Chapter 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

CLARA SHANAFELT:
To Thee 301
Caprice 301
A Vivid Girl 301
Invocation 302
Pastel 302
A Gallant Woman 302
Scherzo 303

FRANCES SHAW:
Who Loves the Rain 304
The Harp of the Wind 304
The Ragpicker 305
Cologne Cathedral 305
Star Thought 305
The Child’s Quest 306
Little Pagan Rain Song 306

CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER:
Songs of the Coast-Dwellers:
The Chief’s Prayer after the Salmon Catch 307
Song of Whip-Plaiting 308
No Answer is Given 309

JAMES STEPHENS:
What Tomas An Buile said in a Pub 312
Bessie Bobtail 313
Hate 313
The Waste Places, I-II 314
Hawks 316
Dark Wings 317

GEORGE STERLING:
A Legend of the Dove 317
Kindred 318
Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium 318
The Last Days 319

WALLACE STEVENS:
Peter Quince at the Clavier, I-IV 320
In Battle 322
Sunday Morning, I-V 323

AJAN SYRIAN:
The Syrian Lover in Exile Remembers Thee, Light of my Land 325

RABINDRANATH TAGORE:
From “Gitanjali,” I-VI 327
From “The Gardener,” I-IX 329

SARA TEASDALE:
Leaves 334
Morning 334
The Flight 335
Over the Roofs 335
Debt 336
Songs in a Hospital:
The Broken Field 336
Open Windows 336
After Death 337
In Memoriam F. O. S. 337
Swallow Flight 338
The Answer 338

EUNICE TIETJENS:
The Bacchante to Her Babe 339
The Steam Shovel 341
The Great Man 343

RIDGELY TORRENCE:
The Bird and the Tree 344
The Son 345

CHARLES HANSON TOWNE:
Beyond the Stars 346

LOUIS UNTERMEYER:
Landscapes 348
Feuerzauber 350
On the Birth of a Child 351
Irony 352

ALLEN UPWARD:
Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar:
The Acacia Leaves 352
The Bitter Purple Willows 352
The Coral Fisher 353
The Diamond 353
The Estuary 353
The Intoxicated Poet 353
The Jonquils 353
The Marigold 353
The Mermaid 354
The Middle Kingdom 354
The Milky Way 354
The Onion 354
The Sea-Shell 354
The Stupid Kite 354
The Windmill 355
The Word 355

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK:
Sunday Evening in the Common 355
Spring 356
Like Music 356
The Thunder-Shower 357
Song 357
Alone 358
Nirvana 358
Triumph of the Singer 358

HERVEY WHITE:
Last Night 359
I Saw the Clouds 360

MARGARET WIDDEMER:
The Beggars 361
Teresina’s Face 362
Greek Folk Song 362

FLORENCE WILKINSON:
Our Lady of Idleness 363
Students 365

MARGUERITE WILKINSON:
A Woman’s Beloved—A Psalm 367
An Incantation 368

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS:
Sicilian Emigrant’s Song 369
Peace on Earth 370
The Shadow 371
Metric Figure 371
Sub Terra 372
Slow Movement 373
Postlude 374

CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD:
“The Poet in the Desert”—Extracts from the Prologue 375

EDITH WYATT:
On the Great Plateau 377
Summer Hail 379
To F. W. 380
A City Afternoon 382

THE NEW POETRY

Conrad Aiken

MUSIC I HEARD

Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread.
Now that I am without you, all is desolate,
All that was once so beautiful is dead.

Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, beloved:
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.

For it was in my heart you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes.
And in my heart they will remember always:
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise!

DEAD CLEOPATRA

Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket,
Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands.
Around her neck they have put a golden necklace
Her tatbebs, it is said, are worn with sands.

Dead Cleopatra was once revered in Egypt—
Warm-eyed she was, this princess of the south.
Now she is very old and dry and faded,
With black bitumen they have sealed up her mouth.

Grave-robbers pulled the gold rings from her fingers,
Despite the holy symbols across her breast;
They scared the bats that quietly whirled above her.
Poor lady! she would have been long since at rest

If she had not been wrapped and spiced so shrewdly,
Preserved, obscene, to mock black flights of years.
What would her lover have said, had he foreseen it?
Had he been moved to ecstasy, or tears?

O sweet clean earth from whom the green blade cometh!—
When we are dead, my best-beloved and I,
Close well above us that we may rest forever,
Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

DANCING ADAIRS

Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze and tinsel,
Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight,
And into the shadow again, without a whisper!—
Firefly’s my name, I am evanescent.

Firefly’s your name. You are evanescent.
But I follow you as remorselessly as darkness,
And shut you in and enclose you, at last, and always,
Till you are lost, as a voice is lost in silence.

Till I am lost, as a voice is lost in silence....
Are you the one who would close so cool about me?
My fire sheds into and through you and beyond you:
How can your fingers hold me? I am elusive.

How can my fingers hold you? You are elusive?
Yes, you are flame; but I surround and love you,
Always extend beyond you, cool, eternal,
To take you into my heart’s great void of silence.

You shut me into your heart’s great void of silence....
O sweet and soothing end for a life of whirling!
Now I am still, whose life was mazed with motion.
Now I sink into you, for love of sleep.

Zoë Akins

THE TRAGEDIENNE

A storm is riding on the tide;
Grey is the day and grey the tide,
Far-off the sea-gulls wheel and cry—
A storm draws near upon the tide;

A city lifts its minarets
To winds that from the desert sweep,
And prisoned Arab women weep
Below the domes and minarets;

Upon a hill in Thessaly
Stand broken columns in a line
About a cold forgotten shrine,
Beneath a moon in Thessaly:

But in the world there is no place
So desolate as your tragic face.