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INTRODUCTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Conrad Aiken

MUSIC I HEARD

DEAD CLEOPATRA

DANCING ADAIRS

Zoë Akins

THE TRAGEDIENNE

I AM THE WIND

CONQUERED

THE WANDERER

Richard Aldington

THE POPLAR

LESBIA

IMAGES

CHORICOS

Mary Aldis

BARBERRIES

WHEN YOU COME

FLASH-LIGHTS

Walter Conrad Arensberg

VOYAGE À L’INFINI

AT DAYBREAK

TO HASEKAWA

DIALOGUE

SONG OF THE SOULS SET FREE

Wilton Agnew Barrett

A NEW ENGLAND CHURCH

Joseph Warren Beach

RUE BONAPARTE

THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON’S

William Rose Benét

THE FALCONER OF GOD

THE HORSE THIEF

Maxwell Bodenheim

THE REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING

THE INTERNE

THE OLD JEW

THE MINER

TO AN ENEMY

TO A DISCARDED STEEL RAIL

Gordon Bottomley

NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS

Rollo Britten

BIRD OF PASSION

Rupert Brooke

RETROSPECT

NINETEEN-FOURTEEN

Witter Bynner

TO CELIA

GRIEVE NOT FOR BEAUTY

Joseph Campbell

AT HARVEST

ON WAKING

THE OLD WOMAN

Nancy Campbell

THE APPLE-TREE

THE MONKEY

Skipwith Cannéll

THE RED BRIDGE

THE KING

Willa Sibert Cather

THE PALATINE

SPANISH JOHNNY

Padraic Colum

POLONIUS AND THE BALLAD SINGERS

THE SEA BIRD TO THE WAVE

OLD MEN COMPLAINING

Grace Hazard Conkling

REFUGEES

“THE LITTLE ROSE IS DUST, MY DEAR”

Alice Corbin

O WORLD

TWO VOICES

LOVE ME AT LAST

HUMORESQUE

ONE CITY ONLY

APPARITIONS

THE POOL

MUSIC

WHAT DIM ARCADIAN PASTURES

NODES

Adelaide Crapsey

CINQUAINS

THE PLEDGE

EXPENSES

ADVENTURE

DIRGE

SONG

THE LONELY DEATH

H. D.

HERMES OF THE WAYS

PRIAPUS

THE POOL

OREAD

THE GARDEN

MOONRISE

THE SHRINE

Mary Carolyn Davies

CLOISTERED

SONGS OF A GIRL

Fannie Stearns Davis

PROFITS

SOULS

Walter de la Mare

THE LISTENERS

AN EPITAPH

Lee Wilson Dodd

THE TEMPLE

THE COMRADE

John Drinkwater

SUNRISE ON RYDAL WATER

Louise Driscoll

THE METAL CHECKS

Dorothy Dudley

LA RUE DE LA MONTAGNE SAINTE-GÈNEVIÈVE

Helen Dudley

TO ONE UNKNOWN

SONG

Max Eastman

DIOGENES

IN MARCH

AT THE AQUARIUM

T. S. Eliot

PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Arthur Davison Ficke

MEETING

AMONG SHADOWS

THE THREE SISTERS

PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN

I AM WEARY OF BEING BITTER

FROM “SONNETS OF A PORTRAIT PAINTER”

LIKE HIM WHOSE SPIRIT

John Gould Fletcher

IRRADIATIONS

ARIZONA POEMS

THE BLUE SYMPHONY

F. S. Flint

POEMS IN UNRHYMED CADENCE

III—IN THE GARDEN

Moireen Fox

LIADAIN TO CURITHIR

Florence Kiper Frank

THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT

THE MOVIES

YOU

Robert Frost

MENDING WALL

AFTER APPLE-PICKING

MY NOVEMBER GUEST

MOWING

STORM FEAR

GOING FOR WATER

THE CODE—HEROICS

Hamlin Garland

TO A CAPTIVE CRANE

THE MOUNTAINS ARE A LONELY FOLK

MAGIC

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

COLOR

OBLIVION

TENANTS

GOLD

ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH

BATTLE

Richard Butler Glaenzer

STAR-MAGIC

Douglas Goldring

VOYAGES

Hermann Hagedorn

EARLY MORNING AT BARGIS

DOORS

DEPARTURE

BROADWAY

Thomas Hardy

SHE HEARS THE STORM

THE VOICE

IN THE MOONLIGHT

THE MAN HE KILLED

Ralph Hodgson

THE MYSTERY

THREE POEMS

STUPIDITY STREET

Horace Holley

CREATIVE

TWILIGHT AT VERSAILLES

LOVERS

Helen Hoyt

ELLIS PARK

THE NEW-BORN

RAIN AT NIGHT

THE LOVER SINGS OF A GARDEN

SINCE I HAVE FELT THE SENSE OF DEATH

Ford Madox Hueffer

ANTWERP

Scharmel Iris

AFTER THE MARTYRDOM

LAMENT

ITERATION

EARLY NIGHTFALL

Orrick Johns

SONGS OF DELIVERANCE

Joyce Kilmer

TREES

EASTER

Alfred Kreymborg

AMERICA

OLD MANUSCRIPT

CÉZANNE

PARASITE

William Laird

TRAÜMEREI AT OSTENDORFF’S

A VERY OLD SONG

D. H. Lawrence

A WOMAN AND HER DEAD HUSBAND

FIREFLIES IN THE CORN

GREEN

GRIEF

SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD

Agnes Lee

MOTHERHOOD

A STATUE IN A GARDEN

ON THE JAIL STEPS

HER GOING

William Ellery Leonard

INDIAN SUMMER

Vachel Lindsay

GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN

THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN

ALADDIN AND THE JINN

THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE

Amy Lowell

PATTERNS

1777

VENUS TRANSIENS

A LADY

CHINOISERIES

SOLITAIRE

A GIFT

RED SLIPPERS

APOLOGY

Percy Mackaye

OLD AGE

SONG FROM “MATER”

Frederic Manning

SACRIFICE

AT EVEN

John Masefield

SHIPS

CARGOES

WATCHING BY A SICK-BED

WHAT AM I, LIFE?

