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Modern American Poetry

INDEX

Reading edition

Names of Authors are in Capitals. Titles of Poems are in Italics.

A. E. F., 204

Adams, Franklin P., 237-240

Aiken, Conrad, xliii, 358-366

Aldrich, T. B., 7-10

Anne Rutledge, 123

Apple Tree Said, The, 385

At Midnight, 76

At the Aquarium, 285

At the Crossroads, 92

Autumn, 316, 372

Bacchus, 76

Ballad For Gloom, 303

Banty Tim, 13

Battle-Song of Failure, 209

Beauty, 339

Beclouded, 7

Before Dawn in the Woods, 280

Behold the Deeds of Mrs. Jones!, 66

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 393-394

Benét, William Rose, 331-337

Between Two Loves, 136

Bindlestiff, 130

Birches, 189

Bird and the Tree, The, 171

Black Sheep, 88

Black Vulture, The, 107

Blades of Grass, The, 129

Blessing the Dance, 56

Blue Island Intersection, 202

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 369-371

Branch, Anna Hempstead, 157-162

Brody, Alter, 390-392

Builder, The, 355

Bunner, H. C., 63-68

Burr, Amelia J., 209

Burton, Richard, 87-88

By the Pacific Ocean, 23

Bynner, Witter, 243-248

“Byron,” From, 25

Cabell, James Branch, 213-216

Caliban in the Coal Mines, 309

Canopus, 101

Carman, Bliss, xxvii-xxviii, 82-87

Carryl, Charles Edward, 33-37

Carryl, Guy Wetmore, 142-150

Cawein, Madison, 97-100

Cemetery, A, 6

Chance Meetings, 360

Chartless, 4

City Park, 391

Clark, Badger, 276-280

Clean Curtains, 203

Cleghorn, Sarah N., 194-195

Coming to Port, 284

Congo, The, 221

Conservative, A, 78

Cool Tombs, 198

402Conkling, Grace Hazard, 207-209

Conkling, Hilda, 394-397

Coquette Conquered, A, 140

Corbin, Alice, xli, 258-261

Coyote, The, 279

Crane, Stephen, 126-129

Crapsey, Adelaide, 205-207

Creeds, 356

Cromwell, Gladys, 298-300

Crossing the Plains, 24

Crowning Gift, The, 299

Curran, Edwin, 371-373

Cry of the People, 241

“D., H.,” xxxviii, 327-330

Daisies, 87

Daly, T. A., 133-137

Dare You?, 26

Dark Hills, The, 119

Davies, Mary Carolyn, 384-385

Dawn, 78, 322

Dawns, 271

Day Before April, The, 384

Death, 370

Death of a Child, The, 389

Death of the Hired Man, The, 181

Dedication, 213

Desert, The, 54

Deserted, 100

Deutsch, Babette, 388-390

Dickinson, Emily, xlv, 3-7

Discovered, 141

Drug Clerk, The, 291

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 137-142

Dust, The, 70

Δωρια, 305

Eagle that Is Forgotten, The, 219

Earth, 89

Eastman, Max, 283-286

Echoes of Childhood, 258

Elf and the Dormouse, The, 90

Eliot, T. S., 356, 358

“Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme,” 9

Erskine, John, 212-213

Factories, 350

Fanatic, The, 388

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 273-275

Field, Eugene, xxv, 42-46

Fletcher, John Gould, xxxviii, 319-327

Fog, 199

Fragmentary Blue, 191

Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes, 167

From a Chinese Vase, 386

Frost, Robert, xxxiii-xxxv, xliii, 174-192

Frost on a Window, 208

“Frost To-Night,” 61

Frustrate, 368

Fulfilled Dream, The, 360

Fust Banjo, De, 58

Ghetto, From the, 262

Ghetto Twilight, 392

Gift of God, The, 112

Gilman, Charlotte P. S., 78-80

Giovannitti, Arturo, 286-289

Girl, A, 302

Glory Trail, The, 276

