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adam_text	Contents WALT WHITMAN FOREWORD, vii PREFACE, The Poet, 79 3 WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892), {Cont.) Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, 84 33 To a Locomotive in Winter, 85 I Hear America Singing, 40 This Compost, 86 The Muse in the New World, 41 After the Supper and Talk, 87 Recorders Ages Hence, 41 The Last Invocation, 87 The Commonplace, 42 The Untold Want, 87 A Noiseless Patient Spider, 42 Joy, Shipmate, Joy, 88 To a Common Prostitute, 42 EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886), 88 When I Heard the Learn’d Astron omer, 42 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, 94 Reconciliation, 43 A Bird Came Down the Walk, 94 I Hear It Was Charged Against Me, Elysium Is as Far, 95 43 Mannahatta, 43 I Never Saw a Moor, 95 I Never Lost as Much, 95 Song of Myself, 44 Indian Summer, 95 Song of the Open Road, 63 I Died for Beauty, 95 The Broad-Ax, 65 The Sky Is Low, 95 On the Beach at Night, 65 Mysteries, 96 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 66 I Like to See It Lap the Miles, 96 Facing West from California’s Shores, 70 My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close, 96 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, 71 The Heart Asks Pleasure First, 96 O Captain! My Captain!, 76 Of Course I Prayed, 97 The Soul Selects, 96 I Cannot Live with You, 96 Dirge for Two Veterans, 77 There Is No Frigate Like a Book, 97 Come Up from the Fields, Father, 77 I Had Been Hungry All the Years, 97 Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night, 78 I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, 98 There’s a Certain Slant of Light, 98 ix CONTENTS X EMILY DICKINSON (Coni.) EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940), 10 6 I Measure Every Grief I Meet, 98 Outwitted, 106 The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky, 98 Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup, 99 The Man with the Hoe, 107 The Tint I Cannot Take Is Best, 99 Lincoln, the Man of the People, 108 The Avengers, 108 Preparedness, 108 I Dreaded That First Robin So, 99 After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes, too A Cemetery, 100 LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Tears, no Ample Make This Bed, 100 Spicewood, in Although I Put Away His Life, 100 Spring Ecstasy, III The World Feels Dusty, 100 Ownership, 111 Lightly Stepped a Yellow Star, 101 A Puritan Lady, in Go Not Too Near a House of Rose, 101 A Flower of Mullein, 112 I Reckon, When I Count at All, 101 Wild Cherry, 112 Because That You Are Going, 101 Old Saul, 112 What Soft, Cherubic Creatures, 102 Women, 113 Because I Could Not Stop for Death, 102 The Mountains Grow Unnoticed, 103 Truth Is as Old as God, 103 The Return, 103 (1856- 1935), 10g Miracle, 112 Surety, 114 GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863- ), 114 As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room, 115 Success Is Counted Sweetest, 103 After Gray Vigils, Sunshine in the Heart, 116 The Lonely House, 103 On the Death of a Metaphysician, 116 Pain Has an Element of Blank, 104 The Rustic at the Play, 116 Renunciation, 104 O World, Thou Choosest Not the Better Part, 117 Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church, 104 Purple Clover, 104 The Bee, 104 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869- 1935), 17 Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, 105 Exit, 121 The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man, Credo, 121 105 At Half-Past Three a Single Bird, 105 James Wetherell, 122 Called Back, 105 • Miniver Cheevy, 122 Cliff Klingenhagen, 122 CONTENTS xi EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (Cont.) EDGAR LEE MASTERS The House on the Hill, 123 Anne Rutledge, 149 An Old Story, 123 Silence, 149 Richard Cory, 123 STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900), 151 Bewick Finzer, 123 I Saw a Man, 152 Reuben Bright, 124 The Wayfarer, 152 For a Dead Lady, 124 Hymn, 152 Calvary, 124 The Blades of Grass, 152 Vickery’s Mountain, 125 The Book of Wisdom, 152 Too Much Coflee, 125 The Candid Man, 152 The Master, 125 The Heart, 153 Mr. Flood’s Party, 126 George Crabbe, 127 (Cont.) There Was a Man, 153 » A Learned Man, 153 Luke Havergal, 128 A Youth, 153 John Gorham, 129 JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871- How Annandale Went Out, 130 1938), 154 The Field of Glory, 130 The Creation, 154 The Clerks, 131 The Dark Hills, 131 ANNA Eros Turannos, 131 HEMPSTEAD BRANCH (1874- 1937), 157 The Sheaves, 132 The Monk in the Kitchen, 157 Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford, 132 AMY LOWELL (1874-1925), 158 New England, 140 A Lady, 161 . The Gift of God, 140 Solitaire, 161 The Prodigal Son, 141 Patterns, 161 The Pity of the Leaves, 142 Wind and Silver, 164 Aaron Stark, 142 Night Clouds, 164 Uncle Ananias, 142 Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes, 164 Karma, 143 A Decade, 165 EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869-1950), 144 Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 165 Week-End by the Sea, 145 Evelyn Ray, 166 Widows, 146 The Taxi, 169 Petit, the Poet, 148 In Excelsis, 170 Lucinda Matlock, 148 Meeting-House Hill, 171 xii CONTENTS AMY LOWELL (Cont^) ROBERT FROST {Cont^) Lilacs, 171 Lost in Heaven, 203 The Sisters, 174 Desert Places, 203 Shooting the Sun, 177 Two Tramps in Mud-Time, 204 ROBERT FROST (1875- ), 178 Departmental, 205 A Considerable Speck, 205 The Pasture, 183 Happiness Makes Up in Height, 206 The Onset, 183 Come In, 206 The Tuft of Flowers, 183 From Plane to Plane, 207 Reluctance, 185 Closed for Good, 210 Mending Wall, 185 The Gift Outright, 210 The Cow in Apple-Time, 186 Choose Something Like a Star, 21 r The Death of the Hired Man, 186 After Apple-Picking, 191 CARL SANDBURG (1878- ), 211 An Old Man’s Winter Night, 191 Ten Definitions of Poetry, 214 Birches, 192 Chicago, 214 Brown’s Descent, 193 The Runaway, 194 Fog, 215 ■ Grass, 215 To Earthward, 195 Cool Tombs, 215 Fire and Ice, 195 Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, 216 Two Look at Two, 195 Limited, 216 A Sky Pair, 196 Canis Major, 196 Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, 216 The Peaceful Shepherd, 196 A. E. F., 218 Bereft, 196 Prayers of Steel, 218 Tree at My Window, 197 Jazz Fantasia, 218 West-Running Brook, 197 Blue Island Intersection, 218 Once by the Pacific, 199 From “Smoke and Steel,” 219 The Bear, 199 Losers, 220 Sand Dunes, 200 Wind Song, 221 The Lovely Shall Be Choosers, 200 Primer Lesson, 221 The Egg and the Machine, 201 Broken-Face Gargoyles, 222 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve ning, 202 Flash Crimson, 222 Early Lynching, 223 Nothing Gold Can Stay, 202 Precious Moments, 223 The Road Not Taken, 202 Moist Moon People, 224 A Leaf-Treader, 203 Bundles, 224 CONTENTS CARL SANDBURG xiiz (Cont.) MELVILLE CANE (1879- ), 256 Upstream, 224 Snow Toward Evening, 256 Sunsets, 225 Tree in December, 256 Elephants Are Different, 225 Dawn Has Yet to Ripple In, 257 For You, 225 Hymn to Night, 257 From “The People, Yes” They Have Yarns, 226 The People Will Live On, 229 WALLACE STEVENS (1879- ), 258 Anecdote of the Jar, 261 The Fireborn Are at Home in Fire, Peter Quince at the Clavier, 261 231 The Long Shadow of Lincoln, 232 To the One of Fictive Music, 262 Between Worlds, 234 Domination of Black, 265 VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931), 235 Sunday Morning, 263 Sea Surface Full of Clouds, 266 Annual Gaiety, 269 The Congo, 237 To a Golden-Haired Girl in a Louisi ana Town, 240 General William Booth Enters into Heaven, 240 The Eagle That Is Forgotten, 242 • The Ghosts of the Buffaloes, 242 The Traveler, 244 A Negro Sermon:—Simon Legree, 245 John Brown, 246 The Dove of New Snow, 247 The Flower-Fed Buffaloes, 247 Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, 248 When Lincoln Came to Springfield, 248 Nancy Hanks, Mother of Abraham Lincoln, 249 Homunculus et la Belle Etoile, 269 Two Figures in Dense Violet Light, 269 Gallant Château, 270 The Idea of Order at Key West, 270 Bouquet of Belle Scavoir, 271 Asides on the Oboe, 272 The Glass of Water, 273 The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man, 273 The Motive for Metaphor, 274 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ), 274 Metric Figure, 276 Love Song, 276 Dawn, 277 Poem, 277 Wild Cats, 249 January, 277 The Apple-Barrel of Johnny Apple seed, 250 