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Introduction v
Hymn to Demeter, by Louis V. Ledoux 1
Over the Wintry Threshold, by Bliss Carman 2
In April, by Margaret Lee Ashley 3
May Is Building Her House, by Richard Le Gallienne 3
In a Forgotten Burying-ground, by Ruth Guthrie Harding 4
Wind, by Fannie Stearns Davis 5
The Speckled Trout, by Madison Cawein 5
Trees, by Joyce Kilmer 7
In the Hospital, by Arthur Guiterman 7
Love of Life, by Tertius van Dyke 8
God’s Will, by Mildred Howells 8
On the Birth of a Child, by Louis Untermeyer 9
To a Child Falling Asleep, Robert Alden Sanborn 9
A Roman Doll, by Agnes Lee 12
Sappho, by Sara Teasdale 13
Of Moira Up the Glen, by Edward J. O’Brien 16
Morning Glories, by John G. Neihardt 17
Lest I Learn, by Witter Bynner 18
Later, by Willard Huntington Wright 18
The Old Maid, by Sara Teasdale 19
Departure, by John Hall Wheelock 20
An Adieu, by Florence Earle Coates 20
Heart’s Tide, by Ethel M. Hewitt 21
Waiting, by Charles Hanson Towne 22
Desiderium, by Richard Le Gallienne 22
Human, by Richard Burton 23
The Ghost, by Hermann Hagedorn 23
A Mountain Gateway, by Bliss Carman 24
Perugia, by Amelia Josephine Burr 25
Ghosts, by Marguerite Mooers Marshall 27
St. John and the Faun, by George Edward Woodberry 28
School, by Percy MacKaye 30
The Marvelous Munchausen, by William Rose Benét 34
Train-mates, by Witter Bynner 38
The Kallyope Yell, by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 39
Thanksgiving For Our Task, by Shaemas OSheel 43
A Likeness, by Willa Sibert Cather 46
The Field of Glory, by Edwin Arlington Robinson 48
Rich Man, Poor Man--, by Francis Hill 49
The Sin Eater, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell 50
Night-sentries, by George Sterling 52
The Swordless Christ, by Percy Adams Hutchison 54
What of the Night?, by Willard Huntington Wright 55
A Threnody, by Louis V. Ledoux 57
November, by Mahlon Leonard Fisher 61
Salutation, by Ruth Sterry 62
Here Lies Pierrot, by Richard Burton 62
List of “Distinctive Poems,” Their Authors, and the Magazines
in Which They Appeared 64
The “Best Poems” Chosen from the “Distinctive” List 69
Titles and Authors of All Poems Appearing in the Seven
Magazines For 1918 71
Index of First Lines 99