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Index
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
PREFACE The Civil War—and After
THE “POST-MORTEM” PERIOD
WALT WHITMAN
THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST
REACTION AND REVOLT IN THE ’90S
INTERIM—1890–1912
RENASCENCE—1913
ROBINSON AND MASTERS
FROST AND SANDBURG
THE IMAGISTS
THE NEW FOLK-POETRY
LINDSAY, OPPENHEIM AND OTHERS
SUMMARY—THE NEW SPIRIT
Emily Dickinson
CHARTLESS
INDIAN SUMMER
SUSPENSE
THE RAILWAY TRAIN
A CEMETERY
BECLOUDED
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
MEMORY
“ENAMORED ARCHITECT OF AIRY RHYME”
TWO QUATRAINS
MAPLE LEAVES
PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST
John Hay
JIM BLUDSO, OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE
BANTY TIM
Bret Harte
“JIM”
PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES
Joaquin Miller
CROSSING THE PLAINS[3]
FROM “BYRON”
Edward Rowland Sill
SOLITUDE
DARE YOU?
Sidney Lanier
SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE[4]
NIGHT AND DAY[5]
FROM “THE MARSHES OF GLYNN”[6]
Charles Edward Carryl
THE PLAINT OF THE CAMEL
ROBINSON CRUSOE’S STORY
James Whitcomb Riley
“WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN”[7]
A PARTING GUEST[8]
Eugene Field
OUR TWO OPINIONS[9]
LITTLE BOY BLUE[10]
SEEIN’ THINGS[11]
Edwin Markham
OUTWITTED
THE MAN WITH THE HOE[12]
PREPAREDNESS
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE[13]
C. E. S. Wood
SUNRISE
THE DESERT
Irwin Russell
BLESSING THE DANCE
DE FUST BANJO
Edith M. Thomas
“FROST TO-NIGHT”
George Edward Woodberry
IMMORTAL LOVE
A SONG OF SUNRISE
H. C. Bunner
SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE
BEHOLD THE DEEDS!
A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE [14]
Lizette Woodworth Reese
TEARS
THE DUST
SPICEWOOD
Horace Traubel
HOW ARE YOU, DEAR WORLD, THIS MORNING?
O MY DEAD COMRADE
Frank Dempster Sherman
AT MIDNIGHT
BACCHUS
TWO QUATRAINS
IVY
DAWN
Charlotte P. S. Gilman
A CONSERVATIVE
Louise Imogen Guiney
THE WILD RIDE
Bliss Carman
A VAGABOND SONG
THE GRAVEDIGGER
HEM AND HAW
DAISIES
Richard Burton
BLACK SHEEP
Oliver Herford
EARTH[15]
THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE
Richard Hovey
AT THE CROSSROADS
UNMANIFEST DESTINY
LOVE IN THE WINDS
A STEIN SONG
Madison Cawein
SNOW
THE MAN HUNT[16]
PENURY
DESERTED
Bert Leston Taylor
CANOPUS
William Vaughn Moody
FROM “JETSAM”
PANDORA’S SONG
ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES
George Sterling
THE BLACK VULTURE
THE MASTER MARINER
Edwin Arlington Robinson
MINIVER CHEEVY[17]
THE GIFT OF GOD[18]
THE MASTER[19][20]
AN OLD STORY[21]
RICHARD CORY[21]
VAIN GRATUITIES
THE DARK HILLS
Edgar Lee Masters
PETIT, THE POET[22]
LUCINDA MATLOCK[23]
ANNE RUTLEDGE[24][25]
SILENCE[26]
Stephen Crane
I SAW A MAN
THE WAYFARER
HYMN
THE BLADES OF GRASS
Edwin Ford Piper
BINDLESTIFF
SWEETGRASS RANGE
T. A. Daly
THE SONG OF THE THRUSH
MIA CARLOTTA
BETWEEN TWO LOVES
Paul Laurence Dunbar
THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED[27]
A COQUETTE CONQUERED[28]
DISCOVERED[29]
Guy Wetmore Carryl
HOW JACK FOUND THAT BEANS MAY GO BACK ON A CHAP
THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN
HOW A CAT WAS ANNOYED AND A POET WAS BOOTED
H. H. Knibbs
THE VALLEY THAT GOD FORGOT
ROLL A ROCK DOWN
THE TRAIL-MAKERS
Anna Hempstead Branch
THE MONK IN THE KITCHEN
WHILE LOVELINESS GOES BY
Amy Lowell
SOLITAIRE[30]
MEETING-HOUSE HILL
A LADY[31]
FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES[32]
MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS[33]
WIND AND SILVER
Ridgely Torrence
THE BIRD AND THE TREE
THE SON
Robert Frost
MENDING WALL
THE TUFT OF FLOWERS
THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN
GOOD-BYE AND KEEP COLD
THE RUNAWAY
BIRCHES
FRAGMENTARY BLUE
THE ONSET
William Ellery Leonard
THE IMAGE OF DELIGHT
TO THE VICTOR
Sarah N. Cleghorn
THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
THE INCENTIVE
Carl Sandburg
COOL TOMBS
FOG
FROM “SMOKE AND STEEL”
