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Modern American Poetry

by Louis Untermeyer

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Editor
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
Credits
Produced by Richard Tonsing, David Starner, Stephen Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American poetry -- 19th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 58992
Release Date
March 1, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.MODERN AMERICAN POETRY
  2. 2.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.PREFACE The Civil War—and After — THE “POST-MORTEM” PERIOD — WALT WHITMAN — THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST — REACTION AND REVOLT IN THE ’90S — INTERIM—1890–1912 — RENASCENCE—1913 — ROBINSON AND MASTERS — FROST AND SANDBURG — THE IMAGISTS — THE NEW FOLK-POETRY — LINDSAY, OPPENHEIM AND OTHERS — SUMMARY—THE NEW SPIRIT
  5. 5.Emily Dickinson — CHARTLESS — INDIAN SUMMER — SUSPENSE — THE RAILWAY TRAIN — A CEMETERY — BECLOUDED
  6. 6.Thomas Bailey Aldrich — MEMORY — “ENAMORED ARCHITECT OF AIRY RHYME” — TWO QUATRAINS — MAPLE LEAVES — PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST
  7. 7.John Hay — JIM BLUDSO, OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE — BANTY TIM
  8. 8.Bret Harte — “JIM” — PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES
  9. 9.Joaquin Miller — BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN [2] — CROSSING THE PLAINS [3] — FROM “ BYRON ”
  10. 10.Edward Rowland Sill — SOLITUDE — DARE YOU?
  11. 11.Sidney Lanier — SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE [4] — NIGHT AND DAY [5] — FROM “THE MARSHES OF GLYNN” [6]
  12. 12.Charles Edward Carryl — THE PLAINT OF THE CAMEL — ROBINSON CRUSOE’S STORY
  13. 13.James Whitcomb Riley — “WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN” [7] — A PARTING GUEST [8]
  14. 14.Eugene Field — OUR TWO OPINIONS [9] — LITTLE BOY BLUE [10] — SEEIN’ THINGS [11]
  15. 15.Edwin Markham — OUTWITTED — THE MAN WITH THE HOE [12] — PREPAREDNESS — LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE [13]
  16. 16.C. E. S. Wood — SUNRISE — THE DESERT
  17. 17.Irwin Russell — BLESSING THE DANCE — DE FUST BANJO
  18. 18.Edith M. Thomas — “FROST TO-NIGHT”
  19. 19.George Edward Woodberry — IMMORTAL LOVE — A SONG OF SUNRISE
  20. 20.H. C. Bunner — SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE — BEHOLD THE DEEDS! — A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE [14]
  21. 21.Lizette Woodworth Reese — TEARS — THE DUST — SPICEWOOD
  22. 22.Horace Traubel — HOW ARE YOU, DEAR WORLD, THIS MORNING? — O MY DEAD COMRADE
  23. 23.Frank Dempster Sherman — AT MIDNIGHT — BACCHUS — TWO QUATRAINS — IVY — DAWN
  24. 24.Charlotte P. S. Gilman — A CONSERVATIVE
  25. 25.Louise Imogen Guiney — THE WILD RIDE
  26. 26.Bliss Carman — A VAGABOND SONG — THE GRAVEDIGGER — HEM AND HAW — DAISIES
  27. 27.Richard Burton — BLACK SHEEP
  28. 28.Oliver Herford — EARTH [15] — THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE
  29. 29.Richard Hovey — AT THE CROSSROADS — UNMANIFEST DESTINY — LOVE IN THE WINDS — A STEIN SONG
  30. 30.Madison Cawein — SNOW — THE MAN HUNT [16] — PENURY — DESERTED
  31. 31.Bert Leston Taylor — CANOPUS
  32. 32.William Vaughn Moody — FROM “JETSAM” — PANDORA’S SONG — ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES
  33. 33.George Sterling — THE BLACK VULTURE — THE MASTER MARINER
  34. 34.Edwin Arlington Robinson — MINIVER CHEEVY [17] — THE GIFT OF GOD [18] — THE MASTER [19] [20] — AN OLD STORY [21] — RICHARD CORY [21] — VAIN GRATUITIES — THE DARK HILLS
  35. 35.Edgar Lee Masters — PETIT, THE POET [22] — LUCINDA MATLOCK [23] — ANNE RUTLEDGE [24] [25] — SILENCE [26]
  36. 36.Stephen Crane — I SAW A MAN — THE WAYFARER — HYMN — THE BLADES OF GRASS
  37. 37.Edwin Ford Piper — BINDLESTIFF — SWEETGRASS RANGE
  38. 38.T. A. Daly — THE SONG OF THE THRUSH — MIA CARLOTTA — BETWEEN TWO LOVES
  39. 39.Paul Laurence Dunbar — THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED [27] — A COQUETTE CONQUERED [28] — DISCOVERED [29]
  40. 40.Guy Wetmore Carryl — HOW JACK FOUND THAT BEANS MAY GO BACK ON A CHAP — THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN — HOW A CAT WAS ANNOYED AND A POET WAS BOOTED
  41. 41.H. H. Knibbs — THE VALLEY THAT GOD FORGOT — ROLL A ROCK DOWN — THE TRAIL-MAKERS
  42. 42.Anna Hempstead Branch — THE MONK IN THE KITCHEN — WHILE LOVELINESS GOES BY
  43. 43.Amy Lowell — SOLITAIRE [30] — MEETING-HOUSE HILL — A LADY [31] — FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES [32] — MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS [33] — WIND AND SILVER
  44. 44.Ridgely Torrence — THE BIRD AND THE TREE — THE SON
  45. 45.Robert Frost — MENDING WALL — THE TUFT OF FLOWERS — THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN — GOOD-BYE AND KEEP COLD — THE RUNAWAY — BIRCHES — FRAGMENTARY BLUE — THE ONSET
  46. 46.William Ellery Leonard — THE IMAGE OF DELIGHT — TO THE VICTOR
  47. 47.Sarah N. Cleghorn — THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST — THE INCENTIVE
  48. 48.Carl Sandburg — COOL TOMBS — FOG — FROM “SMOKE AND STEEL” — BLUE ISLAND INTERSECTION — CLEAN CURTAINS — A. E. F. — NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD — GRASS
  49. 49.Adelaide Crapsey — THREE CINQUAINS — NOVEMBER NIGHT — TRIAD — THE WARNING — ON SEEING WEATHER-BEATEN TREES
  50. 50.Grace Hazard Conkling — THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS — FROST ON A WINDOW
  51. 51.Amelia Josephine Burr — BATTLE-SONG OF FAILURE
  52. 52.Don Marquis — UNREST
  53. 53.John Erskine — DEDICATION
  54. 54.James Branch Cabell — SEA-SCAPES — ONE END OF LOVE
  55. 55.Vachel Lindsay — THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN [34] — THE CONGO [35] — I. Their Basic Savagery — II. Their Irrepressible High Spirits — III. The Hope of their Religion — TO A GOLDEN HAIRED GIRL IN A LOUISIANA TOWN — THE TRAVELLER — A NEGRO SERMON:—SIMON LEGREE — ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT [36] [37]
  56. 56.Edwin Meade Robinson — HOW HE TURNED OUT — “HALCYON DAYS”
  57. 57.Franklin P. Adams — WAR AND PEACE — THE RICH MAN — THOSE TWO BOYS
  58. 58.John G. Neihardt — WHEN I AM DEAD — CRY OF THE PEOPLE [38] — LET ME LIVE OUT MY YEARS [39]
  59. 59.Witter Bynner — GRASS-TOPS — VOICES — A FARMER REMEMBERS LINCOLN [40] [41] — TRAIN-MATES [42]
  60. 60.James Oppenheim — THE RUNNER IN THE SKIES — THE SLAVE — TASTING THE EARTH — THE LINCOLN CHILD [43] — NIGHT NOTE
  61. 61.Alice Corbin — ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD
  62. 62.Lola Ridge — PASSAGES FROM “THE GHETTO” — NEW ORLEANS — WIND IN THE ALLEYS
