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The New Poetry, Edited

The New Poetry, Edited

by Harriet Monroe

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Editor
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949
Title
The New Poetry: An Anthology
Credits
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
English poetry -- 20th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 65807
Release Date
July 9, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE NEW POETRY AN ANTHOLOGY
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4.Conrad Aiken — MUSIC I HEARD — DEAD CLEOPATRA — DANCING ADAIRS
  5. 5.Zoë Akins — THE TRAGEDIENNE — I AM THE WIND — CONQUERED — THE WANDERER
  6. 6.Richard Aldington — THE POPLAR — LESBIA — IMAGES — CHORICOS
  7. 7.Mary Aldis — BARBERRIES — WHEN YOU COME — FLASH-LIGHTS
  8. 8.Walter Conrad Arensberg — VOYAGE À L’INFINI — AT DAYBREAK — TO HASEKAWA — DIALOGUE — SONG OF THE SOULS SET FREE
  9. 9.Wilton Agnew Barrett — A NEW ENGLAND CHURCH
  10. 10.Joseph Warren Beach — RUE BONAPARTE — THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON’S
  11. 11.William Rose Benét — THE FALCONER OF GOD — THE HORSE THIEF
  12. 12.Maxwell Bodenheim — THE REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING — THE INTERNE — THE OLD JEW — THE MINER — TO AN ENEMY — TO A DISCARDED STEEL RAIL
  13. 13.Gordon Bottomley — NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS — MY MOON — ELEGIAC MOOD — DAWN
  14. 14.Rollo Britten — BIRD OF PASSION
  15. 15.Rupert Brooke — RETROSPECT — NINETEEN-FOURTEEN — I—PEACE — II—SAFETY — III—THE DEAD — IV—THE DEAD — V—THE SOLDIER
  16. 16.Witter Bynner — TO CELIA — I—CONSUMMATION — II—DURING A CHORALE BY CESAR FRANCK — III—SONGS ASCENDING — GRIEVE NOT FOR BEAUTY
  17. 17.Joseph Campbell — AT HARVEST — ON WAKING — THE OLD WOMAN
  18. 18.Nancy Campbell — THE APPLE-TREE — THE MONKEY
  19. 19.Skipwith Cannéll — THE RED BRIDGE — THE KING
  20. 20.Willa Sibert Cather — THE PALATINE — SPANISH JOHNNY
  21. 21.Padraic Colum — POLONIUS AND THE BALLAD SINGERS — THE SEA BIRD TO THE WAVE — OLD MEN COMPLAINING
  22. 22.Grace Hazard Conkling — REFUGEES — “THE LITTLE ROSE IS DUST, MY DEAR”
  23. 23.Alice Corbin — O WORLD — TWO VOICES — LOVE ME AT LAST — HUMORESQUE — ONE CITY ONLY — APPARITIONS — THE POOL — MUSIC — WHAT DIM ARCADIAN PASTURES — NODES
  24. 24.Adelaide Crapsey — CINQUAINS — NOVEMBER NIGHT — TRIAD — SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS — THE GUARDED WOUND — THE WARNING — FATE DEFIED — THE PLEDGE — EXPENSES — ADVENTURE — DIRGE — SONG — THE LONELY DEATH
  25. 25.H. D. — HERMES OF THE WAYS — PRIAPUS — THE POOL — OREAD — THE GARDEN — MOONRISE — THE SHRINE
  26. 26.Mary Carolyn Davies — CLOISTERED — SONGS OF A GIRL
  27. 27.Fannie Stearns Davis — PROFITS — SOULS
  28. 28.Walter de la Mare — THE LISTENERS — AN EPITAPH
  29. 29.Lee Wilson Dodd — THE TEMPLE — THE COMRADE
  30. 30.John Drinkwater — SUNRISE ON RYDAL WATER
  31. 31.Louise Driscoll — THE METAL CHECKS
  32. 32.Dorothy Dudley — LA RUE DE LA MONTAGNE SAINTE-GÈNEVIÈVE
  33. 33.Helen Dudley — TO ONE UNKNOWN — SONG
