TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Conrad Aiken: | PAGE | ||
| Music I Heard | [1] | ||
| Dead Cleopatra | [1] | ||
| Dancing Adairs | [2] | ||
| Zoë Akins: | |||
| The Tragedienne | [3] | ||
| I Am the Wind | [3] | ||
| Conquered | [4] | ||
| The Wanderer | [4] | ||
| Richard Aldington: | |||
| The Poplar | [5] | ||
| Lesbia | [6] | ||
| Images, I-VI | [6] | ||
| Choricos | [7] | ||
| Mary Aldis: | |||
| Barberries | [10] | ||
| When You Come | [11] | ||
| Flash-lights, I-III | [12] | ||
| Walter Conrad Arensberg: | |||
| Voyage à l’Infini | [13] | ||
| At Daybreak | [14] | ||
| To Hasekawa | [14] | ||
| Dialogue | [14] | ||
| Song of the Souls Set Free | [15] | ||
| Wilton Agnew Barrett: | |||
| A New England Church | [15] | ||
| Joseph Warren Beach: | |||
| Rue Bonaparte | [16] | ||
| The View at Gunderson’s | [17] | ||
| William Rose Benét: | |||
| The Falconer of God | [18] | ||
| The Horse Thief | [20] | ||
| Maxwell Bodenheim: | |||
| The Rear Porches of an Apartment-Building | [24] | ||
| The Interne | [24] | ||
| The Old Jew | [25] | ||
| The Miner | [25] | ||
| To an Enemy | [25] | ||
| To a Discarded Steel Rail | [26] | ||
| Gordon Bottomley: | |||
| Night and Morning Songs: | |||
| My Moon | [26] | ||
| Elegiac Mood | [27] | ||
| Dawn | [27] | ||
| Rollo Britten: | |||
| Bird of Passion | [28] | ||
| Rupert Brooke: | |||
| Retrospect | [28] | ||
| Nineteen-Fourteen: | |||
| I. Peace | [29] | ||
| II. Safety | [30] | ||
| III. The Dead | [30] | ||
| IV. The Dead | [31] | ||
| V. The Soldier | [31] | ||
| Witter Bynner: | |||
| To Celia: | |||
| I. Consummation | [32] | ||
| II. During a Chorale by Cesar Franck | [33] | ||
| III. Songs Ascending | [34] | ||
| Grieve not for Beauty | [34] | ||
| Joseph Campbell: | |||
| At Harvest | [35] | ||
| On Waking | [36] | ||
| The Old Woman | [38] | ||
| Nancy Campbell: | |||
| The Apple-Tree | [38] | ||
| The Monkey | [39] | ||
| Skipwith Cannéll: | |||
| The Red Bridge | [40] | ||
| The King | [41] | ||
| Willa Sibert Cather: | |||
| The Palatine (In the “Dark Ages.”) | [43] | ||
| Spanish Johnny | [44] | ||
| Padraic Colum: | |||
| Polonius and the Ballad Singers | [45] | ||
| The Sea Bird to the Wave | [49] | ||
| Old Men Complaining | [49] | ||
| Grace Hazard Conkling: | |||
| Refugees (Belgium—1914) | [52] | ||
| “The Little Rose is Dust, My Dear” | [53] | ||
| Alice Corbin: | |||
| O World | [53] | ||
| Two Voices | [54] | ||
| Love Me at Last | [55] | ||
| Humoresque | [55] | ||
| One City Only | [55] | ||
| Apparitions, I-II | [57] | ||
| The Pool | [57] | ||
| Music | [58] | ||
| What Dim Arcadian Pastures | [59] | ||
| Nodes | [59] | ||
| Adelaide Crapsey: | |||
| Cinquains: | |||
| November Night | [60] | ||
| Triad | [60] | ||
| Susanna and the Elders | [61] | ||
| The Guarded Wound | [61] | ||
| The Warning | [61] | ||
| Fate Defied | [61] | ||
| The Pledge | [61] | ||
| Expenses | [62] | ||
| Adventure | [62] | ||
| Dirge | [62] | ||
| Song | [62] | ||
| The Lonely Death | [63] | ||
| H. D.: | |||
| Hermes of the Ways, I-II | [63] | ||
| Priapus (Keeper of Orchards) | [65] | ||
| The Pool | [66] | ||
| Oread | [66] | ||
| The Garden, I-II | [66] | ||
| Moonrise | [67] | ||
| The Shrine, I-IV | [68] | ||
| Mary Carolyn Davies: | |||
| Cloistered | [71] | ||
| Songs of a Girl, I-V | [72] | ||
| Fannie Stearns Davis: | |||
| Profits | [73] | ||
| Souls | [74] | ||
| Walter de la Mare: | |||
| The Listeners | [74] | ||
| An Epitaph | [75] | ||
| Lee Wilson Dodd: | |||
| The Temple | [76] | ||
| The Comrade | [77] | ||
| John Drinkwater: | |||
| Sunrise on Rydal Water | [78] | ||
| Louise Driscoll: | |||
| The Metal Checks | [80] | ||
| Dorothy Dudley: | |||
| La Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Gèneviève | [84] | ||
| Helen Dudley: | |||
| To One Unknown | [86] | ||
| Song | [86] | ||
| Max Eastman: | |||
| Diogenes | [87] | ||
| In March | [87] | ||
| At the Aquarium | [87] | ||
| T. S. Eliot: | |||
| Portrait of a Lady, I-III | [88] | ||
| Arthur Davison Ficke: | |||
| Meeting | [92] | ||
| Among Shadows | [93] | ||
| The Three Sisters | [93] | ||
| Portrait of an Old Woman | [93] | ||
| I am Weary of Being Bitter | [94] | ||
| From “Sonnets of a Portrait Painter” | [95] | ||
| Like Him Whose Spirit | [95] | ||
| John Gould Fletcher: | |||
| Irradiations, I-IV | [96] | ||
| Arizona Poems: | |||
| Mexican Quarter | [98] | ||
| Rain in the Desert | [99] | ||
| The Blue Symphony, I-V | [100] | ||
| F. S. Flint: | |||
| Poems in Unrhymed Cadence, I-III | [104] | ||
| Moireen Fox: | |||
| Liadain to Curithir, I-V | [106] | ||
| Florence Kiper Frank: | |||
| The Jewish Conscript | [108] | ||
| The Movies | [109] | ||
| You | [109] | ||
| Robert Frost: | |||
| Mending Wall | [110] | ||
| After Apple-Picking | [111] | ||
| My November Guest | [112] | ||
| Mowing | [113] | ||
| Storm Fear | [113] | ||
| Going for Water | [114] | ||
| The Code—Heroics | [115] | ||
| Hamlin Garland: | |||
| To a Captive Crane | [119] | ||
| The Mountains are a Lonely Folk | [119] | ||
| Magic | [119] | ||
| Wilfrid Wilson Gibson: | |||
| Color | [120] | ||
| Oblivion | [121] | ||
| Tenants | [121] | ||
| Gold | [122] | ||
| On Hampstead Heath | [122] | ||
| Battle: | |||
| The Going | [123] | ||
| The Joke | [123] | ||
| In the Ambulance | [123] | ||
| Hit | [124] | ||
| The Housewife | [124] | ||
| Hill-born | [125] | ||
| The Fear | [125] | ||
| Back | [125] | ||
| Richard Butler Glaenzer: | |||
| Star-Magic | [126] | ||
| Douglas Goldring: | |||
| Voyages, I-IV | [127] | ||
| Hermann Hagedorn: | |||
| Early Morning at Bargis | [128] | ||
| Doors | [129] | ||
| Departure | [129] | ||
| Broadway | [130] | ||
| Thomas Hardy: | |||
| She Hears the Storm | [130] | ||
| The Voice | [131] | ||
| In the Moonlight | [132] | ||
| The Man He Killed | [132] | ||
| Ralph Hodgson: | |||
| The Mystery | [133] | ||
| Three Poems, I-III | [133] | ||
| Stupidity Street | [134] | ||
| Horace Holley: | |||
| Three Poems: | |||
| Creative | [134] | ||
| Twilight at Versailles | [135] | ||
| Lovers | [135] | ||
| Helen Hoyt: | |||
| Ellis Park | [135] | ||
| The New-Born | [136] | ||
| Rain at Night | [137] | ||
| The Lover Sings of a Garden | [137] | ||
| Since I Have Felt the Sense of Death | [138] | ||
| Ford Madox Hueffer: | |||
| Antwerp, I-VI | [138] | ||
| Scharmel Iris: | |||
| After the Martyrdom | [143] | ||
| Lament | [143] | ||
