The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)

Marginal mile after mile of smooth-running granite embankment, Washed by clean waters, clean seas and clean rivers embracing; Pier upon pier lying wide for the ships of all seas...

They were married while the flowers were knee-deep over the sunny slopes and mesas, and the canyons gulfs of color and fragrance, and went for their first moon together to a far...

The brooding bird fulfills her task, Or she-bear lean and brown; All parent beasts see duty true, All parent beasts their duty do, We are the only kind that asks For duty upside...

When Madam Weatherstone shook the plentiful dust of Orchardina from her expensive shoes, and returned to adorn the more classic groves of Philadelphia, Mrs. Thaddler assumed to...

In the fleeting opportunities offered by the Caffeteria, and in longer moments, rather neatly planned for, with some remnants of an earlier ingenuity, Mr. Thaddler contrived to...

The Warden house was more impressive in appearance than its neighbors. It had "grounds," instead of a yard or garden; it had wide pillared porches and "galleries," showing south...

The sun had gone down on Madam Weatherstone's wrath, and risen to find it unabated. With condensed disapprobation written on every well-cut feature, she came to the coldly gleam...

Duck! Dive! Here comes another one! Wait till the crest-ruffles show! Beyond is smooth water in beauty and wonder-- Shut your mouth! Hold your breath! Dip your head under! Dive...

It's a singular thing that the commonest place Is the hardest to properly fill; That the labor imposed on a full half the race Is so seldom performed with good will-- To say not...

You may talk about religion with a free and open mind, For ten dollars you may criticize a judge; You may discuss in politics the newest thing you find, And open scientific trut...

"We are weak!" said the Sticks, and men broke them; "We are weak!" said the Threads, and were torn; Till new thoughts came and they spoke them; Till the Fagot and the Rope were...

Then we may look for strength and skill, Experience, good health, good will, Art and science well combined, Honest soul and able mind, Servants built upon this plan, One to wait...

Given a central sun--and a rolling world; Into the light we whirl--and call it day; Into the dark we turn--and call it night; Glow of the dawn--glory of midday light-- Shadow of...

They told me what she had done-- Of her life like a river free: Teaching and showing with tender truth, Giving her light to age and youth, Till fathers and mothers and children...

Behind the straight purple backs and smooth purple legs on the box before them, Madam Weatherstone and Mrs. Weatherstone rolled home silently, a silence of thunderous portent. A...

The news-stands bloom with magazines, They flame, they blaze indeed; So bright the cover-colors glow, So clear the startling stories show, So vivid their pictorial scenes, That...

"Lovest thou me?" said the Fair Ladye; And the Lover he said, "Yea!" "Then climb this tree--for my sake," said she, "And climb it every day!" So from dawn till dark he abrazed t...

There is one large obstacle to woman suffrage which has nothing to do with sex. Men, the governing class, hesitate in extending equal political responsibility and power to their...

No matter how we cultivate the land, Taming the forest and the prairie free; No matter how we irrigate the sand, Making the desert blossom at command, We must always leave the b...

It runs--it runs--the hourglass turning; Dark sands glooming, bright sands burning; I turn--and turn--with heavy or hopeful hands; So must I turn as long as the Voice commands;...

The human soul is built for the love and service of the whole world. We confine it to the love and service of five or six persons, and the salvation of one.

We offer our hearts to God, contrite and broken; Why not offer our brains, whole and alive? Why follow the grovelling words wailing old races have spoken? Bow and submit, when w...

"The Public Wants Facts!" says the Popular Editor; "Give us the Facts!" Haven't we had all the Facts in the universe before us always? Isn't it time we learned _to think about t...

"Where is God?" I cried. "Let me hear!" "I long for the voice of God!" And I smote and trod On all things clamoring near; Small voices dear, That wept and murmured and sung Till...

Not the child-god of our most childish past, Nor sympathy, nor worship, passionless; Nor gratitude, nor tenderest caress: Nor the post-mortal glamor priests have cast With "This...

Be not impatient with the bawling world!-- The clatter of wild newsmongers, the cry Of those in pulpits, the incessant speech From many platforms, and the various prayers Of tal...

He bestowed on a newsboy a new pair of shoes, And quoted in pious glee: "In as much as ye've done it to one of these least Ye have done it unto me."

We can easily see what a loss it would have been to the world if all forms of genius had been checked and smothered; if we had no better poetry than the average man writes when...

In As Much (poem) A Word In Season (story) Christmas Love (essay) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) Our Overworked Instincts (essay) Love's Highest (poem) The Permanent Child (s...

Now, suppose the makers take one page in one issue of The Forerunner at $25.00. Then suppose that only one thousand of our readers spend 25 cents each to try that tooth-paste. T...

Only Mine (poem) The Boys and the Butter (story) A Question (poem) Is It Wrong To Take Life? (essay) The World and the Three Artists (sketch) In How Little Time (poem) Woman and...

Worship (poem) My Astonishing Dodo (story) Why Texts? (essay) The Little White Animals (poem) Women Teachers, Married and Unmarried (essay) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) The...

A Central Sun, a song (poem) Reasonable Resolutions (essay) Her Housekeeper (story) Locked Inside (poem) Private Morality And Pulic Immorality (essay) "With God Above" (poem) Th...

To-morrow Night (poem) Mr. Robert Grey Sr. (story) What Virtues Are Made Of (essay) Animals In Cities (essay) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) The Waiting-Room (poem) While the...

Then This (poem) A Small God And a Large Goddess (essay) Arrears (poem) Three Thanksgivings (story) How Doth The Hat (poem) Introducing the World, the Flesh And the Devil (sketc...

The Bawling World (poem) A Coincidence (story) Shares (poem) Genius, Domestic and Maternal, part II (essay) Improved Methods of Habit Culture (essay) O Faithful Clay! (poem) Wha...

Love (poem) According To Solomon (story) An Obvious Blessing (essay) Steps (poem) Why We Honestly Fear Socialism (essay) Child Labor (poem) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) The...

The Earth's Entail (poem) The Cottagette (story) Wholesale Hypnotism (essay) "Sit up and think!" (poem) The Kitchen Fly (essay) Alas! (poem) Her Pets (sketch) What Diantha Did (...

Brain Service (poem) When I Was A Witch (story) Quotation: Eugene Wood Believing And Knowing (essay) The Kingdom (poem) Heaven Forbid! (poem) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) T...

The Puritan (poem) Making a Living (story) Ten Suggestions (essay) The Malingerer (poem) Genius, Domestic and Maternal, part I (essay) Prisoners (sketch) May Leaves (poem) What...

When Thou Gainest Happiness (poem) Martha's Mother (story) For Fear (poem) Nursery-Mindedness (essay) A Village Of Fools (sketch) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) "I gave mysel...

Two Prayers (poem) An Offender (story) Before Warm February Winds (poem) Kitchen-Mindedness (esssay) Two Storks (sketch) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) Little Leafy Brothers...

The Sands (poem) A Middle-Sized Artist (story) The Minor Birds (poem) Parlor-Mindedness (essay) Naughty (sketch) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) Erratum Our Androcentric Cultu...