Part 2
WITTER BYNNER: To Celia: I. Consummation 32 II. During a Chorale by Cesar Franck 33 III. Songs Ascending 34 Grieve not for Beauty 34
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: At Harvest 35 On Waking 36 The Old Woman 38
NANCY CAMPBELL: The Apple-Tree 38 The Monkey 39
SKIPWITH CANNÉLL: The Red Bridge 40 The King 41
WILLA SIBERT CATHER: The Palatine (In the “Dark Ages.”) 43 Spanish Johnny 44
PADRAIC COLUM: Polonius and the Ballad Singers 45 The Sea Bird to the Wave 49 Old Men Complaining 49
GRACE HAZARD CONKLING: Refugees (Belgium—1914) 52 “The Little Rose is Dust, My Dear” 53
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
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
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
MARY CAROLYN DAVIES: Cloistered 71 Songs of a Girl, I-V 72
FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS: Profits 73 Souls 74
WALTER DE LA MARE: The Listeners 74 An Epitaph 75
LEE WILSON DODD: The Temple 76 The Comrade 77
JOHN DRINKWATER: Sunrise on Rydal Water 78
LOUISE DRISCOLL: The Metal Checks 80
DOROTHY DUDLEY: La Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Gèneviève 84
HELEN DUDLEY: To One Unknown 86 Song 86
MAX EASTMAN: Diogenes 87 In March 87 At the Aquarium 87
T. S. ELIOT: Portrait of a Lady, I-III 88
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
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER: Irradiations, I-IV 96 Arizona Poems: Mexican Quarter 98 Rain in the Desert 99 The Blue Symphony, I-V 100
F. S. FLINT: Poems in Unrhymed Cadence, I-III 104
MOIREEN FOX: Liadain to Curithir, I-V 106
FLORENCE KIPER FRANK: The Jewish Conscript 108 The Movies 109 You 109
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
HAMLIN GARLAND: To a Captive Crane 119 The Mountains are a Lonely Folk 119 Magic 119
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
RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER: Star-Magic 126
DOUGLAS GOLDRING: Voyages, I-IV 127
HERMANN HAGEDORN: Early Morning at Bargis 128 Doors 129 Departure 129 Broadway 130
THOMAS HARDY: She Hears the Storm 130 The Voice 131 In the Moonlight 132 The Man He Killed 132
RALPH HODGSON: The Mystery 133 Three Poems, I-III 133 Stupidity Street 134
HORACE HOLLEY: Three Poems: Creative 134 Twilight at Versailles 135 Lovers 135
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
FORD MADOX HUEFFER: Antwerp, I-VI 138
SCHARMEL IRIS: After the Martyrdom 143 Lament 143 Iteration 144 Early Nightfall 144
ORRICK JOHNS: Songs of Deliverance: I. The Song of Youth 144 II. Virgins 146 III. No Prey Am I 146
JOYCE KILMER: Trees 150 Easter 150
ALFRED KREYMBORG: America 151 Old Manuscript 151 Cézanne 152 Parasite 152
WILLIAM LAIRD: Traümerei at Ostendorff’s 153 A Very Old Song 154
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
AGNES LEE: Motherhood 159 A Statue in a Garden 161 On the Jail Steps 161 Her Going 162
WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD: Indian Summer 165
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
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
PERCY MACKAYE: Old Age 196 Song from “Mater” 197
FREDERIC MANNING: Sacrifice 198 At Even 199
JOHN MASEFIELD: Ships 200 Cargoes 203 Watching by a Sick-Bed 203 What am I, Life? 204
EDGAR LEE MASTERS: Spoon River Anthology: The Hill 205 Ollie M^cGee 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 M^cDowell 215 Arlo Will 216 Aaron Hatfield 217 Webster Ford 218 Silence 219
ALICE MEYNELL: Maternity 221 Chimes 221
MAX MICHELSON: O Brother Tree 222 The Bird 223 Storm 223 A Hymn to Night 224 Love Lyric 224
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY: God’s World 225 Ashes of Life 226 The Shroud 226
HAROLD MONRO: Great City 227 Youth in Arms 228 The Strange Companion 229
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
JOHN G. NEIHARDT: Prayer for Pain 243 Envoi 244
YONE NOGUCHI: The Poet 245 I Have Cast the World 246
GRACE FALLOW NORTON: Allegra Agonistes 246 Make No Vows 247 I Give Thanks 247
JAMES OPPENHEIM: The Slave 248 The Lonely Child 249 Not Overlooked 249 The Runner in the Skies 250
PATRICK ORR: Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon 250 In the Mohave 251
SEUMAS O’SULLIVAN: My Sorrow 252 Splendid and Terrible 252 The Others 253
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Cradle Song, I-III 254 The Cedars 256 A Song of Solomon 257
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
JOHN REED: Sangar 277
ERNEST RHYS: Dagonet’s Canzonet 280 A Song of Happiness 281
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON: The Master 283 John Gorham 285 Richard Cory 287 The Growth of Lorraine, I-II 287 Cassandra 288
CARL SANDBURG: Chicago 290 The Harbor 291 Sketch 292 Lost 292 Jan Kubelik 293 At a Window 293 The Poor 294 The Road and the End 294 Killers 295 Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 296 Handfuls 296 Under the Harvest Moon 297 Choose 297 Kin 298 Places 298 Joy 299 The Great Hunt 299 Our Prayer of Thanks 300