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MODERN AMERICAN POETRY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

THE “POST-MORTEM” PERIOD

WALT WHITMAN

THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST

REACTION AND REVOLT IN THE ’90S

INTERIM—1890–1912

RENASCENCE—1913

ROBINSON AND MASTERS

FROST AND SANDBURG

THE IMAGISTS

THE NEW FOLK-POETRY

LINDSAY, OPPENHEIM AND OTHERS

SUMMARY—THE NEW SPIRIT

CHARTLESS

INDIAN SUMMER

SUSPENSE

THE RAILWAY TRAIN

A CEMETERY

BECLOUDED

MEMORY

“ENAMORED ARCHITECT OF AIRY RHYME”

TWO QUATRAINS

BANTY TIM

“JIM”

PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES

SOLITUDE

DARE YOU?

THE PLAINT OF THE CAMEL

ROBINSON CRUSOE’S STORY

OUTWITTED

PREPAREDNESS

SUNRISE

THE DESERT

BLESSING THE DANCE

DE FUST BANJO

“FROST TO-NIGHT”

IMMORTAL LOVE

A SONG OF SUNRISE

SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE

BEHOLD THE DEEDS!

TEARS

THE DUST

SPICEWOOD

HOW ARE YOU, DEAR WORLD, THIS MORNING?

O MY DEAD COMRADE

AT MIDNIGHT

BACCHUS

TWO QUATRAINS

DAWN

A CONSERVATIVE

THE WILD RIDE

A VAGABOND SONG

THE GRAVEDIGGER

HEM AND HAW

DAISIES

BLACK SHEEP

THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE

AT THE CROSSROADS

UNMANIFEST DESTINY

LOVE IN THE WINDS

A STEIN SONG

SNOW

PENURY

DESERTED

CANOPUS

FROM “JETSAM”

PANDORA’S SONG

ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES

THE BLACK VULTURE

THE MASTER MARINER

VAIN GRATUITIES

THE DARK HILLS

I SAW A MAN

THE WAYFARER

HYMN

THE BLADES OF GRASS

BINDLESTIFF

SWEETGRASS RANGE

THE SONG OF THE THRUSH

MIA CARLOTTA

BETWEEN TWO LOVES

HOW JACK FOUND THAT BEANS MAY GO BACK ON A CHAP

THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN

HOW A CAT WAS ANNOYED AND A POET WAS BOOTED

THE VALLEY THAT GOD FORGOT

ROLL A ROCK DOWN

THE TRAIL-MAKERS

THE MONK IN THE KITCHEN

WHILE LOVELINESS GOES BY

MEETING-HOUSE HILL

WIND AND SILVER

THE BIRD AND THE TREE

THE SON

MENDING WALL

THE TUFT OF FLOWERS

THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN

GOOD-BYE AND KEEP COLD

THE RUNAWAY

BIRCHES

FRAGMENTARY BLUE

THE ONSET

THE IMAGE OF DELIGHT

TO THE VICTOR

THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

THE INCENTIVE

COOL TOMBS

FOG

FROM “SMOKE AND STEEL”

BLUE ISLAND INTERSECTION

CLEAN CURTAINS

A. E. F.

NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD

GRASS

THREE CINQUAINS

ON SEEING WEATHER-BEATEN TREES

THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS

FROST ON A WINDOW

BATTLE-SONG OF FAILURE

UNREST

DEDICATION

SEA-SCAPES

ONE END OF LOVE

TO A GOLDEN HAIRED GIRL IN A LOUISIANA TOWN

THE TRAVELLER

A NEGRO SERMON:—SIMON LEGREE

HOW HE TURNED OUT

“HALCYON DAYS”

WAR AND PEACE

THE RICH MAN

THOSE TWO BOYS

WHEN I AM DEAD

GRASS-TOPS

VOICES

THE RUNNER IN THE SKIES

THE SLAVE

TASTING THE EARTH

NIGHT NOTE

ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD

PASSAGES FROM “THE GHETTO”

NEW ORLEANS

WIND IN THE ALLEYS

PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER

OLD MANUSCRIPT

DAWNS

HER EYES

IMPROVISATION

PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN

THE THREE SISTERS

SONNET

BEFORE DAWN IN THE WOODS

STREET LAMPS

A PHANTASY OF HEAVEN

COMING TO PORT

HOURS

AT THE AQUARIUM

FROM “THE WALKER”

THE MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN

THE DRUG CLERK

TIRED

A GIRL

A VIRGINAL

BALLAD FOR GLOOM

Δωρια

IN A STATION OF THE METRO

SUMMONS

CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES

SWIMMERS

HANDS

A SIDE STREET

HIGH TIDE

AUTUMN

SINFONIA DOMESTICA

LAKE SONG

THE SWAN

LONDON NIGHTFALL

DAWN

THE SKATERS

OREAD

PEAR TREE

HEAT

LETHE

MERCHANTS FROM CATHAY

HOW TO CATCH UNICORNS

SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON

BEAUTY

LOVE AND LIBERATION

NIRVANA

THEY WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, BUT THEY ALWAYS FELL

IN PASSING

OLD SHIPS

THE INTERPRETER

LITTLE THINGS

FACTORIES

THE TWO DYINGS

THE MODERN WOMAN TO HER LOVER

CREEDS

MORNING AT THE WINDOW

FROM “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK”

PRELUDE

CHANCE MEETINGS

THE FULFILLED DREAM

MIRACLES

MORNING SONG FROM “SENLIN”

POET TO HIS LOVE

OLD AGE

DEATH

AUTUMN

THE PAINTED HILLS OF ARIZONA

GOD’S WORLD

PITY ME NOT

I SHALL GO BACK

THE PEAR TREE

WILD SWANS

FROM A CHINESE VASE

HUMILIATION

LOVE SONG FROM NEW ENGLAND

THE FANATIC

IN A MUSEUM

A CITY PARK

SEARCHLIGHTS

GHETTO TWILIGHT

PORTRAIT OF A BOY

WATER

HAY-COCK

THE OLD BRIDGE

I KEEP WONDERING

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