Edgar Lee Masters

SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY

SILENCE

Alice Meynell

MATERNITY

CHIMES

Max Michelson

O BROTHER TREE

THE BIRD

STORM

A HYMN TO NIGHT

LOVE LYRIC

Edna St. Vincent Millay

GOD’S WORLD

ASHES OF LIFE

THE SHROUD

Harold Monro

GREAT CITY

YOUTH IN ARMS

THE STRANGE COMPANION

Harriet Monroe

THE HOTEL

THE TURBINE

ON THE PORCH

THE WONDER OF IT

THE INNER SILENCE

LOVE SONG

A FAREWELL

LULLABY

PAIN

THE WATER OUZEL

THE PINE AT TIMBER-LINE

MOUNTAIN SONG

John G. Neihardt

PRAYER FOR PAIN

ENVOI

Yone Noguchi

THE POET

I HAVE CAST THE WORLD

Grace Fallow Norton

ALLEGRA AGONISTES

MAKE NO VOWS

I GIVE THANKS

James Oppenheim

THE SLAVE

THE LONELY CHILD

NOT OVERLOOKED

THE RUNNER IN THE SKIES

Patrick Orr

ANNIE SHORE AND JOHNNIE DOON

IN THE MOHAVE

Seumas O’Sullivan

MY SORROW

SPLENDID AND TERRIBLE

THE OTHERS

Josephine Preston Peabody

CRADLE SONG

THE CEDARS

A SONG OF SOLOMON

Ezra Pound

Δώρια

THE RETURN

PICCADILLY

N. Y.

THE COMING OF WAR: ACTAEON

THE GARDEN

ORTUS

THE CHOICE

THE GARRET

DANCE FIGURE

FROM “NEAR PÉRIGORD”

AN IMMORALITY

THE STUDY IN AESTHETICS

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS

VILLANELLE: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HOUR

BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE

BALLAD FOR GLOOM

LA FRAISNE

THE RIVER-MERCHANT’S WIFE: A LETTER

EXILE’S LETTER

John Reed

SANGAR

Ernest Rhys

DAGONET’S CANZONET

A SONG OF HAPPINESS

Edwin Arlington Robinson

THE MASTER

JOHN GORHAM

RICHARD CORY

THE GROWTH OF LORRAINE

CASSANDRA

Carl Sandburg

CHICAGO

THE HARBOR

SKETCH

LOST

JAN KUBELIK

AT A WINDOW

THE POOR

THE ROAD AND THE END

KILLERS

NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD

HANDFULS

UNDER THE HARVEST MOON

CHOOSE

KIN

PLACES

JOY

THE GREAT HUNT

OUR PRAYER OF THANKS

Clara Shanafelt

TO THEE

CAPRICE

A VIVID GIRL

INVOCATION

PASTEL

A GALLANT WOMAN

SCHERZO

Frances Shaw

WHO LOVES THE RAIN

THE HARP OF THE WIND

THE RAGPICKER

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL

STAR THOUGHT

THE CHILD’S QUEST

LITTLE PAGAN RAIN SONG

Constance Lindsay Skinner

SONGS OF THE COAST-DWELLERS

James Stephens

WHAT TOMAS AN BUILE SAID IN A PUB

BESSIE BOBTAIL

HATE

THE WASTE PLACES

HAWKS

DARK WINGS

George Sterling

A LEGEND OF THE DOVE

KINDRED

OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM

THE LAST DAYS

Wallace Stevens

PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER

IN BATTLE

SUNDAY MORNING

Ajan Syrian

THE SYRIAN LOVER IN EXILE REMEMBERS THEE, LIGHT OF MY LAND

Rabindranath Tagore

FROM “GITANJALI”

FROM “THE GARDENER”

Sara Teasdale

LEAVES

MORNING

THE FLIGHT

OVER THE ROOFS

DEBT

SONGS IN A HOSPITAL

AFTER DEATH

IN MEMORIAM F. O. S.

SWALLOW FLIGHT

THE ANSWER

Eunice Tietjens

THE BACCHANTE TO HER BABE

THE STEAM SHOVEL

THE GREAT MAN

Ridgely Torrence

THE BIRD AND THE TREE

THE SON

Charles Hanson Towne

BEYOND THE STARS

Louis Untermeyer

LANDSCAPES

“FEUERZAUBER”

ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD

IRONY

Allen Upward

SCENTED LEAVES FROM A CHINESE JAR

John Hall Wheelock

SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON

SPRING

LIKE MUSIC

THE THUNDER-SHOWER

SONG

ALONE

NIRVANA

TRIUMPH OF THE SINGER

Hervey White

LAST NIGHT

I SAW THE CLOUDS

Margaret Widdemer

THE BEGGARS

TERESINA’S FACE

GREEK FOLK SONG

Florence Wilkinson

OUR LADY OF IDLENESS

STUDENTS

Marguerite Wilkinson

AN INCANTATION

William Carlos Williams

SICILIAN EMIGRANT’S SONG

PEACE ON EARTH

THE SHADOW

METRIC FIGURE

SUB TERRA

SLOW MOVEMENT

POSTLUDE

Charles Erskine Scott Wood

Edith Wyatt

ON THE GREAT PLATEAU

SUMMER HAIL

TO F. W.

A CITY AFTERNOON

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