Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Brief Biography of Laura Redden Searing Judy Yaeger Jones -- Laura Redden Searing: A Restored Voice in American Poetry -- Idyls of Battle -- The Red, White, and Blue -- In Time of War -- Left on the Battle-Field -- To the Earnest Thinkers -- De Profundis -- The Story of Sumter -- Watch-Night -- The Legend of Our Victories -- The Latest War News -- Baker -- The Snow in October -- An Appeal -- The Graves of Gettysburg -- The Snow at Fredericksburg -- The President's Proclamation -- A Greeting for a New Year -- The Volunteer's Return -- My Absent Soldier -- Butler's Black Brigade -- The Quiet Man -- My Story -- The Last Poem -- Dedicatory Poems -- A Farewell -- Wilhelmine -- Dear Mother -- Thirty Years -- To John Greenleaf Whittier -- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet -- The Unveiling of the Fountain -- Little Footprints -- Guessing -- Birthrights -- Sweet Bells Jangled -- Prelibatory -- Sweet Bells Jangled -- Lover's Leaves -- To My Rightful Readers -- My Past -- An After Song -- The Home of the Gentians -- A Rhyme of the Maple Tree -- Troth-Plight -- One Kiss Before We Part -- Entre Nous -- Two Songs of One Singer -- The Door Between -- Afraid -- Et Tu? -- You and I! -- Only Her Hand -- Amy at the Window -- Ruse de Guerre -- A Woman's Complaint -- Violets in Autumn -- Which Is Best? -- Breton Peasants -- A Love-Song of Sorrento -- A Sicilian Midnight Madrigal -- Mazzini -- At the Grave of Keats -- Broken Off -- Disarmed -- An Empty Nest -- With White Hands -- Hail and Farewell -- But Once -- At Dawn -- A Woman's Questioning -- At Work -- Ten Years of Silence -- Exorcism -- Summer Morning Delights -- Corrinna Confesses -- The Confessional -- A Nineteenth-Century Fashion -- Broken Toys -- Half and Half -- At Odds -- Snow-flowers -- Seniority -- At Eventide -- Væ Patriæ -- December in California.

The Hills of Santa Cruz -- The Realm of Singing -- The Realm of Singing.