Front matter
Reading edition
Produced by Catherine Daly
The Ghetto Lola Ridge
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Will you feast with me, American People? But what have I that shall seem good to you!
On my board are bitter apples And honey served on thorns, And in my flagons fluid iron, Hot from the crucibles.
How should such fare entice you!
CONTENTS
The Ghetto Manhattan Broadway Flotsam Spring Bowery Afternoon Promenade The Fog Faces Debris Dedication The Song of Iron Frank Little at Calvary Spires The Legion of Iron Fuel A Toast "The Everlasting Return," Palestine The Song To the Others Babel The Fiddler Dawn Wind North Wind The Destroyer Lullaby The Foundling The Woman with Jewels Submerged Art and Life Brooklyn Bridge Dreams The Fire A Memory The Edge The Garden Under-Song A Worn Rose Iron Wine Dispossessed The Star The Tidings
The larger part of the poem entitled "The Ghetto" appeared originally in THE NEW REPUBLIC and some of poems were printed in THE INTERNATIONAL, OTHERS, POETRY, etc. To the editors who first published the poems the author makes due acknowledgment.