Shapes of ClayTWO TYPES.Reading editionChapter navigation236 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterDEDICATION.PREFACE.THE PASSING SHOW.ELIXER VITAE.CONVALESCENT.AT THE CLOSE OF THE CANVASS.NOVUM ORGANUM.GEOTHEOS.YORICK.A VISION OF DOOM.POLITICS.POESY.IN DEFENSE.AN INVOCATION.RELIGION.A MORNING FANCY.VISIONS OF SIN.THE TOWN OF DAE.AN ANARCHIST.AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE.ARMA VIRUMQUE.ON A PROPOSED CREMATORY.A DEMAND.THE WEATHER WIGHT.MY MONUMENT.MAD.HOSPITALITY.FOR A CERTAIN CRITIC.RELIGIOUS PROGRESS.MAGNANIMITY.TO HER.TO A SUMMER POET.ARTHUR McEWEN.CHARLES AND PETER.CONTEMPLATION.CREATION.BUSINESS.A POSSIBILITY.TO A CENSOR.THE HESITATING VETERAN.A YEAR'S CASUALTIES.INSPIRATION.TO-DAY.AN ALIBI.REBUKE.THE DYING STATESMAN.THE DEATH OF GRANT.THE FOUNTAIN REFILLED.LAUS LUCIS.NANINE.TECHNOLOGY.A REPLY TO A LETTER.TO OSCAR WILDE.PRAYER.A "BORN LEADER OF MEN."TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS.AN EPITAPH.THE POLITICIAN.AN INSCRIPTIONFROM VIRGINIA TO PARIS.A "MUTE INGLORIOUS MILTON."THE FREE TRADER'S LAMENT.SUBTERRANEAN PHANTASIES.IN MEMORIAMTHE STATESMEN.THE BROTHERS.THE CYNIC'S BEQUESTCORRECTED NEWS.AN EXPLANATION.JUSTICE.MR. FINK'S DEBATING DONKEY.TO MY LAUNDRESS.FAME.OMNES VANITAS.ASPIRATION.DEMOCRACY.THE NEW "ULALUME."CONSOLATION.FATE.PHILOSOPHER BIMM.REMINDED.SALVINI IN AMERICA.ANOTHER WAY.ART.AN ENEMY TO LAW AND ORDER.TO ONE ACROSS THE WAY.THE DEBTOR ABROAD.FORESIGHT.A FAIR DIVISION.GENESIS.LIBERTY.THE PASSING OF "BOSS" SHEPHERD.TO MAUDE.THE BIRTH OF VIRTUE.STONEMAN IN HEAVEN.THE SCURRIL PRESS.ONE OF THE UNFAIR SEX.THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN.A LACKING FACTOR.THE ROYAL JESTER.A CAREER IN LETTERS.THE FOLLOWING PAIR.POLITICAL ECONOMY.VANISHED AT COCK-CROW.THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT.TEMPORA MUTANTUR.CONTENTMENT.THE NEW ENOCH.DISAVOWAL.AN AVERAGE.WOMAN.INCURABLE.THE PUN.A PARTISAN'S PROTEST.TO NANINE.VICE VERSA.A BLACK-LIST.A BEQUEST TO MUSIC.AUTHORITY.THE PSORIAD.ONEIROMANCY.PEACE.THANKSGIVING.THE GOD'S VIEW-POINT.THE AESTHETES.JULY FOURTH.WITH MINE OWN PETARD.CONSTANCY.SIRES AND SONS.A CHALLENGE.TWO SHOWS.A POET'S HOPE.THE WOMAN AND THE DEVIL.TWO ROGUES.BEECHER.NOT GUILTY.PRESENTIMENT.A STUDY IN GRAY.A PARADOX.FOR MERIT.A BIT OF SCIENCE.THE TABLES TURNED.TO A DEJECTED POET.A FOOL.THE HUMORIST.MONTEFIORE.A WARNING.DISCRETION.AN EXILE.THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT.PSYCHOGRAPHS.TO A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST.FOR WOUNDS.ELECTION DAY.THE MILITIAMAN.A WELCOME.A SERENADE.THE WISE AND GOOD.THE LOST COLONEL.FOR TAT.A DILEMMA.METEMPSYCHOSIS.THE