CONTENTS

A FOREWORD

MINNA I Twilight pushes down your eyes With shimmering,

MYSELF POET TO HIS LOVE

DEATH

TO GEORGIE MAY

POET-VAGABOND GROWN OLD

BLIND

LOVE

HILL-SIDE TREE

INTRUSION

CHANGE

PORTRAITS I You were in the room, yet your body Was stone cut

MEETING

COTTON-PICKER

FRIENDSHIP

FACTORY GIRL

DEATH I A fan of smoke in the long, green-white revery of the

INTERLUDE

CHORUS GIRL

OLD AGE

TO ONE DEAD

TO A DISCARDED STEEL RAIL

TO AN ENEMY

SOLDIERS

FORGETFULNESS

THE INTERNE

REAR PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING

TO ONE DEAD (2)

THE MASTER-POISONER Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht

POET'S HEART

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Our thanks to the following publications, for their kindness
in permitting us to reprint, in this volume,
poems that have appeared in their pages:
The Little Review; Poetry; the New Republic;
the Century; the New York Tribune;
the Touchstone; the Seven
Arts; the Pagan; the Egoist.


Copyright, 1918.
Pagan Publishing Co. New York



DEDICATED BY BOTH OF US TO
Fedya Ramsay