Conrad Aiken: | PAGE |
| Music I Heard | 1 |
| Dead Cleopatra | 1 |
| Dancing Adairs | 2 |
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Zoë Akins: | |
| The Tragedienne | 3 |
| I Am the Wind | 3 |
| Conquered | 4 |
| The Wanderer | 4 |
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Richard Aldington: | |
| The Poplar | 5 |
| Lesbia | 6 |
| Images, I-VI | 6 |
| Choricos | 7 |
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Mary Aldis: | |
| Barberries | 10 |
| When You Come | 11 |
| Flash-lights, I-III | 12 |
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Walter Conrad Arensberg: | |
| Voyage à l’Infini | 13 |
| At Daybreak | 14 |
| To Hasekawa | 14 |
| Dialogue | 14 |
| Song of the Souls Set Free | 15 |
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Wilton Agnew Barrett: | |
| A New England Church | 15 |
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Joseph Warren Beach: | |
| Rue Bonaparte | 16 |
| The View at Gunderson’s | 17 |
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William Rose Benét: | |
| The Falconer of God | 18 |
| The Horse Thief | 20 |
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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 |
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Gordon Bottomley: | |
| Night and Morning Songs: | |
| | My Moon | 26 |
| | Elegiac Mood | 27 |
| | Dawn | 27 |
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Rollo Britten: | |
| Bird of Passion | 28 |
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Rupert Brooke: | |
| Retrospect | 28 |
| Nineteen-Fourteen: | |
| | I. Peace | 29 |
| | II. Safety | 30 |
| | III. The Dead | 30 |
| | IV. The Dead | 31 |
| | V. The Soldier | 31 |
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Witter Bynner: | |
| To Celia: | |
| | I. Consummation | 32 |
| | II. During a Chorale by Cesar Franck | 33 |
| | III. Songs Ascending | 34 |
| Grieve not for Beauty | 34 |
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Joseph Campbell: | |
| At Harvest | 35 |
| On Waking | 36 |
| The Old Woman | 38 |
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Nancy Campbell: | |
| The Apple-Tree | 38 |
| The Monkey | 39 |
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Skipwith Cannéll: | |
| The Red Bridge | 40 |
| The King | 41 |
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Willa Sibert Cather: | |
| The Palatine (In the “Dark Ages.”) | 43 |
| Spanish Johnny | 44 |
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Padraic Colum: | |
| Polonius and the Ballad Singers | 45 |
| The Sea Bird to the Wave | 49 |
| Old Men Complaining | 49 |
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Grace Hazard Conkling: | |
| Refugees (Belgium—1914) | 52 |
| “The Little Rose is Dust, My Dear” | 53 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mary Carolyn Davies: | |
| Cloistered | 71 |
| Songs of a Girl, I-V | 72 |
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Fannie Stearns Davis: | |
| Profits | 73 |
| Souls | 74 |
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Walter de la Mare: | |
| The Listeners | 74 |
| An Epitaph | 75 |
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Lee Wilson Dodd: | |
| The Temple | 76 |
| The Comrade | 77 |
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John Drinkwater: | |
| Sunrise on Rydal Water | 78 |
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Louise Driscoll: | |
| The Metal Checks | 80 |
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Dorothy Dudley: | |
| La Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Gèneviève | 84 |
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Helen Dudley: | |
| To One Unknown | 86 |
| Song | 86 |
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Max Eastman: | |
| Diogenes | 87 |
| In March | 87 |
| At the Aquarium | 87 |
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T. S. Eliot: | |
| Portrait of a Lady, I-III | 88 |
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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 |
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John Gould Fletcher: | |
| Irradiations, I-IV | 96 |
| Arizona Poems: | |
| | Mexican Quarter | 98 |
| | Rain in the Desert | 99 |
| The Blue Symphony, I-V | 100 |
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F. S. Flint: | |
| Poems in Unrhymed Cadence, I-III | 104 |
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Moireen Fox: | |
| Liadain to Curithir, I-V | 106 |
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Florence Kiper Frank: | |
| The Jewish Conscript | 108 |
| The Movies | 109 |
| You | 109 |
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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 |
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Hamlin Garland: | |
| To a Captive Crane | 119 |
| The Mountains are a Lonely Folk | 119 |
| Magic | 119 |
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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 |
