Chapter V

Tearful peace and gentle grief Brood on Willow Farm: Margot, sleeping in her flowers, Smiles, secure from harm: In a cave across the moor, Dank and dark within, Moans the trafficker in souls, Freshly bowed with sin.

_Smart Set_ _Ruth Comfort Mitchell_

NIGHT-SENTRIES

Ever as sinks the day on sea or land,
Called or uncalled, you take your kindred posts.
At helm and lever, wheel and switch, you stand,
On the world’s wastes and melancholy coasts.
Strength to the patient hand!
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

Now roars the wrenching train along the dark;
How many watchers guard the barren way
In signal-towers, at stammering keys, to mark
The word the whispering horizons say!
To all that see and hark--
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

On ruthless streets, on byways sad with sin--
Half-hated by the blinded ones you guard--
Guard well, lest crime unheeded enter in!
The dark is cruel and the vigil hard,
The hours of guilt begin.
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

Now storms the pulsing hull adown the sea:
Gaze onward, anxious eyes, to mist or star!
Where foams the heaving highway blank and free?
Where wait the reef, the berg, the cape, the bar?
Whatever menace be,
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

Now the surf-rumble rides the midnight wind,
And grave patrols are on ocean edge.
Now soars the rocket where the billows grind,
Discerned too late, on sunken shoal or ledge.
To all that seek and find,
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

On lonely headlands gleam the lamps that warn,
Star-steady, or ablink like dragon-eyes.
Govern your rays, or wake the giant horn
Within the fog that welds the sea and skies!
Far distant runs the morn:
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

Now glow the lesser lamps in rooms of pain,
Where nurse and doctor watch the joyless breath,
Drawn in a sigh, and sighing lost again.
Who waits without the threshold, Life or Death?
Reckon you loss or gain?
To all, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

Honor to you that guard our welfare now!
To you that constant in the past have stood!
To all by whom the future shall avow
Unconquerable fortitude and good!
Upon the sleepless brow
Of each, alert and faithful in the night,
May there be Light!

_Harper’s_ _George Sterling_

THE SWORDLESS CHRIST

VICISTI, GALILEE

Aye, down the years, behold, he rides, The lowly Christ, upon an ass; But conquering? Ten shall heed the call, A thousand idly watch him pass:

They watch him pass, or lightly hold In mock lip-loyalty his name: A thousand--were they his to lead! But meek, without a sword, he came.

A myriad horsemen swept the field With Attila, the whirlwind Hun: A myriad cannon spake for him, The silent, dread Napoleon.

For these had ready spoil to give. Had reeking spoil for savage hands; Slaves, and fair wives, and pillage rare: The wealth of cities: teeming lands.

And if the world, once drunk with blood, Sated, has turned from arms to peace, Man hath not lost his ancient lusts; The weapons change; war doth not cease.

The mother in the stifling den, The brain-dulled child beside the loom, The hordes that swarm and toil and starve, We laugh, and tread them to their doom.

They shriek, and cry their prayers to Christ; And lift wan faces, hands that bleed: In vain they pray, for what is Christ? A leader--without men to lead.

Ah, piteous Christ, afar he rides: We see him, but the face is dim. We, that would leap at crash of drums, Are slow to rise and follow him.

_The Forum_ _Percy Adams Hutchison_

WHAT OF THE NIGHT?

What of the night And the eventual silences? Art thou not cold with the knowledge of decay And the uncompromising reaches of the earth? What of the night When the tune falters and the blood chills? When thou art one with the grass And the underbrush of the world, Wilt thou forget the names of flowers, The rhythm of song and the lips, still balmy with the breasts of women? When thou and the fog on the hilltop are as brother and sister, Wilt thou forget utterly the ways of men, The clash of swords and the sting of wine, The dim horizons and the grace of girls? When thou art alone eternally What of the night?

Where will God be When thou art swathed in silence; When the wreckage of dreams has crushed thee And the lust for springtimes dissolved thee? Wilt thou have visions only of the dawn And autumn sunsets? Will the memory of women’s faces haunt thy grave? Will the odor of blue flowers find thy dust? When thou art choking on the calm indifference of youth And the everlasting beauty of trees, Wilt thou dream only of the June, The love of women and the great democracy of men?

When thou hast fought and failed, And thy brow has withered laurelless, And thy name has been effaced by the insatiable winds, And thou hast gone out at the Western gate To join the laggards of the dead, Wilt thou crave only the withheld success, The transitory fame of twilight years? Will thy soul cry out only for the song, The red dawn and the glad triumph of love?

Wilt thou indeed forget the days of pain, The ineffectual prayers, The lies of time and the bitterness of defeat? Or, remembering these things, Wilt thou forget the hands of women and the rude love of men, And be glad of thy dark quietude?

When thou art part of the impending gloom, I deem that life will seem to thee In no such wise,-- But rather thou wilt dream it as a whole; Not as a song, nor yet a broken bell; But all that thou hast been--the great tears, The rain, the kisses and the flutes, The old sorrows and the hills at dawn, Much laughter and much grief and the stern fight. And thou shalt know how all of life is gain-- The gold of youth, the gray defeat of age-- How in the soul’s inharmony there lies The incoherent unity of things.

