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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS?WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE, Editor
CONTENTS
HOME BOUND?JOSEPH AUSLANDER
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL?KATHERINE LEE BATES
YELLOW CLOVER?KATHERINE LEE BATES
THE RETURNING?SYLVESTER BAXTER
TWO MOODS FROM THE HILL?ERNEST BENSHIMOL
A BANQUET?ERNEST BENSHIMOL
SONG?GEORGE CABOT LODGE
THE WORLDS?MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI
THE RIOT?GAMALIEL BRADFORD
HUNGER?GAMALIEL BRADFORD
EXIT GOD?GAMALIEL BRADFORD
ROUSSEAU?GAMALIEL BRADFORD
JOHN MASEFIELD?AMY BRIDGMAN
1620-1920?LE BARON RUSSEL BRIGGS
THE CROSS-CURRENT?ABBIE FARWELL BROWN
CANDLEMAS?ALICE BROWN
SUNRISE ON MANSFIELD MOUNTAIN?ALICE BROWN
BURNT ARE THE PETALS OF LIFE?ELSIE PUMPELLY CABOT
FOUR FOUNTAINS. AFTER RESPIGHI?JESSICA CARR
IN THE TROLLEY CAR?RUTH BALDWIN CHENERY
IN IRISH RAIN?MARTHA HASKELL CLARK
CRETONNE TROPICS?GRACE HAZARD CONKLING
TO HILDA OF HER ROSES?GRACE HAZARD CONKLING
DANDELION?HILDA CONKLING
RED ROOSTER?HILDA CONKLING
VElVETS?HILDA CONKLING
THE MOODS?FANNY STEARNS DAVIS
HILL-FANTASY?FANNY STEARNS DAVIS
THE MIRAGE?NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
THE ROAD BEYOND THE TOWN?MICHAEL EARLS, S.J.
THE LILAC?WALTER PRICHARD EATON
GOD, THROUGH HIS OFFSPRING NATURE, GAVE ME LOVE?CHARLES GIBSON
TO MUSIC?MAUDE GORDON-ROBY
THE VOICE IN THE SONG?MARY GERTRUDE HAMILTON
HYMNS AND ANTHEMS SUNG AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE?CAROLINE HAZARD
REUBEN ROY?HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS
COUNTRY ROAD?MARIE LOUISE HERSEY
WREATHS?CAROLYN HILLMAN
MEMPHIS?GORDON MALHERBE HILLMAN
SAINT COLUMBKILLE?E.J.V. HUIGINN
MISS DOANE?WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON
FALLEN FENCES?WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON
CROSS-CURRENTS?WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON
THE FAREWELL?WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON
SONG?OLIVER JENKINS
LOVE AUTUMNAL?OLIVER JENKINS
ECHOES?RUTH LAMBERT JONES
WAR PICTURES?RUTH LAMBERT JONES
AN OLD SONG?ARTHUR KETCHUM
ROADSIDE REST?ARTHUR KETCHUM
OLD LIZETTE ON SLEEP?AGNES LEE
MOTHERHOOD?AGNES LEE
ESSEX?GEORGE CABOT LODGE
THE SONG OF THE WAVE?GEORGE CABOT LODGE
FRIMAIRE?AMY LOWELL
PATTERNS?AMY LOWELL
A BATHER?AMY LOWELL
LEPRECHAUNS AND CLURICAUNS?DENNIS A. MCCARTHY
L'ENVOI?DOROTHEA LAWRENCE MANN
TO IMAGINATION?DOROTHEA LAWRENCE MANN
DRAGON?JEANETTE MARKS
GREEN GOLDEN DOOR?JEANETTE MARKS
SLEEPY HOLLOW, CONCORD?JOHN CLAIR MINOT
THE SWORD OF ARTHUR?JOHN CLAIR MINOT
THE DIVINE FOREST?CHARLES R. MURPHY
MAGIC?EDWARD J. O'BRIEN
MICHAEL PAT?EDWARD J. O'BRIAN
SONG?EDWARD J. O'BRIAN
IN MEMORIAM: FRANCIS LEDWIDGE?NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONNOR
EVENSONG?NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONNOR
THE PROPHET?JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
HARVEST-MOON: 1914?JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
HORSEMAN SPRINGING FROM THE DARK: A DREAM?LILLA CABOT PERRY
THREE QUATRAINS?LILLA CABOT PERRY
A VALENTINE UNSENT?MARGARET PERRY
SHIPBUILDERS?ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER
UNFADING PICTURES?LOUELLA C. POOLE
WITH WAVES AND WINGS?CHARLOTTE PORTER
BLUEBERRIES?FRANK PRENTICE RAND
NOCTURNE?WILLIAM ROSCOIE THAYER
ENVOI?WILLIAM 'ROSCOE THAYER
THERE WHERE THE SEA?MARIE TUDOR
MARRIAGE?MARIE TUDOR
PITY?HAROLD VINAL
A ROSE TO THE LIVING?NIXON WATERMAN
THE STORM?G.O. WARREN
WHERE THEY SLEEP?G.O. WARREN
BEAUTY?G.O. WARREN
COMRADES?GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
THE FLIGHT?GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
HOME-BOUND?THE moon is a wavering rim where one fish?slips,
The water makes a quietness of sound;?Night is an anchoring of many ships?Home-bound.
There are strange tunnelers in the dark, and whirs?Of wings that die, and hairy spiders spin?The silence into nets, and tenanters?Move softly in.
I step on shadows riding through the grass,?And feel the night lean cool against my face;?And challenged by the sentinel of space,?I pass.
JOSEPH AUSLANDE
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
O BEAUTIFUL for spacious skies,?For amber waves of grain,?For purple mountain majesties?Above the fruited plain!?America! America!?God shed His grace on thee?And crown thy good with brotherhood?From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,?Those stern, impassioned stress?A thoroughfare for freedom beat?Across the wilderness!?America! America!?God mend thine every flaw,?Confirm thy soul in self-control,?Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved?In liberating strife?Who more than self their country loved,?And mercy more than life!?America! America!?May God thy gold refine,?Till all success be nobleness,?And every gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream?That sees beyond the years?Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!?America! America!?God shed His grace on thee?And crown thy good with brotherhood?From sea to shining sea!
KATHERINE LEE BATES
YELLOW CLOVER
MUST I, who walk alone,?come on it still,?This Puck of plants?The wise would do away with,?The sunshine slants?To play with,?Our wee, gold-dusty flower, the yellow clover,?Which once in Parting for a time?That then seemed long,?Ere time for you was over,?We sealed our own??Do you remember yet,?O Soul beyond the stars,?Beyond the uttermost dim bars?Of space,?Dear Soul, who found earth sweet,?Remember by love's grace,?In dreamy hushes of the heavenly song,?How suddenly we halted in our climb,?Lingering, reluctant, up that farthest hill,?Stooped for the blossoms closest to our feet,?And gave them as a token?Each to Each,?In lieu of speech,?In lieu of words too grievous to be spoken,?Those little, gypsy, wondering blossoms wet?With a strange dew of tears?
So it began,?This vagabond, unvalued yellow clover,?To be our tenderest language. All the years?It lent a new zest to the summer hours,?As each