1. ANECDOTE
So silent I when love was by
He yawned  and turned away;
But Sorrow clings to my apron-strings,
I have so much to say.

2. DE PROFUNDIS
Oh, is it, then Utopian
To hope that I may meet a man
Who’ll not relate, in accents suave,
The tales of girls he used to have?

3. PROPHETIC SOUL
Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much.

4. GODSPEED
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I’ll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!

5. TWO-VOLUME NOVEL
The sun’s gone dim, and The moon’s turned black;
For I loved him, and
He didn’t love back.

6. POST-GRADUATE
Hope it was that tutored me,
And love that taught me more;
And now I learn at Sorrow’s knee
The self-same lore.

7. RHYME AGAINST LIVING
If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide;
If cool my heart and high my head,
I think, “How lucky are the death!”

8. EXPERIENCE
Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.

9. THE FLAW PAGANISM
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through.
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)

10. PHILOSOPHY
If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
And what if I don’t , and what if I do?