Starved Rock
STARVED ROCK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
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THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO
Author of Spoon River Anthology, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, Toward the Gulf, etc.
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1919 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1919 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published, October, 1919
Certain of these poems first appeared in Reedy's Mirror , Poetry , The Cosmopolitan , The Yale Review and The New York Sun .
As a soul from whom companionships subside
The meaningless and onsweeping tide
Edgar Lee Masters
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CONTENTS
STARVED ROCK
HYMN TO THE DEAD
CREATION
THE WORLD'S DESIRE
TYRANNOSAURUS: OR BURNING LETTERS
LORD BYRON TO DOCTOR POLIDORI
THE FOLDING MIRROR
A WOMAN OF FORTY
WILD BIRDS
A LADY
THE NEGRO WARD
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE
FOR A PLAY
CHICAGO
I
II
III
IV
V
THE WEDDING FEAST
THE DREAM OF TASSO
THE CHRISTIAN STATESMAN
THE LAMENT OF SOPHONIA
WINGED VICTORY
OH YOU SABBATARIANS!
PALLAS ATHENE
AT SAGAMORE HILL
TO ROBERT NICHOLS
BONNYBELL: THE BUTTERFLY
HYMN TO AGNI
EPITAPH FOR US
BOTTICELLI TO SIMONETTA
FLOWER IN THE GARDEN
INEXORABLE DEITIES
ARIELLE
SOUNDS OUT OF SORROW
MOURNIN' FOR RELIGION
THYAMIS
I SHALL GO DOWN INTO THIS LAND
SPRING LAKE
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
THE BARBER OF SEPO
THEY'D NEVER KNOW ME NOW
NEL MEZZO DEL CAMMIN
THE OAK TREE
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
WASHINGTON HOSPITAL
NEITHER FAITH NOR BEAUTY CAN REMAIN
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