THE “BEST POEMS” CHOSEN FROM THE “DISTINCTIVE” LIST

A Likeness. Willa Sibert Cather.
Ghosts. Marguerite Mooers Marshall.
November. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
Perugia. Amelia Josephine Burr.
God’s Will. Mildred Howells.
The Swordless Christ. Percy Adams Hutchison.
The Field of Glory. Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Love of Life. Tertius van Dyke.
Thanksgiving for Our Task. Shaemas OSheel.
Trees. Joyce Kilmer.
In the Hospital. Arthur Guiterman.
Night-Sentries. George Sterling.
Of Moira Up the Glen. Edward J. O’Brien.
On the Birth of a Child. Louis Untermeyer.
Rich Man, Poor Man—. Francis Hill.
In a Forgotten Burying-Ground. Ruth Guthrie Harding.
A Mountain Gateway. Bliss Carman.
Wind. Fannie Stearns Davis.
What of the Night? Willard Huntington Wright.
Heart’s Tide. Ethel M. Hewitt.
May is Building Her House. Richard Le Gallienne.
An Adieu. Florence Earle Coates.
A Threnody. Louis V. Ledoux.
Over the Wintry Threshold. Bliss Carman.
Waiting. Charles Hanson Towne.
The Ghost. Hermann Hagedorn.
School. Percy MacKaye.
Lest I Learn. Witter Bynner.
Human. Richard Burton.
Desiderium. Richard Le Gallienne.
Hymn to Demeter. Louis V. Ledoux.
Departure. John Hall Wheelock.
The Sin Eater. Ruth Comfort Mitchell.
The Kallyope Yell. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.
Train-Mates. Witter Bynner.
The Marvelous Munchausen. William Rose Benét.
The Old Maid. Sara Teasdale.
Later. Willard Huntington Wright.
Sappho. Sara Teasdale.
To a Child Falling Asleep. Robert Alden Sanborn.
St. John and the Faun. George Edward Woodberry.
In April. Margaret Lee Ashley.
In the Cool of the Evening. Witter Bynner.
Shipwreck. Hermann Hagedorn.
Vermont. Sarah N. Cleghorn.
The Little People. Amelia Josephine Burr.
Winter. Sara Teasdale.
The Dotage of Duns Scotus. Donn Byrne.
Memory. Naomi Lange.
A Ballad of Too Much Beauty. Richard Le Gallienne.
Morning Glories. John G. Neihardt.
The Adventurer. Gordon Johnstone.
A Secret Florence. Earle Coates.
Out of It All. Edith M. Thomas.
Ghosts. Fannie Stearns Davis.
The Mother. Fannie Stearns Davis.
My Conscience. James Whitcomb Riley.
The Festa. George Edward Woodberry.
Of an Artist. Charles Wharton Stork.
Of Melodies Unheard. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
I Heard a Voice. Florence Earle Coates.
Along the Road. Robert Browning Hamilton.
The Double Crowning. Amelia Josephine Burr.
Deep Water Song. John Reed.
To Elsa, with a volume of the “Arabian Nights.” Grace Hazard Conkling.
Song for a Child. Stark Young.
The River. Sara Teasdale.
La Preciosa. Thomas Walsh.
The Song of Love. E. Sutton.
The Dead Forerunner. C. W.
Here Lies Pierrot. Richard Burton.
The Girl Who Went to Ailey. Arthur Stringer.
Mother-Heart. Anna Spencer Twitchell.
God’s World. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Soft Is Spring over Grand Pré. Bliss Carman.
A Woman of the Streets. Charles Hanson Towne.
The Republic. Madison Cawein.
Woman the Mystical. John Hall Wheelock.
Daybreak in the Grand Cañon of Arizona. Henry van Dyke.
The Shoes of Happiness. Edwin Markham.
The Wanderer. John Masefield.
The Harvest Hand. Harry Kemp.
The Factory. Harry Kemp.
Gran’ Boule, a Seaman’s Tale of the Sea. Henry van Dyke.
The Vision of Gettysburg. Robert Underwood Johnson.
The Anvil of Souls. William Rose Benét.