[Gutenberg 36831] • A Tree with a Bird in it: / A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Foreword: By the Collator v

Jessie B. Rittenhouse *Resignation* 3

Edwin Markham *The Bird with the Woe* 4

Witter Bynner *The Unity of Oneness* 7

Amy Lowell *Oiseaurie* 8

Edgar Lee Masters *Imri Swazey* 9

Edwin Arlington Robinson *Rambuncto* 10

Robert Frost *The Bird Misunderstood* 12

Carl Sandburg *Chicago Memories* 13

Edith M. Thomas *Frost and Sandburg Tonight* 17

Charles Hanson Towne *The Unquiet Singer* 18

Sara Teasdale *At Autumn* 20

Ezra Pound *Rainuv* 21

Margaret Widdemer *The Sighing Tree* 24

Richard Le Gallienne *Ballade of Spring Chickens* 27

Angela Morgan *Oh! Bird!* 29

Conrad Aiken *The Charnel Bird* 30

Mary Carolyn Davies *A Young Girl to a Young Bird* 34

Marguerite Wilkinson *The Rune of the Nude* 35

Aline Kilmer *Admiration* 37

William Rose and

Stephen Vincent Benet *The Grackle of Grog* 38

Lola Ridge *Preenings* 42

Edna St. Vincent Millay *Tea o' Herbs* 46

John V. A. Weaver *The Weaver Bird* 50

David Morton *Sonnet: Trees Are Not Ships* 52

Elinor Wylie *The Grackle Is the Loon* 53

Leonora Speyer *A Landscape Gets Personal* 54

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson *The Symposium Leading Nowhere* 57

Ridgely Torrence *The Fowl of a Thousand Flights* 59

Henry van Dyke *The Roiling of Henry* 61

Cale Young Rice *Pantings* 63

Bliss Carman *The Wild* 65

Grace Hazard and

Hilda Conkling *They See the Birdie* 67

Theodosia Garrison *A Ballad of the Bird Dance of Pierrette* 69

William Griffith *Pierrette Remembers an Engagement* 71

Edgar Guest *Ain't Nature Wonderful!* 72

Don Marquis *The Meeting of the Columns* 75

Christopher Morley *The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird* 80

Franklin Pierce Adams *To a Grackle* 83

Thomas Augustin Daly *Carlo the Gardener* 84

Vachel Lindsay *The Hoboken Grackle and the Hobo* 85

Percy Mackaye }

Josephine Preston Peabody } *Dies Illa: A Bird of a Masque* 89

Isabel Fiske Conant }

Arthur Guiterman *A Tree with a Bird in It: Rhymed Review* 101

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Edwin Markham 5

Witter Bynner 6

Carl Sandburg 15

Margaret Widdemer 25

Conrad Aiken 31

The Benets 39

Lola Ridge 43

Edna St. Vincent Millay 47

Leonora Speyer 55

Edgar Guest 73

Don Marquis and Christopher Morley 77

Vachel Lindsay 87