• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reconstructing Albery Allson Whitman
• NARRATIVE POEMS
• from Leelah Misled (1873)
• from Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877)
• from The Rape of Florida (1884)
• from An Idyl of the South (1901)
• MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
• Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1877)
• Peace
• Hymn to the Nation
• The Lute of Afric’s Tribe
• To the Student
• Custer’s Last Ride
• Sonnet.—The Montenegrin
• Solon Stiles. Humorous
• The Thunder Storm
• To Baby’s Canary, Accidentally Killed
• The Deserted Road
• Old Abe, The War Eagle of Wisconsin
• Prosperity and Adversity
• A Dream of Glory
• Morton
• Ye Bards of England
• The Great Strike
• The Tramp’s Soliloquy
• A Hint
• Woods and Rocks—A Reverie (1886)
• Drifted Leaves (1890)
• My Mountain Home
• The Eagle
• The Desolate Man
• The Cow Bell
• A Laugh
• The Veteran
• A Night Among the Mountains of the Winding Tennessee
• Stonewall Jackson
• What Is It?
• Genius
• A Question
• Where the Yellow Sumacs Grow
• Grant
• Lines on Watching the Stars
• The Kansas Traveler
• The Fortunes of War
• A Floater
• Uncle Saul’s Resolve
• Tobe’s Poem
• Autumn
• After Sunset
• An Autumn Scene
• Bells of Time
• Poem to Bishop H. M. Turner (1892)
• The World’s Fair Poem (1893)
• A Contrast (1898)
• PREFACES, LETTERS, AND A SERMON
• Preface to Leelah Misled (1873)
• Preface to Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877)
• Preface to The Rape of Florida (1884)
• Preface to Twasinta’s Seminoles (1885)
• Preface to An Idyl of the South (1901)
• Letter to Rutherford B. Hayes, November 12th, 1877
• Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, January 27th, 1878
• Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, March 6th, 1878
• Letter to Frederick Douglass, March 28th, 1889
• An Educational Sermon on the Needs of the Negro (1895)
• Notes
• Bibliography