| Iteration | [144] | ||
| Early Nightfall | [144] | ||
| Orrick Johns: | |||
| Songs of Deliverance: | |||
| I. The Song of Youth | [144] | ||
| II. Virgins | [146] | ||
| III. No Prey Am I | [146] | ||
| Joyce Kilmer: | |||
| Trees | [150] | ||
| Easter | [150] | ||
| Alfred Kreymborg: | |||
| America | [151] | ||
| Old Manuscript | [151] | ||
| Cézanne | [152] | ||
| Parasite | [152] | ||
| William Laird: | |||
| Traümerei at Ostendorff’s | [153] | ||
| A Very Old Song | [154] | ||
| D. H. Lawrence: | |||
| A Woman and Her Dead Husband | [155] | ||
| Fireflies in the Corn | [157] | ||
| Green | [158] | ||
| Grief | [158] | ||
| Service of All the Dead | [159] | ||
| Agnes Lee: | |||
| Motherhood | [159] | ||
| A Statue in a Garden | [161] | ||
| On the Jail Steps | [161] | ||
| Her Going | [162] | ||
| William Ellery Leonard: | |||
| Indian Summer | [165] | ||
| Vachel Lindsay: | |||
| General William Booth Enters into Heaven | [166] | ||
| The Eagle that is Forgotten | [168] | ||
| The Congo (A Study of the Negro Race): | |||
| I. Their Basic Savagery | [169] | ||
| II. Their Irrepressible High Spirits | [171] | ||
| III. The Hope of Their Religion | [172] | ||
| Aladdin and the Jinn | [174] | ||
| The Chinese Nightingale | [175] | ||
| Amy Lowell: | |||
| Patterns | [182] | ||
| 1777: | |||
| I. The Trumpet-Vine Arbor | [186] | ||
| II. The City of Falling Leaves | [187] | ||
| Venus Transiens | [191] | ||
| A Lady | [192] | ||
| Chinoiseries: | |||
| Reflections | [192] | ||
| Falling Snow | [193] | ||
| Hoar-frost | [193] | ||
| Solitaire | [193] | ||
| A Gift | [194] | ||
| Red Slippers | [194] | ||
| Apology | [195] | ||
| Percy Mackaye: | |||
| Old Age | [196] | ||
| Song from “Mater” | [197] | ||
| Frederic Manning: | |||
| Sacrifice | [198] | ||
| At Even | [199] | ||
| John Masefield: | |||
| Ships | [200] | ||
| Cargoes | [203] | ||
| Watching by a Sick-Bed | [203] | ||
| What am I, Life? | [204] | ||
| Edgar Lee Masters: | |||
| Spoon River Anthology: | |||
| The Hill | [205] | ||
| Ollie McGee | [206] | ||
| Daisy Fraser | [207] | ||
| Hare Drummer | [207] | ||
| Doc Hill | [208] | ||
| Fiddler Jones | [208] | ||
| Thomas Rhodes | [209] | ||
| Editor Whedon | [210] | ||
| Seth Compton | [210] | ||
| Henry C. Calhoun | [211] | ||
| Perry Zoll | [212] | ||
| Archibald Higbie | [212] | ||
| Father Malloy | [213] | ||
| Lucinda Matlock | [213] | ||
| Anne Rutledge | [214] | ||
| William H. Herndon | [215] | ||
| Rutherford McDowell | [215] | ||
| Arlo Will | [216] | ||
| Aaron Hatfield | [217] | ||
| Webster Ford | [218] | ||
| Silence | [219] | ||
| Alice Meynell: | |||
| Maternity | [221] | ||
| Chimes | [221] | ||
| Max Michelson: | |||
| O Brother Tree | [222] | ||
| The Bird | [223] | ||
| Storm | [223] | ||
| A Hymn to Night | [224] | ||
| Love Lyric | [224] | ||
| Edna St. Vincent Millay: | |||
| God’s World | [225] | ||
| Ashes of Life | [226] | ||
| The Shroud | [226] | ||
| Harold Monro: | |||
| Great City | [227] | ||
| Youth in Arms | [228] | ||
| The Strange Companion | [229] | ||
| Harriet Monroe: | |||
| The Hotel | [231] | ||
| The Turbine | [233] | ||
| On the Porch | [236] | ||
| The Wonder of It | [237] | ||
| The Inner Silence | [238] | ||
