The little boy blew bubbles, 139

The machine yes the machine, 62

The Man with the Broken Fingers throws a shadow, 130

The moonlight filters on the prairie, 255

The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo, 13

The people know what the land knows, 208

The people will live on, 219

The people, yes, 216

The poet who kept himself in debt, 174

The shadows of the ships, 37

The washerwoman is a member of the Salvation Army, 14

The wishes on this child’s mouth, 69

The woman had done him wrong, 150

The working girls in the morning are going to work—long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and factories, thousands with little brick-shaped lunches wrapped in newspapers under their arms, 10

There is a blue star, Janet, 69

There is a troth between us, 73

There is a wolf in me . . . , 242

“These Valleys Seem Old,” 43

This face you got, 241

Thomas Jefferson had red hair and a violin, 129

“Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn,” 45

“Threes,” 194

“Timesweep,” 222

“To a Poet,” 137

“To the Ghost of John Milton,” 152

To write one book in five years, 148

Tomb of a millionaire, 16

“Trafficker,” 11

“Troth Tryst,” 73

Twenty men stand watching the muckers, 5

Two Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs, and an old soldier, Uncle Joe, 101

“Untitled,” 96

“Wars,” 108

“Washerwoman,” 14

Well, the dying time came, the legal midnight hour, 63

What did Hiamovi the red man, Chief of the Cheyennes, have?, 217

When Abraham Lincoln received a bullet in the head and was taken to the Peterson house across the street, 95

When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin . . . in the dust, in the cool tombs, 251

When the charge of election bribery was brought against an Illinois senator, he replied, “I read the Bible and believe it from cover to cover,” 15

“White Shoulders,” 67

Who shall speak for the people?, 211

Who was Abraham Lincoln’s father?, 89

Why shall I keep the old name?, 62

“Wilderness,” 242

“Window,” 39

“Windy City, The,” 21

“Without the Cane and the Derby,” 150

“Working Girls,” 10

“Workingmen, The,” 5

“You and a Sickle Moon,” 70

You come along—tearing your shirt—yelling about Jesus, 49

You must expect to be in several lost causes before you die, 259

You never come back, 6

You said I would go alone, 137

Your bow swept over a string, and a long low note quivered to the air, 41

Your white shoulders, 67

About the Editors

GEORGE HENDRICK is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Henry Salt: Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters; Remembrances of Concord and the Thoreaus; Toward the Making of Thoreau’s Modern Reputation (with Fritz Oehlschlaeger); Thoreau Amongst Friends and Philistines, and Other Thoreauviana; Ever the Winds of Chance (with Margaret Sandburg); Fables, Foibles, and Foobles; and To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones.