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The Little Book of Modern Verse

by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

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  1. 1Epigraph — Foreword
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3The Little Book of Modern Verse
  4. 4Gloucester Moors. [William Vaughn Moody]
  5. 5On a Subway Express. [Chester Firkins]
  6. 6The Automobile. [Percy MacKaye]
  7. 7The Black Vulture. [George Sterling]
  8. 8Chavez. [Mildred McNeal Sweeney]
  9. 9The Sea Gypsy. [Richard Hovey]
  10. 10I — At Gibraltar. [George Edward Woodberry]
  11. 11Euchenor Chorus. [Arthur Upson]
  12. 12He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed. [Shaemas o Sheel]
  13. 13The Kings. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
  14. 14Mockery. [Louis Untermeyer]
  15. 15I — An Ode in Time of Hesitation. [William Vaughn Moody]
  16. 16Candlemas. [Alice Brown]
  17. 17The Unreturning. [Bliss Carman]
  18. 18A Song in Spring. [Thomas S. Jones, Jr.]
  19. 19May Is Building Her House. [Richard Le Gallienne]
  20. 20Here Is the Place Where Loveliness Keeps House. [Madison Cawein]
  21. 21Water Fantasy. [Fannie Stearns Davis]
  22. 22Bacchus. [Frank Dempster Sherman]
  23. 23Da Leetla Boy. [Thomas Augustine Daly]
  24. 24Agamede’s Song. [Arthur Upson]
  25. 25Why. [Bliss Carman]
  26. 26The Wife From Fairyland. [Richard Le Gallienne]
  27. 27Life. [John Hall Wheelock]
  28. 28Song Is So Old. [Hermann Hagedorn]
  29. 29That Day You Came. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]
  30. 30Song. “For Me the Jasmine Buds Unfold”. [Florence Earle Coates]
  31. 31Mother. [Theresa Helburn]
  32. 32I — Songs for My Mother. [Anna Hempstead Branch]
  33. 33II
  34. 34The Daguerreotype. [William Vaughn Moody]
  35. 35Tears. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]
  36. 36The Sea-Lands. [Orrick Johns]
  37. 37Bag-Pipes at Sea. [Clinton Scollard]
  38. 38The Heart’s Country. [Florence Wilkinson]
  39. 39Joyous-Gard. [Thomas S. Jones, Jr.]
  40. 40The Secret. [George Edward Woodberry]
  41. 41The Nightingale Unheard. [Josephine Preston Peabody]
  42. 42Only of Thee and Me. [Louis Untermeyer]
  43. 43When the Wind Is Low. [Cale Young Rice]
  44. 44Love Triumphant. [Frederic Lawrence Knowles]
  45. 45Be Still. The Hanging Gardens Were a Dream. [Trumbull Stickney]
  46. 46The Tears of Harlequin. [Theodosia Garrison]
  47. 47The Buried City. [George Sylvester Viereck]
  48. 48The Ride to the Lady. [Helen Gray Cone]
  49. 49Evensong. [Ridgely Torrence]
  50. 50Witchery. [Frank Dempster Sherman]
  51. 51Golden Pulse. [John Myers O’Hara]
  52. 52Sappho. [Sara Teasdale]
  53. 53Harps Hung Up in Babylon. [Arthur Colton]
  54. 54Live Blindly. [Trumbull Stickney]
  55. 55Love’s Springtide. [Frank Dempster Sherman]
  56. 56Wanderers. [George Sylvester Viereck]
  57. 57Ballade of My Lady’s Beauty. [Joyce Kilmer]
  58. 58Grieve Not, Ladies. [Anna Hempstead Branch]
  59. 59Of Joan’s Youth. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
  60. 60I Shall Not Care. [Sara Teasdale]
  61. 61Love Came Back at Fall o’ Dew. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]
  62. 62There’s Rosemary. [Olive Tilford Dargan]
  63. 63Love’s Ritual. [Charles Hanson Towne]
  64. 64Grey Rocks, and Greyer Sea. [Charles G. D. Roberts]
  65. 65When I Am Dead and Sister to the Dust. [Elsa Barker]
  66. 66I — Little Gray Songs From St. Joseph’s. [Grace Fallow Norton]
  67. 67Irish Peasant Song. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
  68. 68The Prince. [Josephine Dodge Daskam]
  69. 69Four Winds. [Sara Teasdale]
  70. 70A West-Country Lover. [Alice Brown]
  71. 71A Winter Ride. [Amy Lowell]
  72. 72Sic Vita. [William Stanley Braithwaite]
  73. 73Across the Fields to Anne. [Richard Burton]
  74. 74The House and the Road. [Josephine Preston Peabody]
  75. 75The Path to the Woods. [Madison Cawein]
  76. 76Sometimes. [Thomas S. Jones, Jr.]
  77. 77Renascence. [Edna St. Vincent Millay]
  78. 78Souls. [Fannie Stearns Davis]
  79. 79Fiat Lux. [Lloyd Mifflin]
  80. 80The Dreamer. [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