Queen-Ann’s-Lace, 277 Daisy, 278 The Voyage, 250 On Gay Wallpaper, 278 The Chinese Nightingale, 250 Tract, 278 (1883- XIV CONTENTS WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ÇCont.) ELINOR WYLIE {ContT) Smell, 280 The Knight Fallen on Evil Days, 297 A Goodnight, 280 Pegasus Lost, 298 The Red Wheelbarrow, 282 Madman’s Song, 298 Flowers by the Sea, 282 Sanctuary, 299 The Poor, 282 Velvet Shoes, 299 These, 282 Escape, 299 Illegitimate Things, 283 Golden Bough, 299 The Yachts, 283 August, 300 The Yellow Season, 284 Puritan Sonnet, 300 SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933), 2 8 4 Nebuchadnezzar, 300 Let No Charitable Hope, 301 Night Song at Amalfi, 285 Confession of Faith, 301 Spring Night, 285 “Desolation Is a Delicate Thing,” 301 I Shall Not Care, 286 Peter and John, 302 The Long Hill, 286 Full Moon, 303 Water-Lilies, 286 Epitaph, 303 Let It Be Forgotten, 287 Birthday Sonnet, 303 Wisdom, 287 O Virtuous Light, 304 The Solitary, 287 The Pebble, 304 The Crystal Gazer, 287 Sonnet from “One Person,” 304 Appraisal, 288 This Corruptible, 305 On the South Downs, 288 Hymn to Earth, 307 August Night, 288 EZRA POUND (1885- Effigy of a Nun, 288 Salutation, 312 The Flight, 289 ELIZABETH MADOX ), 308 ROBERTS (1885- Sestina: Altaforte, 312 1941), 290 The River-Merchant’s Wife, 313 The Sky, 291 An Immorality, 314 Christmas Morning, 291 A Virginal, 314 Orpheus, 291 Ballad for Gloom, 315 Stranger, 292 Greek Epigram, 315 A Ballet Song of Mary, 293 Woodcock of the Ivory Beak, 294 ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928), The Eagle and the Mole, 297 The Garden, 312 294 Ballad of the Goodly Fere, 316 A Girl, 317 In a Station of the Metro, 317 Dance Figure, 317 CONTENTS xv EZRA POUND (Cont^) WILLIAM ROSE BENET (1886-1950), Silet, 318 340 Merchants from Cathay, 341 Portrait D’une Femme, 318 Night, 342 The Return, 319 The Fawn in the Snow, 343 Envoi, 319 Whale, 343 The Rest, 319 The Horse Thief, 344 Ite, 320 Brazen Tongue, 347 Canto I, 320 Jesse James, 347 AQPIA, 317 LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1885- ), 321 Eternal Masculine, 349 Prayer, 323 Inscription for a Mirror in a Deserted Dwelling, 349 Caliban in the Coal Mines, 324 Sagacity, 350 The Dark Chamber, 324 Long Feud, 324 Food and Drink, 325 JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER (1886- ), 350 Last Words Before Winter, 326 High Tide, 351 Five Parodies Autumn, 352 John Masefield, 326 Sinfonia Domestica, 353 Walter De la Mare, 327 Country of No Lack, 353 Edna St. Vincent Millay, 328 Dew on a Dusty Heart, 353 Archibald MacLeish, 328 False Enchantment, 354 Edgar A. Guest, 329 H. D. (1886JOHN GOULD FLETCHER (1886-1950), 33° From “Irradiations,” 331 Green Symphony, 332 London Nightfall, 335 The Skaters, 336 Lincoln, 336 A Rebel, 337 Before Olympus, 338 ), 354 Oread, 356 Pear Tree, 356 Heat, 356 Orchard, 357 Song, 357 From “Let Zeus Record,” 357 Lais, 357 From “Halcyon,” 358 Advent, 338 Songs from Cyprus, 358 The Birth of Lucifer, 339 Holy Satyr, 359 A New Heaven, 339 The Islands, 359 Ad Majorem Hominis Gloriam, 340 Helen, 360 The Lofty House, 340 Lethe, 361 xvi CONTENTS JOHN HALL WHEELOCK (1886- ), 361 ROBINSON JEFFERS (Cont.) Summer Holiday, 385 Sunday Evening in the Common, 362 Credo, 385 Triumph of Love, 362 Pelicans, 385 Nirvana, 363 Love the Wild Swan, 386 Love and Liberation, 363 Night, 386 Earth, 363 Shine, Perishing Republic, 388 This Quiet Dust, 364 Divinely Superfluous Beauty, 388 ROY HELTON (1886- Hurt Hawks, 388 ), 364 Prescription of Painful Ends, 389 Old Christmas Morning, 365 May-June, 1940, 390 Lonesome Water, 366 MARIANNE MOORE (1887- The Inquisitors, 391 ), 367 A Talisman, 368 Original Sin, 392 T. S. ELIOT (1888- That Harp You Play So Well, 368 To a Steam Roller, 368 ), 392 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 398 England, 369 The Waste Land The Fish, 369 I. The Burial of the Dead, 402 Poetry, 370 II. A Game of Chess, 403 What Are Years?, 371 III. The Fire Sermon, 405 The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing, IV. Death by Water, 408 372 In Distrust of Merits, 373 V. What the Thunder Said, 409 Notes, 411 At Rest in the Blast, 374 ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887- Compensation, 378 Age in Prospect, 379 Ante Mortem, 379 Post Mortem, 380 Noon, 380 The Hollow Men, 414 ), 375 Journey of the Magi, 416 Ash-Wednesday, 417 From “Four Quartets” Burnt Norton, 421 JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888- ), 425 Clouds of Evening, 381 Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter, To the Stone-Cutters, 381 Gale in April, 381 427 Lady Lost, 428 Apology for Bad Dreams, 382 Blue Girls, 428 Promise of Peace, 384 Here Lies a Lady, 429 Birth-Dues, 384 Janet Waking, 429 CONTENTS JOHN CROWE RANSOM xvii {Cont. ) EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY {Cont.