God’s World, 374

Golden Haired Girl, To a, 229

Good-Bye and Keep Cold, 187

Gorman, Herbert S., 387

Grass, 205

Grass-Tops, 244

Gravedigger, The, 83

Guiney, Louise Imogen, 80-81

Halcyon Days, 236

403Hands, 312

Harte, Bret, xviii, xxiv-xxv, xl, 15-21

Hay, John, xviii, xxiv, 10-15

Hay-Cock, 396

Heat, 329

Helton, Roy, 346

Hem and Haw, 86

Her Eyes, 272

Herford, Oliver, 89-90

High Tide, 315

Hours, 285

Hovey, Richard, xxvii-xxviii, 91-96

How Are You, Dear World?, 72

How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted, 147

How Jack Found that Beans May Go Back on a Chap, 143

How He Turned Out, 234

How to Catch Unicorns, 336

Humiliation, 386

Hymn, 128

“I Have a Rendezvous with Death,” 353

I Keep Wondering, 397

Image of Delight, The, 193

Imagists, The, xxxvii-xxxix

Immortal Love, 62

Improvisation, 272

In a Museum, 390

Incentive, The, 195

Indian Summer, 4

In Passing, 346

Interpreter, The, 348

I Saw a Man, 127

I Shall Go Back, 382

I Shall Not Care, 296

Ivy, 77

Jennings, Leslie Nelson, 368

Jetsam, From, 103

“Jim,” 16

Jim Bludso, 11

Johns, Orrick, 348-349

Kemp, Harry, 281-283

Kilmer, Joyce, 340-343

Knibbs, H. H., xli, 150-157

Kreymborg, Alfred, 269-273

Lady, A, 166

Lake Song, 318

Lanier, Sidney, 27-33

Leonard, William Ellery, 193-194

Lethe, 330

Let Me Live Out My Years, 242

Lincoln, 323

Lincoln, A Farmer Remembers, 245

Lincoln Child, The, 252

Lincoln, The Man of the People, 51

Lincoln Walks at Midnight, 232

Lindsay, Vachel, xli-xlii, 217-233

Little Boy Blue, 44

Little Things, 349

London Nightfall, 221

Long Hill, The, 296

Love and Liberation, 339

Love in the Winds, 95

Love Song from New England, 387

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, From the, 357

Lowell, Amy, xxxviii 162-170

Lucinda Matlock, 122

Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 169

Man Hunt, The, 98

Man with the Hoe, The, 49

Maple Leaves, 9

Markham, Edwin, xxx, 47-53

404Marquis, Don, 211

Marshes of Glynn, From the, 32

Martin, 342

Master, The, 114

Master Mariner, The, 108

Masters, Edgar Lee, xxxiii, 119-126

Meeting-House Hill, 165

Memory, 8

Mending Wall, 177

Merchants from Cathay, 331

Mia Carlotta, 135

Millay, Edna ST. V., xliii, 373-383

Miller, Joaquin, xxv, 21-25

Miniver Cheevy, 111

Miracles, 363

Modern Woman to Her Lover, The, 352

Monk in the Kitchen, The, 158

Moody, William Vaughn, xxix, 102-107

Morley, Christopher, 367

Morning at the Window, 357

Morning Song from “Senlin,” 364

Morton, David, 346-348

Most-Sacred Mountain, The, 290

Mould, The, 300

Negro Sermon, A, 230

Neihardt, John G., 240-243

New Orleans, 265

Night, 335

Night and Day, 31

Night Note, 257

Night Song at Amalfi, 294

Nirvana, 340

Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, 205

November Night, 206

O My Dead Comrade, 74

Old Age, 370

Old Bridge, The, 396

Old Manuscript, 270

Old Ships, 347

Old Story, An, 117

On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines, 105

One End of Love, 215

On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, 207

Onset, The, 192

Oppenheim, James, xlii, 248-258

Oread, 328

O Sheel, Shaemas, 344

Our Two Opinions, 43

Outwitted, 48

Painted Hills of Arizona, The, 372

Pandora’s Song, 104

Parting Guest, A, 41

Pear Tree, 329

Pear Tree, The, 383

Penury, 100

Pessimist and Optimist, 10

Peter Quince at the Clavier, 266

Petit, The Poet, 121

Phantasy of Heaven, A, 282

Piper, Edwin Ford, 129-133

Pitcher of Mignonette, A, 68

Pity Me Not, 382

Plain Language from Truthful James, 19

Plaint of the Camel, The, 34

Poet to His Love, 369

Portrait of a Boy, 393

Portrait of an Old Woman, 274

Pound, Ezra, xxxviii, 300-305

Prelude, 358

Preparedness, 51

Quickening, 367

405Railway Train, The, 6

Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 69-70

Renascence, 375

Richard Cory, 117

Rich Man, The, 238

Ridge, Lola, 262-265

Robinson Crusoe’s Story, 35

Robinson, E. A., xxxii, 109-119

Robinson, Edwin Meade, 234-237

Roll a Rock Down, 153

Runaway, The, 188

Runner in the Skies, The, 250

Russell, Irwin, xxvi, 55-60

Riley, James Whitcomb, xviii, xli, 38-41

Sandburg, Carl, xxxv-xxxvii, 196-205

Sarett, Lew, xli

Searchlights, 391

Sea-Scapes, 214

Seeger, Alan, 352-354

Seein’ Things, 45

Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe, 64

Sherman, Frank D., 75-78

Side Street, A, 312

Silence, 123

Sill, Edward Rowland, xxv, 25-27

Simon Legree, 230

Sinfonia Domestica, 317

Skaters, The, 327

Slave, The, 250

Smoke and Steel, From, 199

Snow, 98

Solitaire, 165

Solitude, 26

Son, The, 173

Song of Sunrise, A, 63

Song of the Chattahoochee, 29

Song of the Thrush, The, 134

Sonnet, 275

Spicewood, 70

Spring Night, 295

Station of the Metro, In a, 305

Stein Song, A, 95

Sterling, George, 107-109

Stevens, Wallace, 266-269

Street Lamps, 282

Summons, 307

Sunday Evening in the Common, 338

Sunrise, 53

Survival of the Fittest, The, 195

Suspense, 5

Swan, The, 320

Sweetgrass Range, 132

Swimmers, 309

Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, The, 145

Symbols, 347

Tasting the Earth, 251

Taylor, Bert L., 101-102

Tears, 69

Teasdale, Sara, xliii, 293-298

They Went Forth to Battle but They Always Fell, 344

Thomas, Edith M., 60-61

Those Two Boys, 239

Three Sisters, The, 275

Tietjens, Eunice, 289-293

Tired, 298

Torrence, Ridgely, 171-173

Trail-Makers, The, 155

Train-Mates, 246

Traubel, Horace, 71-75

Traveller, The, 229

Trees, 341

Triad, 207

Tuft of Flowers, The, 178

Turning of the Babies in the Bed, The, 138

Two Dyings, The, 351

406Unmanifest Destiny, 94

Unrest, 211

Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 314, 319

Untermeyer, Louis, 305-313

Vagabond Song, A, 83

Vain Gratuities, 118

Valley that God Forgot, The, 151

Victor, To the, 194

Virginal, A, 303

Voices, 244

Walker, From the, 287

War and Peace, 238

Warning, The, 207

Water, 395

Water Lilies, 297

Wattles, Willard, 354-356

Wayfarer, The, 128

Welles, Winifred, 385-387

Wheelock, John Hall, 337-340

When I am Dead, 241

“When the Frost Is on the Punkin,” 39

While Loveliness Goes By, 162

Whitman, Walt, xviii, xxi-xxiv, xliv, 71

Whole Duty of Berkshire Brooks, The, 208

Widdemer, Margaret, 350-352

Wild Ride, The, 81

Wild Swans, 383

Wilkinson, Marguerite, 280

Wind and Silver, 170

Wind in the Alleys, 265

Wood, C. E. S., 53-55

Woodberry, George E., 61-63

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