CONTENTS
Conrad Aiken
A Foreword
iii
AMY LOWELL
Lilacs
3
Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme
8
The Swans
13
Prime
16
Vespers
17
In Excelsis
18
La Ronde du Diable
20
ROBERT FROST
Fire and Ice
25
The Grindstone
26
The Witch of CoÖs
29
A Brook in the City
37
Design
38
CARL SANDBURG
And So To-day
41
California City Landscape
49
Upstream
51
Windflower Leaf
52
VACHEL LINDSAY
In Praise of Johnny Appleseed
55
I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry
66
JAMES OPPENHEIM
Hebrews
75
ALFRED KREYMBORG
Adagio: A Duet
79
Die KÜche
80
Rain
81
Peasant
83
Bubbles
85
Dirge
87
Colophon
88
SARA TEASDALE
Wisdom
91
Places
92
Twilight
(Tucson)
Full Moon
(Santa Barbara)
Winter Sun
(Lenox)
Evening
(Nahant)
Words for an Old Air
97
Those Who Love
98
Two Songs for Solitude
99
The Crystal Gazer
The Solitary
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
Monolog from a Mattress
103
Waters of Babylon
110
The Flaming Circle
112
Portrait of a Machine
114
Roast Leviathan
115
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
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