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| Introduction | v |
| Hymn to Demeter, by Louis V. Ledoux | 1 |
| Over the Wintry Threshold, by Bliss Carman | 2 |
| In April, by Margaret Lee Ashley | 3 |
| May Is Building Her House, by Richard Le Gallienne | 3 |
| In a Forgotten Burying-ground, by Ruth Guthrie Harding | 4 |
| Wind, by Fannie Stearns Davis | 5 |
| The Speckled Trout, by Madison Cawein | 5 |
| Trees, by Joyce Kilmer | 7 |
| In the Hospital, by Arthur Guiterman | 7 |
| Love of Life, by Tertius van Dyke | 8 |
| God’s Will, by Mildred Howells | 8 |
| On the Birth of a Child, by Louis Untermeyer | 9 |
| To a Child Falling Asleep, Robert Alden Sanborn | 9 |
| A Roman Doll, by Agnes Lee | 12 |
| Sappho, by Sara Teasdale | 13 |
| Of Moira Up the Glen, by Edward J. O’Brien | 16 |
| Morning Glories, by John G. Neihardt | 17 |
| Lest I Learn, by Witter Bynner | 18 |
| Later, by Willard Huntington Wright | 18 |
| The Old Maid, by Sara Teasdale | 19 |
| Departure, by John Hall Wheelock | 20 |
| An Adieu, by Florence Earle Coates | 20 |
| Heart’s Tide, by Ethel M. Hewitt | 21 |
| Waiting, by Charles Hanson Towne | 22 |
| Desiderium, by Richard Le Gallienne | 22 |
| Human, by Richard Burton | 23 |
| The Ghost, by Hermann Hagedorn | 23 |
| A Mountain Gateway, by Bliss Carman | 24 |
| Perugia, by Amelia Josephine Burr | 25 |
| Ghosts, by Marguerite Mooers Marshall | 27 |
| St. John and the Faun, by George Edward Woodberry | 28 |
| School, by Percy MacKaye | 30 |
| The Marvelous Munchausen, by William Rose BenÉt | 34 |
| Train-mates, by Witter Bynner | 38 |
| The Kallyope Yell, by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay | 39 |
| Thanksgiving For Our Task, by Shaemas OSheel | 43 |
| A Likeness, by Willa Sibert Cather | 46 |
| The Field of Glory, by Edwin Arlington Robinson | 48 |
| Rich Man, Poor Man—, by Francis Hill | 49 |
| The Sin Eater, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell | 50 |
| Night-sentries, by George Sterling | 52 |
| The Swordless Christ, by Percy Adams Hutchison | 54 |
| What of the Night?, by Willard Huntington Wright | |