_The Forum_ _Willard Huntington Wright_

A THRENODY

IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MESSINA BY EARTHQUAKE

Sicilian Muse! O thou who sittest dumb Amid the sodden fields and ways forlorn, Where once the herdsmen singing, watched their kine Breast-deep in fragrance, odorous eve and morn; Stranger to thee, yet led by love I come, A suppliant sable-stoled, to mix with thine My tears, and at thy shrine Kindle a funeral torch for Sicily: Give not the suppliant’s prayer the meed of blame! Scorn not the stranger’s proffered oil and wine! O thou from whom the heavenly madness came, When Orpheus hymning struck his golden lute, And stirred old memories in Persephone, While all the lonely shades in hell stood mute To watch the still-beloved Eurydice Borne lightly upward on the silver surge To Enna’s flowery verge;-- Spirit august! Child of Mnemosyne! With reverence and true humility I break before thy feet my careless flute, And wait upon my lips thy touch of flame: Begin, Sicilian Muse! Begin the dirge! O race unmindful of the Destinies! The dread Euminides Or Mœræ old, sent from Earth’s inmost core A tremor, warning blindly ye who, blind, See not the sleepless doom that evermore Has watched your tragic shore Since lost sea-rovers shaded first their eyes To spy the riches of your waving store, And grated up your sands with doubtful keel. The startled jungle growled above its young; The Arctic foxes snuffed the scentless wind; But ye who knew yourselves a fated race, That gods have loved and gods to hate exposed, Though black the death clouds over Ætna hung, Forgot the anguish in Pompeii’s face, Beneath her half-drawn winding sheet disclosed; Forgot white Lisbon’s doom, nor called to mind-- In pleasant Zancle taking noonday ease-- How, from its ashes by the western seas A stricken Phœnix rises, stone and steel. Fresh as her Poro flowers at early dawn, When over Hybla’s hills the yellow bees From aromatic blossoms shake the dew; Fair as the maiden ere by dark Fate drawn, She saw the wide earth yawn Before the thunderous horses, and the strong Arm of Aïdes crushed her gathered flowers; So fresh, so fair, amid her storied seas, She who remains through changes æon-long A greater Helen wooed with sword and song, Of mightier victors bride and battle prize, Lay lapped in peace, when swift from Hades driven, Upward the death-king came; the earth was riven, And through the darkness rang her children’s cries. Now Scylla unto fierce Charybdis calls, While on the water spreads a crimson stain; Now Galatea sobs in Ocean’s halls, And vengeful Polyphemus laughs again. The Nereids now in oozy caverns hide, Where sea-kings of the old Æolian shore Watch sunken argosies forevermore, And tell their tales of dread Poseidon’s hate; While dimly from the far, ensanguined tide Patient Odysseus furrowed once of yore, A glint of daylight through the darkness falls On swaying helmets, tumbled bronze and gold, On broidered vestments stiff and Tyrian dyed. There hide they; but the sea-kings keep their state, Telling of ancient dooms and deaths of old, Nor know they how beside the darkened strait And up the slopes of olive, vine and grain, The dryads wail a land left desolate. Wail thou, great Muse, the dear Sicilian land! Now greater grief is thine than when of old Young Adon in the Cyprian’s arms lay cold, And Daphnis’ years were told. Take thou the lyre from Time’s enfeebled hand; Hushed is the music of Empedocles, Of splendid Pindar, pure Simonides, Bion and Moschus and Theocritus, And those who unto us Nameless, yet live as human memories. Hushed is the last of all that laurelled band, Hushed, or on Charon’s strand Urging in vain petition dolorous, To pass where Pan, his boyish pipings done, Stands wistful, while the nymphs, by fear made bold, Cling with their long lithe arms about his knees. Wail thou, great Muse! or loose from Acheron Some worthy bearer of the singing bough Whose madness whirls me now On melting wings too near the southern sun. Yet why for aught on earth should grief be loud, Since all that is, is born to pass away? Hero and maiden to the urn are vowed, And beauty saves not when the debt falls due; Apollo with the darker gods has died, And Gæa at the last shall be as they. O Helen of the soul! O golden isle! By beauty doomed, by beauty sanctified, Thou too canst not abide, But like all else shalt last a little while-- A little longer than the falling spray-- Then pass as planet dust or gaseous cloud, To build new cosmos, gnawed by new decay. Earth’s senseless atoms ever clasp and whirl, Unclasp again to form in mazes new; And ever on the white cliff stands some girl With dead eyes gazing on the sailless blue. Earth’s roses die, but still the rose lives on, The song survives the swift Leucadian leap;-- A dream of immortality is ours. Where golden Daphnis in the morning shone, Fresh sprung from Helicon, New shepherds singing lead their careless sheep Above the graves of Athens, Carthage, Rome, Vandals and Moslems, and strange Northern Powers That filled their destined hours, And fed in turn the rich Sicilian loam, Building, like coral insects from the deep, Enchanted islands that till earth is gone, Swept back to chaos in the atom swirl, Shall be the seeker’s light, the spirit’s home. Though Ætna crumble and the dark seas rise Sowing the uplands with their sterile brine, Still shall the soul descry with wistful eyes Sicilian headlands bright with flower and fruit; Still shall she hear, though all earth’s lips be mute, Sicilian music in the morning skies. Yea, deep within the heart of man it lies, This visioned island bright with old romance, A race inheritance Of rest and joy and faith in things divine, That shall endure awhile through change and chance, And have the meaning of a childhood shrine, Remembered when the faith of childhood dies. Now fails the song, and down the lonely ways The last low echoes die upon the breeze. I lay my lyre upon the moveless knees Of her who by the hollow roadway stays, In anguish waiting for her children slain That shall not come again With springtime, leading the new lambs to graze. They come no more; but while o’er hill and plain The twilight darkens, and the evening rose Aloft on Ætna glows, Silent she sits amid the sodden leas, With eyes that level on the ocean haze Their unobserving stare, as seaward gaze The eyes of stolid caryatides.

_Scribner’s_ _Louis V. Ledoux_

NOVEMBER

Hark you such sound as quivers? Kings will hear,
As kings have heard, and tremble on their thrones;
The old will feel the weight of mossy stones;
The young alone will laugh and scoff at fear.
It is the tread of armies marching near,
From scarlet lands to lands forever pale;
It is a bugle dying down the gale;
It is the sudden gushing of a tear.
And it is hands that grope at ghostly doors;
And romp of spirit children on the pave;
It is the tender sighing of the brave
Who fell, ah! long ago, in futile wars;
It is such sound as death; and, after all,
’Tis but the forest letting dead leaves fall.

_The Bellman_ _Mahlon Leonard Fisher_

SALUTATION

Did you choose the journey, friend? No, nor I; But to make it cheerfully, Let us try. When the day is dark, I pray, Sing a song to cheer the way, For tomorrow we will be One day nearer to the sea.

Did you choose the journey, friend? No, nor I; But we know the end will come By and by. All today we bear the load Up the weary winding road, But tomorrow we may be At the Inn in company.

_The Independent_ _Ruth Sterry_

HERE LIES PIERROT

The moon’s ashine; by many a lane Walk wistful lovers to and fro; It must be like old days again; How they do love! _Here lies Pierrot._

She loved me once, did Columbine. It sets my dusty heart aglow Merely to lie and dream how fine Her semblance was,--_Here lies Pierrot!_

Her perfumed presence, silks and lace, Did madden men and wrought them woe; For me alone her witching grace. Where is she now? _Here lies Pierrot._

We two walked once beneath the moon-- Yellow it hung, and large and low-- And listened to the tender tune Of nightingales,--_Here lies Pierrot!_

Our foolish vows of passion shook The very stars, they trembled so. How it comes back, her soft, shy look, Now I am dead! _Here lies Pierrot!_

These other men and maids, who stroll Through moonlit poplar trees arow, Does each play the enchanted rôle We phantoms played? _Here lies Pierrot!_

O joy, that I remember yet Sweet follies of the long ago! Dear heaven, I would not quite forget! The moon’s ashine; _Here lies Pierrot!_

_Scribner’s_ _Richard Burton_

LIST OF “DISTINCTIVE POEMS,” THEIR AUTHORS, AND THE MAGAZINES IN WHICH THEY APPEARED

_Century_--

A Light Bearer. Marion Couthouy Smith.

