COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
TO MY FATHER
SIMPSON ROBERTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Certain of these poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The University Record (the University of Chicago), Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, Child Life, and the Phoenix. The author thanks the editors of these journals for the privilege of reprinting.
CONTENTS
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- The Sky[1 ]
- The Cornfield[3 ]
- Milking Time[4 ]
- In My Pillow[6 ]
- Miss Kate-Marie[8 ]
- The Woodpecker[10 ]
- The Star[11 ]
- The Butterbean Tent[12 ]
- Big Brother[14 ]
- Mr. Wells[15 ]
- Dick and Will[16 ]
- The Pilaster[18 ]
- Firefly[19 ]
- Little Rain[20 ]
- The Pulpit[22 ]
- On the Hill[24 ]
- Autumn[26 ]
- The Rabbit[28 ]
- Crescent Moon[29 ]
- Father's Story[30 ]
- Christmas Morning[32 ]
- People Going By[35 ]
- Babes in the Woods[38 ]
- The Picnic[40 ]
- Mumps[42 ]
- The Circus[44 ]
- Strange Tree[46 ]
- The Branch[48 ]
- The Worm[50 ]
- A Child Asleep[52 ]
- Little Bush[54 ]
- At the Water[55 ]
- Water Noises[56 ]
- Among the Rushes[58 ]
- Numbers[59 ]
- In the Night[60 ]
- The People[63 ]
- The Grandmother[64 ]
- In Maryland[66 ]
- The Sunday Bonnet[68 ]
- The Sun and a Birch Tree[70 ]
- A Little Wind[71 ]
- Autumn Fields[72 ]
- Mr. Pennybaker at Church[74 ]
- The Wolves[75 ]
- A Beautiful Lady[76 ]
- Shells in Rock[78 ]
- Horse[80 ]
- August Night[82 ]
- Three Dominican Nuns[84 ]
- My Heart[85 ]
- The Hens[86 ]