Selected Works: Poems

by Voltairine de Cleyre

41 chapters3h 4mEnglish1914

About this book

Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected poems. (Summary by enko)

Chapters (40)

1The burial of my past self

150

2Night on the graves

104

3The christian's faith

554

4The freethinker's plea

652

5To my mother

128

6Betrayed

938

7Optimism

118

8At the grave in Waldheim

197

9The hurricane

138

10Ut sementem feceris, ita metes

11Bastard born

464

12Hymn

140

13You and I

183

14The toast of despair

241

15In memoriam - To Dyer D. Lum

218

16Out of the darkness

339

17Mary Wollstonecraft

141

18The gods and the people

621

19John P. Altgeld

117

20The cry of the unfit

188

21In memoriam - To Gen. M. M. Trumbull

103

22The wandering jew

188

23The feast of vultures

219

24The suicide's defense

368

25A novel of color

163

26Germinal

27'Light upon Waldheim'

145

28Love's compensation

183

29The road builders

142

30Angiolillo

150

31Ave et Vale

402

32Marsh-bloom

119

33Written-in-red

121

34Nameless

750

35Santa Agueda

107

36And thou too

272

37The dirge of the sea

308

38I am

108

39Love's ghost

196

40Life or death

140

Selected Works: Poems

About this book

Chapters (40)

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