Unmasked. Madison Cawein.

Robert Browning. Margaret Widdemer.

Will’s Counsellor. Charles Wharton Stork.

Song of the Open Land. Richard Burton.

Along the Road. Robert Browning Hamilton.

A Prayer. Louis Untermeyer.

Charms. William Rose Benét.

Deep Water Song. John Reed.

Not Yet. Katharine Lee Bates.

The Double Crowning. Amelia Josephine Burr.

Vermont. Sarah N. Cleghorn.

To a Scarlet Tanager. Grace Hazard Conkling.

To the Experimenters. Charles Badger Clark, Jr.

My Conscience. James Whitcomb Riley.

The Little People. Amelia Josephine Burr.

For a Blank Page. Austin Dobson.

A Message from Italy. Margaret Widdemer.

The Gentle Reader. Arthur Davison Ficke.

Submarine Mountains. Cale Young Rice.

The Last Faun. Helen Minturn Seymour.

Ritual. William Rose Benét.

Emergency. William Rose Benét.

The Mother. Timothy Cole.

Perugia. Amelia Josephine Burr.

To Elsa, with a volume of the “Arabian Nights.” Grace Hazard Conkling.

The Carpenter’s Son. Sara Teasdale.

Sarvachraddên. Leonard Bacon.

The Shoes of Happiness. Edwin Markham.

Twilight Mystery. Madison Cawein.

_Harper’s_--

Presage. Richard Le Gallienne.

The Festa. George Edward Woodberry.

Panthea. Richard Le Gallienne.

The Upland. Henry A. Beers.

In April. Margaret Lee Ashley.

Waiting. Charles Hanson Towne.

May is Building Her House. Richard Le Gallienne.

The Sea Hounds. Dora Sigerson Shorter.

The Marble House. Ellen M. H. Gates.

Loss. Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

An Adieu. Florence Earle Coates.

The Deep Places. Amelia Josephine Burr.

The Seer. Alan Sullivan.

This is Her Garden. Mildred Howells.

Folk-Song. Louis Untermeyer.

September Rain. Charles Hanson Towne.

Heart’s Tide. Ethel M. Hewitt.

The Wanderer. John Masefield.

Wind. Fannie Stearns Davis.

The Mother. Fannie Stearns Davis.

By the Curb. James Stephens.

God’s Will. Mildred Howells.

On a Bright Winter Day. W. D. Howells.

A Secret. Florence Earle Coates.

Ghosts. Fannie Stearns Davis.

Out of It All. Edith M. Thomas.

Words. Ernest Rhys.

The Telegram. Thomas Hardy.

A Winter Reverie. James Stephens.

_Scribner’s_

Return. Curtis Hidden Page.

Old Portraits Revisited. Sarah Cleghorn.

The Old Remain. Madison Cawein.

To Lie in the Lew. Margaret Vandegrift.

The Secret. John Hall Wheelock.

The Exile. Thomas Nelson Page.

At Ease on Lethe’s Wharf. Helen Coale Crew.

Discords. C. A. Price.

In the Hospital. Arthur Guiterman.

The Jail. Sarah Cleghorn.

Song for a Child. Stark Young.

Here Lies Pierrot. Richard Burton.

Himself He Cannot Save. M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

The River. Sara Teasdale.

Love of Life. Tertius van Dyke.

Daybreak in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Henry van Dyke.

A Threnody. Louis V. Ledoux.

La Preciosa. Thomas Walsh.

The Song of Love. E. Sutton.

Sonnet. R. Henniker Heaton.

No Night There. William Hervey Woods.

In a Monastery Garden. Marjorie L. C. Pickthall.

In the Old Pasture. Harriet Prescott Spofford.

The Ghost. Hermann Hagedorn.

Gran’ Boule. Henry van Dyke.

A Likeness. Willa Sibert Cather.

Sappho. Sara Teasdale.

The Dead Forerunner. C. W.

The Grief. Theodosia Garrison.

The Enchantment. Laurence C. Hodgson.

_The Forum_--

What of the Night? Willard Huntington Wright.

The Italian Dead March. Shaemas OSheel.

The Girl Who Went to Ailey. Arthur Stringer.

Copper Mountain. Edwin D. Schoonmaker.

The Republic. Madison Cawein.

The Factory. Harry Kemp.

Earth’s Deities. Bliss Carman.

St. John and the Faun. George Edward Woodberry.

The Ring Fighters. Francis Hill.

Journey. Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The Swordless Christ. Percy Adams Hutchison.

Shipwreck. Hermann Hagedorn.

The City That Will Not Repent. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.

The Old Maid. Sara Teasdale.

Evening on Brooklyn Bridge. Allan Updegraff.

Mother-Heart. Anna Spencer Twitchell.

Departure. John Hall Wheelock.

A Prayer for Beauty. Witter Bynner.

School. Percy Mackaye.

Off Viareggio. Chester Allyn Reed.

In the Maternity Ward. Florence Earle Coates.

The Kallyope Yell. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.

Birth. Frances Gregg.

For Those Dear Dead. Elaine Goodale Eastman.

Crossroads. Louis V. Ledoux.

Thanksgiving for Our Task. Shaemas OSheel.

Point Bonita. Witter Bynner.

_Lippincott’s_--

The Common Road. Jane Belfield.

Quatrain. Charles Wharton Stork.

The True Prophet. Richard Kirk.

Of Melodies Unheard. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

The Neighbor. Marguerite O. B. Wilkinson.

A New Friend, An Old Friend. Madison Cawein.

I Heard a Voice. Florence Earle Coates.

The Inn. Mary Eleanor Roberts.

Of an Artist. Charles Wharton Stork.

Rich Man, Poor Man--. Francis Hill.

The Cry of Man-Heart. J. B. E.

In Remembrance. Florence Earle Coates.

Troubadour Song. Frederick H. Martens.

Discontent. Frederick H. Martens.

Immutabilis. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Half the World Between Us. Mary Coles Carrington.

The Jew in America. Felix N. Gerson.

“Magnas Nugas.” Louise Ayres Garnett.

The Maid of the Ghetto. Herman Scheffauer.

The Coming of the King. Susie M. Best.

The Conqueror. Eleanor Duncan Wood.

_The Bellman_--

Lie Awake Songs. Amelia Josephine Burr.

Where Dives Lived. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

As in the Beginning. M. E. Buhler.

In Memoriam. Herbert J. Hall.

Breaking the Road. Lewis Worthington Smith.

