EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886)
Chartless 4
Indian Summer 4
Suspense 5
The Railway Train 6
A Cemetery 6
Beclouded 7
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1836–1907)
Memory 8
“Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme” 9
Two Quatrains:
Maple Leaves 9
Pessimist and Optimist 10
JOHN HAY (1838–1905)
Jim Bludso 11
Banty Tim 13
BRET HARTE (1839–1902)
“Jim” 16
Plain Language from Truthful James 19
JOAQUIN MILLER (1841–1913)
By the Pacific Ocean 23
Crossing the Plains 24
From “Byron” 25
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL (1841–1887)
Solitude 26
Dare You? 26
SIDNEY LANIER (1842–1881)
Song of the Chattahoochee 29
Night and Day 31
From “The Marshes of Glynn” 32
CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL (1842–1920)
The Plaint of the Camel 34
Robinson Crusoe’s Story 35
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849–1916)
“When the Frost is on the Punkin” 39
A Parting Guest 41
EUGENE FIELD (1850–1895)
Our Two Opinions 43
Little Boy Blue 44
Seein’ Things 45
EDWIN MARKHAM (1852– )
Outwitted 48
The Man with the Hoe 49
Preparedness 51
Lincoln, The Man of the People 51
C. E. S. WOOD (1852– )
Sunrise 53
The Desert 54
IRWIN RUSSELL (1853–1879)
Blessing the Dance 56
De Fust Banjo 58
EDITH M. THOMAS (1854– )
“Frost To-Night” 61
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY (1855– )
Immortal Love 62
A Song of Sunrise 63
H. C. BUNNER (1855–1896)
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe 64
Behold the Deeds 66
A Pitcher of Mignonette 68
LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (1856– )
Tears 69
The Dust 70
Spicewood 70
HORACE TRAUBEL (1858–1919)
How Are You, Dear World, This Morning? 72
O My Dead Comrade 74
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN (1860–1917)
At Midnight 76
Bacchus 76
Two Quatrains:
Ivy 77
Dawn 78
CHARLOTTE P. S. GILMAN (1860– )
A Conservative 78
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861–1920)
The Wild Ride 80
BLISS CARMAN (1861– )
A Vagabond Song 83
The Gravedigger 83
Hem and Haw 86
Daisies 87
RICHARD BURTON (1861– )
Black Sheep 88
OLIVER HERFORD (1863– )
Earth 89
The Elf and the Dormouse 90
RICHARD HOVEY (1864–1900)
At the Crossroads 92
Unmanifest Destiny 94
Love in the Winds 95
A Stein Song 95
MADISON CAWEIN (1865–1914)
Snow 98
The Man Hunt 98
Penury 100
Deserted 100
BERT LESTON TAYLOR (1866–1921)
Canopus 101
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869–1910)
From “Jetsam” 103
Pandora’s Song 104
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines 105
GEORGE STERLING (1869– )
The Black Vulture 107
The Master Mariner 108
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869– )
Miniver Cheevy 111
The Gift of God 112
The Master 114
An Old Story 117
Richard Cory 117
Vain Gratuities 118
The Dark Hills 119
EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869– )
Petit, The Poet 121
Lucinda Matlock 122
Anne Rutledge 123
Silence 123
STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900)
I Saw a Man 127
The Wayfarer 128
Hymn 128
The Blades of Grass 129
EDWIN FORD PIPER (1871– )
Bindlestiff 130
Sweetgrass Range 132
T. A. DALY (1871– )
The Song of the Thrush 134
Mia Carlotta 135
Between Two Loves 136
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872–1906)
The Turning of the Babies in the Bed 138
A Coquette Conquered 140
Discovered 141
GUY WETMORE CARRYL (1873–1904)
How Jack Found that Beans May Go Back on a Chap 143
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven 145
How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted 147
H. H. KNIBBS (1874– )
The Valley That God Forgot 151
Roll a Rock Down 153
The Trail-Makers 155
ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH
The Monk in the Kitchen 158
While Loveliness Goes By 162
AMY LOWELL (1874– )
Solitaire 165
Meeting-House Hill 165
A Lady 166
Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes 167
Madonna of the Evening Flowers 169
Wind and Silver 170
RIDGELY TORRENCE (1875– )
The Bird and the Tree 171
The Son 173
ROBERT FROST (1875– )
Mending Wall 177
The Tuft of Flowers 178
The Death of the Hired Man 181
Good-Bye and Keep Cold 187
The Runaway 188
Birches 189
Fragmentary Blue 191
The Onset 192
WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD (1876– )
The Image of Delight 193
To the Victor 194
SARAH N. CLEGHORN (1876– )
The Survival of the Fittest 195
The Incentive 195
CARL SANDBURG (1878– )
Cool Tombs 198
Fog 199
From “Smoke and Steel” 199
Blue Island Intersection 202
Clean Curtains 203
A. E. F. 204
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 205
Grass 205
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878–1914)