  34. 34.Max Eastman — DIOGENES — IN MARCH — AT THE AQUARIUM
  35. 35.T. S. Eliot — PORTRAIT OF A LADY
  36. 36.Arthur Davison Ficke — MEETING — AMONG SHADOWS — THE THREE SISTERS — PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN — I AM WEARY OF BEING BITTER — FROM “SONNETS OF A PORTRAIT PAINTER” — LIKE HIM WHOSE SPIRIT
  37. 37.John Gould Fletcher — IRRADIATIONS — ARIZONA POEMS — MEXICAN QUARTER — RAIN IN THE DESERT — THE BLUE SYMPHONY
  38. 38.F. S. Flint — POEMS IN UNRHYMED CADENCE — III—IN THE GARDEN
  39. 39.Moireen Fox — LIADAIN TO CURITHIR
  40. 40.Florence Kiper Frank — THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT — THE MOVIES — YOU
  41. 41.Robert Frost — MENDING WALL — AFTER APPLE-PICKING — MY NOVEMBER GUEST — MOWING — STORM FEAR — GOING FOR WATER — THE CODE—HEROICS
  42. 42.Hamlin Garland — TO A CAPTIVE CRANE — THE MOUNTAINS ARE A LONELY FOLK — MAGIC
  43. 43.Wilfrid Wilson Gibson — COLOR — OBLIVION — TENANTS — GOLD — ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH — BATTLE — THE GOING — THE JOKE — IN THE AMBULANCE — HIT — THE HOUSEWIFE — HILL-BORN — THE FEAR — BACK
  44. 44.Richard Butler Glaenzer — STAR-MAGIC
  45. 45.Douglas Goldring — VOYAGES
  46. 46.Hermann Hagedorn — EARLY MORNING AT BARGIS — DOORS — DEPARTURE — BROADWAY
  47. 47.Thomas Hardy — SHE HEARS THE STORM — THE VOICE — IN THE MOONLIGHT — THE MAN HE KILLED
  48. 48.Ralph Hodgson — THE MYSTERY — THREE POEMS — STUPIDITY STREET
  49. 49.Horace Holley — CREATIVE — TWILIGHT AT VERSAILLES — LOVERS
  50. 50.Helen Hoyt — ELLIS PARK — THE NEW-BORN — RAIN AT NIGHT — THE LOVER SINGS OF A GARDEN — SINCE I HAVE FELT THE SENSE OF DEATH
  51. 51.Ford Madox Hueffer — ANTWERP
  52. 52.Scharmel Iris — AFTER THE MARTYRDOM — LAMENT — ITERATION — EARLY NIGHTFALL
  53. 53.Orrick Johns — SONGS OF DELIVERANCE — I—THE SONG OF YOUTH — II—VIRGINS — III—NO PREY AM I
  54. 54.Joyce Kilmer — TREES — EASTER
  55. 55.Alfred Kreymborg — AMERICA — OLD MANUSCRIPT — CÉZANNE — PARASITE
  56. 56.William Laird — TRAÜMEREI AT OSTENDORFF’S — A VERY OLD SONG
  57. 57.D. H. Lawrence — A WOMAN AND HER DEAD HUSBAND — FIREFLIES IN THE CORN — GREEN — GRIEF — SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD
  58. 58.Agnes Lee — MOTHERHOOD — A STATUE IN A GARDEN — ON THE JAIL STEPS — HER GOING
  59. 59.William Ellery Leonard — INDIAN SUMMER
  60. 60.Vachel Lindsay — GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN — THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN — THE CONGO A Study of the Negro Race — I—THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY — II—THEIR IRREPRESSIBLE HIGH SPIRITS — III—THE HOPE OF THEIR RELIGION — ALADDIN AND THE JINN — THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE
  61. 61.Amy Lowell — PATTERNS — 1777 — I—THE TRUMPET-VINE ARBOR — II—THE CITY OF FALLING LEAVES — VENUS TRANSIENS — A LADY — CHINOISERIES — REFLECTIONS — FALLING SNOW — HOAR-FROST — SOLITAIRE — A GIFT — RED SLIPPERS — APOLOGY
  62. 62.Percy Mackaye — OLD AGE — SONG FROM “MATER”
  63. 63.Frederic Manning — SACRIFICE — AT EVEN
  64. 64.John Masefield — SHIPS — CARGOES — WATCHING BY A SICK-BED — WHAT AM I, LIFE?
  65. 65.Edgar Lee Masters — SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY — THE HILL — OLLIE M c GEE — DAISY FRASER — HARE DRUMMER — DOC HILL — FIDDLER JONES — THOMAS RHODES — EDITOR WHEDON — SETH COMPTON — HENRY C. CALHOUN — PERRY ZOLL — ARCHIBALD HIGBIE — FATHER MALLOY — LUCINDA MATLOCK — ANNE RUTLEDGE — WILLIAM H. HERNDON — RUTHERFORD M c DOWELL — ARLO WILL — AARON HATFIELD — WEBSTER FORD — SILENCE
  66. 66.Alice Meynell — MATERNITY — CHIMES
  67. 67.Max Michelson — O BROTHER TREE — THE BIRD — STORM — A HYMN TO NIGHT — LOVE LYRIC
  68. 68.Edna St. Vincent Millay — GOD’S WORLD — ASHES OF LIFE — THE SHROUD
  69. 69.Harold Monro — GREAT CITY — YOUTH IN ARMS — THE STRANGE COMPANION
  70. 70.Harriet Monroe — THE HOTEL — THE TURBINE — ON THE PORCH — THE WONDER OF IT — THE INNER SILENCE — LOVE SONG — A FAREWELL — LULLABY — PAIN — THE WATER OUZEL — THE PINE AT TIMBER-LINE — MOUNTAIN SONG
  71. 71.John G. Neihardt — PRAYER FOR PAIN — ENVOI
  72. 72.Yone Noguchi — THE POET — I HAVE CAST THE WORLD
  73. 73.Grace Fallow Norton — ALLEGRA AGONISTES — MAKE NO VOWS — I GIVE THANKS
  74. 74.James Oppenheim — THE SLAVE — THE LONELY CHILD — NOT OVERLOOKED — THE RUNNER IN THE SKIES
  75. 75.Patrick Orr — ANNIE SHORE AND JOHNNIE DOON — IN THE MOHAVE
  76. 76.Seumas O’Sullivan — MY SORROW — SPLENDID AND TERRIBLE — THE OTHERS
  77. 77.Josephine Preston Peabody — CRADLE SONG — THE CEDARS — A SONG OF SOLOMON
  78. 78.Ezra Pound — Δώρια — THE RETURN — PICCADILLY — N. Y. — THE COMING OF WAR: ACTAEON — THE GARDEN — ORTUS — THE CHOICE — THE GARRET — DANCE FIGURE — FROM “NEAR PÉRIGORD” — AN IMMORALITY — THE STUDY IN AESTHETICS — FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS — VILLANELLE: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HOUR — BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE — BALLAD FOR GLOOM — LA FRAISNE — THE RIVER-MERCHANT’S WIFE: A LETTER — EXILE’S LETTER
  79. 79.John Reed — SANGAR
  80. 80.Ernest Rhys — DAGONET’S CANZONET — A SONG OF HAPPINESS
  81. 81.Edwin Arlington Robinson — THE MASTER — JOHN GORHAM — RICHARD CORY — THE GROWTH OF LORRAINE — CASSANDRA
  82. 82.Carl Sandburg — CHICAGO — THE HARBOR — SKETCH — LOST — JAN KUBELIK — AT A WINDOW — THE POOR — THE ROAD AND THE END — KILLERS — NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD — HANDFULS — UNDER THE HARVEST MOON — CHOOSE — KIN — PLACES — JOY — THE GREAT HUNT — OUR PRAYER OF THANKS
  83. 83.Clara Shanafelt — TO THEE — CAPRICE — A VIVID GIRL — INVOCATION — PASTEL — A GALLANT WOMAN — SCHERZO
