Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

Contents

Poems
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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	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
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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	173
In Defense of Emma Goldman	205
Direct Action	220
The Paris Commune	243
The Mexican Revolution	253
Thomas Paine	276
Dyer D. Lum	284
Francisco Ferrer	297
Modern Educational Reform	321
Sex Slavery	342
Literature the Mirror of Man	359
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century	381

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