28
Autumnal Sports 33
At My Little Cabin Home 42
At Littleton—“In the Good Old Summer Time” 58
At Englewood on an Afternoon in May 59
At Manitou 69
At Denver 70
A Felicitous Medical Prescription 75
A Requiem 86
Be Joyous, Be Gentle, Worthy, Kind 52
Beautiful Colorado 57
Colorado Skies 15
Down Among the Grasses 18
Differences of Opinion 82
Felicitous Retroflections 67
Greetings to Gladness 13
In the Wild Wild-Woods To-day 20
I’ll Sing Some Songs for Fame To-night 21
Introverse Retrospection 64
In the Forest 83
King Mammon 45
Live Merrily 14
“Lo Que Es El Mundi” 46
Little Love A-Fishing Went 68
Maid of Denver, Are You Camping? 22
Maid of Denver, Take My Arm 23
My Colorado 56
My Motor-Cycle Girl and I 79
My Summer Girl and Me 84
New Glad Voices 91
Of Paradise, Etc. 73
On Immortality 74
Poet, May I Pail Your Cow? 24
Pot-Hunting Beside the Platte 35
Recuperating in Nature’s Sanitarium 31
Regret 72
Seeking Our Two Little Brown Boys 60
Sundry Sweets 65
Supplementary 89
To Ye Cheerless Hermit 30
The Antelope Hunt 37
To Walter Whitman 44
To Ye Worthy Sailor Man 50
Tears 61
To Our Little Joy-Prince—Cherub Delight 62
To Our Lady of Woe 71
To Those Dark Eyes that Haunt Me Still 77
Wild-Woodland Ramblings 17
Was Man Made to Mourn? 25
PROSE SKETCHES
Farewell!—I Am Still Camping 87
May-Day Beside the Platte 92
My Native Lakes 95
Those Are the Rocky Mountains 98