  84. 84.Frances Shaw — WHO LOVES THE RAIN — THE HARP OF THE WIND — THE RAGPICKER — COLOGNE CATHEDRAL — STAR THOUGHT — THE CHILD’S QUEST — LITTLE PAGAN RAIN SONG
  85. 85.Constance Lindsay Skinner — SONGS OF THE COAST-DWELLERS — THE CHIEF’S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH — SONG OF WHIP-PLAITING — NO ANSWER IS GIVEN
  86. 86.James Stephens — WHAT TOMAS AN BUILE SAID IN A PUB — BESSIE BOBTAIL — HATE — THE WASTE PLACES — HAWKS — DARK WINGS
  87. 87.George Sterling — A LEGEND OF THE DOVE — KINDRED — OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM — THE LAST DAYS
  88. 88.Wallace Stevens — PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER — IN BATTLE — SUNDAY MORNING
  89. 89.Ajan Syrian — THE SYRIAN LOVER IN EXILE REMEMBERS THEE, LIGHT OF MY LAND
  90. 90.Rabindranath Tagore — FROM “GITANJALI” — FROM “THE GARDENER”
  91. 91.Sara Teasdale — LEAVES — MORNING — THE FLIGHT — OVER THE ROOFS — DEBT — SONGS IN A HOSPITAL — THE BROKEN FIELD — OPEN WINDOWS — AFTER DEATH — IN MEMORIAM F. O. S. — SWALLOW FLIGHT — THE ANSWER
  92. 92.Eunice Tietjens — THE BACCHANTE TO HER BABE — THE STEAM SHOVEL — THE GREAT MAN
  93. 93.Ridgely Torrence — THE BIRD AND THE TREE — THE SON
  94. 94.Charles Hanson Towne — BEYOND THE STARS
  95. 95.Louis Untermeyer — LANDSCAPES — “FEUERZAUBER” — ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD — IRONY
  96. 96.Allen Upward — SCENTED LEAVES FROM A CHINESE JAR — THE ACACIA LEAVES — THE BITTER PURPLE WILLOWS — THE CORAL FISHER — THE DIAMOND — THE ESTUARY — THE INTOXICATED POET — THE JONQUILS — THE MARIGOLD — THE MERMAID — THE MIDDLE KINGDOM — THE MILKY WAY — THE ONION — THE SEA-SHELL — THE STUPID KITE — THE WINDMILL — THE WORD
  97. 97.John Hall Wheelock — SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON — SPRING — LIKE MUSIC — THE THUNDER-SHOWER — SONG — ALONE — NIRVANA — TRIUMPH OF THE SINGER
  98. 98.Hervey White — LAST NIGHT — I SAW THE CLOUDS
  99. 99.Margaret Widdemer — THE BEGGARS — TERESINA’S FACE — GREEK FOLK SONG
  100. 100.Florence Wilkinson — OUR LADY OF IDLENESS — STUDENTS
  101. 101.Marguerite Wilkinson — A WOMAN’S BELOVED A Psalm — AN INCANTATION
  102. 102.William Carlos Williams — SICILIAN EMIGRANT’S SONG — PEACE ON EARTH — THE SHADOW — METRIC FIGURE — SUB TERRA — SLOW MOVEMENT — POSTLUDE
  103. 103.Charles Erskine Scott Wood — THE POET IN THE DESERT Extracts from the Prologue
  104. 104.Edith Wyatt — ON THE GREAT PLATEAU — SUMMER HAIL — TO F. W. — A CITY AFTERNOON
  105. 105.BIBLIOGRAPHY

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