About this book
41 brief poems covering an assortment of subjects. - Summary by adr6090
Chapters (41)
1Advice to a Street-Pavement
2Advice to a Butter-Cup
3Advice to a River Steamboat
4Foundry Workers
5Advice to a Hornèd Toad
6Advice to a Forest
7Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I
8Advice to a Bluebird
9To a Friend
10Advice to a Woman
11Rattlesnake Mountain Fable II
12Advice to a Butterfly
13Advice to a Pool
14When Fools Dispute
15Advice to a Grass-Blade
16East-Side: New York
17To a Man
18The Child Meditates
19Pierrot Objects
20Columbine Reflects
21Rattle Snake Mountain Dialogue
22Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet
23Smiles
24The Courtesan Chats
25The Mountebank Criticizes
26To Li T’ai Po
27Insanity
28Track-Workers
29Figure
30Negroes
31Broadway
32Fifth Avenue
33Young Woman
34Two Women on a Street
35Advice to Maple Trees
36Boarding House Episode
37Vaudeville Moment
38To Orrick Johns
39Young Poet
40Steel Mills: South Chicago
41South State Street: Chicago

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