Three Cinquains:
November Night 206
Triad 207
The Warning 207
On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees 207
GRACE HAZARD CONKLING (1878– )
The Whole Duty of Berkshire Brooks 208
Frost on a Window 208
AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR (1878– )
Battle-Song of Failure 209
DON MARQUIS (1878– )
Unrest 211
JOHN ERSKINE (1879– )
Dedication 213
JAMES BRANCH CABELL (1879– )
Sea-Scapes 214
One End of Love 215
VACHEL LINDSAY (1879– )
The Eagle That Is Forgotten 219
The Congo 221
To a Golden Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town 229
The Traveller 229
A Negro Sermon:—Simon Legree 230
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight 232
EDWIN MEADE ROBINSON (1879– )
How He Turned Out 234
“Halcyon Days” 236
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS (1881– )
War and Peace 238
The Rich Man 238
Those Two Boys 239
JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881– )
When I Am Dead 241
Cry of the People 241
Let Me Live Out My Years 242
WITTER BYNNER (1881– )
Grass-Tops 244
Voices 244
A Farmer Remembers Lincoln 245
Train-Mates 246
JAMES OPPENHEIM (1882– )
The Runner in the Skies 250
The Slave 250
Tasting the Earth 251
The Lincoln Child 252
Night Note 257
ALICE CORBIN
Echoes of Childhood 258
LOLA RIDGE
Passages from “The Ghetto” 262
New Orleans 265
Wind in the Alleys 265
WALLACE STEVENS
Peter Quince at the Clavier 266
ALFRED KREYMBORG (1883– )
Old Manuscript 270
Dawns 271
Her Eyes 272
Improvisation 272
ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE (1883– )
Portrait of an Old Woman 274
The Three Sisters 275
Sonnet 275
BADGER CLARK (1883– )
The Glory Trail 276
The Coyote 279
MARGUERITE WILKINSON (1883– )
Before Dawn in the Woods 280
HARRY KEMP (1883– )
Street Lamps 282
A Phantasy of Heaven 282
MAX EASTMAN (1883– )
Coming to Port 284
Hours 285
At the Aquarium 285
ARTURO GIOVANNITTI (1884– )
From “The Walker” 287
EUNICE TIETJENS (1884– )
The Most-Sacred Mountain 290
The Drug Clerk 291
SARA TEASDALE (1884– )
Night Song at Amalfi 294
Spring Night 295
I Shall Not Care 296
The Long Hill 296
Water Lilies 297
Tired 298
GLADYS CROMWELL (1885–1919)
The Crowning Gift 299
The Mould 300
EZRA POUND (1885– )
A Girl 302
A Virginal 303
Ballad for Gloom 303
Δωρια 305
In a Station of the Metro 305
LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1885– )
Summons 307
Caliban in the Coal Mines 309
Swimmers 309
Hands 312
A Side Street 312
JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER (1886– )
High Tide 315
Autumn 316
Sinfonia Domestica 317
Lake Song 318
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER (1886– )
The Swan 320
London Nightfall 321
Dawn 322
Lincoln 323
The Skaters 327
“H. D.” (1886– )
Oread 328
Pear Tree 329
Heat 329
Lethe 330
WILLIAM ROSE BENÉT (1886– )
Merchants from Cathay 331
Night 335
How to Catch Unicorns 336
JOHN HALL WHEELOCK (1886– )
Sunday Evening in the Common 338
Beauty 339
Love and Liberation 339
Nirvana 340
JOYCE KILMER (1886–1918)
Trees 341
Martin 342
SHAEMAS O SHEEL (1886– )
They Went Forth to Battle, But They Always Fell 344
ROY HELTON (1886– )
In Passing 346
DAVID MORTON (1886– )
Symbols 347
Old Ships 347
ORRICK JOHNS (1887– )
The Interpreter 348
Little Things 349
MARGARET WIDDEMER
Factories 350
The Two Dyings 351
The Modern Woman to Her Lover 352
ALAN SEEGER (1888–1916)
“I Have a Rendezvous with Death” 353
WILLARD WATTLES (1888– )
The Builder 355
Creeds 356
T. S. ELIOT (1888– )
Morning at the Window 357
From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 357
Prelude 358
CONRAD AIKEN (1889– )
Chance Meetings 360
The Fulfilled Dream 360
Miracles 363
Morning Song from “Senlin” 364
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1890– )
Quickening 367
LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS (1891– )
Frustrate 368
MAXWELL BODENHEIM (1892– )
Poet to His Love 369
Old Age 370
Death 370
EDWIN CURRAN (1892– )
Autumn 372
The Painted Hills of Arizona 372
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892– )
God’s World 374
Renascence 375
Pity Me Not 382
I Shall Go Back 382
The Pear Tree 383
Wild Swans 383
MARY CAROLYN DAVIES
The Day Before April 384
The Apple Tree Said 385
WINIFRED WELLES (1893– )
From a Chinese Vase 386
Humiliation 386
Love Song from New England 387
HERBERT S. GORMAN (1893– )
The Fanatic 388
BABETTE DEUTSCH (1895– )
The Death of a Child 389
In a Museum 390
ALTER BRODY (1895– )
A City Park 391
Searchlights 391
Ghetto Twilight 392
STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT (1898– )
Portrait of a Boy 393
HILDA CONKLING (1910– )
Water 395
Hay-Cock 396
The Old Bridge 396
I Keep Wondering 397