| 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 |