The Little Book of Modern Verse | Page 4

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.
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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 shelf of the sandy cove?Beach-peas blossom late.?By copse and cliff the swallows rove?Each calling to his mate.?Seaward the sea-gulls go,?And the land-birds all are here;?That green-gold flash was a vireo,?And yonder flame where the marsh-flags grow?Was a scarlet tanager.
This earth is not the steadfast place?We landsmen build upon;?From deep to deep she varies pace,?And while she comes is gone.?Beneath my feet I feel?Her smooth bulk heave and dip;?With velvet plunge and soft upreel?She swings and steadies to her keel?Like a gallant, gallant ship.
These summer clouds