| Love Song | [238] | ||
| A Farewell | [239] | ||
| Lullaby | [239] | ||
| Pain | [240] | ||
| The Water Ouzel | [241] | ||
| The Pine at Timber-Line | [242] | ||
| Mountain Song | [242] | ||
| John G. Neihardt: | |||
| Prayer for Pain | [243] | ||
| Envoi | [244] | ||
| Yone Noguchi: | |||
| The Poet | [245] | ||
| I Have Cast the World | [246] | ||
| Grace Fallow Norton: | |||
| Allegra Agonistes | [246] | ||
| Make No Vows | [247] | ||
| I Give Thanks | [247] | ||
| James Oppenheim: | |||
| The Slave | [248] | ||
| The Lonely Child | [249] | ||
| Not Overlooked | [249] | ||
| The Runner in the Skies | [250] | ||
| Patrick Orr: | |||
| Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon | [250] | ||
| In the Mohave | [251] | ||
| Seumas O’Sullivan: | |||
| My Sorrow | [252] | ||
| Splendid and Terrible | [252] | ||
| The Others | [253] | ||
| Josephine Preston Peabody: | |||
| Cradle Song, I-III | [254] | ||
| The Cedars | [256] | ||
| A Song of Solomon | [257] | ||
| Ezra Pound: | |||
| Δώρια | [257] | ||
| The Return | [258] | ||
| Piccadilly | [259] | ||
| N. Y. | [259] | ||
| The Coming of War: Actaeon | [260] | ||
| The Garden | [260] | ||
| Ortus | [261] | ||
| The Choice | [261] | ||
| The Garret | [262] | ||
| Dance Figure | [262] | ||
| From “Near Périgord” | [263] | ||
| An Immorality | [264] | ||
| The Study in Aesthetics | [265] | ||
| Further Instructions | [265] | ||
| Villanelle: The Psychological Hour, I-III | [266] | ||
| Ballad of the Goodly Fere | [268] | ||
| Ballad for Gloom | [270] | ||
| La Fraisne | [271] | ||
| The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (from the Chinese of Li Po.) | [273] | ||
| Exile’s Letter (From the Chinese of Li Po.) | [274] | ||
| John Reed: | |||
| Sangar | [277] | ||
| Ernest Rhys: | |||
| Dagonet’s Canzonet | [280] | ||
| A Song of Happiness | [281] | ||
| Edwin Arlington Robinson: | |||
| The Master | [283] | ||
| John Gorham | [285] | ||
| Richard Cory | [287] | ||
| The Growth of Lorraine, I-II | [287] | ||
| Cassandra | [288] | ||
| Carl Sandburg: | |||
| Chicago | [290] | ||
| The Harbor | [291] | ||
| Sketch | [292] | ||
| Lost | [292] | ||
| Jan Kubelik | [293] | ||
| At a Window | [293] | ||
| The Poor | [294] | ||
| The Road and the End | [294] | ||
| Killers | [295] | ||
| Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard | [296] | ||
| Handfuls | [296] | ||
| Under the Harvest Moon | [297] | ||
| Choose | [297] | ||
| Kin | [298] | ||
| Places | [298] | ||
| Joy | [299] | ||
| The Great Hunt | [299] | ||
| Our Prayer of Thanks | [300] | ||
| Clara Shanafelt: | |||
| To Thee | [301] | ||
| Caprice | [301] | ||
| A Vivid Girl | [301] | ||
| Invocation | [302] | ||
| Pastel | [302] | ||
| A Gallant Woman | [302] | ||
| Scherzo | [303] | ||
| Frances Shaw: | |||
| Who Loves the Rain | [304] | ||
| The Harp of the Wind | [304] | ||
| The Ragpicker | [305] | ||
| Cologne Cathedral | [305] | ||
| Star Thought | [305] | ||
| The Child’s Quest | [306] | ||
| Little Pagan Rain Song | [306] | ||
| Constance Lindsay Skinner: | |||
| Songs of the Coast-Dwellers: | |||
| The Chief’s Prayer after the Salmon Catch | [307] | ||
| Song of Whip-Plaiting | [308] | ||