SAINT AND THE MONK.THE OPPOSING SEX.A WHIPPER-IN.JUDGMENT.THE FALL OF MISS LARKIN.IN HIGH LIFE.A BUBBLE.A RENDEZVOUS.FRANCINE.AN EXAMPLE.REVENGE.THE GENESIS OF EMBARRASSMENT.IN CONTUMACIAM.RE-EDIFIED.A BULLETIN.FROM THE MINUTES.WOMAN IN POLITICS.TO AN ASPIRANT.A BALLAD OF PIKEVILLE.A BUILDER.AN AUGURY.LUSUS POLITICUS.BEREAVEMENT.AN INSCRIPTIONA PICKBRAIN.CONVALESCENT.THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR.DETECTED.BIMETALISM.THE RICH TESTATOR.TWO METHODS.FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATEAN IMPOSTER.UNEXPOUNDED.FRANCE.THE EASTERN QUESTION.A GUEST.A FALSE PROPHECY.TWO TYPES.SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS.A HYMN OF THE MANY.ONE MORNING.AN ERROR.AT THE "NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT."THE KING OF BORES.HISTORY.THE HERMIT.TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON.THE YEARLY LIE.COOPERATION.AN APOLOGUE.DIAGNOSIS.FALLEN.DIES IRAE.ONE MOOD'S EXPRESSION.SOMETHING IN THE PAPERS.IN THE BINNACLE.HUMILITY.ONE PRESIDENT.THE BRIDE.STRAINED RELATIONS.THE MAN BORN BLIND.A NIGHTMARE.A WET SEASON.THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS.HAEC FABULA DOCET.EXONERATION.AZRAEL.AGAIN.HOMO PODUNKENSIS.A SOCIAL CALL.Previous chapter ←A FALSE PROPHECY.Next chapter →SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS.All chapters and sections (236)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsDEDICATION.PREFACE.THE PASSING SHOW.ELIXER VITAE.CONVALESCENT.AT THE CLOSE OF THE CANVASS.NOVUM ORGANUM.GEOTHEOS.YORICK.A VISION OF DOOM.POLITICS.POESY.IN DEFENSE.AN INVOCATION.RELIGION.A MORNING FANCY.VISIONS OF SIN.THE TOWN OF DAE.AN ANARCHIST.AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE.ARMA VIRUMQUE.ON A PROPOSED CREMATORY.A DEMAND.THE WEATHER WIGHT.MY MONUMENT.MAD.HOSPITALITY.FOR A CERTAIN CRITIC.RELIGIOUS PROGRESS.MAGNANIMITY.TO HER.TO A SUMMER POET.ARTHUR McEWEN.CHARLES AND PETER.CONTEMPLATION.CREATION.BUSINESS.A POSSIBILITY.TO A CENSOR.THE HESITATING VETERAN.A YEAR'S CASUALTIES.INSPIRATION.TO-DAY.AN ALIBI.REBUKE.THE DYING STATESMAN.THE DEATH OF GRANT.THE FOUNTAIN REFILLED.LAUS LUCIS.NANINE.TECHNOLOGY.A REPLY TO A LETTER.TO OSCAR WILDE.PRAYER.A "BORN LEADER OF MEN."TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS.AN EPITAPH.THE POLITICIAN.AN INSCRIPTIONFROM VIRGINIA TO PARIS.A "MUTE INGLORIOUS MILTON."THE FREE TRADER'S LAMENT.SUBTERRANEAN PHANTASIES.IN MEMORIAMTHE STATESMEN.THE BROTHERS.THE CYNIC'S BEQUESTCORRECTED NEWS.AN EXPLANATION.JUSTICE.MR. FINK'S DEBATING DONKEY.TO MY LAUNDRESS.FAME.OMNES VANITAS.ASPIRATION.DEMOCRACY.THE NEW "ULALUME."CONSOLATION.FATE.PHILOSOPHER