The Fairy Tree. Ethel Barstow Howard.

Folly. Joyce Kilmer.

Richard Wagner. Agnes Lee.

Fra Angelico. Richard Burton.

In Cool, Green Haunts. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Pompeii at Dusk. Arthur Stringer.

The Migrant. Theresa V. Beard.

In the Cornfield. Joseph Warren Beach.

St. Alexis. Joyce Kilmer.

The Return. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Mediæval. Florence Earle Coates.

Children of the Night. Amelia Josephine Burr.

The Guardian Deeps. Ruth Shepard Phelps.

The Blind Gypsy. Kenneth Rand.

The Shadow. Madison Cawein.

The Speckled Trout. Madison Cawein.

Petruchio’s Wife. Amelia Josephine Burr.

November. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Christmas Downtown. Richard Burton.

After an Ice-Storm. Amelia Josephine Burr.

_Smart Set_--

The Voice of Nemesis. John G. Neihardt.

The Adventurer. Gordon Johnstone.

Heartbroken. Harry Kemp.

A Song. Lisette Woodworth Reese.

The Outcast. Arthur Stringer.

The Rack. George Sterling.

A Ballade of Too Much Beauty. Richard Le Gallienne.

Lyrics of Spring. Bliss Carman.

In the Cool of the Evening. Witter Bynner.

Morning-Glories. John G. Neihardt.

Two Songs. John Hall Wheelock.

Syrinx. Bliss Carman.

The Laboratory. Ludwig Lewisohn.

Ballade of Youth to Swinburne. Orrick Johns.

Later. Willard Huntington Wright.

Songs of Summer. Bliss Carman.

Au Marigny. Royal Craig.

Memory. Naomi Lange.

Woman the Mystical. John Hall Wheelock.

To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself. Joyce Kilmer.

Ghosts. Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

The Sin Eater. Ruth Comfort Mitchell.

Enough. Sara Teasdale.

Song. John Hall Wheelock.

The Harvest Hand. Harry Kemp.

A Greek Lover of Queen Maeve. Eleanor Rogers Cox.

Humming Birds. Arthur Stringer.

Human. Richard Burton.

The Great Carousal. Louis Untermeyer.

A Woman of the Streets. Charles Hanson Towne.

A Ballad to a Friend. Richard Le Gallienne.

Challenge. Louis Untermeyer.

A Mountain Gateway. Bliss Carman.

Violets. D. H. Lawrence.

Rain in the Night. John Vance Cheney.

Lest I Learn. Witter Bynner.

After Parting. Sara Teasdale.

Kisses in the Train. D. H. Lawrence.

The Dotage of Duns Scotus. Donn Byrne.

Desiderium. Richard Le Gallienne.

The Rainbow Chaser. Kenneth Rand.

The Mowers. D. H. Lawrence.

In the Market Place. George Sterling.

Winter. Sara Teasdale.

The Shadow. Witter Bynner.

Then and Now. Richard Burton.

Song Against Women. Willard Huntington Wright.

Fifty Years Spent. Maxwell Struthers Burt.

Of Moira Up the Glen. Edward J. O’Brien.

THE “BEST POEMS” CHOSEN FROM THE “DISTINCTIVE” LIST

A Likeness. Willa Sibert Cather.

Ghosts. Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

November. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Perugia. Amelia Josephine Burr.

God’s Will. Mildred Howells.

The Swordless Christ. Percy Adams Hutchison.

The Field of Glory. Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Love of Life. Tertius van Dyke.

Thanksgiving for Our Task. Shaemas OSheel.

Trees. Joyce Kilmer.

In the Hospital. Arthur Guiterman.

Night-Sentries. George Sterling.

Of Moira Up the Glen. Edward J. O’Brien.

On the Birth of a Child. Louis Untermeyer.

Rich Man, Poor Man--. Francis Hill.

In a Forgotten Burying-Ground. Ruth Guthrie Harding.

A Mountain Gateway. Bliss Carman.

Wind. Fannie Stearns Davis.

What of the Night? Willard Huntington Wright.

Heart’s Tide. Ethel M. Hewitt.

May is Building Her House. Richard Le Gallienne.

An Adieu. Florence Earle Coates.

A Threnody. Louis V. Ledoux.

Over the Wintry Threshold. Bliss Carman.

Waiting. Charles Hanson Towne.

The Ghost. Hermann Hagedorn.

School. Percy MacKaye.

Lest I Learn. Witter Bynner.

Human. Richard Burton.

Desiderium. Richard Le Gallienne.

Hymn to Demeter. Louis V. Ledoux.

Departure. John Hall Wheelock.

The Sin Eater. Ruth Comfort Mitchell.

The Kallyope Yell. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.

Train-Mates. Witter Bynner.

The Marvelous Munchausen. William Rose Benét.

The Old Maid. Sara Teasdale.

Later. Willard Huntington Wright.

Sappho. Sara Teasdale.

To a Child Falling Asleep. Robert Alden Sanborn.

St. John and the Faun. George Edward Woodberry.

In April. Margaret Lee Ashley.

In the Cool of the Evening. Witter Bynner.

Shipwreck. Hermann Hagedorn.

Vermont. Sarah N. Cleghorn.

The Little People. Amelia Josephine Burr.

Winter. Sara Teasdale.

The Dotage of Duns Scotus. Donn Byrne.

Memory. Naomi Lange.

A Ballad of Too Much Beauty. Richard Le Gallienne.

Morning Glories. John G. Neihardt.

The Adventurer. Gordon Johnstone.

A Secret Florence. Earle Coates.

Out of It All. Edith M. Thomas.

Ghosts. Fannie Stearns Davis.

The Mother. Fannie Stearns Davis.

My Conscience. James Whitcomb Riley.

The Festa. George Edward Woodberry.

Of an Artist. Charles Wharton Stork.

Of Melodies Unheard. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

I Heard a Voice. Florence Earle Coates.

Along the Road. Robert Browning Hamilton.

The Double Crowning. Amelia Josephine Burr.

Deep Water Song. John Reed.

To Elsa, with a volume of the “Arabian Nights.” Grace Hazard Conkling.

Song for a Child. Stark Young.

The River. Sara Teasdale.

La Preciosa. Thomas Walsh.

The Song of Love. E. Sutton.

The Dead Forerunner. C. W.

Here Lies Pierrot. Richard Burton.

The Girl Who Went to Ailey. Arthur Stringer.

Mother-Heart. Anna Spencer Twitchell.

God’s World. Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Soft Is Spring over Grand Pré. Bliss Carman.

A Woman of the Streets. Charles Hanson Towne.

The Republic. Madison Cawein.

Woman the Mystical. John Hall Wheelock.

Daybreak in the Grand Cañon of Arizona. Henry van Dyke.

The Shoes of Happiness. Edwin Markham.

The Wanderer. John Masefield.

The Harvest Hand. Harry Kemp.

The Factory. Harry Kemp.

Gran’ Boule, a Seaman’s Tale of the Sea. Henry van Dyke.

The Vision of Gettysburg. Robert Underwood Johnson.

The Anvil of Souls. William Rose Benét.

TITLES AND AUTHORS OF ALL POEMS APPEARING IN THE SEVEN MAGAZINES FOR 1918

CENTURY

_January_--

A Light-Bearer. Marion Couthouy Smith.

Unmasked. Madison Cawein.

Sleep. Katharine French.

Robert Browning. Margaret Widdemer.

Semele. Grace Denio Litchfield.

_February_--

Will’s Counsellor. Charles Wharton Stork.

Song of the Open Land. Richard Burton.

Along the Road. Robert Browning Hamilton.

A Prayer. Louis Untermeyer.

_March_--

Charms. William Rose Benét.

Deep Water Song. John Reed.

Where Am I While I Sleep? Grace Denio Litchfield.

Not Yet. Katharine Lee Bates.

The Double Crowning. Amelia J. Burr.

_April_--

The Rear-Guard. Leonard Bacon.

The Temple of Aphrodite. Alfred Noyes.

Winter-Sleep. Edith M. Thomas.

Vermont. Sarah N. Cleghorn.

The Lingering Snow. Harriet Prescott Spofford.

The Voice of the Dove. George Sterling.

_May_--

A Last Message. Grace Denio Litchfield.

To a Scarlet Tanager. Grace Hazard Conkling.

To the Experimenters. Charles Badger Clark, Jr.

The Young Heart in Age. Edith M. Thomas.

The Wine of Night. Louis Untermeyer.

_June_--

Off Capri. Sara Teasdale.

At the Closed Gate of Justice. James D. Corrothers.

To Alfred Noyes. Edwin Markham.

Finis. William H. Hayne.

Invulnerable. William Rose Benét.

_July_--

My Conscience. James Whitcomb Riley.

House-without-Roof. Edith M. Thomas.

Sierra Madre. Henry van Dyke.

Prayers for the Living. Mary W. Plummer.

The Little People. Amelia Josephine Burr.

Beauty in Eden. Alfred Noyes.

The High Tide at Gettysburg. Will H. Thompson.

For a Blank Page. Austin Dobson.

Maurice Maeterlinck. Stephen Phillips.

_August_--

A Double Star. Leroy Titus Weeks.

A Message from Italy. Margaret Widdemer.

The Marvelous Munchausen. William Rose Benét.

Wingèd Victory. Victor Whitlock.

To a Royal Mummy. Anna Glen Stoddard.

_September_--

The Gentle Reader. Arthur Davison Ficke.

Submarine Mountains. Cale Young Rice.

The Last Faun. Helen Minturn Seymour.

Ritual. William Rose Benét.

_October_--

The Beggar. James W. Foley.

Emergency. William Rose Benét.

The Mother. Timothy Cole.

_November_--

Perugia. Amelia Josephine Burr.

To Elsa. Grace Hazard Conkling.

Ex Oriente. R. H. Titherington.

_December_--

The Carpenter’s Son. Sara Teasdale.

Sarvachraddên. Leonard Bacon.

Silence and Night. Ednah Proctor Clarke.

The Shoes of Happiness. Edwin Markham.

Twilight Mystery. Madison Cawein.

HARPER’S

_January_--

Presage. Richard Le Gallienne.

At Evening. B. MacArthur.

Transients. Theodosia Garrison.

_February_--

Moonshine. George Harris, Jr.

The Festa. G. E. Woodberry.

Night-Sentries. George Sterling.

Ruth. Samuel McCoy.

_March_--

Panthea. Richard Le Gallienne.

The Upland. Henry A. Beers.

Transit. Anna McClure Sholl.

Sunrise in New York. Alan Sullivan.

In the Night-Watches. James B. Kenyon.

Pine-trees. Jennie Coker Lea.

_April_--

“Sweet, When Life Is Done.” Anne Bunner.

Immensity. Harriet Prescott Spofford.

A Folk-Song. Margaret Widdemer.

In April. Margaret Lee Ashley.

Waiting. Charles Hanson Towne.

_May_--

The Dreamers. Theodosia Garrison.

The Common Lot. Lisette Woodworth Reese.

May is Building Her House. Richard Le Gallienne.

_June_--

The Sea Hounds. Dora Sigerson Shorter.

The Marble House. Ellen M. H. Gates.

The Old House. Ethel Augusta Cook.

Loss. Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

_July_--

In a Rose Garden. Amory Hare Cook.

An Adieu. Florence Earle Coates.

The Deep Places. Amelia Josephine Burr.

With the Daisies. James Stephens.

The Seer. Alan Sullivan.

_August_--

This Is Her Garden. Mildred Howells.

Day and Night. James Stephens.

When. Ellen M. H. Gates.

Folk-Song. Louis Untermeyer.

Summer in the City. Charles Hanson Towne.

_September_--

The Voice. Albert Bigelow Paine.

September Rain. Charles Hanson Towne.

Heart’s Tide. Ethel M. Hewitt.

The Wanderer. John Masefield.

Wind. Fannie Stearns Davis.

Chanson à Danser. Louise Morgan Sill.

_October_--

The First Year. Ellen M. H. Gates.

The Mother. Fannie Stearns Davis.

By the Curb. James Stephens.

God’s Will. Mildred Howells.

_November_--

To the Cuckoo. Henrietta Anne Huxley.

On a Bright Winter Day. W. D. Howells.

Flower of Life. Charlotte Wilson.

A Secret. Florence Earle Coates.

Ghosts. Fannie Stearns Davis.

All Souls. Edith M. Thomas.

_December_--

Out of It All. Edith M. Thomas.

The Voice. Louise Morgan Sill.

Words. Ernest Rhys.

Understanding. Anna Alice Chapin.

The Telegram. Thomas Hardy.

A Winter Reverie. James Stephens.

SCRIBNER’S

_January_--

Awakening. Julia C. R. Dorr.

Forget Me Not. Oliver Herford.

On Her Saint’s Day. E. Sutton.

Return. Curtis Hidden Page.

_February_--

The Hour When Love Repays. Ann Devoore.

_March_--

The Rocket. Louise Saunders Perkins.

Old Portraits Revisited. Sarah N. Cleghorn.

Winter Flowers. Ruth Draper.

The Old Remain. Madison Cawein.

_April_--

“To Lie in the Lew.” Margaret Vandegrift

The Shadowy City Looms. Lloyd Mifflin.

Petronius Arbiter. James B. Kenyon.

In the Heart of the Swamp. William Hamilton Hayne.

_May_--

Song. Julia C. R. Dorr.

The Secret. John Hall Wheelock.

The Exile. Thomas Nelson Page.

_June_--

“At Ease on Lethe Wharf.” Helen Coale Crewe.

Discords. C. A. Price.

The Catch. John Kendrick Bangs.

_July_--

In the Hospital. Arthur Guiterman.

The Jail. Sarah N. Cleghorn.

Song for a Child. Stark Young.

_August_--

Here Lies Pierrot. Richard Burton.

“Himself He Cannot Save.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.

The River. Sara Teasdale.

Love of Life. Tertius van Dyke.

The Hill-Born. Maxwell Struthers Burt.

_September_--

Daybreak in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Henry van Dyke.

A Threnody. Louis V. Ledoux.

“The Rest Is Silence.” William H. Hayne.

La Preciosa. Thomas Walsh.

The Song of Love. E. Sutton.

Sonnet R. Henniker Heaton.

_October_--

No Night There. William Hervey Woods.

The Choice. Julia C. R. Dorr.

_November_--

In a Monastery Garden. Marjorie L. C. Pickthall.

In the Old Pasture. Harriet Prescott Spofford.

The Ghost. Hermann Hagedorn.

_December_--

“Gran’ Boule.” Henry van Dyke.

The Minster Statue on Christmas Eve. Benjamin R. C. Low.

A Likeness. Willa Sibert Cather.

Sappho. Sara Teasdale.

The Way to Inde. L. Brooke.

The Dead Forerunner. C. W.

The Grief. Theodosia Garrison.

Enchantment. Laurence C. Hodgson.

THE FORUM

_January_--

What of the Night? Willard Huntington Wright.

“Feuerzauber.” Louis Untermeyer.

Two Poems. Herbert Kaufman.

The Italian Dead March. Shaemas OSheel.

_February_--

The Girl Who Went to Ailey. Arthur Stringer.

Copper Mountain. Edwin Davies Schoonmaker.

Sea-Child. Hildegarde Hawthorne.

Love’s Constancy. Charles L. Buchanan.

_March_--

The Republic. Madison Cawein.

Where is David, The Next King of Israel? Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.

The Factory. Harry Kemp.

_April_--

Earth Deities. Bliss Carman.

Mary. Victor Starbuck.

St. John and the Faun. G. E. Woodberry.

_May_--

Tiger. Witter Bynner.

The Common Road. Martin Schütze.

The Ring Fighters. Francis Hill.

Journey. Edna St. Vincent Millay.

_June_--

The Swordless Christ. Percy Adams Hutchison.

The Rivals. Scudder Middleton.

Shipwreck. Hermann Hagedorn.

_July_--

God’s World. Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The City That Will Not Repent. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.

The Old Maid. Sara Teasdale.

_August_--

Moods at May-Dawn. John Helston.

Poems. Allan Updegraff.

Song Primitive. Francis Hill.

Mother-Heart. Anna Spencer Twitchell.

_September_--

The Voice of the Lord. E. D. Schoonmaker.

Reverie. Zoë Akins.

Departure. John Hall Wheelock.

A Prayer for Beauty. Witter Bynner.

A City Morning. Edith Wyatt.

Out from Lynn. Lewis Worthington Smith.

_October_--

School. Percy MacKaye.

Prithee, Strive Not. Harry Kemp.

Off Viareggio. Chester Allyn Reed.

In the Maternity Ward. Florence Earle Coates.

The Poet of the Slums. Frank E. Hill.

_November_--

The Kallyope Yell. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.

Birth. Frances Gregg.

For Those Dear Dead. Elaine Goodale Eastman.

Crossroads. Louis V. Ledoux.

_December_--

Thanksgiving for Our Task. Shaemas OSheel.

Pont Royal. Joseph Warren Beach.

Whispers. Lyman Bryson.

Point Bonita. Witter Bynner.

To An Old Friend. Arthur Davison Ficke.

The Dead Soul. Beatrice Redpath.

LIPPINCOTT’S

_February_--

The Common Road. Jane Belfield.

Quatrain. Charles Wharton Stork.

The Blind. Faith Baldwin.

Dreams. Arthur Wallace Peach.

Life. Harold Susman.

_March_--

“If a Lad Love a Lass.” Arthur Wallace Peach.

The True Prophet. Richard Kirk.

Of Melodies Unheard. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Rapture. George Platt Waller, Jr.

The Neighbor. Marguerite O. B. Wilkinson.

Lines for a Sun-Dial. Harvey M. Watts.

_April_--

The Smaller Voice. Richard Kirk.

A New Friend, An Old Friend. Madison Cawein.

The Oak That Fell This Morning. Jane Belfield.

Bestowal. J. B. E.

I Heard a Voice. Florence Earle Coates.

I Wonder Is There Laughter? Ethel M. Colson.

The Old House. Marie V. Caruthers.

_May_--

The Seasons of the Heart. Edward Wilbur Mason.

A Birthday. William Stanley Braithwaite.

The Inn. Mary Eleanor Roberts.

Of An Artist. Charles Wharton Stork.

_June_--

June. Charles Hanson Towne.

Rich Man, Poor Man--. Francis Hill.

The Cry of Man-Heart. J. B. E.

The Cherished. Arthur Wallace Peach.

Solitude. J. J. O’Connell.

_July_--

Gettysburg. H. Percival Allen.

In Remembrance. Florence Earle Coates.

Symbols. Arthur Wallace Peach.

Sympathy. Ella Sollenberger.

If You Knew--. Ethel Hallett Porter.

Troubadour Song. Frederick H. Martens.

At Dawn. Grace E. Mott.

_August_--

Discontent. Frederick H. Martens.

Immutabilis. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

In Exile. James B. Kenyon.

An Idyl. Carolyn Wells.

Half the World Between Us. Mary Coles Carrington.

The Jew in America. Felix N. Gerson.

The Cosmic Thrall. Jane Belfield.

Doubt. Margaret Louise Loudon.

_September_--

The Poet to His Love. Norma Bright Carson.

Mother-of-Pearl. Mary Eleanor Roberts.

Supreme Moments. Charles Hanson Towne.

Ripples. Thomas Grant Springer.

Return. Nancy Byrd Turner.

_October_--

Benedicite. W. J. Lampton.

The Hour. Sara Teasdale.

Heritage. Ella Morrow Sollenberger.

Your Way and Mine. Richard Kirk.

Quatrain. Mary Eleanor Roberts.

_November_--

Color Notes. Charles Wharton Stork.

