The Little Book of Modern Verse | Page 4

Sheel]
The Heart's Country. [Florence Wilkinson]
Here is the Place
where Loveliness keeps House. [Madison Cawein] Hora Christi. [Alice

Brown]
The House and the Road. [Josephine Preston Peabody]
I know not why. [Morris Rosenfeld]
I shall not care. [Sara Teasdale]

I would I might forget that I am I. [George Santayana]
The
Inverted Torch. [Edith M. Thomas]
The Invisible Bride. [Edwin
Markham]
Irish Peasant Song. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
The Joy of the Hills. [Edwin Markham]
Joyous-Gard. [Thomas S.
Jones, Jr.]
Kinchinjunga. [Cale Young Rice]
The Kings. [Louise Imogen
Guiney]
Da Leetla Boy. [Thomas Augustine Daly]
The Lesser Children.
[Ridgely Torrence]
Let me no more a Mendicant. [Arthur Colton]

Life. [John Hall Wheelock]
Lincoln, the Man of the People. [Edwin
Markham]
Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's. [Grace Fallow Norton]
Live blindly. [Trumbull Stickney]
Lord of my Heart's Elation. [Bliss
Carman]
Love came back at Fall o' Dew. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]

Love knocks at the Door. [John Hall Wheelock]
Love Triumphant.
[Frederic Lawrence Knowles]
Love's Ritual. [Charles Hanson Towne]

Love's Springtide. [Frank Dempster Sherman]
The Man with the Hoe. [Edwin Markham]
Martin. [Joyce Kilmer]

De Massa ob de Sheepfol'. [Sarah Pratt McLean Greene]
The Master.
[Edwin Arlington Robinson]
May is building her House. [Richard Le
Gallienne]
A Memorial Tablet. [Florence Wilkinson]
Miniver
Cheevy. [Edwin Arlington Robinson]
Mockery. [Louis Untermeyer]

Mother. [Theresa Helburn]
The Mystic. [Witter Bynner]
The
Mystic. [Cale Young Rice]
The New Life. [Witter Bynner]
The Nightingale unheard. [Josephine
Preston Peabody]
Night's Mardi Gras. [Edward J. Wheeler]
An Ode in Time of Hesitation. [William Vaughn Moody]
Of Joan's

Youth. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs.
[Frederic Lawrence Knowles] On a Subway Express. [Chester Firkins]

On the Building of Springfield. [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
Once.
[Trumbull Stickney]
Only of thee and me. [Louis Untermeyer]
The
Only Way. [Louis V. Ledoux]
The Outer Gate. [Nora May French]
A Parting Guest. [James Whitcomb Riley]
The Path to the Woods.
[Madison Cawein]
The Poet. [Mildred McNeal Sweeney]
The
Poet's Town. [John G. Neihardt]
The Prince. [Josephine Dodge
Daskam]
The Quiet Singer. [Charles Hanson Towne]
The Recessional. [Charles G. D. Roberts]
Renascence. [Edna St.
Vincent Millay]
A Rhyme of Death's Inn. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]

The Ride to the Lady. [Helen Gray Cone]
The Rival. [James
Whitcomb Riley]
The Rosary. [Robert Cameron Rogers]
Sappho. [Sara Teasdale]
Scum o' the Earth. [Robert Haven Schauffler]

The Sea Gypsy. [Richard Hovey]
The Sea-Lands. [Orrick Johns]

The Secret. [George Edward Woodberry]
Sentence. [Witter Bynner]

Sic Vita. [William Stanley Braithwaite]
Sometimes. [Thomas S.
Jones, Jr.]
Somewhere. [John Vance Cheney]
Song. "For me the
jasmine buds unfold". [Florence Earle Coates] Song. "If love were but a
little thing --". [Florence Earle Coates] Song. [Richard Le Gallienne]

A Song in Spring. [Thomas S. Jones, Jr.]
Song is so old. [Hermann
Hagedorn]
The Song of the Unsuccessful. [Richard Burton]
Songs
for my Mother. [Anna Hempstead Branch]
Souls. [Fannie Stearns
Davis]
Stains. [Theodosia Garrison]
Tears. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]
The Tears of Harlequin.
[Theodosia Garrison]
That Day you came. [Lizette Woodworth Reese]

There's Rosemary. [Olive Tilford Dargan]
They went forth to
Battle, but they always fell. [Shaemas O Sheel] The Thought of her.

[Richard Hovey]
To a New York Shop-Girl dressed for Sunday.
[Anna Hempstead Branch] To William Sharp. [Clinton Scollard]

To-Day. [Helen Gray Cone]
Trumbull Stickney. [George Cabot
Lodge]
Tryste Noel. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
The Unconquered Air. [Florence Earle Coates]
Under Arcturus.
[Madison Cawein]
The Unreturning. [Bliss Carman]
Uriel. [Percy
MacKaye]
A Vagabond Song. [Bliss Carman]
Wanderers. [George Sylvester Viereck]
Water Fantasy. [Fannie
Stearns Davis]
We needs must be divided in the Tomb. [George
Santayana]
A West-Country Lover. [Alice Brown]
When I am dead
and Sister to the Dust. [Elsa Barker]
When I have gone Weird Ways.
[John G. Neihardt]
When the Wind is low. [Cale Young Rice]
Why.
[Bliss Carman]
The Wife from Fairyland. [Richard Le Gallienne]
A
Winter Ride. [Amy Lowell]
Winter Sleep. [Edith M. Thomas]

Witchery. [Frank Dempster Sherman]
Biographical Notes
Sincere thanks are due to my friend Thomas S. Jones, Jr.,
who, during
my absence in Europe, has kindly taken charge of all details incident to
putting "The Little Book of Modern Verse" through the press.
The Little Book of Modern Verse
Lord of my Heart's Elation. [Bliss Carman]
Lord of my heart's elation,
Spirit of things unseen,
Be thou my
aspiration
Consuming and serene!
Bear up, bear out, bear onward,
This mortal soul alone,
To selfhood
or oblivion,
Incredibly thine own, --

As the foamheads are loosened
And blown along the sea,
Or sink
and merge forever
In that which bids them be.
I, too, must climb in wonder,
Uplift at thy command, --
Be one with
my frail fellows
Beneath the wind's strong hand,
A fleet and shadowy column
Of dust or mountain rain,
To walk the
earth a moment
And be dissolved again.
Be thou my exaltation
Or fortitude of mien,
Lord of the world's
elation,
Thou breath of things unseen!
Gloucester Moors. [William Vaughn Moody]
A mile behind is Gloucester town
Where the fishing fleets put in,
A
mile ahead the land dips down
And the woods and farms begin.

Here, where the moors stretch free
In the high blue afternoon,
Are
the marching sun and talking sea,
And the racing winds that wheel
and flee
On the flying heels of June.
Jill-o'er-the-ground is purple blue,
Blue is the quaker-maid,
The
wild geranium holds its dew
Long in the boulder's shade.
Wax-red
hangs the cup
From the huckleberry boughs,
In barberry bells the
grey moths sup
Or where the choke-cherry lifts high up
Sweet
bowls for their carouse.
Over the