Poems

Numbers rank the poems whose position in the book is known; they are not page numbers.

1. 1Lines to Hon. Thaddeus Stevens 1871
2. 2Truth 1871
3. 3“Let the Light Enter!” 1871
4. 4Death of Zombi 1871
5. 5Lines to Charles Sumner 1871
6. 6The Bride of Death 1871
7. 7Thank God for Little Children 1871
8. 8Bury Me in a Free Land 1871
9. 9Mary at the Feet of Christ 1871
10. 10The Mother’s Blessing 1871
11. 11Vashti 1871
12. 12The Change 1871
13. 13Words for the Hour 1871
14. 14To a Babe Smiling in Her Sleep 1871
15. 15Jesus 1871
16. 16Fifteenth Amendment 1871
17. 17Retribution 1871
18. 18Lines to Miles O’Reiley 1871
19. 19The Little Builders 1871
20. ·An Appeal to the American People 1871
21. ·Death of the Old Sea King 1871
22. ·Light in Darkness 1871
23. ·President Lincoln’s Proclamation of Freedom 1871
24. ·“Sir, We Would See Jesus” 1871
25. ·The Artist 1871
26. ·The Dying Child to Her Blind Father 1871
27. ·The Dying Fugitive 1871
28. ·The Dying Mother 1871
29. ·The Freedom Bell 1871
30. ·The Sin of Achan 1871
31. ·Youth in Heaven 1871