CONTENTS

TWO VISIONS OF HELEN
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The First Vision of Helen [3]
The Last Vision of Helen [9]
CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN
The Retort Discourteous [21]
Two at the Crossroads [23]
Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre [25]
Three Days’ Ride [26]
The Plow (A New England Tragedy) [30]
THE TALL TOWN
Colloquy of the Statues (The Avenue. Night Before Pershing’s Parade) [39]
Lunch-Time Along Broadway [41]
The Walkers (Strike Pickets—Lower Fifth Ave.) [42]
8:30 a. m. on 32nd Street [44]
Chanson at Madison Square [46]
Hymn in Columbus Circle (After Seeing a Certain Window Display) [48]
APPLES OF EDEN
The Etcher [51]
Grand Larceny [53]
November Prothalamion [55]
Expressions Near the End of Winter [57]
Lost Lights [58]
Come Back! [60]
Resurrection (To J. W. A.) [62]
Flood-Tide (Maine Coast—1917) [65]
The Song of Cold and Pain [67]
Wisdom-Teeth [69]
THE KINGDOM OF THE MAD
The Original Impulse [75]
Lunch at a City Club (For, though not to, D. M. C.) [76]
The Knockout [77]
Devourer of Nations [78]
Abraham’s Bosom [79]
Prohibition [80]
Mortuary Parlors [81]
Talk [82]
Nearsight [83]
Before Michael’s Last Fight [84]
Always the Sonnetteer [85]
Portrait of Young Love [86]
Two More Muses [87]
Operation (For J. F. C., Jr.) [88]
The Trapeze Performer (For C. M.) [89]
Epitaph to Be Spoken [90]
Judgment [91]
Boarding-House Hall [92]
Blood Brothers [93]
Watchmen [94]
“Les Cruches Cassées” [95]
P. P. C.—Madam Life [96]
Positively the Last Performance [97]