Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

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Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Poems 1.2 Essays 1.3 Sketches and Stories

Contents

• Introduction, by Hippolyte Havel

Poems

• The Burial of My Past Self 17
• Night on the Graves 18
• The Christian's Faith 18
• The Freethinker's Plea 22
• To My Mother 26
• Betrayed 27
• Optimism 33
• At the Grave in Waldheim 33
• The Hurricane 34
• Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes 36
• Bastard Born 36
• Hymn 42
• You and I 42
• The Toast of Despair 44
• In Memoriam—To Dyer D. Lum 45
• Out of the Darkness 47
• Mary Wollstonecraft 49
• The Gods and the People 50
• John P. Altgeld 56
• The Cry of the Unfit 56
• In Memoriam—To Gen. M. M. Trumbull (poem) 58
• The Wandering Jew 58
• The Feast of Vultures 59
• The Suicide's Defense 62
• A Novel of Color 64
• Germinal 65 "
• Light Upon Waldheim 66
• Love's Compensation 66
• The Road Builders 68
• Angiolillo 69
• Ave et Vale 70
• Marsh-Bloom 74
• Written—in—Red 75

Essays

• The Dominant Idea 79
• Anarchism 96
• Anarchism and American Traditions 118
• Anarchism in Literature 136
• The Making of an Anarchist 154
• The Eleventh of November, 1887 164
• Crime and Punishment (De Cleyre) 173
• In Defense of Emma Goldman (De Cleyre) 205
• Direct Action (De Cleyre) 220
• The Paris Commune (De Cleyre) 243
• The Mexican Revolution (De Cleyre) 253
• Thomas Paine (De Cleyre) 276
• Dyer D. Lum (De Cleyre) 284
• Francisco Ferrer (De Cleyre) 297
• Modern Educational Reform 321
• Sex Slavery (De Cleyre) 342
• Literature the Mirror of Man 359
• The Drama of the Nineteenth Century 381

Sketches and Stories

• A Rocket of Iron 409
• The Chain Gang 414
• The Heart of Angiolillo 420
• The Reward of an Apostate . 433
• At the End of the Alley—I 437
• Alone-II 441
• To Strive and Fail 446
• The Sorrows of the Body 451
• The Triumph of Youth 454
• The Old Shoemaker 464
• Where the White Rose Died 466