Selected Works
- "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
- "An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie"
- "A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign"
- "A Sense of Humor"
- "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
- "The Dandelion"
- "Drying Their Wings"
- "Euclid"
- "Factory Windows are Always Broken"
- "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes"
- "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" — the American Classical Composer Charles Ives would write music to this poem (with a couple of additional text alterations) shortly after its publication
- "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"
- "The Kallyope Yell" — see calliope for references
- "The Leaden-Eyed"
- "Love and Law"
- "The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son"
- "On the Garden Wall"
- "The Prairie Battlements"
- The Golden Book of Springfield
- "Prologue to "Rhymes to be Traded for Bread" "
- "The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race"
- "The Eagle That is Forgotten"
- "The Firemen's Ball"
- "The Rose of Midnight"
- "This Section is a Christmas Tree"
- "To Gloriana"
- "What Semiramis Said"
- "What the Ghost of the Gambler Said"
- "Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket"
- "Written for a Musician"
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