BIMM.REMINDED.SALVINI IN AMERICA.ANOTHER WAY.ART.AN ENEMY TO LAW AND ORDER.TO ONE ACROSS THE WAY.THE DEBTOR ABROAD.FORESIGHT.A FAIR DIVISION.GENESIS.LIBERTY.THE PASSING OF "BOSS" SHEPHERD.TO MAUDE.THE BIRTH OF VIRTUE.STONEMAN IN HEAVEN.THE SCURRIL PRESS.ONE OF THE UNFAIR SEX.THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN.A LACKING FACTOR.THE ROYAL JESTER.A CAREER IN LETTERS.THE FOLLOWING PAIR.POLITICAL ECONOMY.VANISHED AT COCK-CROW.THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT.TEMPORA MUTANTUR.CONTENTMENT.THE NEW ENOCH.DISAVOWAL.AN AVERAGE.WOMAN.INCURABLE.THE PUN.A PARTISAN'S PROTEST.TO NANINE.VICE VERSA.A BLACK-LIST.A BEQUEST TO MUSIC.AUTHORITY.THE PSORIAD.ONEIROMANCY.PEACE.THANKSGIVING.THE GOD'S VIEW-POINT.THE AESTHETES.JULY FOURTH.WITH MINE OWN PETARD.CONSTANCY.SIRES AND SONS.A CHALLENGE.TWO SHOWS.A POET'S HOPE.THE WOMAN AND THE DEVIL.TWO ROGUES.BEECHER.NOT GUILTY.PRESENTIMENT.A STUDY IN GRAY.A PARADOX.FOR MERIT.A BIT OF SCIENCE.THE TABLES TURNED.TO A DEJECTED POET.A FOOL.THE HUMORIST.MONTEFIORE.A WARNING.DISCRETION.AN EXILE.THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT.PSYCHOGRAPHS.TO A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST.FOR WOUNDS.ELECTION DAY.THE MILITIAMAN.A WELCOME.A SERENADE.THE WISE AND GOOD.THE LOST COLONEL.FOR TAT.A DILEMMA.METEMPSYCHOSIS.THE SAINT AND THE MONK.THE OPPOSING SEX.A WHIPPER-IN.JUDGMENT.THE FALL OF MISS LARKIN.IN HIGH LIFE.A BUBBLE.A RENDEZVOUS.FRANCINE.AN EXAMPLE.REVENGE.THE GENESIS OF EMBARRASSMENT.IN CONTUMACIAM.RE-EDIFIED.A BULLETIN.FROM THE MINUTES.WOMAN IN POLITICS.TO AN ASPIRANT.A BALLAD OF PIKEVILLE.A BUILDER.AN AUGURY.LUSUS POLITICUS.BEREAVEMENT.AN INSCRIPTIONA PICKBRAIN.CONVALESCENT.THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR.DETECTED.BIMETALISM.THE RICH TESTATOR.TWO METHODS.FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATEAN IMPOSTER.UNEXPOUNDED.FRANCE.THE EASTERN QUESTION.A GUEST.A FALSE PROPHECY.TWO TYPES.SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS.A HYMN OF THE MANY.ONE MORNING.AN ERROR.AT THE "NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT."THE KING OF BORES.HISTORY.THE HERMIT.TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON.THE YEARLY LIE.COOPERATION.AN APOLOGUE.DIAGNOSIS.FALLEN.DIES IRAE.ONE MOOD'S EXPRESSION.SOMETHING IN THE PAPERS.IN THE BINNACLE.HUMILITY.ONE PRESIDENT.THE BRIDE.STRAINED RELATIONS.THE MAN BORN BLIND.A NIGHTMARE.A WET SEASON.THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS.HAEC FABULA DOCET.EXONERATION.AZRAEL.AGAIN.HOMO PODUNKENSIS.A SOCIAL CALL.Courageous fool!—the peril's strength unknown. 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