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Index of Titles and First Lines

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A biography, sirs, should begin—with the breath of a man, 258

A liar goes in fine clothes, 191

A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads, 109

“Abracadabra Boys, The,” 254

“Abraham Lincoln’s Father and Mother,” 89

“Accomplished Facts,” 252

All I can give you is broken-face gargoyles, 243

Among the shadows where two streets cross, 11

An interwoven man and woman talked, 73

“Anna Imroth,” 54

“Aprons of Silence,” 245

“Arms,” 142

“Baby Toes,” 69

Be loose. Be easy. Be ready, 133

Be sad, be cool, be kind, 86

Beat against the wall, O shadows, 91

“Bee Song,” 40

Bees in the late summer sun, 40

“Bilbea,” 75

Bilbea, I was in Babylon on Saturday night, 75

“Billy Sunday,” 49

“Biography,” 258

“Black Prophetess,” 162

“Blacklisted,” 62

“’Boes,” 56

Born of a slave mother and father, she toiled, 162

Both were jailbirds; no speechmakers at all, 149

“Breathing Tokens,” 259

“Broken-Face Gargoyles,” 243

“Buffalo Dusk,” 253

“Bumble Bee Days,” 41

Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect, 146

“Buttons,” 107

By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul, 17

“Cartoon,” 184

Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song joining a litany of running water—sheer waters showing the russet of old stones remembering many rains, 40

“Chicago,” 3

“Chicago Poet,” 241

Chicago seems all fox and swine, 19

“Child of the Romans,” 55

“Chinese Letters or Korean,” 42

Christofo Colombo was a hungry man, 153

“Cleo,” 162

Come to me only with playthings now . . . , 106

Come you, cartoonists, 4

“Cool Tombs,” 251

“Couple, A,” 206

Cross the hands over the breast here—so, 54

“Dan,” 156

Desolate and lone, 38

Doctor Williams having delivered, 144

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes, 159

“Dynamiter,” 8

Early May, after cold rain the sun baffling cold wind, 156

“Eastland, The,” 52

“Elizabeth Umpstead,” 164

Emily Dickinson, 146

“Eugene V. Debs,” 142

Every year Emily Dickinson sent one friend, 252

Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town, 12

“Evidence As to a She Devil,” 141

“Ezra,” 143

Fasten black eyes on me, 70

“Fire-Logs,” 79

“Fish Crier,” 5

Fix it up like an affidavit with a notary’s seal, 263

“Flux,” 38

“Fog,” 37

“Forgotten Wars,” 133