Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In This Our World and Uncollected Poems
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: Syracuse University Press
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Title Page, Copyright Page
Contents
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pp. vii-xiii
Acknowledgments
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pp. xv-
WE WISH TO EXPRESS our sincere thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their kind assistance during the production of this volume. The staff at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, and particularly...
A Note on the Text
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THIS VOLUME reprints 261 of Gilman’s poems, including 149 verses that appeared in the third American (or final) edition of In This Our World, as well as 112 vagrant verses that were produced throughout Gilman’s career. Our purpose has been to make available...
Introduction
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pp. xix-xxvi
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935), the most prominent intellectual in the American woman’s movement early in the twentieth century, began her writing career as a poet. Her first collection of verse, entitled In This Our World, was issued in three different editions between...
The World
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pp. 1-71
Birth
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pp. 3-
Nature’s Answer
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pp. 4-5
The Commonplace
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pp. 5-6
Homes—A Sestina
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pp. 6-7
A Common Inference
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The Rock and the Sea
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pp. 8-9
The Lion Path
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Reinforcements
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pp. 10-
Heroism
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pp. 10-12
Fire with Fire
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pp. 12-
The Shield
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To the Preacher
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pp. 13-14
A Type
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pp. 14-
Compromise
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pp. 14-15
Part of the Battle
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pp. 15-
Step Faster, Please
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pp. 15-16
A New Year’s Reminder
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pp. 16-
Out of Place
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pp. 16-17
Little Cell
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The Child Speaks
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To a Good Many
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pp. 18-19
How Would You?
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pp. 19-21
A Man Must Live
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pp. 21-
In Duty Bound
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pp. 21-22
Desire
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pp. 22-
Why Not?
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pp. 22-23
Out of the Gate
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pp. 23-24
The Modern Skeleton
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pp. 24-25
The Lesson of Death—to S.T.D.
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pp. 25-26
For Us
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pp. 27-
Thanksgiving
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Christmas Hymn
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pp. 27-28
Christmas
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pp. 28-29
The Living God
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pp. 29-30
A Prayer
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pp. 30-31
Give Way!
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pp. 31-
Thanksgiving Hymn—for California
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pp. 31-32
Christmas Carol—for Los Angeles
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pp. 32-33
New Duty
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pp. 33-
Seeking
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Finding
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Too Much
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The Cup
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What Then?
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Our Loneliness
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The Keeper of the Light
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Immortality
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Waste
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Wings
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The Heart of the Water
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pp. 40-
The Ship
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pp. 40-
Among the Gods
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pp. 41-42
Songs
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Heaven
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Ballad of the Summer Sun
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pp. 43-
Pioneers
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Exiles
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A Nevada Desert
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Tree Feelings
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Monotony—from California
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The Beds of Fleur-de-Lys
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It is Good to be Alive
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The Changeless Year—Southern California
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Where Memory Sleeps—Rondeau
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pp. 47-48
California Car Windows
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Limits
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Powell Street
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pp. 48-50
From Russian Hill
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“An Unusual Rain”
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The Hills
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City’s Beauty
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Two Skies—from England
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Winds and Leaves—from England
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pp. 53-54
On the Pawtuxet
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A Moonrise
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Their Grass!—A Protest from California
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The Prophets
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Similar Cases
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pp. 56-58
A Conservative
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pp. 58-59
An Obstacle
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The Fox who had Lost his Tail
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pp. 61-
The Sweet Uses of Adversity
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pp. 61-62
Connoisseurs
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pp. 62-63
Technique
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pp. 63-
The Pastellette
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pp. 63-64
The Pig and the Pearl
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pp. 64-65
Poor Human Nature
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pp. 65-
Our San Francisco Climate
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pp. 65-66
Criticism
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pp. 66-
Another Creed
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pp. 66-67
The Little Lion
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pp. 67-
A Misfit
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pp. 67-68
On New Year’s Day
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pp. 68-
Our East
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pp. 69-
Unmentionable
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pp. 69-70
An Invitation from California
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pp. 70-71
Resolve
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pp. 71-
Woman
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pp. 73-102
She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping
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pp. 75-
To Man
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pp. 75-76
Women of To-day
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pp. 76-77
To the Young Wife
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pp. 77-78
False Play
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pp. 78-
Motherhood
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pp. 78-80
Six Hours a Day
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pp. 80-81
An Old Proverb
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pp. 81-82
Reassurance
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pp. 82-
Mother to Child
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pp. 82-84
Services
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In Mother-Time
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pp. 85-86
She Who is to Come
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Girls of To-day
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pp. 86-87
“We, as Women”
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pp. 87-88
If Mother Knew
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pp. 88-89
The Anti-Suffragists
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pp. 89-90
Women Do Not Want It
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pp. 91-
Wedded Bliss
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The Holy Stove
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The Mother’s Charge
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A Brood Mare
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pp. 94-96
Feminine Vanity
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The Modest Maid
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pp. 97-98
Unsexed
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Females
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A Mother’s Soliloquy
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pp. 100-101
They Wandered Forth
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pp. 101-
Baby Love
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pp. 101-102
The March
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pp. 103-128
The Wolf at the Door
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pp. 105-106
The Lost Game
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pp. 106-107
The Looker-On
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pp. 107-109
The Old-Time Wail
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pp. 109-110
Free Land is Not Enough
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pp. 110-111
Who is to Blame?