Unattainable. Reginald Wright Kauffman.

To Two Bereaved. Richard Kirk.

A Violin. Clinton Scollard.

“Magnas Nugas.” Louise Ayres Garnett.

The Maid of the Ghetto. Herman Scheffauer.

_December_--

The Witch-Moon. Charlotte Wilson.

Starlight. Ethel Hallett Porter.

The Coming of the King. Susie M. Best.

The Conqueror. Eleanor Duncan Wood.

Christmas Eve. Caroline Giltinan.

THE BELLMAN

Cantiga. Thomas Walsh.

Forbidden Wisdom. Ethel Talbot Scheffauer.

I That Have Lived. C. T. Ryder.

Lie Awake Songs. A. J. Burr.

Tarpaulin Cove. Henry Adams Bellows.

Where Dives Lived. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Whither Away. Lewis Worthington Smith.

At the Winter Solstice. M. E. Buhler.

Ballade of Lent. Arthur Adams.

As in the Beginning. M. E. Buhler.

On the Drive. Charles Badger Clark, Jr.

Two Houses. Agnes Lee.

In Memoriam. Herbert J. Hall.

The Night Herder. Charles Badger Clark, Jr.

Breaking the Road. Lewis Worthington Smith.

The Fairy Tree. Ethel Barstow Howard.

Folly. Joyce Kilmer.

Richard Wagner. Agnes Lee.

To Sappho Dead. Florence Earle Coates.

Tintagel. Hamilton Fish Armstrong.

Fra Angelico. Richard Burton.

Songs We May Not Sing. Barr Moses.

Ludwig of Bavaria. Amelia Josephine Burr.

In Cool, Green Haunts. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Pompeii at Dusk. Arthur Stringer.

Wind at Night. Ethel Talbot Scheffauer.

The Migrant. Theresa V. Beard.

In the Cornfield. Joseph W. Beach.

Lesbia. Henry Adams Bellows.

Lie Awake Song. Amelia Josephine Burr.

St. Alexis. Joyce Kilmer.

En Rapport. Alice McCray Walther.

Two Partings. Reginald Wright Kauffman.

The Return. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Medieval. Florence Earle Coates.

Vigil. Richard Burton.

Children of the Night. Amelia J. Burr.

The Guardian Deeps. Ruth Shepard Phelps.

Empire. William Rose Benét.

Phantom Shoal. J. Donald Adams.

The Blind Gypsy. Kenneth Rand.

The Shadow. Madison Cawein.

The Speckled Trout. Madison Cawein.

Stories. Lewis Worthington Smith.

Petruchio’s Wife. Amelia J. Burr.

November. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.

Christmas Downtown. Richard Burton.

After an Ice-Storm. Amelia J. Burr.

THE SMART SET

_January_--

The Voice of Nemesis. John G. Neihardt.

This White December Morning. Gordon Johnstone.

Christmas Eve. Florence Wilkinson.

The Other Side. Guy Templeton.

When Pierrot Passes. Theodosia Garrison.

A Ballade of Hope. Brian Bellasis.

The Land of Dreams-Come-True. Frank Stephens.

Why? E. Graves Mabie.

Theory and Practice. Walt Mason.

I Commute. Mrs. J. L. O’Connell.

_February_--

To My Valentine. Glenn Ward Dresbach.

The Adventurer. Gordon Johnstone.

Rain and Sunshine. Charles F. Lummis.

Mine Utmost Hour. Charles Hanson Towne.

The Harmony of the Spheres. Blanche Elisabeth Wade.

Two of a Kind. Eunice Ward.

The Isle of Truth. John Kendrick Bangs.

Maiden Lane. Louis Untermeyer.

Vagabondage. Katherine Williams Sinclair.

Young Maidens Early Dead. Gertrude Huntington McGiffert.

_March_--

Her Home-Coming. James B. Kenyon.

The Old Boulevardier. Reginald Wright Kauffman.

Heartbreak. Harry Kemp.

A Song. Lisette Woodworth Reese.

The Mad Sea King. Harrold Skinner.

Guerdons. Arthur Wallace Peach.

Gray Hours. Mrs. John Schwartz.

The Outcast. Arthur Stringer.

Gipsy Blood. Martha Haskell Clark.

Les Corbeaux. Philéas Lebesgue.

_April_--

The Rack. George Sterling.

Tell Me. Edgar Saltus.

April Song. Willard Huntington Wright.

A Ballad of Too Much Beauty. Richard Le Gallienne.

Regrets. H. E. Zimmerman.

At Dawn You Go. Eleanor Walsh.

Lyrics of Spring. Bliss Carman.

Faith. Archibald Sullivan.

In the Cool of the Evening. Witter Bynner.

Morning Glories. John G. Neihardt

Two Songs. John Hall Wheelock.

Into Arcady. Marsh K. Powers.

Spring in Japan. Louis Untermeyer.

_May_--

Syrinx. Bliss Carman.

Challenge. John Hall Wheelock.

A Spring Afternoon. Louis Untermeyer.

Union Square. Witter Bynner.

The Laboratory. Ludwig Lewisohn.

Ballade of Youth to Swinburne. Orrick Johns.

“My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” Irvin S. Cobb.

Broadway. Sara Teasdale.

Black and White. K. B. Boynton.

A Cabaret Dancer. Zoë Akins.

Later. Willard Huntington Wright.

Etre Poète. Georges Boutelleau.

_June_--

Songs of Summer. Bliss Carman.

Nocturne. Edward Heyman Pfeiffer.

Yesterdays. Reginald Wright Kauffman.

A Ballad of Saint Vitus. George Sylvester Viereck.

Au Marigny. Royal Craig.

Memory. Naomi Lange.

Woman the Mystical. John Hall Wheelock.

The Chill of Death. Paul Scott Mowrer.

Carnival Night. Philip Markhall.

Drought. Lisette Woodworth Reese.

To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself. Joyce Kilmer.

“Lilith.” Louis Untermeyer.

Prayer. Sara Teasdale.

Ghosts. Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

_July_--

The Sin Eater. Ruth Comfort Mitchell.

Servant Girl and Grocer’s Boy. Joyce Kilmer.

Enough. Sara Teasdale.

Thanks. Louis Untermeyer.

Song. John Hall Wheelock.

The Harvest Hand. Harry Kemp.

Lyric. Gerald Dinwiddie.

Daphne. Bliss Carman.

The Monks at Choir Time. Florence Wilkinson.

The Poor Little Lady. Allan Updegraff.

The Summons. Reginald Wright Kauffman.

A Greek Lover of Queen Maeve. Eleanor Rogers Cox.

A Desert Song. Clinton Scollard.

Bachelors. René Laidlaw.

