West New Brighton

New York

Contents

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Lincoln, the Man of the People[1]
In a Corn-field[4]
The Sower[5]
At Little Virgil’s Window[8]
The Muse of Brotherhood[9]
A Blossoming Bough[13]
Kyka[14]
A Mendocino Memory[16]
The Witness of the Dust[21]
The Wall Street Pit[23]
A Creed[25]
The Mighty Hundred Years[26]
Which was Dream?[34]
Our Deathless Dead[36]
The Builders[39]
The Angelus[40]
The Suicide[44]
The Ascension[45]
All-Men’s Inn[48]
The Field Fraternity[49]
The Errand Imperious[51]
Love’s To-Morrow[54]
The Leader of the People[55]
Art[58]
On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades”[59]
The Muse of Labor[60]
Even Scales[63]
Dreyfus[64]
Memory of Good Deeds[66]
The New Century[67]
The Need of the Hour[70]
The Lizard[72]
The Humming Bird[74]
The Round-Up[75]
Song of the Fay[78]
The World-Purpose[80]
To Young America[82]
The Brown o’ the Year[83]
Wind of the Fall[84]
The Free Press[85]
A Bargain[87]
“Inasmuch”[88]
“The Father’s Business”[90]
A Guard of the Sepulchre[91]
The Song of the Shepherds[93]
The Prince of Whim[96]
The Plowman[97]
Song’s Eternity[98]
The God of Song and Mirth[99]
St. Elizabeth of Hungary[101]
The Joy-Maker[113]
The Face of Life[114]
The Story of Bacchus[115]
Lost Lands[118]
Poet-Lore[119]
The Hindered Guest[121]
Supplication[125]

LINCOLN &

OTHER POEMS

Lincoln, the Man of the People

When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour,

Greatening and darkening as it hurried on,

She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down