The Melody of Earth / An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets

by Unknown

The Birth of the Flowers	Mary McNeil Fenollosa	[18]
The Welcome	Arthur Powell	[19]
The Joy of the Springtime	Sarojini Naidu	[20]
Spring	John Gould Fletcher	[20]
Primavera	George Cabot Lodge	[21]
The Green o' the Spring	Denis A. McCarthy	[22]
An April Morning	Bliss Carman	[23]
"With memories and odors"	John Hall Wheelock	[24]
April Rain	Conrad Aiken	[25]
While April Rain went by	Shaemas O Sheel	[25]
Spring	Francis Ledwidge	[26]
April Weather	Lizette Woodworth Reese	[27]
Daffodils	Ruth Guthrie Harding	[28]
The Crocus Flame	Clinton Scollard	[28]
The Early Gods	Witter Bynner	[30]
A Tulip Garden	Amy Lowell	[30]
Tulips	Arthur Guiterman	[31]
A White Iris	Pauline B. Barrington	[32]
May is building her House	Richard Le Gallienne	[33]
The Magnolia	José Santos Chocano	[34]
"Go down to Kew in lilac-time"	Alfred Noyes	[35]
Beyond	Thomas S. Jones, Jr.	[36]
June	Douglas Malloch	[36]
June Rapture	Angela Morgan	[37]
Columbines	Arthur Guiterman	[39]
The Morning-Glory	Florence Earle Coates	[40]
The Blossomy Barrow	T. A. Daly	[40]
Larkspur	James Oppenheim	[42]
The July Garden	Robert Ernest Vernède	[43]
"Mid-summer blooms within our quiet garden-ways"	Emile Verhaeren	[44]
Poppies	John Russell Hayes	[45]
The Garden in August	Gertrude Huntington McGiffert	[46]
Sun, Cardinal, and Corn Flowers	Hannah Parker Kimball	[48]
Sunflowers	Clinton Scollard	[48]
The End of Summer	Edna St. Vincent Millay	[49]
A Late Walk	Robert Frost	[50]
Color Notes	Charles Wharton Stork	[50]
The Golden Bowl	Mary McMillan	[51]
The Autumn Rose	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[52]
Indian Summer	Sara Teasdale	[53]
"Frost to-night"	Edith M. Thomas	[54]
November Night	Adelaide Crapsey	[55]
The Snow-Gardens	Zoë Akins	[55]
A Song for Winter	Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer	[57]

WINGS AND SONG

"I meant to do my work to-day"	Richard Le Gallienne	[60]
The Hummingbird	Hermann Hagedorn	[61]
Spring Song	William Griffith	[62]
Nightingales	Grace Hazard Conkling	[63]
The Goldfinch	Odell Shepard	[63]
Kinfolk	Kate Whiting Patch	[65]
A Mocking-Bird	Witter Bynner	[65]
The Cardinal-Bird	Arthur Guiterman	[66]
Yellow Warblers	Katharine Lee Bates	[67]
Witchery	Frank Dempster Sherman	[68]
The Spring Beauties	Helen Gray Cone	[68]
The Mocking-Bird	Frank L. Stanton	[69]
The Messenger	James Stephens	[71]
Fireflies	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[72]
July Midnight	Amy Lowell	[72]
The Cricket in the Path	Amelia Josephine Burr	[73]
Rest at Noon	Hermann Hagedorn	[74]
Order	Paul Scott Mowrer	[75]
The Night-Moth	Marion Couthouy Smith	[75]
The Butterfly	Edwin Markham	[76]
The Secret	Arthur Wallace Peach	[77]

THE GARDENS OF YESTERDAY

The Garden	Gertrude Huntington McGiffert	[80]
Old Homes	Madison Cawein	[81]
A Puritan Lady's Garden	Sarah N. Cleghorn	[82]
The Old-fashioned Garden	John Russell Hayes	[83]
A Colonial Garden	James B. Kenyon	[86]
In my Mother's Garden	Margaret Widdemer	[87]
To the Sweetwilliam	Norman Gale	[88]
Rose-Geranium	Clement Wood	[90]
Four O'Clocks	Julia C. R. Dorr	[91]
Asking for Roses	Robert Frost	[92]
The Old Brocade	M. G. Brereton	[93]
Stairways and Gardens	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	[94]
Old Mothers	Charles Ross	[95]

PASTURES AND HILLSIDES

Song from "April"	Irene Rutherford McLeod	[98]
The Road to the Pool	Grace Hazard Conkling	[99]
The Wild Rose	Charles Buxton Going	[99]
Up a Hill and a Hill	Fannie Stearns Davis	[100]
The Joys of a Summer Morning	Henry A. Wise Wood	[101]
South Wind	Siegfried Sassoon	[102]
To a Weed	Gertrude Hall	[102]
The Pasture	Robert Frost	[104]
The Thistle	Miles M. Dawson	[104]
Clover	John B. Tabb	[105]
Wild Gardens	Ada Foster Murray	[106]
The Dandelion	Vachel Lindsay	[107]
Joe-Pyeweed	Louis Untermeyer	[108]
To a Daisy	Alice Meynell	[109]
A Soft Day	W. M. Letts	[110]
Arbutus	Adelaide Crapsey	[111]
Jewel-Weed	Florence Earle Coates	[111]
The Wall	Abbie Farwell Brown	[112]
Boulders	Charles Wharton Stork	[114]
Afternoon on a Hill	Edna St. Vincent Millay	[115]
The Golden-Rod	Margaret Deland	[116]
The Path that leads to Nowhere	Corinne Roosevelt Robinson	[117]

LOVERS AND ROSES

The Message	George Edward Woodberry	[120]
"Where love is life"	Duncan Campbell Scott	[121]
The Time of Roses	Sarojini Naidu	[122]
Love planted a Rose	Katharine Lee Bates	[123]
The Garden	Alice Meynell	[123]
Cloud and Flower	Agnes Lee	[124]
Progress	Charlotte Becker	[125]
"But we did walk in Eden"	Josephine Preston Peabody	[125]
A Garden-Piece	Edmund Gosse	[126]
"How many flowers are gently met"	George Sterling	[127]
With a Rose, to Brunhilde	Vachel Lindsay	[127]
"My soul is like a garden-close"	Thomas S. Jones, Jr.	[128]
A Dream	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[129]
The Rose	Grace Hazard Conkling	[130]
Prayer	John Hall Wheelock	[130]
In a Garden	Livingston L. Biddle	[131]
A Song of Fairies	Elizabeth Kirby	[131]
A Song to Belinda	Theodosia Garrison	[132]
Sweetheart-Lady	Frank L. Stanton	[133]
Heart's Garden	Norreys Jephson O'Conor	[133]
A Rose Lover	Frederic A. Whiting	[134]
Sonnet	Elsa Barker	[135]
A Song in a Garden	Theodosia Garrison	[135]
"It was June in the garden"	Emile Verhaeren	[136]
Two Roses	William Lindsey	[138]
Roses	Wilfrid Wilson Gibson	[138]
Her Garden	Louis Dodge	[139]
Ære Perennius	Charles Hanson Towne	[139]
Ever the Same	Josephine Preston Peabody	[140]
The Message	Helen Hay Whitney	[141]
Tell-Tale	Oliver Herford	[142]
Da Thief	T. A. Daly	[143]
Results and Roses	Edgar A. Guest	[145]

UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH