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| Preface | xvii |
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| Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) | |
| Chartless | 4 |
| Indian Summer | 4 |
| Suspense | 5 |
| The Railway Train | 6 |
| A Cemetery | 6 |
| Beclouded | 7 |
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| Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | |
| Memory | 8 |
| “Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme” | 9 |
| Two Quatrains: | |
| ? ? Maple Leaves | 9 |
| ? ? Pessimist and Optimist | 10 |
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| John Hay (1838–1905) | |
| Jim Bludso | 11 |
| Banty Tim | 13 |
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| Bret Harte (1839–1902) | |
| “Jim” | 16 |
| Plain Language from Truthful James | 19 |
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| Joaquin Miller (1841–1913) | |
| By the Pacific Ocean | 23 |
| Crossing the Plains | 24 |
| From “Byron” | 25 |
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| Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) | |
| Solitude | 26 |
| Dare You? | 26 |
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| Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) | |
| Song of the Chattahoochee | 29 |
| Night and Day | 31 |
| From “The Marshes of Glynn” | 32 |
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| Charles Edward Carryl (1842–1920) | |
| The Plaint of the Camel | 34 |
| Robinson Crusoe’s Story | 35 |
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| James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) | |
| “When the Frost is on the Punkin” | 39 |
| A Parting Guest | 41 |
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| Eugene Field (1850–1895) | |
| Our Two Opinions | 43 |
| Little Boy Blue | 44 |
| Seein’ Things | 45 |
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| Edwin Markham (1852–) | |
| Outwitted | 48 |
| The Man with the Hoe | 49 |
| Preparedness | 51 |
| The Onset | 192 |
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| William Ellery Leonard (1876–) | |
| The Image of Delight | 193 |
| To the Victor | 194 |
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| Sarah N. Cleghorn (1876–) | |
| The Survival of the Fittest | 195 |
| The Incentive | 195 |
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| Carl Sandburg (1878–) | |
| Cool Tombs | 198 |
| Fog | 199 |
| From “Smoke and Steel” | 199 |
| Blue Island Intersection | 202 |
| Clean Curtains | 203 |
| A. E. F. | 204 |
| Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard | 205 |
| Grass | 205 |
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| Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) | |
| Three Cinquains: | |
| ? ? November Night | 206 |
| ? ? Triad | 207 |
| ? ? The Warning | 207 |
| On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees | 207 |
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| Grace Hazard Conkling (1878–) | |
| The Whole Duty of Berkshire Brooks | 208 |
| Frost on a Window | 208 |
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| Amelia Josephine Burr (1878–) | |
| Battle-Song of Failure | 209 |
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| Don Marquis (1878–) | |
| Unrest | 211 |
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| John Erskine (1879–) | |
| Dedication | 213 |
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| James Branch Cabell (1879–) | |
| Sea-Scapes | 214 |
| One End of Love | 215 |
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| Vachel Lindsay (1879–) | |
| The Eagle That Is Forgotten | 219 |
| The Congo | 221 |
| To a Golden Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town | 229 |
| The Traveller | 229 |
| A Negro Sermon:—Simon Legree | 230 |
| Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight | 232 |
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| Edwin Meade Robinson (1879–) | |
| How He Turned Out | 234 |
| “Halcyon Days” | 236 |
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| Franklin P. Adams (1881–) | |
| War and Peace | | T. S. Eliot (1888–) | |
| Morning at the Window | 357 |
| From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” | 357 |
| Prelude | 358 |
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| Conrad Aiken (1889–) | |
| Chance Meetings | 360 |
| The Fulfilled Dream | 360 |
| Miracles | 363 |
| Morning Song from “Senlin” | 364 |
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| Christopher Morley (1890–) | |
| Quickening | 367 |
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| Leslie Nelson Jennings (1891–) | |
| Frustrate | 368 |
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| Maxwell Bodenheim (1892–) | |
| Poet to His Love | 369 |
| Old Age | 370 |
| Death | 370 |
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| Edwin Curran (1892–) | |
| Autumn | 372 |
| The Painted Hills of Arizona | 372 |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–) | |
| God’s World | 374 |
| Renascence | 375 |
| Pity Me Not | 382 |
| I Shall Go Back | 382 |
| The Pear Tree | 383 |
| Wild Swans | 383 |
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| Mary Carolyn Davies | |
| The Day Before April | 384 |
| The Apple Tree Said | 385 |
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| Winifred Welles (1893–) | |
| From a Chinese Vase | 386 |
| Humiliation | 386 |
| Love Song from New England | 387 |
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| Herbert S. Gorman (1893–) | |
| The Fanatic | 388 |
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| Babette Deutsch (1895–) | |
| The Death of a Child | 389 |
| In a Museum | 390 |
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| Alter Brody (1895–) | |
| A City Park | 391 |
| Searchlights | 391 |
| Ghetto Twilight | 392 |
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| Stephen Vincent BenÉt (1898–) | |
| Portrait of a Boy | 393 |
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| Hilda Conkling (1910–) | |
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