Preface | v |
Contents | vii |
The Song Of Kansas | 1 |
I. |
Introduction | 3 |
Coronado's March through the Plains in the Year 1541 | 5 |
The March | 5 |
II. |
The Advent of Columbia and the Natal Song of Kansas | 15 |
Columbia | 17 |
The Natal Hour | 19 |
III. |
The Struggle in Kansas with Freedom against the Great | |
Hydra--American Slavery | 21 |
Pardee Butler | 25 |
Charles W. Dow | 25 |
William Phillips | 25 |
Thomas W. Barber | 26 |
Andrew H. Reeder | 27 |
The Invasion | 28 |
Lawrence | 28 |
Freeedom's Champion | 32 |
Liberty and John Brown | 32 |
Col. John W. Geary | 41 |
Linn | 42 |
Osawanda | 43 |
John Brown | 75 |
The Civil War | 78 |
IV. |
Kansas in the Reign of Peace | 80 |
Peace | 80 |
The State | 81 |
The Home | 82 |
The Early Pioneer | 85 |
The Prairie Fire | 86 |
The Heroes | 89 |
Commerce | 89 |
The Flag | 89 |
History's Wisdom | 91 |
The Sunflower | 93 |
The Patriot's Love | 93 |
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS |
The Prayer upon the Wall | 97 |
Dawn | 101 |
The Tear | 102 |
Life | 103 |
The Last Roll | 104 |
University of Michigan: Threnody | 107 |
Old Captain Sumpter | 115 |
The Guest at Home | 120 |
The Sawmill of the Gods | 121 |
Looking Backward | 124 |
A Young Lady's Holocaust | 128 |
The Child of Fate | 129 |
A Scotch Song: "Stormy Weather" | 130 |
A German Drinking Song | 131 |
"Eximpt" | 133 |
The Loaned Book | 134 |
Alone | 135 |
The Enchanted Garden | 135 |
Silver Threads | 137 |
What is the World to Me? | 138 |
"The Maples" | 140 |
HISTORIC NOTES | 143 |