  81. 81A Caravan From China Comes. [Richard Le Gallienne]
  82. 82As I Came Down From Lebanon. [Clinton Scollard]
  83. 83I — The Only Way. [Louis V. Ledoux]
  84. 84The Dust Dethroned. [George Sterling]
  85. 85Kinchinjunga. [Cale Young Rice] — I
  86. 86I — Scum o’ the Earth. [Robert Haven Schauffler]
  87. 87Da Boy From Rome. [Thomas Augustine Daly]
  88. 88The Fugitives. [Florence Wilkinson]
  89. 89The Song of the Unsuccessful. [Richard Burton]
  90. 90They Went Forth to Battle, but They Always Fell. [Shaemas o Sheel]
  91. 91The Eagle That Is Forgotten. [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
  92. 92A Memorial Tablet. [Florence Wilkinson]
  93. 93To-Day. [Helen Gray Cone]
  94. 94The Man With the Hoe. [Edwin Markham]
  95. 95Exordium. [George Cabot Lodge]
  96. 96The Frozen Grail. [Elsa Barker]
  97. 97I — The Unconquered Air. [Florence Earle Coates]
  98. 98The Happiest Heart. [John Vance Cheney]
  99. 99To a New York Shop-Girl Dressed for Sunday. [Anna Hempstead Branch]
  100. 100A Faun in Wall Street. [John Myers O’Hara]
  101. 101The Mystic. [Witter Bynner]
  102. 102The Cloud. [Josephine Preston Peabody]
  103. 103The Thought of Her. [Richard Hovey]
  104. 104Song. “If Love Were but a Little Thing — “. [Florence Earle Coates]
  105. 105The Rosary. [Robert Cameron Rogers]
  106. 106Once. [Trumbull Stickney]
  107. 107Love Knocks at the Door. [John Hall Wheelock]
  108. 108The Candle and the Flame. [George Sylvester Viereck]
  109. 109Stains. [Theodosia Garrison]
  110. 110De Massa Ob de Sheepfol’. [Sarah Pratt McLean Greene]
  111. 111Black Sheep. [Richard Burton]
  112. 112Let Me No More a Mendicant. [Arthur Colton]
  113. 113Lincoln, the Man of the People. [Edwin Markham]
  114. 114The Master. [Edwin Arlington Robinson]
  115. 115On the Building of Springfield. [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
  116. 116I — The Poet’s Town. [John G. Neihardt]
  117. 117The New Life. [Witter Bynner]
  118. 118Martin. [Joyce Kilmer]
  119. 119As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room. [George Santayana]
  120. 120Ex Libris. [Arthur Upson]
  121. 121The Poet. [Mildred McNeal Sweeney]
  122. 122When I Have Gone Weird Ways. [John G. Neihardt]
  123. 123I — Trumbull Stickney. [George Cabot Lodge]
  124. 124Sentence. [Witter Bynner]
  125. 125Comrades. [George Edward Woodberry]
  126. 126Comrades. [Richard Hovey]
  127. 127Calverly’s. [Edwin Arlington Robinson]
  128. 128Uriel. [Percy MacKaye] — I
  129. 129Azrael. [Robert Gilbert Welsh]
  130. 130The Flight. [Lloyd Mifflin]
  131. 131The Rival. [James Whitcomb Riley]
  132. 132A Rhyme of Death’s Inn. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]
  133. 133The Outer Gate. [Nora May French]
  134. 134The Ashes in the Sea. [George Sterling]
  135. 135We Needs Must Be Divided in the Tomb. [George Santayana]
  136. 136Departure. [Hermann Hagedorn]
  137. 137Song. [Richard Le Gallienne]
  138. 138The Invisible Bride. [Edwin Markham]
  139. 139The Inverted Torch. [Edith M. Thomas]
  140. 140Night’s Mardi Gras. [Edward J. Wheeler]
  141. 141The Mystic. [Cale Young Rice]
  142. 142I Would I Might Forget That I Am I. [George Santayana]
  143. 143To William Sharp. [Clinton Scollard]
  144. 144The Quiet Singer. [Charles Hanson Towne]
  145. 145After a Dolmetsch Concert. [Arthur Upson]
  146. 146On a Fly-Leaf of Burns’ Songs. [Frederic Lawrence Knowles]
  147. 147Miniver Cheevy. [Edwin Arlington Robinson]
  148. 148At the End of the Day. [Richard Hovey]
  149. 149The Joy of the Hills. [Edwin Markham]
  150. 150The Lesser Children. [Ridgely Torrence]
  151. 151A Vagabond Song. [Bliss Carman]
  152. 152Somewhere. [John Vance Cheney]
  153. 153Under Arcturus. [Madison Cawein] I
  154. 154The Recessional. [Charles G. D. Roberts]
  155. 155I Know Not Why. [Morris Rosenfeld]
  156. 156Winter Sleep. [Edith M. Thomas]
  157. 157Tryste Noel. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
  158. 158Hora Christi. [Alice Brown]
  159. 159A Parting Guest. [James Whitcomb Riley]
  160. 160Biographical Notes

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