Table of Contents: “…Jacobs -- Nocturn cabbage / Carl Sandburg -- Rosh Hashanah / Margaret Hillert -- 12 October / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Autumn woods / James S. …”

Table of Contents: “…I ate them all / Shiki -- Apple / Nan Fry -- Ladybug, be good / Norma Farber -- Harvest / Carl Sandburg -- Autumn leaves / Aileen Fisher -- Leaves fall down / Margaret Wise Brown -- Leaves / Soseki -- Harvest moon / Ted Hughes -- Last Green: -- Yase: September / Gary Snyder -- Mist and all / Dixie Willson -- First white snow of fall / Basho -- Maple sweet / Carl Carmer -- Tree on the corner / Lilian Moore -- Buds / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Forever Green: -- Earth / John Hall Wheelock -- To nature seekers / Robert W Chambers -- Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti -- Progress / Connie Martin -- They lived happily ever after for a while / John Ciardi -- Flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- Great Auk's ghost / Ralph Hodgson -- Prayer for a carpenter / Louis Phillips -- Choose a color / Jacqueline Sweeney -- This planet (a round) / John Forster and Tom Chapin -- Valentine for earth / Frances Frost -- Index of authors -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Acknowledgments.…”

Table of Contents: “…Bennett (1902-1981) -- Heritage-- To a dark girl -- Arna bontemps (1902-1973) -- Black man talks of reaping -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Harlem -- Negro speaks of rivers -- Merry-go-round -- Cross -- Countee Cullea (1903-1946) -- Tableau -- Saturday's child -- Incident -- Margaret Walker (1915-1996) -- Sorrow home -- Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Malcolm X -- We real cool -- Maya Angelou (b. 1928) -- Still rise -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Rites of passage -- Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) -- In the year -- Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) -- Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Alice Walker (b. 1944) -- Women -- Rita dove (b. 1952) -- Primer -- Editor's note -- Illustrator's note.…”