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pp. 111-112
If a Man May Not Eat Neither Can He Work
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pp. 112-113
His Own Labor
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pp. 113-114
As Flew the Cross
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pp. 114-
To Labor
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pp. 114-115
Hardly a Pleasure
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pp. 115-117
Nationalism
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pp. 117-
The King is Dead! Long Live the King!
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pp. 117-118
“How Many Poor!”
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pp. 118-119
The Dead Level
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pp. 119-120
The Cart Before the Horse
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The Amoeboid Cell
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pp. 120-122
The Survival of the Fittest
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pp. 122-123
Division of Property
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Christian Virtues
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pp. 123-125
What’s That?
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pp. 125-126
An Economist
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pp. 126-127
Charity
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pp. 127-128
Uncollected and Other Poems
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pp. 129-195
To D[andelion]—— G[reens]——
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pp. 131-
Young Allan Black
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pp. 131-132
Sketches
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pp. 132-133
Ode to a Fool
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pp. 133-134
Ballade of the Young Editor
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pp. 134-135
Why Nature Laughs
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pp. 135-136
The Amiable Elephant
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pp. 136-
Mr. Rockefeller’s Prayer
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pp. 137-138
“The Poor Ye Have Always With You"
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pp. 138-
To Mothers
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pp. 138-140
Ballade of ye Gentil Mayde
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Vain Fears
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pp. 141-142
A Hope
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News
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pp. 143-144
The Duty Farthest
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Tassels
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A New Creation
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pp. 145-146
Christmas Time
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pp. 146-147
Ideas. (After Emerson)
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pp. 147-
The Teacher
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pp. 147-148
The San Francisco Hen
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pp. 148-149
In Re “Andromaniacs”
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pp. 149-
My Cyclamen
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pp. 149-150
Work and Wages
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pp. 150-151
Ruined
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pp. 151-152
Morning
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Women to Men. Relatives and Otherwise
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pp. 152-153
For the New Year
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pp. 154-
Our System
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pp. 154-155
To American Men
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pp. 155-156
Our Wealth
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pp. 156-157
Our Tomorrow
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pp. 157-158
America
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pp. 158-
The Rats of Ruskin
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pp. 158-
Eternal Me
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pp. 159-
Too Wise
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Self-Conceit
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pp. 159-
Two Callings
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pp. 160-162
In Honor / Chant Royale
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pp. 162-163
A Glimpse of New Orleans / Triolet
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pp. 163-
For This New Year
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The Clam and the Lark
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pp. 164-165
Coming
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The “Old” Woman
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pp. 165-167
A Valentine to the Bluestocking
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pp. 167-
Her Answer
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pp. 167-168
My Lady’s Hat / A Pantun
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pp. 168-169
The Purpose
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pp. 170-
Missing the Way
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pp. 170-
Human Living
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pp. 171-
What Counts
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pp. 171-
Step by Step
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pp. 172-
“O ’Tis Love, ’Tis Love, ’Tis Love That Makes the World Go Round”
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pp. 172-173
Faith and Fact
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pp. 173-
Where We Leave Off
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pp. 173-174
Pushing into the Days
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pp. 174-
For Each Day
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pp. 174-
Strange Lands
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pp. 174-175
Climb a Tree
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Human Pain
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Heirlooms
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pp. 176-
Labor is Prayer
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pp. 176-177
Freedom
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pp. 177-
The Little White Animals
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There is No Payment
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To the Wise—A Bargain
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pp. 179-180
Song for Equal Suffrage
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pp. 180-181
Water-lilies
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13 Epigraphs to What Diantha Did
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pp. 181-184
13 Epigraphs to The Crux
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pp. 185-187
[“‘Ah, who am I that God should bow]
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pp. 187-
We Stand as One
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pp. 187-188
Womanhood
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Wouldn’t You Think?
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pp. 188-189
Woman’s Hour
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Two
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pp. 189-190
The Primal Power
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pp. 190-
[I’m not feathers, beak, and wings]
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pp. 190-191
Two Hundred Words
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A Hundred Years Hence
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pp. 191-192
[O rock and ice! I offered you my hand]
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pp. 192-
[For this new year unknown whose steady wing]
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[I wait the coming year too sad for fear]
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pp. 192-193
For 1899
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[So proud of our grandsires are we]
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pp. 193-
Sophia and Amelia
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pp. 194-
The Crusade Hymn
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pp. 194-195
The First Idealist
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pp. 195-
Notes
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pp. 199-208
Works Cited
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pp. 209-210
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9780815651789
E-ISBN-10: 0815651783
Print-ISBN-13: 9780815632955
Print-ISBN-10: 0815632959
Page Count: 176
Publication Year: 2012