} Spiel of the Three Mountebanks, 430 Spring, 463 First Travels of Max, 431 Passer Mortuus Est, 464 Antique Harvesters, 432 What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, 464 Piazza Piece, 433 Pity Me Not, 464 Captain Carpenter, 434 Departure, 465 Old Man Pondered, 435 I Shall Go Back, 465 Parting, Without a Sequel, 436 Elegy, 465 Prelude to an Evening, 437 Justice Denied in Massachusetts, 466 Painting: A Head, 437 Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare, 467 CONRAD AIKEN (1889- ), 438 Bread and Music, 440 On Hearing a Symphony of Bee thoven, 467 Miracles, 441 Sonnet to Gath, 467 Morning Song from “Senlin,” 441 The Cameo, 468 The Room, 443 Oh, Sleep Forever in the Latmian Cave, 468 The Puppet Dreams, 444 And in the Hanging Gardens—, 445 See Where Capella with Her Golden Kids, 468 The Road, 447 The Return, 469 Portrait of a Girl, 444 Annihilation, 448 The Quarrel, 449 At a Concert of Music, 449 Tetélestai, 450 When the Tree Bares, 452 One Star Fell and Another, 453 But How It Came From Earth, 453 Prelude VI, 454 Cloister, 455 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892- IPS0)^ 457 Renascence, 459 ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892- 469 Ars Poetica, 472 Prologue, 473 In My Thirtieth Year, 473 Memorial Rain, 473 Weather, 475 Immortal Autumn, 475 You, Andrew Marvell, 476 The End of the World, 476 The Too-Late Born, 477 Epistle to Be Left in the Earth, 477 The Pear Tree, 461 Burying Ground by the Ties, 478 God’s World, 462 Panic, 479 Wild Swans, 462 Final Chorus from “Panic,” 480 The Poet and His Book, 462 The Reconciliation, 481 ), xviii CONTENTS ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (Cont.) E. E. CUMMINGS ^Cont. ) Speech to a Crowd, 481 Since Feeling Is First, 515 Land of the Free, 482 Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, The Fall of the City, 483 515 If There Are Any . Heavens, 516 The Learned Men, 502 ELIZABETH J. COATSWORTH (1893- ), 502 GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948), With Child, 517 The Old Mare, 502 The Enamel Girl, 517 Daniel Webster’s Horses, 503 Solar Myth, 518 The Circus-Postered Barn, 503 Doomsday Morning, 519 On a Night of Snow, 504 Try Tropic, 519 A Lady Comes to an Inn, 504 ), 505 MARK VAN DOREN (1894- Dilemma of the Elm, 519 Long View, 520 ROBERT HILLYER (1895- Former Barn Lot, 506 ), 520 The Pulse, 506 As One Who Bears Beneath Neighbor’s Roof, 521 The Distant Runners, 506 Pastoral, 522 The Escape, 507 Prothalamion, 522 The Whisperer, 507 Night Piece, 523 Immortal, 506 E. E. CUMMINGS (1894- ), 508 When God Lets My Body Be, 509 Sunset, 509 Variations on a Theme, 524 The Assassination, 526 A Letter to Robert Frost, ^2rj - Impression—IV, 509 La Guerre, LOUISE BOGAN (1897- ), 532 Medusa, 532 the bigness, of cannon, 510 Women, 533 O sweet spontaneous, 510 Decoration, 533 Chanson Innocent, 511 Statue and Birds, 534 Always Before Your Voice, 511 The Alchemist, 534 Song, 512 Simple Autumnal, 534 Portrait VIII, 512 Cassandra, 535 Sonnet, 512 Come, Break with Time, 535 This Is the Garden, 513 The Dream, 535 Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal, 513 Item, 514 516 DAVID MCCORD (1897- The Crows, 536 ), 536 His CONTENTS xix STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898- 1943), 538 HART CRANE (Coni.) Royal Palm, 577 Rain After a Vaudeville Show, 540 The Air Plant, 577 Winged Man, 540 The Hurricane, 578 The Ballad of William Sycamore, 541 ALLEN TATE (1899- From “John Brown’s Body” ), 578 Love Came By From the River smoke, 542 Ode to the Confederate Dead, 579 Song of the Riders, 543 Death of Little Boys, 582 1935, 544 Nightmare Number Three, 544 ), 