| Preface | v |
| Contents | vii |
| The Song Of Kansas | 1 |
| I. |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Coronado's March through the Plains in the Year 1541 | 5 |
| The March | 5 |
| II. |
| The Advent of Columbia and the Natal Song of Kansas | 15 |
| Columbia | 17 |
| The Natal Hour | 19 |
| III. |
| The Struggle in Kansas with Freedom against the Great | |
| Hydra--American Slavery | 21 |
| Pardee Butler | 25 |
| Charles W. Dow | 25 |
| William Phillips | 25 |
| Thomas W. Barber | 26 |
| Andrew H. Reeder | 27 |
| The Invasion | 28 |
| Lawrence | 28 |
| Freeedom's Champion | 32 |
| Liberty and John Brown | 32 |
| Col. John W. Geary | 41 |
| Linn | 42 |
| Osawanda | 43 |
| John Brown | 75 |
| The Civil War | 78 |
| IV. |
| Kansas in the Reign of Peace | 80 |
| Peace | 80 |
| The State | 81 |
| The Home | 82 |
| The Early Pioneer | 85 |
| The Prairie Fire | 86 |
| The Heroes | 89 |
| Commerce | 89 |
| The Flag | 89 |
| History's Wisdom | 91 |
| The Sunflower | 93 |
| The Patriot's Love | 93 |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS |
| The Prayer upon the Wall | 97 |
| Dawn | 101 |
| The Tear | 102 |
| Life | 103 |
| The Last Roll | 104 |
| University of Michigan: Threnody | 107 |
| Old Captain Sumpter | 115 |
| The Guest at Home | 120 |
| The Sawmill of the Gods | 121 |
| Looking Backward | 124 |
| A Young Lady's Holocaust | 128 |
| The Child of Fate | 129 |
| A Scotch Song: "Stormy Weather" | 130 |
| A German Drinking Song | 131 |
| "Eximpt" | 133 |
| The Loaned Book | 134 |
| Alone | 135 |
| The Enchanted Garden | 135 |
| Silver Threads | 137 |
| What is the World to Me? | 138 |
| "The Maples" | 140 |
| HISTORIC NOTES | 143 |
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