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Richard Butler Glaenzer: | |
| Star-Magic | 126 |
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Douglas Goldring: | |
| Voyages, I-IV | 127 |
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Hermann Hagedorn: | |
| Early Morning at Bargis | 128 |
| Doors | 129 |
| Departure | 129 |
| Broadway | 130 |
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Thomas Hardy: | |
| She Hears the Storm | 130 |
| The Voice | 131 |
| In the Moonlight | 132 |
| The Man He Killed | 132 |
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Ralph Hodgson: | |
| The Mystery | 133 |
| Three Poems, I-III | 133 |
| Stupidity Street | 134 |
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Horace Holley: | |
| Three Poems: | |
| | Creative | 134 |
| | Twilight at Versailles | 135 |
| | Lovers | 135 |
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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 |
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Ford Madox Hueffer: | |
| Antwerp, I-VI | 138 |
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Scharmel Iris: | |
| After the Martyrdom | 143 |
| Lament | 143 |
| Iteration | 144 |
| Early Nightfall | 144 |
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Orrick Johns: | |
| Songs of Deliverance: | |
| | I. The Song of Youth | 144 |
| | II. Virgins | 146 |
| | III. No Prey Am I | 146 |
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Joyce Kilmer: | |
| Trees | 150 |
| Easter | 150 |
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Alfred Kreymborg: | |
| America | 151 |
| Old Manuscript | 151 |
| Cézanne | 152 |
| Parasite | 152 |
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William Laird: | |
| Traümerei at Ostendorff’s | 153 |
| A Very Old Song | 154 |
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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 |
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Agnes Lee: | |
| Motherhood | 159 |
| A Statue in a Garden | 161 |
| On the Jail Steps | 161 |
| Her Going | 162 |
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William Ellery Leonard: | |
| Indian Summer | 165 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Percy Mackaye: | |
| Old Age | 196 |
| Song from “Mater” | 197 |
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Frederic Manning: | |
| Sacrifice | 198 |
| At Even | 199 |
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John Masefield: | |
| Ships | 200 |
| Cargoes | 203 |
| Watching by a Sick-Bed | 203 |
| What am I, Life? | 204 |
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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 |
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Alice Meynell: | |
| Maternity | 221 |
| Chimes | 221 |
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Max Michelson: | |
| O Brother Tree | 222 |
| The Bird | 223 |
| Storm | 223 |
| A Hymn to Night | 224 |
| Love Lyric | 224 |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: | |
| God’s World | 225 |
| Ashes of Life | 226 |
| The Shroud | 226 |
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Harold Monro: | |
| Great City | 227 |
| Youth in Arms | 228 |
| The Strange Companion | 229 |
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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 |
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John G. Neihardt: | |
| Prayer for Pain | 243 |
| Envoi | 244 |
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Yone Noguchi: | |
| The Poet | 245 |
| I Have Cast the World | 246 |
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Grace Fallow Norton: | |
| Allegra Agonistes | 246 |
| Make No Vows | 247 |
| I Give Thanks | 247 |
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James Oppenheim: | |
| The Slave | 248 |
| The Lonely Child | 249 |
| Not Overlooked | 249 |
| The Runner in the Skies | 250 |
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Patrick Orr: | |
| Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon | 250 |
| In the Mohave | 251 |
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Seumas O’Sullivan: | |
| My Sorrow | 252 |
| Splendid and Terrible | 252 |
| The Others | 253 |
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Josephine Preston Peabody: | |
| Cradle Song, I-III | 254 |
| The Cedars | 256 |
| A Song of Solomon | 257 |
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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 |
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John Reed: | |
| Sangar | 277 |
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Ernest Rhys: | |
| Dagonet’s Canzonet | 280 |
| A Song of Happiness | 281 |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson: | |
| The Master | 283 |
| John Gorham | 285 |
| Richard Cory | 287 |
| The Growth of Lorraine, I-II | 287 |
| Cassandra | 288 |
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Carl Sandburg: | |
| Chicago | 290 |
| The Harbor | 291 |
| Sketch | 292 |
| Lost | 292 |
| Jan Kubelik | 293 |