546 HORACE GREGORY (1898- They Found Him Sitting in a Chair, Mr. Pope, 581 Mother and Son, 582 The Cross, 583 The Mediterranean, 584 LÉONIE ADAMS (1899- 547 Poems for My Daughter, 548 April Mortality, 585 Valediction to My Contemporaries, Thought’s End, 586 549 Ask No Return, 551 Death and the Lady, 587 Home-Coming, 586 Twilit Revelation, 588 For You, My Son, 551 The Postman’s Bell Everywhere, 555 ), 584 . Ghostly Tree, 588 Is Answered This Is the Place to Wait, 556 Homage to Circe, 558 HART CRANE (1899-1932), 558 The Horn, 589 The River in the Meadows, 589 Country Summer, 589 The Mount, 590 This Measure, 590 Bell Tower, 590 Repose of Rivers, 562 To Brooklyn Bridge (Prelude to “The Bridge”), 562 Voyages: II, 563 Kingdom of Heaven, 591 Sundown, 591 Night-Piece, 592 Lullaby, 592 Voyages: VI, 564 Praise for an Urn, 565 From “The Bridge” Van Winkle, 565 LANGSTON HUGHES (1902- ), 592 Homesick Blues, 593 Brass Spittoons, 593 The River, 566 Saturday Night, 594 The Dance, 570 Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret, 594 Power: Cape Flatteras, 572 Drum, 594 The Tunnel, 573 Florida Road Workers, 594 XX CONTENTS KENNETH FEARING (1902- ), 595 MERRILL MOORE {Cont.~) The People vs. the People, 596 It Is Winter, I Know, 615 Portrait, 597 Shot Who? Jim Lane!, 615 American Rhapsody (4), 597 Warning to One, 616 Readings, Forecasts, Personal Guid ance, 598 How She Resolved to Act, 616 MARYA ZATURENSKA (1902- ), Pandora and the Moon, 617 Village Noon: Mid-Day Bells, 617 Unknown Man in the Morgue, 617 599 The Book of How, 618 The Daisy, 600 And to the Young Men, 618 The Lovers, 600 The White Dress, 601 ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905- Woman at the Piano, 603 Pondy Woods, 619 The Tempest, 603 Pro Sua Vita, 621 OGDEN NASH (1902- ), 618 Head of Medusa, 602 ), 604 Letter of a Mother, 621 History Among the Rocks, 622 The Rhinoceros, 605 Letter from a Coward to a Hero, 623 Adventures of Isabel, 605 Golly, How Truth Will Out!, 606 Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children, 606 The Owl, 625 Letter to a Friend, 625 Aubade for Hope, 626 Bearded Oaks, 626 The Evening Out, 608 The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore, 609 The Ballad of Billie Potts, 627 JAMES AGEE (1909- The Purist, 610 ), 637 Lyrics, 638 COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946), 6ll Sonnets Simon the Cyrenian Speaks, 611 So it begins. Adam is in his earth, Three Epitaphs 639 Our doom is in our being. We began, 639 For My Grandmother, 612 For a Virgin Lady, 612 Those former loves wherein our lives have run, 640 A Lady I Know, 612 Heritage, 612 MERRILL MOORE (1903- ), 613 Old Men and Old Women Going Home on the Street Car, 615 Now stands our love on that still verge of day, 640 Permit Me Voyage, 640 Song with Words, 641 CONTENTS JAMES AGEE xxi {ContT) MURIEL RUKEYSER {ContT) Two Songs on the Economy of Abun dance, 641 The Meeting, 662 In Heavy Mind, 641 Madboy’s Song, 662 Rapid Transit, 641 Holy Family, 663 ), 642 KENNETH PATCHEN (19II- In Memory of Kathleen, 642 Street Corner College, 644 ), 667 The Leg, 668 The Puritan, 669 Travelogue for Exiles, 670 The Twins, 670 Like a Mourningless Child, 644 The Dome of Sunday, 671 We Go Out Together, 645 October 1, 671 From My High Love, 645 (1911- Ajanta, 664 KARL SHAPIRO (1913- Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?, 643 The Deer and the Snake, 643 ELIZABETH BISHOP A Leg in a Plaster Cast, 661 Poet, 672 ), 645 The Fish, 646 JOHN BERRYMAN (1914- ), 674 Winter Landscape, 674 The Imaginary Iceberg, 647 Parting as Descent, 675 The Man-Moth, 648 The Ball Poem, 675 Little Exercise, 649 Canto Amor, 676 DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913- ), RANDALL JARRELL (1914- 649 ), 677 For Rhoda, 651 A Camp in the Prussian Forest, 678 Tired and Unhappy, You Think of Houses, 651 Pilots, Man Your Planes, 679 For the One Who Would Take Man’s Life in His Hands, 652 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, 681 Burning the Letters, 681 In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave, 653 Jews at Haifa, 683 Let Us Consider Where the Great Men Are, 653 A Country Life, 683 MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913- ), 654 Ceiling Unlimited, 656 Hope, 685 The Refugees, 685 PETER VIERECK (1916- ), 686 Effort at Speech Between Two People, 657 Kilroy, 687 The Soul and Body of John Brown, 658 Love Song to Eohippus, 689 Vale from Carthage, 688 xxii PETER VIERECK CONTENTS (Cont. ) ROBERT LOWELL (Cont.) Blindman’s Buff, 689 Colloquy in Black Rock, 694 Poet, 690 As a Plane Tree by the Water, 695 Some Lines in Three Parts, 691 The Death of the Sheriff, 695 ROBERT LOWELL (1917- The Holy Innocents, 693 ), 692 Where the. Rainbow Ends, 696 INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES, 699 Contents THOMAS HARDY ÇCont.) FOREWORD, VÜ PREFACE, The Tree and the Lady, 33 Snow in the Suburbs, 34 The Self-Unseeing, 34 A Placid Man’s Epitaph, 34 Waiting Both, 35 Hap, 35 The Convergence of the Twain, 35 3 THOMAS HARDY (184O-I928), 23 In Time of “The Breaking of Na tions,” 25 The Darkling Thrush, 25 The Man He Killed, 26 In the Servants’ Quarters, 26 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Neutral Tones, 27 New Year’s Eve, 27 The Night of Trafalgar, 28 (1844- 1889), 37 The Roman Road, 32 My Spirit Will Not I launt the Mound, 32 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse, 32 Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, 39 Pied Beauty, 39 The Habit of Perfection, 40 The Leaden Echo, 40 The Golden Echo, 41 God’s Grandeur, 42 The Starlight Night, 42 Spring, 42 Hurrahing in Harvest, 43 The Caged Skylark, 43 Moonrise, 43 Felix Randal, 44 To His Watch, 44 The Cuckoo, 44 Heaven-Haven, 44 The Windhover, 45 Inversnaid, 45 The Dark-Eyed Gentleman, 32 The Subalterns, 33 The Oxen, 33 What I Do Is Me, 45 No Worst, There Is None, 46 My Own Heart, 46 Weathers, 28 “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”, 28 Five “Satires of Circumstance” In Church, 29 By Her Aunt’s Grave, 29 At the Altar-Rail, 30 In the Restaurant, 30 At the Draper’s, 30 Afterwards, 31 Birds at Winter Nightfall, 31 Winter in Durnover Field, 31 ix CONTENTS X ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-1930), 47 ALICE MEYNELL {Cont.} A Passer-By, 48 The Shepherdess, 61 Awake, My Heart, to Be Loved, 48 The Wind Is Blind, 61 O Weary Pilgrims, 49 November Blue, 62 Thou Didst Delight My Eyes, 49 Chimes, 62 Winter Nightfall, 50 London Snow, 50 A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age, 63 Nightingales, 51 The October Redbreast, 64 I Have Loved Flowers, 51 A Thrush Before Dawn, 64 Nirnium Fortunatus, 51 Renouncement, 65 Christ in the Universe, 65 WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849- 1903), 52 OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900), 66 Invictus, 53 Requiescat, 67 The Blackbird, 53 Impression du Matin, 67 A Bowl of Roses, 54 Hélas, 67 Before, 54 Magdalen Walks, 67 Ballade, 54 E Tenebris, 68 We’ll Go No More A-Roving, 54 Symphony in Yellow, 69 Madam Life, 55 The Harlot’s House, 69 Out of Tune, 55 From “The Sphinx,” 69 Falmouth, 55 From “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” 70 England, My England, 56 O Gather Me the Rose, 56 To Robert Louis Stevenson, 56 Margaritae Sorori, 57 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (18501894), 57 Summer Sun, 58 JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909), 71 A Ballad of Heil, 72 Imagination, 73 The Unknown, 73 A Ballad of a Nun, 74 FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907), 76 Winter Time, 58 The Celestial Surgeon, 58 Romance, 59 Requiem, 59 Go, Little Book, 59 Daisy, 77 To a Snowflake, 78 An Arab Love-Song, 78 All’s Vast, 79 Epilogue, 79 ALICE MEYNELL (1850-1923), 59 To a Daisy, 61 The Poppy, 80 The Sun, 82 xi CONTENTS FRANCIS THOMPSON ÇCont.} A. E. HOUSMAN {Cont.) A Fallen Yew, 83 The Carpenter’s Son, 101 A Counsel of Moderation, 85 Be Still, My Soul, Be Still, 101 Any Saint, 85 From Far, From Eve, 102 The Hound of Heaven, 86 I Hoed and Trenched, 102 From “Grace of the Way,” 90 The Isle of Portland, 102 To Olivia, 90 “In No Strange Land,” 90 The Laws of God, the Laws of Man, 102 Envoy, 91 The New Mistress, 103 Farewell, 103 A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936), 91 Reveille, 93 With Rue My Heart Is Laden, 94 Into My Heart, 94 ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-1945), 104 In the Wood of Finvara, 104 Modern Beauty, 105 When I Was One-and-Twenty, 94 The Crying of Water, 105 To an Athlete Dying Young, 94 The Turning Dervish, 105 Loveliest of Trees, 95 Night, 106 Is My Team Ploughing, 95 Wanderer’s Song, 106 When Smoke Stood Up from Lud low, 95 During Music, 106 When I Watch the Living Meet, 96 Oh, See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers, 96 The Lads in Their Hundreds, 96 When the Lad for Longing Sighs, 97 The Immortal Part, 97 On Wenlock Edge, 97 Oh, When I Was in Love with You, 98 Along the Field As We Came By, 98 On the Idle Hill of Summer, 98 Bredon Hill, 98 Lancer, 99 The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux, Nerves, 106 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939), 107 The Lake Isle of Innisfree, III Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, III The Song of Wandering Aengus, III Aedh Tells of the Rose in His Heart, 112 Fairy Song, ,112 When You Are Old, 112 The Cap and Bells, 113 The Indian upon God, 113 An Old Song Resung, 114 The Rose of the World, 114 99 Eight O’clock, too The Sorrow of Love, 114 Epilogue, too The Song of the Old Mother, 115 Others, I Am Not the First, 101 The Ballad of Father Gilligan, 115 CONTENTS xii WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (Cont.) Æ (Coni.) The Wild Swans at Coole, 115 The Great Breath, 143 Leda and the Swan, 116 Frolic, 144 Sailing to Byzantium, 117 The Secret, 144 Among School Children, 117 The Unknown God, 144 The Leaders of the Crowd, 119 Continuity, 144 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Epilogue, 145 119 To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing, 119 Germinal, 146 Exiles, 145 ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900), 147 RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936), 120 Gunga Din, 122 A Last Word, 147 Danny Deever, 124 Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, 148 Mandalay, 125 Spleen, 148 “Fuzzy-Wuzzy,” 126 To One in Bedlam, 149 Tommy, 127 Extreme Unction, 149 The Ladies, 128 Boots, 129 You Would Have Understood Me, 149 The Return, 130 Villanelle of Marguerites, 150 The Conundrum of the Workshops, Envoy, 151 131 Evarra and His Gods, 132 LIONEL JOHNSON (1867-1902), 151 La Nuit Blanche, 134 Mystic and Cavalier, 152 An Astrologer’s Song, 135 To Morfydd, 153 Recessional, 135 By the Statue of King Charles, 153 The Last Chantey, 136 To a Traveler, 154 Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, 137 The Dark Angel, 154 The Land, 138 The Precept of Silence, 155 For to Admire, 140 L’Envoi, 141 LAURENCE BINYON (1869-1943), 155 The Little Dancers, 156 A (1867-1935), 141 O World, Be Nobler, 156 Self-Discipline, 142 Nothing Is Enough, 156 Pain, 142 Beauty, 157 Truth, 142 A Song, 157 Tragedy, 143 The House That Was, 157 xiii CONTENTS CHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928), 158 W. H. DAVIES (1870-1940), 173 In the Fields, 159 The Hour of Magic, 175 Sea Love, 159 A Greeting, 175 I Have Been Through the Gates, 159 Days Too Short, 175 To a Child in Death, 160 The Moon, 175 Song, 160 The Villain, 175 The Farmer’s Bride, 161 The Example, 176 Beside the Bed, 162 The Two Stars, 176 From “Madeleine in Church,” 162 The Dog, 176 Again, 163 Jenny Wren, 176 Old Shepherd’s Prayer, 163 Ambition, 176 The Trees Are Down, 164 The Hermit, 176 Here Lies a Prisoner, 165 When Yon Full Moon, 177 Not for That City, 165 Sheep, 177 Absence, 165 The Mind’s Liberty, 178 On the Asylum Road, 166 A Great Time, 178 The Elements, 178 HILAIRE BELLOC (1870- ), 166 West Sussex Drinking Song, 167 Leaves, 178 Songs of Joy, 178 Tarantella, 167 To a Lady Friend, 179 The South Country, 168 Leisure, 179 Ha’nacker Mill, 170 Four Beasts The Big Baboon, 170 J. M. SYNGE (1871-1909), 179 Prelude, 180 The Yak, 170 Beg-Innish, 180 The Lion, 171 In Kerry, 181 The Tiger, 171 A Question, 181 Lines to a Don, 171 On an Island, 181 Sonnet, 172 Dread, 182 Six Epigrams In May, 182 On Lady Poltagrue, 172 A Translation from Petrarch, 182 On a Dead Hostess, 172 On Hygiene, 172 A Translation from Walter von der Vogelweide, 183 On His Books, 172 Two Translations from Villon, 183 On the Politician, 172 Queens, 184 For False Heart, 172 To the Oaks of Glencree, 184 xïv CONTENTS (1872- RALPH HODGSON ), 185 WALTER DE LA MARE (Cont.) Reason, 186 Silver, 202 Eve, 186 The Song