  63. 63.Wallace Stevens — PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER
  64. 64.Alfred Kreymborg — OLD MANUSCRIPT — DAWNS — HER EYES — IMPROVISATION
  65. 65.Arthur Davison Ficke — PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN — THE THREE SISTERS — SONNET
  66. 66.Badger Clark — THE GLORY TRAIL [44] — THE COYOTE [45]
  67. 67.Marguerite Wilkinson — BEFORE DAWN IN THE WOODS
  68. 68.Harry Kemp — STREET LAMPS — A PHANTASY OF HEAVEN
  69. 69.Max Eastman — COMING TO PORT — HOURS — AT THE AQUARIUM
  70. 70.Arturo Giovannitti — FROM “THE WALKER”
  71. 71.Eunice Tietjens — THE MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN — THE DRUG CLERK
  72. 72.Sara Teasdale — NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI [46] — SPRING NIGHT [47] — I SHALL NOT CARE [48] — THE LONG HILL [49] — WATER LILIES [50] — TIRED
  73. 73.Gladys Cromwell — THE CROWNING GIFT [51] — THE MOULD [52]
  74. 74.Ezra Pound — A GIRL — A VIRGINAL — BALLAD FOR GLOOM — Δωρια — IN A STATION OF THE METRO
  75. 75.Louis Untermeyer — SUMMONS — CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES — SWIMMERS — HANDS — A SIDE STREET
  76. 76.Jean Starr Untermeyer — HIGH TIDE — AUTUMN — SINFONIA DOMESTICA — LAKE SONG
  77. 77.John Gould Fletcher — THE SWAN — LONDON NIGHTFALL — DAWN — LINCOLN [53] — THE SKATERS
  78. 78.“ H. D. ” — OREAD — PEAR TREE — HEAT — LETHE
  79. 79.William Rose Benét — MERCHANTS FROM CATHAY — NIGHT [54] — HOW TO CATCH UNICORNS
  80. 80.John Hall Wheelock — SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON — BEAUTY — LOVE AND LIBERATION — NIRVANA
  81. 81.Joyce Kilmer — TREES [55] — MARTIN [56]
  82. 82.Shaemas O Sheel — THEY WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, BUT THEY ALWAYS FELL
  83. 83.Roy Helton — IN PASSING
  84. 84.David Morton — SYMBOLS [57] — OLD SHIPS
  85. 85.Orrick Johns — THE INTERPRETER — LITTLE THINGS
  86. 86.Margaret Widdemer — FACTORIES — THE TWO DYINGS — THE MODERN WOMAN TO HER LOVER
  87. 87.Alan Seeger — “I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH” [58]
  88. 88.Willard Wattles — THE BUILDER [59] — CREEDS
  89. 89.T. S. Eliot — MORNING AT THE WINDOW — FROM “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK” — PRELUDE
  90. 90.Conrad Aiken — CHANCE MEETINGS — THE FULFILLED DREAM — MIRACLES — MORNING SONG FROM “SENLIN”
  91. 91.Christopher Morley — QUICKENING [60]
  92. 92.Leslie Nelson Jennings — FRUSTRATE [61]
  93. 93.Maxwell Bodenheim — POET TO HIS LOVE — OLD AGE — DEATH
  94. 94.Edwin Curran — AUTUMN — THE PAINTED HILLS OF ARIZONA
  95. 95.Edna St. Vincent Millay — GOD’S WORLD — RENASCENCE{See Transcriber’s Note 1.} — PITY ME NOT — I SHALL GO BACK — THE PEAR TREE — WILD SWANS
  96. 96.Mary Carolyn Davies — THE DAY BEFORE APRIL [62] — THE APPLE TREE SAID: [63]
  97. 97.Winifred Welles — FROM A CHINESE VASE — HUMILIATION — LOVE SONG FROM NEW ENGLAND
  98. 98.Herbert S. Gorman — THE FANATIC
  99. 99.Babette Deutsch — THE DEATH OF A CHILD [64] — IN A MUSEUM
  100. 100.Alter Brody — A CITY PARK — SEARCHLIGHTS — GHETTO TWILIGHT
  101. 101.Stephen Vincent Benét — PORTRAIT OF A BOY
  102. 102.Hilda Conkling — WATER — HAY-COCK — THE OLD BRIDGE — I KEEP WONDERING
  103. 103.A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  104. 104.INDEX
  105. 105.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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