The Little Book of Modern Verse

Contents

Foreword

Lord of my Heart's Elation (Bliss Carman)

Gloucester Moors (William Vaughn Moody)

On a Subway Express (Chester Firkins)

The Automobile (Percy MacKaye)

The Black Vulture (George Sterling)

Chavez (Mildred McNeal Sweeney)

The Sea Gypsy (Richard Hovey)

At Gibraltar (George Edward Woodberry)

Euchenor Chorus (Arthur Upson)

He whom a Dream hath possessed (Shaemas O Sheel)

The Kings (Louise Imogen Guiney)

Mockery (Louis Untermeyer)

An Ode in Time of Hesitation (William Vaughn Moody)

Candlemas (Alice Brown)

The Unreturning (Bliss Carman)

A Song in Spring (Thomas S. Jones, Jr.)

May is building her House (Richard Le Gallienne)

Here is the Place where Loveliness keeps House (Madison Cawein)

Water Fantasy (Fannie Stearns Davis)

Bacchus (Frank Dempster Sherman)

Da Leetla Boy (Thomas Augustine Daly)

Agamede's Song (Arthur Upson)

Why (Bliss Carman)

The Wife from Fairyland (Richard Le Gallienne)

Life (John Hall Wheelock)

Song is so old (Hermann Hagedorn)

That Day you came (Lizette Woodworth Reese)

Song. "For me the jasmine buds unfold" (Florence Earle Coates)

Mother (Theresa Helburn)

Songs for my Mother (Anna Hempstead Branch)

The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody)

Tears (Lizette Woodworth Reese)

The Sea-Lands (Orrick Johns)

Bag-Pipes at Sea (Clinton Scollard)

The Heart's Country (Florence Wilkinson)

Joyous-Gard (Thomas S. Jones, Jr.)

The Secret (George Edward Woodberry)

The Nightingale unheard (Josephine Preston Peabody)

Only of thee and me (Louis Untermeyer)

When the Wind is low (Cale Young Rice)

Love Triumphant (Frederic Lawrence Knowles)

Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream (Trumbull Stickney)

The Tears of Harlequin (Theodosia Garrison)

The Buried City (George Sylvester Viereck)

The Ride to the Lady (Helen Gray Cone)

Evensong (Ridgely Torrence)

Witchery (Frank Dempster Sherman)

Golden Pulse (John Myers O'Hara)

Sappho (Sara Teasdale)

Harps hung up in Babylon (Arthur Colton)

Live blindly (Trumbull Stickney)

Love's Springtide (Frank Dempster Sherman)

Wanderers (George Sylvester Viereck)

Ballade of my Lady's Beauty (Joyce Kilmer)

Grieve not, Ladies (Anna Hempstead Branch)

Of Joan's Youth (Louise Imogen Guiney)

I shall not care (Sara Teasdale)

Love came back at Fall o' Dew (Lizette Woodworth Reese)

There's Rosemary (Olive Tilford Dargan)

Love's Ritual (Charles Hanson Towne)

Grey Rocks, and Greyer Sea (Charles G. D. Roberts)

"Grandmither, think not I forget" (Willa Sibert Cather)

When I am dead and Sister to the Dust (Elsa Barker)

Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's (Grace Fallow Norton)

Irish Peasant Song (Louise Imogen Guiney)

The Prince (Josephine Dodge Daskam)

Four Winds (Sara Teasdale)

A West-Country Lover (Alice Brown)

A Winter Ride (Amy Lowell)

Sic Vita (William Stanley Braithwaite)

Across the Fields to Anne (Richard Burton)

The House and the Road (Josephine Preston Peabody)

The Path to the Woods (Madison Cawein)

Sometimes (Thomas S. Jones, Jr.)

Renascence (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Souls (Fannie Stearns Davis)

Fiat Lux (Lloyd Mifflin)

The Dreamer (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay)

A Caravan from China comes (Richard Le Gallienne)

As I came down from Lebanon (Clinton Scollard)

The Only Way (Louis V. Ledoux)

The Dust Dethroned (George Sterling)

Kinchinjunga (Cale Young Rice)

Scum o' the Earth (Robert Haven Schauffler)

Da Boy from Rome (Thomas Augustine Daly)

The Fugitives (Florence Wilkinson)

The Song of the Unsuccessful (Richard Burton)

They went forth to Battle, but they always fell (Shaemas O Sheel)

The Eagle that is forgotten (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay)

A Memorial Tablet (Florence Wilkinson)

To-Day (Helen Gray Cone)

The Man with the Hoe (Edwin Markham)

Exordium (George Cabot Lodge)

The Frozen Grail (Elsa Barker)

The Unconquered Air (Florence Earle Coates)

