| SONNET | | PAGE |
| I. | Lines Wrote in School Whilst I Shouldst Have Been Studyin’ My Lesson | 11 |
| II. | Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ about Mary and Her Pet Lamb | 13 |
| III. | Lines Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ about How Pa Acts When Dressin’ Up | 15 |
| IV. | Lines Wrote Whilst Realizin’ We Oughtst to Be Kind to Dumb Brutes | 17 |
| V. | Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ of Our Parents in the Garden of Eden | 19 |
| VI. | Lines Wrote Whilst Smartin’ from Punishment Received for Lyin’ | 21 |
| VII. | Thoughts Thought about Ma’s Notions Regardin’ Love and House-keepin’ | 23 |
| VIII. | Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ of Peary on a Hot Summer Day | 25 |
| IX. | Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ of a Thanksgivin’ Day Turkey | 27 |
| X. | Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ of My Sister Maymie’s Homely Beau | 29 |
| XI. | Lines Wrote Whilst Recovering from an Accident Caused by a Hornet | 31 |
| XII. | Lines Wrote on a Summer Day Whilst Thinkin’ of a Soda Fountain | 33 |
| XIII. | Lines Wrote After Bein’ Scolded for Not Doin’ as Children Used To | 35 |
| XIV. | Lines Wrote On Readin’ How Cleopatra Made Men Act Very Foolish | 37 |
| XV. | Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ What I Wouldst Do with Carnegie’s Gold | 39 |
| XVI. | Some Thoughts Thought Whilst Havin’ to Bathe in a Bath-tub | 41 |
| XVII. | Lines Wrote in School Whilst Throwin’ Glances at Susan Sanderson | 43 |
| XVIII. | Thoughts Thought Whilst Mowin’ the Lawn on a Saturday Afternoon | 45 |
| XIX. | Sonnet Wrote on the Fly-leaf of My Grammar Durin’ School Hours | 47 |
| XX. | Thoughts Thought on Hearin’ Folks Find Fault with the Weather | 49 |
| XXI. | Lines Wrote After Seein’ Shakespeare’s Hamlet from an Upper Gallery | 51 |
| XXII. | Sonnet Wrote Whilst Retrospectively Contemplatin’ My First Cigar | 53 |
| XXIII. | Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ About a Vacation Spent on a Farm | 55 |
| XXIV. | Lines Composed After Seein’ a Book Full of Byron’s Love Letters | 57 |
| XXV. | Sonnet Wrote After Hearin’ a Youth Oratin’ about “Casabianca” | 59 |
