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PRECIPITATIONS
1920
The author acknowledges the courtesy of the editors of THE POETRY

JOURNAL; OTHERS; THE EGOIST (London); POETRY: A
MAGAZINE OF VERSE; PLAYBOY; THE DIAL; THE
LIBERATOR; OTHERS: An ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW VERSE;
THE NATION (New York); and THE LYRIC, from all of which
poems in this volume have been reprinted.
Contents
Manhattan
The Unpeopled City
Midnight Worship: Brooklyn Bridge
Ascension: Autumn Dusk in
Central Park
Startled Forest: Hudson River
Winter Streets

February Springtime
The Assumption of Columbine
From
Brooklyn
Snow Dance
Potter's Field
Lights at Night
Midnight
Crowds
Summer Night
New York
Sunset: Battery Park
Crowds
Riots

The City at Night
Vanities
Bread Poems
Lullaby
Embarkation of Cythera
Christian Luxuries
Narrow
Flowers
Eyes
After Youth
The Shadow that Walks Alone
Bible
Truth
The Maternal Breast
Air for G String
Destiny
The Red Cross
Hectic I-II
Isolation Ward
The Red Cross
Hospital Night
Domestic Canticle
Spring Song
Home Again
To a Sick Child
Love Song
Quarrel


My Child
The Tunnel I-V
Bruised Sunlight
Water Moods
Rain on