| No Answer is Given | [309] | ||
| James Stephens: | |||
| What Tomas An Buile said in a Pub | [312] | ||
| Bessie Bobtail | [313] | ||
| Hate | [313] | ||
| The Waste Places, I-II | [314] | ||
| Hawks | [316] | ||
| Dark Wings | [317] | ||
| George Sterling: | |||
| A Legend of the Dove | [317] | ||
| Kindred | [318] | ||
| Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium | [318] | ||
| The Last Days | [319] | ||
| Wallace Stevens: | |||
| Peter Quince at the Clavier, I-IV | [320] | ||
| In Battle | [322] | ||
| Sunday Morning, I-V | [323] | ||
| Ajan Syrian: | |||
| The Syrian Lover in Exile Remembers Thee, Light of my Land | [325] | ||
| Rabindranath Tagore: | |||
| From “Gitanjali,” I-VI | [327] | ||
| From “The Gardener,” I-IX | [329] | ||
| Sara Teasdale: | |||
| Leaves | [334] | ||
| Morning | [334] | ||
| The Flight | [335] | ||
| Over the Roofs | [335] | ||
| Debt | [336] | ||
| Songs in a Hospital: | |||
| The Broken Field | [336] | ||
| Open Windows | [336] | ||
| After Death | [337] | ||
| In Memoriam F. O. S. | [337] | ||
| Swallow Flight | [338] | ||
| The Answer | [338] | ||
| Eunice Tietjens: | |||
| The Bacchante to Her Babe | [339] | ||
| The Steam Shovel | [341] | ||
| The Great Man | [343] | ||
| Ridgely Torrence: | |||
| The Bird and the Tree | [344] | ||
| The Son | [345] | ||
| Charles Hanson Towne: | |||
| Beyond the Stars | [346] | ||
| Louis Untermeyer: | |||
| Landscapes | [348] | ||
| Feuerzauber | [350] | ||
| On the Birth of a Child | [351] | ||
| Irony | [352] | ||
| Allen Upward: | |||
| Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar: | |||
| The Acacia Leaves | [352] | ||
| The Bitter Purple Willows | [352] | ||
| The Coral Fisher | [353] | ||
| The Diamond | [353] | ||
| The Estuary | [353] | ||
| The Intoxicated Poet | [353] | ||
| The Jonquils | [353] | ||
| The Marigold | [353] | ||
| The Mermaid | [354] | ||
| The Middle Kingdom | [354] | ||
| The Milky Way | [354] | ||
| The Onion | [354] | ||
| The Sea-Shell | [354] | ||
| The Stupid Kite | [354] | ||
| The Windmill | [355] | ||
| The Word | [355] | ||
| John Hall Wheelock: | |||
| Sunday Evening in the Common | [355] | ||
| Spring | [356] | ||
| Like Music | [356] | ||
| The Thunder-Shower | [357] | ||
| Song | [357] | ||
| Alone | [358] | ||
| Nirvana | [358] | ||
| Triumph of the Singer | [358] | ||
| Hervey White: | |||
| Last Night | [359] | ||
| I Saw the Clouds | [360] | ||
| Margaret Widdemer: | |||
| The Beggars | [361] | ||
| Teresina’s Face | [362] | ||
| Greek Folk Song | [362] | ||
| Florence Wilkinson: | |||
| Our Lady of Idleness | [363] | ||
| Students | [365] | ||
| Marguerite Wilkinson: | |||
| A Woman’s Beloved—A Psalm | [367] | ||
| An Incantation | [368] | ||
| William Carlos Williams: | |||
| Sicilian Emigrant’s Song | [369] | ||
| Peace on Earth | [370] | ||
| The Shadow | [371] | ||
| Metric Figure | [371] | ||
| Sub Terra | [372] | ||
| Slow Movement | [373] | ||
| Postlude | [374] | ||
| Charles Erskine Scott Wood: | |||
| “The Poet in the Desert”—Extracts from the Prologue | [375] | ||
| Edith Wyatt: | |||
| On the Great Plateau | [377] | ||
| Summer Hail | [379] | ||
| To F. W. | [380] | ||
| A City Afternoon | [382] | ||
THE NEW POETRY