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The Little Book of Modern Verse
ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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italicized words have capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are
broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious
errors may have been corrected.]
The Little Book of Modern Verse
A Selection from the work of
contemporaneous American poets
Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
[Selections made in 1913.]
Foreword
"The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies,
is not a
formal anthology. The pageant of American poetry
has been so often
presented that no necessity exists
for another exhaustive review of the
art. Nearly all anthologies, however, stop short of the present group of
poets, or represent them so inadequately that only those in close touch
with the trend of American literature know what the poet of to-day is
contributing to it.
It is strictly, then, as a reflection of our own period,
to show what is

being done by the successors of our earlier poets, what new
interpretation they are giving to life, what new beauty they have
apprehended, what new art they have evolved,
that this little book has
taken form. A few of the poets included have been writing for a quarter
of a century, and were, therefore, among the immediate successors of
the New England group,
but many have done their work within the
past decade and the volume as a whole represents the twentieth-century
spirit.
From the scheme of the book, that of a small, intimate collection,
representative rather than exhaustive, it has been impossible to include
all of the poets who would naturally be included in a more ambitious
anthology. In certain instances, also, matters of copyright have deterred
me from including those
whom I had originally intended to represent,
but with isolated exceptions the little book covers the work of our later
poets and gives a hint of what they are doing.
I have attempted, as far as possible, to unify the collection by arranging
the poems so that each should set the keynote to the next, or at least
bear some relation to it in mood or theme. While it is impossible, with
so varied a mass of material, that such a sequence should be exact, and
in one or two instances the arrangement has been disturbed by the late
addition or elimination of poems, the idea has been to differentiate the
little volume from the typical anthology by giving it a unity impossible
to a larger collection.
Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Contents
Across the Fields to Anne. [Richard Burton]
After a Dolmetsch
Concert. [Arthur Upson]
Agamede's Song. [Arthur Upson]
As I
came down from Lebanon. [Clinton Scollard]
As in the Midst of
Battle there is Room. [George Santayana] The Ashes in the Sea.
[George Sterling]
At Gibraltar. [George Edward Woodberry]
At the
End of the Day. [Richard Hovey]
The Automobile. [Percy MacKaye]

Azrael. [Robert Gilbert Welsh]

Bacchus. [Frank Dempster Sherman]
Bag-Pipes at Sea. [Clinton
Scollard]
Ballade of my Lady's Beauty. [Joyce Kilmer]
Be still. The
Hanging Gardens were a dream. [Trumbull Stickney] Black Sheep.
[Richard Burton]
The Black Vulture. [George Sterling]
Da Boy
from Rome. [Thomas Augustine Daly]
The Buried City. [George
Sylvester Viereck]
Calverly's. [Edwin Arlington Robinson]
The Candle and the Flame.
[George Sylvester Viereck]
Candlemas. [Alice Brown]
A Caravan
from China comes. [Richard Le Gallienne]
Chavez. [Mildred McNeal
Sweeney]
The Cloud. [Josephine Preston Peabody]
Comrades.
[Richard Hovey]
Comrades. [George Edward Woodberry]
The Daguerreotype. [William Vaughn Moody]
Departure. [Hermann
Hagedorn]
The Dreamer. [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
The Dust
Dethroned. [George Sterling]
The Eagle that is forgotten. [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
Euchenor
Chorus. [Arthur Upson]
Evensong. [Ridgely Torrence]
Ex Libris.
[Arthur Upson]
Exordium. [George Cabot Lodge]
A Faun in Wall Street. [John Myers O'Hara]
Fiat Lux. [Lloyd Mifflin]

The Flight. [Lloyd Mifflin]
Four Winds. [Sara Teasdale]
"Frost
To-Night". [Edith M. Thomas]
The Frozen Grail. [Elsa Barker]
The
Fugitives. [Florence Wilkinson]
Gloucester Moors. [William Vaughn Moody]
Golden Pulse. [John
Myers O'Hara]
"Grandmither, think not I forget". [Willa Sibert
Cather]
Grey Rocks, and Greyer Sea. [Charles G. D. Roberts]

Grieve not, Ladies. [Anna Hempstead Branch]
The Happiest Heart. [John Vance Cheney]
Harps hung up in Babylon.
[Arthur Colton]
He whom a Dream hath possessed. [Shaemas O