BY

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

TO

GEORGE THEODORE ACHELIS

1897–1920

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ainslie’s Magazine, The Bowling Green, Books and the Book World, The Dial, The New Republic, Romance, Sun, The Sun Dial, The Yale Review and The Yale Literary Magazine for permission to reprint poems included in this volume.

CONTENTS

TWO VISIONS OF HELEN
PAGE
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]

TWO VISIONS OF HELEN

THE FIRST VISION OF HELEN