The Happiest Heart (John Vance Cheney)

To a New York Shop-Girl dressed for Sunday (Anna Hempstead Branch)

A Faun in Wall Street (John Myers O'Hara)

The Mystic (Witter Bynner)

The Cloud (Josephine Preston Peabody)

The Thought of her (Richard Hovey)

Song. "If love were but a little thing —" (Florence Earle Coates)

The Rosary (Robert Cameron Rogers)

Once (Trumbull Stickney)

Love knocks at the Door (John Hall Wheelock)

The Candle and the Flame (George Sylvester Viereck)

Stains (Theodosia Garrison)

De Massa ob de Sheepfol' (Sarah Pratt Greene)

Black Sheep (Richard Burton)

Let me no more a Mendicant (Arthur Colton)

Lincoln, the Man of the People (Edwin Markham)

The Master (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

On the Building of Springfield (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay)

The Poet's Town (John G. Neihardt)

The New Life (Witter Bynner)

Martin (Joyce Kilmer)

As in the Midst of Battle there is Room (George Santayana)

Ex Libris (Arthur Upson)

The Poet (Mildred McNeal Sweeney)

When I have gone Weird Ways (John G. Neihardt)

Trumbull Stickney (George Cabot Lodge)

Sentence (Witter Bynner)

Comrades (George Edward Woodberry)

Comrades (Richard Hovey)

Calverly's (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

Uriel (Percy MacKaye)

Azrael (Robert Gilbert Welsh)

The Flight (Lloyd Mifflin)

The Rival (James Whitcomb Riley)

A Rhyme of Death's Inn (Lizette Woodworth Reese)

The Outer Gate (Nora May French)

The Ashes in the Sea (George Sterling)

We needs must be divided in the Tomb (George Santayana)

Departure (Hermann Hagedorn)

Song (Richard Le Gallienne)

The Invisible Bride (Edwin Markham)

The Inverted Torch (Edith M. Thomas)

Night's Mardi Gras (Edward J. Wheeler)

The Mystic (Cale Young Rice)

I would I might forget that I am I (George Santayana)

To William Sharp (Clinton Scollard)

The Quiet Singer (Charles Hanson Towne)

After a Dolmetsch Concert (Arthur Upson)

On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs (Frederic Lawrence Knowles)

Miniver Cheevy (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

At the End of the Day (Richard Hovey)

The Joy of the Hills (Edwin Markham)

The Lesser Children (Ridgely Torrence)

A Vagabond Song (Bliss Carman)

Somewhere (John Vance Cheney)

"Frost To-Night" (Edith M. Thomas)

Under Arcturus (Madison Cawein)

The Recessional (Charles G. Roberts)

I know not why (Morris Rosenfeld)

Winter Sleep (Edith M. Thomas)

Tryste Noel (Louise Imogen Guiney)

Hora Christi (Alice Brown)

A Parting Guest (James Whitcomb Riley)

A. Biographical Notes

Elsa Barker

William Stanley Braithwaite

Anna Hempstead Branch

Alice Brown

Richard Burton

Witter Bynner

Bliss Carman

Willa Sibert Cather

Madison Cawein

John Vance Cheney

Florence Earle Coates

Arthur Colton

Helen Gray Cone

Thomas Augustine Daly

Olive Tilford Dargan

Josephine Dodge Daskam

Fannie Stearns Davis

Chester Firkins

Nora May French

Theodosia Garrison

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene

Louise Imogen Guiney

Hermann Hagedorn

Theresa Helburn

Richard Hovey

Orrick Johns

Thomas S., Jr Jones

Joyce Kilmer

Frederick Lawrence Knowles

Louis V. Ledoux

Richard Le Gallienne

Vachel Lindsay

George Cabot Lodge

Amy Lowell

Percy MacKaye

Edwin Markham

Lloyd Mifflin

Edna St. Vincent Millay

William Vaughn Moody

John G Neihardt

Grace Fallow Norton

John Myers O'Hara

Shaemas O Sheel

Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel Marks) Peabody

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Cale Young Rice

James Whitcomb Riley

Charles G. D Roberts

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Robert Cameron Rogers

Morris Rosenfeld

George E Santayana

Robert Haven Schauffler

Clinton Scollard

Frank Dempster Sherman

George Sterling

Joseph Trumbull Stickney

Mildred McNeal Sweeney

Sara (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) Teasdale

Edith M Thomas

Ridgely Torrence

Charles Hanson Towne

Louis Untermeyer

Arthur Upson

George Sylvester Viereck

Robert Gilbert Welsh

Edward J Wheeler

John Hall Wheelock

Florence (Mrs. Wilfrid Muir Evans) Wilkinson

George Edward Woodberry

B. Notes to the text: