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THE MELODY OF EARTH

AN ANTHOLOGY OF GARDEN AND NATURE POEMS FROM PRESENT-DAY POETS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY MRS. WALDO RICHARDS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY GERTRUDE MOORE RICHARDS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published March 1918_

TO MY DEAR SISTER A LOVER OF GARDENS

FOREWORD

How many of us are conscious of the subtle melodies, "through which the myriad lispings of the earth find perfect speech"?

Our poets are listeners; their ears are tuned to the magic call of secret voices that we who are not singers may never hear. They capture the "Melody" in chalices of song, and their message is: that whosoever will bend his ear to earth, may hear from field and furrow, from the many-bladed grass and the soft-petalled flowers--in the soughing of the pine tree or the rustle of leaves--an immortal music that revivifies the soul.

In the quiet tilled spots of earth, from time immemorial, men have sown rare seeds of poetic thought that have flowered into song. Amiel wrote in his _Journal_: "All seed-sowing is a mysterious thing whether the seed fall into earth or into souls; man is a husbandman, and his work rightly understood is to develop life, to sow it everywhere." The poets are our seed-sowers, and _their_ work is to develop life and to enrich it. They are never happier than when writing about gardens and the growing things of earth--at once their symbol and their solace. In turn gardens have in the poets their happiest interpreters.

Here I have culled and gathered together songs and poems that reflect the melody and harmony of Nature's forces. In these days of the world's travail, let us seek inspiration and content within the delightful confines of these Gardens of Poetry.

GERTRUDE MOORE RICHARDS

_March_, 1918

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Mrs. Richards tenders her sincere thanks to the publishers and poets who have so generously accorded their permission to use copyrighted poems:

To the American Tract Society for "Seeds" and "The Philosopher's Garden," John Oxenham, from _Bees in Amber_.

To Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for "The Mocking-Bird," Frank L. Stanton, from _Songs of the Soil_.

To the Baker & Taylor Co. for "June Rapture" and "The Rose," Angela Morgan, from _The Hour has Struck, and Other Poems_ and _Utterance, and Other Poems_.

To The Biddle Press for "The Old-fashioned Garden" and "Poppies," John Russell Hayes, from _Collected Poems_.

To the Bobbs-Merrill Company for "Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer," James Whitcomb Riley, from _Complete Works_.

To Edmund A. Brooks, Minneapolis, for "Daffodils" and "From a Car-Window," Ruth Guthrie Harding, from _The Lark went Singing, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Burns & Oates and to Alice Meynell (Mrs. Wilfrid Meynell) for "To a Daisy" and "The Garden" from _Collected Poems_; for "Rosa Mystica," Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Henry Albert Hinkson), from _The Flower of Peace_.

To The Century Co. for "Larkspur," James Oppenheim, from _War and Laughter_; for "The Tilling," Cale Young Rice, from _Trails Sunward_; for "The Haunted Garden," Louis Untermeyer, from _Challenge_.

To Messrs. Constable & Co. for "For These," Edward Thomas (Edward Eastaway), from _An Annual of New Poetry_.

To _Country Life_ (London) and to Mrs. Gurney personally for "The Lord God planted a Garden" and "A Garden in Venice," by Dorothy Frances Gurney, from _Poems_.

To Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell Company for "Love planted a Rose," Katharine Lee Bates, from _America, and Other Poems_; for "An Exile's Garden," Sophie Jewett, from _Collected Poems_.

To Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons for "The Spring Beauties," Helen Gray Cone, from _The Chant of Love, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. for "In a Garden," Livingston L. Biddle, from _The Understanding Hills_.

To Messrs. George H. Doran Company for "The Cricket in the Path," "Herb of Grace," and "Rain in the Night," Amelia Josephine Burr, from _In Deep Places_ and _Life and Living_; for "A Song in a Garden," "Shade," and "The Poplars," Theodosia Garrison, from _The Dreamers, and Other Poems_; for "Trees," Joyce Kilmer, from _Trees, and Other Poems_; for "June," Douglas Malloch, from _The Woods_; for "Where Love is Life," Duncan Campbell Scott, from "The Three Songs" in _Lundy's Lane, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. for "A Prayer," "The Butterfly," and "Before Mary of Magdala came," Edwin Markham, from _The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems_ and _The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Duffield & Co. for "The sweet caresses that I gave to you," Elsa Barker, from _The Book of Love_; for "What heart but fears a fragrance?" ("Zauber Duft"), Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi, from _Gabrielle, and Other Poems_; for "Spring," Francis Ledwidge, from _Songs of the Fields_; for "The White Peacock," William Sharp, from _Songs and Poems_.

To Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for "The South Wind," Siegfried Sassoon, from _The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems_; for "The Tree," Evelyn Underhill, from _Theophanies_.

To Messrs. H. W. Fisher & Co. for "A Dream," "The Autumn Rose," "Fireflies," and "An Evening in Old Japan," Antoinette De Coursey Patterson, from _Sonnets and Quatrains_ and _The Son of Merope, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Harper & Brothers for "Roses in the Subway," Dana Burnet, from _Poems_; for "The Wild Rose," and "If I were a Fairy," Charles Buxton Going, from _Star-Glow and Song_; for "The Cardinal-Bird," Arthur Guiterman, from _The Laughing Muse_; for "Wild Gardens," Ada Foster Murray, from _Flowers of the Grass_; for "The Message," Helen Hay Whitney, from _Sonnets and Songs_.

To Hearst's International Library Company for "Stairways and Gardens" and "My Flower-Room," Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from _World Voices_.

To Mr. William Heinemann for "The Cactus," Laurence Hope, from _Stars of the Desert_; for "The July Garden," R. E. Vernède, from _War Poems, and Other Verses_; for "A Garden-Piece," Edmund Gosse, from _Collected Poems_.

To Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. for "The Cloister Garden at Certosa," Richard Burton, from _Poems of Earth's Meaning_; for "The Furrow," Padraic Colum, from _Wild Earth, and Other Poems_; for "The Three Cherry Trees," Walter de la Mare, from _The Listeners, and Other Poems_; for "A Late Walk," "Asking for Roses," "The Pasture," and "Putting in the Seed," Robert Frost, from _A Boy's Will_, _North of Boston_, and _A Mountain Interval_; for "Joe-Pyeweed," Louis Untermeyer, from _These Times_.

To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Blooming of the Rose" and the selection from "Under the Trees," Anna Hempstead Branch, from _The Heart of the Road_ and _The Shoes that Danced, and Other Poems_; for "Spring Patchwork" and "The Flowerphone," Abbie Farwell Brown, from _A Pocketful of Posies_ and _Songs of Sixpence_; for "The Morning-Glory" and "Jewel-Weed," Florence Earle Coates, from _Collected Poems_; for "Nightingales" and "A Breath of Mint," Grace Hazard Conkling, from _Afternoons of April_; for "The Golden-Rod," Margaret Deland, from _The Old Garden, and Other Verses_; for "A Roman Garden," Florence Wilkinson Evans, from _The Ride Home_; for "Cobwebs," Louise Imogen Guiney, from _Happy Ending_; for "Planting," Robert Livingston, from _Murrer and Me_; for "Primavera," George Cabot Lodge, from _Poems and Dramas_; for "Ever the Same," "Charm: To be said in the Sun," and "But we did walk in Eden," Josephine Preston Peabody, from _The Singing Leaves_ and _The Singing Man_; for "At Isola Bella" ("A White Peacock"), Jessie B. Rittenhouse, from _The Door of Dreams_; for "The Goldfinch," Odell Shepard, from _A Lonely Flute_; for "Daisies" and "Witchery," Frank Dempster Sherman, from _Poems_; for "Grandmother's Gathering Boneset," Edith M. Thomas, from _In Sunshine Land_.

To Mr. B. W. Huebsch for "Song from 'April,'" Irene Rutherford McLeod, from _Songs to Save a Soul_.

To Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co. for "Vestured and veiled with twilight," Rosamund Marriott Watson, from _The Heart of a Garden_.

To Mr. R. U. Johnson (publisher) for "Como in April," Robert Underwood Johnson, from _Collected Poems_.

To Mr. Mitchell Kennerley for "A Song to Belinda," Theodosia Garrison, from _Earth Cry_; for "In a Garden," Horace Holley, from _Divinations and Creations_; for "Afternoon on a Hill," "The End of Summer," and "A Little Ghost," Edna St. Vincent Millay, from _Renascence, and Other Poems_; for "Welcome," John Curtis Underwood, from _Processionals_; for "Ære Perennius," Charles Hanson Towne, from _A Quiet Singer_.

To Mr. Alfred A. Knopf for "The Rain" and "The Ways of Time," William H. Davies, from _Collected Poems_.

To The John Lane Company (New York) for "Loveliest of Trees," A. E. Housman, from _A Shropshire Lad_; for "May is building her House," and "I meant to do my work to-day," Richard Le Gallienne, from _The Lonely Dancer_; for "The Joy of the Springtime," and "The Time of Roses," Sarojini Naidu, from _The Bird of Time_ and _The Broken Wing_; for "Heart's Garden," Norreys Jephson O'Conor, from _Celtic Memories_; for "Serenade," Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, from _The Lamp of Poor Souls_; for "There is Strength in the Soil," Arthur Stringer, from _Open Water_; for "Midsummer blooms within our quiet garden ways," "It was June in the garden," and "Within the garden there is healthfulness," Emile Verhaeren, from _The Sunlit Hours_ and _Afternoon_; for "In a Garden of Granada," Thomas Walsh, from _Gardens Overseas_; for "The Garden of Mnemosyne," Rosamund Marriott Watson, from _Collected Poems_; for "Eden-Hunger," William Watson, from _Retrogression, and Other Poems_; for "Spring Planting," Helen Hay Whitney, from _Herbs and Apples_.

To Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. for "To a Weed," Gertrude Hall, from _The Age of Fairy Gold_; for "The Green o' the Spring," Denis A. McCarthy, from _Voices from Erin_; for "The Baby's Valentine," Laura E. Richards, from _In my Nursery_.

To Messrs. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for "God's Garden," Richard Burton, from _Dumb in June_.

To Mr. David McKay for "The Blossomy Barrow" and "Da Thief," Thomas Augustine Daly, from _Madrigali_; for "A Soft Day," W. M. Letts, from _Songs from Leinster_.

To The Macmillan Company for "Old Homes," Madison Cawein, from _Poems_; for "Up a Hill and a Hill," Fannie Stearns Davis, from _Myself and I_; for "In the Womb," A. E. (George William Russell), from _Collected Poems_; for "To the Sweetwilliam," Norman Gale, from _Collected Poems_; for "Roses," Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, from _Battle, and Other Poems_; for "Rest at Noon" and "The Hummingbird," Hermann Hagedorn, from _Poems and Ballads_; for "The Mystery," Ralph Hodgson, from _Poems_; for "The Dandelion" and "With a Rose, to Brunhilde," Vachel Lindsay, from _General William Booth enters into Heaven, and Other Poems_ and _A Handy Guide for Beggars_; for "A Tulip Garden," "Fringed Gentians," and "The Fruit Garden Path," Amy Lowell, from _Sword Blades and Poppy Seed_ and _The Dome of Many-coloured Glass_; for "It may be so: but let the unknown be" and "Drop me the Seed," John Masefield, from _Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems_; for "Samuel Gardner," Edgar Lee Masters, from _The Spoon River Anthology_; for "Go down to Kew in lilac-time" (selection from "The Barrel-Organ"), Alfred Noyes, from _Poems_; for "The Messenger," James Stephens, from _Songs from the Clay_; for "The Champa Flower" and "The Flower-School," Rabindranath Tagore, from _The Crescent Moon_; for "Indian Summer," "Alchemy," "The Fountain," "Barter," and "Wood Song," Sara Teasdale, from _Rivers to the Sea_ and _Love Songs_; for "The Message," George Edward Woodberry, from _Poems_; for "The Song of Wandering Aengus," W. B. Yeats, from _Poems_.

To Mr. Elkin Mathews and to Mr. Rowland Thirlmere personally for "A Shower," from _Polyclitus, and Other Poems_.

To the Manas Press, Rochester, N.Y., for "November Night" and "Arbutus," Adelaide Crapsey, from _Verses_.

To Messrs. John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky., for "Conscience," Margaret Steele Anderson, from _The Flame in the Wind_.

To Mr. Thomas Bird Mosher for "Beyond," "As in a Rose-Jar," and "My soul is like a garden-close," Thomas S. Jones, Jr., from _The Voice in the Silence_ and _The Rose-Jar_; for "A Seller of Herbs," "The Garden at Bemerton," and "April Weather," Lizette Woodworth Reese, from _A Handful of Lavender_; for "Frost To-night," Edith M. Thomas, from _The Flower from the Ashes_; for "In an Oxford Garden" and "Old Gardens," Arthur Upson, from _Octaves in an Oxford Garden_ and _Collected Poems_.

To Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for "In an Old Garden," Madison Cawein, from _Moods and Melodies_; for "If I could dig like a Rabbit," Rose Strong Hubbell, from _If I could Fly_; for "The Anxious Farmer," Burges Johnson, from _Rhymes of Home_; for "In an August Garden," "Amiel's Garden," and "The Garden," Gertrude Huntington McGiffert, from _A Florentine Cycle_.

To The Reilly & Britton Co. for "Results and Roses," Edgar A. Guest, from _Heap o' Livin'_.

To Mr. Grant Richards for "Loveliest of Trees," A. E. Housman, from _A Shropshire Lad_.

To Mr. A. M. Robertson (San Francisco) for "How many flowers are gently met," George Sterling, from _The Testimony of the Sun, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for "Miracle," L. H. Bailey, from _Wind and Weather_; for "Four O'Clocks" and "Homesick," Julia C. R. Dorr, from _Poems and Last Poems_; for "Tell-Tale," Oliver Herford, from _Overheard in a Garden_; for "In the Garden" and "The Deserted Garden," Pai Ta-Shun (Frederick Peterson), from _Chinese Lyrics_ (Kelly & Walsh, Hongkong); for "The Child in the Garden," Henry van Dyke, from _Collected Poems_.

To Messrs. Sherman, French & Co. for "The Trees," Samuel Valentine Cole, from _The Great Gray King, and Other Poems_; for "Her Garden," Eldredge Denison, from _Ballads and Lyrics_; for "Moth-Flowers," Jeanne Robert Foster, from _Wild Apples_; for "The Little God," Katharine Howard, from _The Little God, and Other Poems_; for "Cloud and Flower," Agnes Lee, from _The Sharing, and Other Poems_; for "The Dials" and "The Secret," Arthur Wallace Peach, from _The Hill Trails_; for "A Garden Prayer" and "In Memory's Garden," Thomas Walsh, from _The Prison Ships, and Other Poems_; for "Prayer" and "With memories and odors," John Hall Wheelock, from _Love and Liberation_.

To Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson for "A Song of Fairies," by Elizabeth Kirby, from _The Bridegroom_.

To Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. for "Trees," "The Garden of Dreams," and "An April Morning," Bliss Carman, from _April Airs_; for "The Whisper of Earth," Edward J. O'Brien, from _White Fountains_; for "The Dews" and "Clover," John Banister Tabb, from _Lyrics_.

To Messrs. Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, for "The Golden Bowl," Mary McMillan, from _The Little Golden Fountain, and Other Poems_.

To Messrs. Frederick A. Stokes Company for "A Mocking-Bird" and "The Early Gods," Witter Bynner, from _Grenstone Poems_; for "The Proud Vegetables" and "Iris Flowers," Mary McNeil Fenollosa, from _Blossoms from a Japanese Garden_.

To Mr. T. Fisher Unwin for "Autumnal," Richard Middleton, from _Poems and Songs_.

To Messrs. James T. White & Co. for "Flowers of June," James Terry White, from _A Garden of Remembrance_; for "Song of the Weary Traveller," Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff, from _Narcissus, and Other Poems_.

To the _Atlantic Monthly_ for "April Rain," Conrad Aiken; for "Yellow Warblers," Katharine Lee Bates; for "Safe," Robert Haven Schauffler; for "The Lilies," George Edward Woodberry.

To the _Century Magazine_ for "Order," Paul Scott Mowrer.

To the _Christian Science Monitor_ for "Family Trees," Douglas Malloch.

To the _Churchman_ for "The Faithless Flowers," Margaret Widdemer.

To _Contemporary Verse_ for "The Road to the Pool," Grace Hazard Conkling; for "The Night-Moth," Marion Couthouy Smith.

To the _Craftsman_ for "The Scissors-Man," Grace Hazard Conkling.

To the _Delineator_ for "In my Mother's Garden," Margaret Widdemer.

To _Everybody's Magazine_ for "Years Afterward," Nancy Byrd Turner.

To _Harper's Monthly Magazine_ for "Progress," Charlotte Becker; for "Oh, tell me how my garden grows," Mildred Howells; for "A Song for Winter," Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer.

To the _Independent_ for "Blind," Harry Kemp; for "The Dusty Hour-Glass," Amy Lowell; for "A Midsummer Garden," Clinton Scollard.

To the _Los Angeles Graphic_ for "A White Iris," Pauline B. Barrington.

To _Lyric_ for "July Midnight," Amy Lowell.

To _Munsey's Magazine_ for "A Puritan Lady's Garden," Sarah N. Cleghorn; for "Spring Song," William Griffith; for "The Fountain," Harry Kemp.

To _Mushrooms_, published by The John Marshall Company, for "Idealists," Alfred Kreymborg.

To _Others: A Magazine of New Verse_ for "Reflections" ("Chinoiseries"), Amy Lowell; for "Lord, I ask a Garden," R. Arevalo Martinez.

To the _New York Sun_ for "A Colonial Garden," James B. Kenyon.

To the _New York Times_ for "Grace for Gardens," Louise Driscoll; for "The Welcome," Arthur Powell.

To _Poetry: A Magazine of Verse_ for "Spring Song," Hilda Conkling; for "A Lady of the Snows," Harriet Monroe; for "The Magnolia," José Santos Chocano, translated by John Pierrepont Rice.

To _Punch_ for "Lavender," W. W. Blair Fish.

To _St. Nicholas_ for "Velvets," Hilda Conkling; for "When Swallows Build," Catherine Parmenter.

To _Scribner's Magazine_ for "Her Garden," Louis Dodge; for "The Path that leads to Nowhere," Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.

To the _Touchstone_ for "Dawn in my Garden," Marguerite Wilkinson.

To the _Yale Review_ and to Mr. Brian Hooker personally for "Ballade of the Dreamland Rose" from _Poems_; also to the _Yale Review_ for the selection from "Earth," John Hall Wheelock.

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Personal acknowledgment is also made to the following poets and individual owners of copyrights:--

To Miss Zoë Akins for "The Snow-Gardens."

To Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite and to Mr. Fletcher personally for "Spring," John Gould Fletcher, printed in the _Poetry Review_.

To M. G. Brereton for "The Old Brocade" from _A Celtic Christmas_.

To Miss Abbie Farwell Brown for "The Wall" in manuscript.

To Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling for "The Rose" in manuscript.

To Mr. Miles M. Dawson for "The Thistle" from _Songs of the New Time_.

To Violet Fane (Lady Curie) for "To a New Sun-Dial" from _Collected Poems_.

To Mrs. Mary McNeil Fenollosa for "Birth of the Flowers."

To Mr. Arthur Guiterman for "Tulips" and "Columbines" in manuscript.

To Miss Mary R. Jewett for "Flowers in the Dark," Sarah Orne Jewett, from _Verses_ (privately printed).

To Rev. Arthur Ketchum for "The Spirit of the Birch" in manuscript.

To Miss Hannah Parker Kimball for "Sun, Cardinal, and Corn Flowers" from _Soul and Sense_.

To Mr. William Lindsey for "Two Roses" from _Apples of Istakhar_.

To Catherine Markham (Mrs. Edwin Markham) for "A Garden Friend."

To Mr. Lloyd Mifflin for "Draw closer, O ye Trees" from _The Flying Nymph, and Other Verse_.

To Miss Angela Morgan for "The Awakening" in manuscript.

To E. Nesbit (Mrs. Hubert Bland) for "Baby Seed Song."

To Mr. Shaemas O Sheel for "While April Rain went by" from _The Light Feet of Goats_ (The Franklin Press).

To Mr. Clinton Scollard for "The Crocus Flame," and "Sunflowers," from _Ballads Patriotic and Romantic_; for "In the Garden-Close at Mezra" and "In an Egyptian Garden" from _The Lutes of Morn_.

To Mrs. Emily Selinger for "Over the Garden Wall."

To Mrs. May Riley Smith for "Sorrow in a Garden" in manuscript.

To the estate of Frank L. Stanton for "Sweetheart-Lady."

To Mr. Charles Wharton Stork for "Boulders" in manuscript, and for "Color Notes," printed in _Lippincott's Magazine_.

To Mr. Charles Hanson Towne for "A White Rose."

To Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Henry Albert Hinkson) for "The Choice," published by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson in _The Poems of To-day_, an anthology.

To Mr. Frederic A. Whiting for his own poems "A Rose Lover" and "A Wonder Garden" in manuscript and for "Kinfolk" by Kate Whiting Patch.

To Mr. Clement Wood for "Rose-Geranium" from _Glad of Earth_.

To Mr. Henry A. Wise Wood for "The Joy of a Summer Day."

NOTE

With very few exceptions only the poets who are writing to-day, or who have written within a period of ten years, are represented in this collection; and certain favorite poems peculiarly suited to the spirit of this book which chanced to be included in _High Tide_ may be missed here. G. M. R.

CONTENTS

WITHIN GARDEN WALLS

Earth _John Hall Wheelock_ 2

The Furrow _Padraic Colum_ 3

"There is strength in the soil" _Arthur Stringer_ 4

In the Womb "_A. E._" 4

Putting in the Seed _Robert Frost_ 5

The Whisper of Earth _Edward J. O'Brien_ 6

"Within the garden there is healthfulness" _Emile Verhaeren_ 6

In a Garden _Horace Holley_ 7

A Shower _Rowland Thirlmere_ 8

The Rain _William H. Davies_ 9

The Dews _John B. Tabb_ 9

Sonnet _John Masefield_ 10

Charm: To be said in the Sun _Josephine Preston Peabody_ 11

The Dials _Arthur Wallace Peach_ 12

To a New Sundial _Violet Fane_ 13

The Fountain _Harry Kemp_ 14

THE PAGEANTRY OF GARDENS

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