BLUE ISLAND INTERSECTION
CLEAN CURTAINS
A. E. F.
NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD
GRASS
Adelaide Crapsey
THREE CINQUAINS
NOVEMBER NIGHT
TRIAD
THE WARNING
ON SEEING WEATHER-BEATEN TREES
Grace Hazard Conkling
THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS
FROST ON A WINDOW
Amelia Josephine Burr
BATTLE-SONG OF FAILURE
Don Marquis
UNREST
John Erskine
DEDICATION
James Branch Cabell
SEA-SCAPES
ONE END OF LOVE
Vachel Lindsay
THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN[34]
THE CONGO[35]
I. Their Basic Savagery
II. Their Irrepressible High Spirits
III. The Hope of their Religion
TO A GOLDEN HAIRED GIRL IN A LOUISIANA TOWN
THE TRAVELLER
A NEGRO SERMON:—SIMON LEGREE
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT[36][37]
Edwin Meade Robinson
HOW HE TURNED OUT
“HALCYON DAYS”
Franklin P. Adams
WAR AND PEACE
THE RICH MAN
THOSE TWO BOYS
John G. Neihardt
WHEN I AM DEAD
CRY OF THE PEOPLE[38]
LET ME LIVE OUT MY YEARS[39]
Witter Bynner
GRASS-TOPS
VOICES
A FARMER REMEMBERS LINCOLN[40][41]
TRAIN-MATES[42]
James Oppenheim
THE RUNNER IN THE SKIES
THE SLAVE
TASTING THE EARTH
THE LINCOLN CHILD[43]
NIGHT NOTE
Alice Corbin
ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD
Lola Ridge
PASSAGES FROM “THE GHETTO”
NEW ORLEANS
WIND IN THE ALLEYS
Wallace Stevens
PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER
Alfred Kreymborg
OLD MANUSCRIPT
DAWNS
HER EYES
IMPROVISATION
Arthur Davison Ficke
PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN
THE THREE SISTERS
SONNET
Badger Clark
THE GLORY TRAIL[44]
THE COYOTE[45]
Marguerite Wilkinson
BEFORE DAWN IN THE WOODS
Harry Kemp
STREET LAMPS
A PHANTASY OF HEAVEN
Max Eastman
COMING TO PORT
HOURS
AT THE AQUARIUM
Arturo Giovannitti
FROM “THE WALKER”
Eunice Tietjens
THE MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN
THE DRUG CLERK
Sara Teasdale
NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI[46]
SPRING NIGHT[47]
I SHALL NOT CARE[48]
THE LONG HILL[49]
WATER LILIES[50]
TIRED
Gladys Cromwell
THE CROWNING GIFT[51]
THE MOULD[52]
Ezra Pound
A GIRL
A VIRGINAL
BALLAD FOR GLOOM
Δωρια
IN A STATION OF THE METRO
Louis Untermeyer
SUMMONS
CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES
SWIMMERS
HANDS
A SIDE STREET
Jean Starr Untermeyer
HIGH TIDE
AUTUMN
SINFONIA DOMESTICA
LAKE SONG
John Gould Fletcher
THE SWAN
LONDON NIGHTFALL
DAWN
LINCOLN[53]
THE SKATERS
“H. D.”
OREAD
PEAR TREE
HEAT
LETHE
William Rose Benét
MERCHANTS FROM CATHAY
NIGHT[54]
HOW TO CATCH UNICORNS
John Hall Wheelock
SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON
BEAUTY
LOVE AND LIBERATION
NIRVANA
Joyce Kilmer
TREES[55]
MARTIN[56]
Shaemas O Sheel
THEY WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, BUT THEY ALWAYS FELL
Roy Helton
IN PASSING
David Morton
SYMBOLS[57]
OLD SHIPS
Orrick Johns
THE INTERPRETER
LITTLE THINGS
Margaret Widdemer
FACTORIES
THE TWO DYINGS
THE MODERN WOMAN TO HER LOVER
Alan Seeger
“I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH”[58]
Willard Wattles
THE BUILDER[59]
CREEDS
T. S. Eliot
MORNING AT THE WINDOW
FROM “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK”
PRELUDE
Conrad Aiken
CHANCE MEETINGS
THE FULFILLED DREAM
MIRACLES
MORNING SONG FROM “SENLIN”
Christopher Morley
QUICKENING[60]
Leslie Nelson Jennings
FRUSTRATE[61]
Maxwell Bodenheim
POET TO HIS LOVE
OLD AGE
DEATH
Edwin Curran
AUTUMN
THE PAINTED HILLS OF ARIZONA
Edna St. Vincent Millay
GOD’S WORLD
RENASCENCE{See Transcriber’s Note 1.}
PITY ME NOT
I SHALL GO BACK
THE PEAR TREE
WILD SWANS
Mary Carolyn Davies
THE DAY BEFORE APRIL[62]
THE APPLE TREE SAID:[63]
Winifred Welles
FROM A CHINESE VASE
HUMILIATION
LOVE SONG FROM NEW ENGLAND
Herbert S. Gorman
THE FANATIC
Babette Deutsch
THE DEATH OF A CHILD[64]
IN A MUSEUM
Alter Brody
A CITY PARK
SEARCHLIGHTS
GHETTO TWILIGHT
Stephen Vincent Benét
PORTRAIT OF A BOY
Hilda Conkling
WATER
HAY-COCK
THE OLD BRIDGE
I KEEP WONDERING
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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