CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
HYMN TO DEMETER From "A Sicilian Idyl"
OVER THE WINTRY THRESHOLD
IN APRIL
MAY IS BUILDING HER HOUSE
IN A FORGOTTEN BURYING-GROUND
WIND
THE SPECKLED TROUT
TREES
IN THE HOSPITAL
LOVE OF LIFE
GOD'S WILL
ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD
TO A CHILD FALLING ASLEEP
A ROMAN DOLL ( In a Museum )
SAPPHO
OF MOIRA UP THE GLEN
MORNING GLORIES
LEST I LEARN
LATER
THE OLD MAID
DEPARTURE
AN ADIEU
HEART'S TIDE
WAITING
DESIDERIUM
HUMAN
THE GHOST
A MOUNTAIN GATEWAY
PERUGIA
GHOSTS
ST. JOHN AND THE FAUN I O blest Imagination! Bright power
SCHOOL I Old Hezekiah leaned hard on his hoe And squinted long
THE MARVELOUS MUNCHAUSEN
TRAIN-MATES
THE KALLYOPE YELL
THANKSGIVING FOR OUR TASK
A LIKENESS Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome
THE FIELD OF GLORY
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
THE SIN EATER I Hark ye! Hush ye! Margot's dead! Hush! Have
NIGHT-SENTRIES
THE SWORDLESS CHRIST Vicisti, Galilee
WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
A THRENODY In Memory of the Destruction of Messina By Earthquake
NOVEMBER
SALUTATION
HERE LIES PIERROT
LIST OF "DISTINCTIVE POEMS," THEIR AUTHORS, AND THE MAGAZINES IN WHICH THEY APPEARED
THE "BEST POEMS" CHOSEN FROM THE "DISTINCTIVE" LIST
TITLES AND AUTHORS OF ALL POEMS APPEARING IN THE SEVEN
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
Transcriber's Notes
Transcriber’s Note
Table of Contents added by Transcriber.
Including the Magazines and the Poets *** A Review
BY WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Author of “The House of Falling Leaves,” “The Book of Elizabethan Verse,” etc.
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ISSUED BY W. S. B. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
COPYRIGHT 1913, BY WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
Thomas Todd Co., Printers 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
TO THE POETS OF AMERICA SINGING TODAY THE SOUL OF THEIR COUNTRY TRUTH, BEAUTY, BROTHERHOOD THEIR NAMES ARE TORCHES
