Chapter I: Introduction: ix

LANDSCAPES

_Louis Untermeyer_ 1

PHI BETA KAPPA POEM
_Bliss Carman_ 3

THE DESERTED PASTURE
_Bliss Carman_ 9

TO A PHŒBE-BIRD
_Witter Bynner_ 11

FROM A MOTOR IN MAY
_Corinne Roosevelt Robinson_ 11

TO A GARDEN IN APRIL
_Walter Conrad Arensberg_ 12

JEWEL-WEED
_Florence Earle Coates_ 12

IRISH
_Edward J. O’Brien_ 13

THE REGENTS’ EXAMINATION
_Jessie Wallace Hughan_ 14

YANKEE DOODLE
_Vachel Lindsay_ 14

FIGHT
_Percy MacKaye_ 16

THE PROPHET
_Lyman Bryson_ 31

NEWPORT
_Alice Duer Miller_ 32

TO A PHOTOGRAPHER
_Berton Braley_ 32

SONG
_Edward J. O’Brien_ 33

SONNET XXXVII
_Arthur Davison Ficke_ 33

THE HUNTING OF DIAN
_George Sterling_ 34

THE FIREMEN’S BALL
_Vachel Lindsay_ 36

SUMMONS
_Louis Untermeyer_ 43

PATTERNS
_James Oppenheim_ 44

NEW YORK
_Edwin Davies Schoonmaker_ 45

WE DEAD
_James Oppenheim_ 51

GOD AND THE FARMER
_Frederick Erastus Pierce_ 56

SONG
_Ruth Guthrie Harding_ 57

SURETY
_Witter Bynner_ 58

REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG
_Margaret Widdemer_ 58

THE TWO FLAMES
_Eloise Briton_ 60

THE LOOK
_Sara Teasdale_ 63

THE FLIRT
_Amelia Josephine Burr_ 63

YOUNG EDEN
_Witter Bynner_ 64

ABLUTION
_John Myers O’Hara_ 67

PILGRIMAGE
_Laura Campbell_ 67

BALLAD OF TWO SEAS
_George Sterling_ 68

EROS TURANNOS
_Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 70

THE SHROUD
_Edna St. Vincent Millay_ 72

THE MOTHER
_Lydia Gibson_ 73

A HANDFUL OF DUST
_James Oppenheim_ 73

A LYNMOUTH WIDOW
_Amelia Josephine Burr_ 75

THE GIFT OF GOD
_Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 75

SONNET XXIX
_Arthur Davison Ficke_ 77

ROMANCE
_Conrad Aiken_ 77

“IF YOU SHOULD CEASE TO LOVE ME”
_Corinne Roosevelt Robinson_ 92

VAIN EXCUSE
_Walter Conrad Arensberg_ 93

SONNET XXX
_Arthur Davison Ficke_ 93

LOST TREASURE
_Lydia Gibson_ 94

OLD FAIRINGDOWN
_Olive Tilford Dargan_ 94

IN THE ROMAN FORUM
_Amelia Josephine Burr_ 98

ASH WEDNESDAY
_John Erskine_ 100

THE LAGGARD SONG
_Richard Le Gallienne_ 106

GROTESQUE
_Ruth Guthrie Harding_ 107

BALLADE OF A DEAD LADY
_Richard Le Gallienne_ 108

AN EPITAPH
_Walter Conrad Arensberg_ 109

WAR
_Witter Bynner_ 109

FRANCE
_Percy MacKaye_ 109

THE DRUM
_E. Sutton_ 110

IF!
_Bartholomew F. Griffin_ 115

PRELUDE
_Edmond McKenna_ 116

THE OTHER ARMY
_Bartholomew F. Griffin_ 118

THE BUGLE
_E. Sutton_ 119

HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER
_Ruth Comfort Mitchell_ 121

SIX SONNETS (AUGUST, 1914)
_Percy MacKaye_ 123

LITANY OF NATIONS
_William Griffith_ 126

TO THE NECROPHILE
_Walter Conrad Arensberg_ 129

LOUVAIN
_Oliver Herford_ 130

THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE
_Mahlon Leonard Fisher_ 130

THE PIPES OF THE NORTH
_E. Sutton_ 131

OUT OF BABYLON
_Clinton Scollard_ 133

“FUNERE MERSIT ACERBO”
_Ruth Shepard Phelps_ 135

AFTERWARDS
_Mahlon Leonard Fisher_ 135

EVENING
_Charlotte Wilson_ 136

LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST
_William Rose Benét_ 136

THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE
_Joyce Kilmer_ 137

THE LAST DEMAND
_Faith Baldwin_ 140

GODSPEED!
_Jane Belfield_ 141

AT THE END OF THE ROAD
_Madison Cawein_ 141

PATH FLOWER
_Olive Tilford Dargan_ 142

THE GOD-MAKER, MAN
_Don Marquis_ 145

THE BEST POETRY OF 1914 149

LIST OF “DISTINCTIVE POEMS” 164

THE “BEST POEMS” CHOSEN FROM THE “DISTINCTIVE” LIST 169

TITLES AND AUTHORS OF ALL POEMS IN THE SELECTED MAGAZINES FOR 1914 174

VOLUMES OF POETRY PUBLISHED DURING 1914 192

FORTY BOOKS ABOUT POETRY 198

INDEX OF FIRST LINES 201