The Little Book of Modern Verse
Updated May 6, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets
[Selections made in 1913.]
Sincere thanks are due to my friend Thomas S. Jones, Jr., who, during my absence in Europe, has kindly taken charge of all details incident to putting "The Little Book of Modern Verse" through the press.
Contents
- Foreword
- Lord of my Heart's Elation ()
- Gloucester Moors ()
- On a Subway Express ()
- The Automobile ()
- The Black Vulture ()
- Chavez ()
- The Sea Gypsy ()
- At Gibraltar ()
- Euchenor Chorus ()
- He whom a Dream hath possessed ()
- The Kings ()
- Mockery ()
- An Ode in Time of Hesitation ()
- Candlemas ()
- The Unreturning ()
- A Song in Spring ()
- May is building her House ()
- Here is the Place where Loveliness keeps House ()
- Water Fantasy ()
- Bacchus ()
- Da Leetla Boy ()
- Agamede's Song ()
- Why ()
- The Wife from Fairyland ()
- Life ()
- Song is so old ()
- That Day you came ()
- Song. "For me the jasmine buds unfold" ()
- Mother ()
- Songs for my Mother ()
- The Daguerreotype ()
- Tears ()
- The Sea-Lands ()
- Bag-Pipes at Sea ()
- The Heart's Country ()
- Joyous-Gard ()
- The Secret ()
- The Nightingale unheard ()
- Only of thee and me ()
- When the Wind is low ()
- Love Triumphant ()
- Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream ()
- The Tears of Harlequin ()
- The Buried City ()
- The Ride to the Lady ()
- Evensong ()
- Witchery ()
- Golden Pulse ()
- Sappho ()
- Harps hung up in Babylon ()
- Live blindly ()
- Love's Springtide ()
- Wanderers ()
- Ballade of my Lady's Beauty ()
- Grieve not, Ladies ()
- Of Joan's Youth ()
- I shall not care ()
- Love came back at Fall o' Dew ()
- There's Rosemary ()
- Love's Ritual ()
- Grey Rocks, and Greyer Sea ()
- "Grandmither, think not I forget" ()
- When I am dead and Sister to the Dust ()
- Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's ()
- Irish Peasant Song ()
- The Prince ()
- Four Winds ()
- A West-Country Lover ()
- A Winter Ride ()
- Sic Vita ()
- Across the Fields to Anne ()
- The House and the Road ()
- The Path to the Woods ()
- Sometimes ()
- Renascence ()
- Souls ()
- Fiat Lux ()
- The Dreamer ()
- A Caravan from China comes ()
- As I came down from Lebanon ()
- The Only Way ()
- The Dust Dethroned ()
- Kinchinjunga ()
- Scum o' the Earth ()
- Da Boy from Rome ()
- The Fugitives ()
- The Song of the Unsuccessful ()
- They went forth to Battle, but they always fell ()
- The Eagle that is forgotten ()
- A Memorial Tablet ()
- To-Day ()
- The Man with the Hoe ()
- Exordium ()
- The Frozen Grail ()
- The Unconquered Air ()
- The Happiest Heart ()
- To a New York Shop-Girl dressed for Sunday ()
- A Faun in Wall Street ()
- The Mystic ()
- The Cloud ()
- The Thought of her ()
- Song. "If love were but a little thing —" ()
- The Rosary ()
- Once ()
- Love knocks at the Door ()
- The Candle and the Flame ()
- Stains ()
- De Massa ob de Sheepfol' ()
- Black Sheep ()
- Let me no more a Mendicant ()
- Lincoln, the Man of the People ()
- The Master ()
- On the Building of Springfield ()
- The Poet's Town ()
- The New Life ()
- Martin ()
- As in the Midst of Battle there is Room ()
- Ex Libris ()
- The Poet ()
- When I have gone Weird Ways ()
- Trumbull Stickney ()
- Sentence ()
- Comrades ()
- Comrades ()
- Calverly's ()
- Uriel ()
- Azrael ()
- The Flight ()
- The Rival ()
- A Rhyme of Death's Inn ()
- The Outer Gate ()
- The Ashes in the Sea ()
- We needs must be divided in the Tomb ()
- Departure ()
- Song ()
- The Invisible Bride ()
- The Inverted Torch ()
- Night's Mardi Gras ()
- The Mystic ()
- I would I might forget that I am I ()
- To William Sharp ()
- The Quiet Singer ()
- After a Dolmetsch Concert ()
- On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs ()
- Miniver Cheevy ()
- At the End of the Day ()
- The Joy of the Hills ()
- The Lesser Children ()
- A Vagabond Song ()
- Somewhere ()
- "Frost To-Night" ()
- Under Arcturus ()
- The Recessional ()
- I know not why ()
- Winter Sleep ()
- Tryste Noel ()
- Hora Christi ()
- A Parting Guest ()
- A. Biographical Notes
- Elsa Barker
- William Stanley Braithwaite
- Anna Hempstead Branch
- Alice Brown
- Richard Burton
- Witter Bynner
- Bliss Carman
- Willa Sibert Cather
- Madison Cawein
- John Vance Cheney
- Florence Earle Coates
- Arthur Colton
- Helen Gray Cone
- Thomas Augustine Daly
- Olive Tilford Dargan
- Josephine Dodge Daskam
- Fannie Stearns Davis
- Chester Firkins
- Nora May French
- Theodosia Garrison
- Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
- Louise Imogen Guiney
- Hermann Hagedorn
- Theresa Helburn
- Richard Hovey
- Orrick Johns
- Thomas S., Jr Jones
- Joyce Kilmer
- Frederick Lawrence Knowles
- Louis V. Ledoux
- Richard Le Gallienne
- Vachel Lindsay
- George Cabot Lodge
- Amy Lowell
- Percy MacKaye
- Edwin Markham
- Lloyd Mifflin
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- William Vaughn Moody
- John G Neihardt
- Grace Fallow Norton
- John Myers O'Hara
- Shaemas O Sheel
- Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel Marks) Peabody
- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Cale Young Rice
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Charles G. D Roberts
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Robert Cameron Rogers
- Morris Rosenfeld
- George E Santayana
- Robert Haven Schauffler
- Clinton Scollard
- Frank Dempster Sherman
- George Sterling
- Joseph Trumbull Stickney
- Mildred McNeal Sweeney
- Sara (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) Teasdale
- Edith M Thomas
- Ridgely Torrence
- Charles Hanson Towne
- Louis Untermeyer
- Arthur Upson
- George Sylvester Viereck
- Robert Gilbert Welsh
- Edward J Wheeler
- John Hall Wheelock
- Florence (Mrs. Wilfrid Muir Evans) Wilkinson
- George Edward Woodberry
- B. Notes to the text:
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