The Happy Man. Jane Almard.

Humming Birds. Arthur Stringer.

Romance. Arthur Ketchum.

_August_--

The Master Mariner. George Sterling.

The Song of the Wheat. C. L. Marsh.

Human. Richard Burton.

Home-Coming. Norreys Jephson O’Conor.

Breath. Witter Bynner.

The Bartender. Joyce Kilmer.

The Great Carousal. Louis Untermeyer.

The Wine Press. Theodore Lynch FitzSimons.

Without Inconstancy. Harry Kemp.

Sea Longing. Sara Teasdale.

The Crickets. Henry Eastman Lower.

Serenade. J. W. Wood.

L’Ame des Choses. Florian-Parmentier.

Wail of a Waitress. Ethel M. Kelley.

_September_--

Poems. Ezra Pound.

Heart of the World. Maxwell Struthers Burt.

The Three Hermits. William Butler Yeats.

A Woman of the Streets. Charles Hanson Towne.

A Ballad to a Friend. Richard Le Gallienne.

Challenge. Louis Untermeyer.

A Mountain Gateway. Bliss Carman.

Fellow Travelers. Achmed Abdullah.

The Close. C. Hilton-Turvey.

The Stage Entrance. Frederick Lovelace Macon.

The Shadow of Aspiration. Robert Haven Schauffler.

A Day. Arthur Wallace Peach.

Violets. D. H. Lawrence.

An Old House. Samuel McCoy.

Naples. Charmy.

Rain i’ the Night. John Vance Cheney.

Lest I Learn. Witter Bynner.

_October_--

After Parting. Sara Teasdale.

October. Bliss Carman.

Kisses in the Train. D. H. Lawrence.

To Certain Poets. Joyce Kilmer.

“Phasellus Ille.” Ezra Pound.

The Dotage of Duns Scotus. Donn Byrne.

Desiderium. Richard Le Gallienne.

Love. Skipwith Cannell.

The Rainbow Chaser. Kenneth Rand.

_November_--

The Mowers. D. H. Lawrence.

At Dayfall in the Streets of Samarcand. Clinton Scollard.

In the Market Place. George Sterling.

The Enemy. Louisa Fletcher Tarkington.

Autumnal. Madison Cawein.

A Dead One. Witter Bynner.

Portrait d’Une Femme. Ezra Pound.

Poppies. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez.

The Victor. Louis Untermeyer.

Winter. Sara Teasdale.

Fairy Gold. Richard Le Gallienne.

Dedication. Willard Huntington Wright.

The Ballet. K. B. Boynton.

_December_--

Dance of the Sunbeams. Bliss Carman.

The Shadow. Witter Bynner.

Zenia. Ezra Pound.

Then and Now. Richard Burton.

Song against Women. Willard Huntington Wright.

Song. K. B. Boynton.

Fifty Years Spent. Maxwell Struthers Burt.

Of Moira Up the Glen. Edward J. O’Brien.

The Last Monster. George Sterling.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

PAGE
Aye, down the years, behold, he rides.
_Percy Adams Hutchison_ 54

Because on the branch that is tapping my pane.
_Arthur Guiterman_ 7

Did you choose the journey, friend?
_Ruth Sterry_ 62

Distant as a dream’s flight.
_John G. Neihardt_ 17

Eternal in the brooding of the old Norwegian spruces.
_Ruth Guthrie Harding_ 4

Ever as sinks the day on sea or land.
_George Sterling_ 52

Face in the tomb, that lies so still.
_Richard Le Gallienne_ 22

For the sake of a weathered gray city set high on a hill.
_Amelia J. Burr_ 25

God meant me to be hungry.
_Mildred Howells_ 8

Hark ye! Hush ye! Margot’s dead.
_Ruth Comfort Mitchell_ 50

Hark you such sound as quivers? Kings will hear.
_Mahlon Leonard Fisher_ 61

How an image of paint and wood.
_Agnes Lee_ 12

I know a vale where I would go one day.
_Bliss Carman_ 24

I saw her in a Broadway car.
_Sara Teasdale_ 19

I think that I shall never see.
_Joyce Kilmer_ 7

I thought I had forgotten you.
_Ethel M. Hewitt_ 21

I thought my heart would break.
_Charles Hanson Towne_ 22

I went to the place where my youth took birth.
_Willard Huntington Wright_ 18

If I am slow forgetting.
_Margaret Lee Ashley_ 3

In every line a supple beauty.
_Willa Sibert Cather_ 46

It’s little that I’d care for the glories of Ireland.
_Edward J. O’Brien_ 16

Lest I learn, with clearer sight.
_Witter Bynner_ 18

Lo--to the battle-ground of Life.
_Louis Untermeyer_ 9

Love you not the tall trees spreading wide their branches.
_Tertius van Dyke_ 8

May is building her house. With apple blooms.
_Richard Le Gallienne_ 3

Midnight, and in the darkness not a sound.
_Sara Teasdale_ 13

O blest Imagination.
_George Edward Woodberry_ 28

Oh, joy that burns in Denver tavern.
_Francis Hill_ 49

Old Hezekiah leaned hard on his hoe.
_Percy MacKaye_ 30

One whom I loved and never can forget.
_Hermann Hagedorn_ 23

Outside hove Shasta, snowy height on height.
_Witter Bynner_ 38

Over the dim edge of sleep I lean.
_Robert Alden Sanborn_ 9

Over the wintry threshold.
_Bliss Carman_ 2

Proud men.
_Nicholas Vachel Lindsay_ 39

Sicilian Muse! O thou who sittest dumb.
_Louis V. Ledoux_ 57

Sorrow, quit me for a while.
_Florence Earle Coates_ 20

The moon’s ashine; by many a lane.
_Richard Burton_ 62

The sickle is dulled of the reaping and the threshing-floor
is bare.
_Shaemas OSheel_ 43

The snug little room with its brazier fire aglow.
_William Rose Benét_ 34

The twilight is starred.
_John Hall Wheelock_ 20

The Wind bows down the poplar trees.
_Fannie Stearns Davis_ 5

They call you cold New England.
_Marguerite Mooers Marshall_ 27

War shook the land where Levi dwelt.
_Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 48

Weave the dance, and raise again the sacred chorus.
_Louis V. Ledoux_ 1

Weighed down by grief, o’erborne by deep despair.
_Richard Burton_ 23

What of the night?
_Willard Huntington Wright_ 55

With rod and line I took my way.
_Madison Cawein_ 5

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling variations were were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Poems are shown here as they appeared in the original book. Some of them appear elsewhere with different words or punctuation.

When it was not clear whether or not new stanzas began on new pages, Transcriber did not add stanza breaks.