of Shadows, 202 Time, You Old Gypsy Man, 186 Nod, 203 The Birdcatcher, 187 The Last Chapter, 203 The Moor, 187 Peace, 203 After, 187 G. K. CHESTERTON The Song of Honor, 188 The Late, Last Rook, 190 Ecclesiastes, 205 The Bull, 190 Lepanto, 205 (1874-1936), 204 The Bells of Heaven, 192 A Prayer in Darkness, 208 The Hammers, 192 Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 209 Stupidity Street, 192 The Donkey, 209 The Mystery, 192 The Praise of Dust, 209 The Gipsy Girl, 193 Wine and Water, 209 Ghoul Care, 193 The Sword of Surprise, 210 WALTER DE LA MARE (1873- 194 The Song of Finis, 196 The Listeners, 196 An Epitaph, 197 The Truants, 197 ), The House of Christmas, 210 GORDON BOTTOMLEY (1874-1948), 211 The End of the World, 212 Dawn, 213 Eager Spring, 213 Eagle Song, 213 Old Susan, 198 Martha, 198 EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917), 214 Someone, 198 The New House, 215 The Sleeper, 198 Tall Nettles, 215 The Old Men, 199 If I Should Ever by Chance, 215 At the Keyhole, 199 Cock-Crow, 215 The Mocking Fairy, 199 The Penny Whistle, 216 Sam, 200 The Trumpet, 216 Berries, 200 All But Blind, 201 Digging, 216 Thaw, 217 Summer Evening, 201 Gallows, 217 There Blooms No Bud in May, 201 Fifty Faggots, 217 The Scarecrow, 202 Haymaking, 218 The Ghost, 202 Out in the Dark, 218 xv CONTENTS JOHN MASEFIELD (1878- ), 219 W. W. GIBSON (1880- A Consecration, 221 Prelude, 241 Sea-Fever, 221 The Stone, 241 A Wanderer’s Song, 222 Sight, 242 Sorrow of Mydath, 222 The White Dust, 242 Tomorrow, 222 ), 240 ALFRED NOYES (1880- ), 243 The West Wind, 223 Sherwood, 244 Rounding the Horn (from “Dauber”), 223 The Barrel-Organ, 245 C. L. M., 225 Epilogue, 248 , Cargoes, 225 PADRAIC COLUM Captain Stratton’s Fancy, 226 ), 249 The Plower, 249 Night on the Downland, 226 An Old Woman of the Roads, 250 On Growing Old, 227 Interior, 250 Sonnets “Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door,” 228 “Is there a great green common wealth of Thought,” 228 Laugh and Be Merry, 228 A Drover, 250 Wild Ass, 251 JOSEPH CAMPBELL (1881- ), 251 I Am the Mountainy Singer, 251 The Old Woman, 252 The Choice, 229 The Passing Strange, 229 HAROLD MONRO (1879-1932), (1881- LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE (1881-1938), 231 Every Thing, 231 From “Week-End,” 233 The Bird at Dawn, 234 Children of Love, 235 252 Song from “Judith,” 253 Epilogue, 254 Woman’s Beauty, 255 Witchcraft: New Style, 256 Epitaph, 259 Strange Meetings If Suddenly a Clod of Earth, 235 A Flower Is Looking, 236 JAMES STEPHENS (1882-1950), 259 Evening, 260 Solitude, 236 The Lake, 261 Milk for the Cat, 236 The Shell, 262 Dog, 237 What Thomas an Buile Said in a Pub, 262 Man Carrying Bale, 238 The Nightingale Near the House, 239 To the Four Courts, Please, 263 City-Storm, 239 Little Things, 263 The Hurrier, 240 The Red-Haired Man’s Wife, 264 xvi CONTENTS JAMES STEPHENS (Cont.) ÇConl. ) ANNA WICKHAM Hate, 265 Weapons, 278 The Watcher, 265 The Last Round, 278 Righteous Anger, 265 To a Crucifix, 279 Odell, 265 Friend Cato, 279 Blue Blood, 266 The Song-Maker, 279 The Main-Deep, 266 Dedication of the Cook, 279 In Waste Places, 266 Meditation at Kew, 280 Good and Bad, 267 The Affinity, 280 The Outcast, 267 The Tired Woman, 281 The Crest Jewel, 267 Divorce, 282 JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941), 2 6 8 After Annunciation, 282 The Cherry-Blossom Wand, 282 Strings in the Earth, 269 Soul’s Liberty, 283 I Hear an Army, 269 O Sweetheart, Hear You, 270 All Day I Hear, 270 The Singer, 284 Envoi, 284 Song, 270 On the Beach at Fontana, 270 Flood, 271 JAMES ELROY FLECKER To Men, 283 D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), 284 A Youth Mowing, 286 (1884-1915), Lightning, 287 Suspense, 288 271 A Young Wife, 288 The Old Ships, 272 Cherry Robbers, 288 Stillness, 272 The War Song of the Saracens, 273 A Winter’s Tale, 288 Love on the Farm, 289 Tenebris Interlucentem, 273 To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence, 274 Piano, 290 Green, 291 The Town Without a Market, 274 A White Blossom, 291 The Ballad of Hampstead Heath, 275 Wedding Morn, 291 Whether or Not, 292 ANNA WICKHAM (1884- ), 276 Aware, 298 Creatrix, 277 Kisses in the Train, 298 Song, 277 Spring Morning, 298 Self-Analysis, 277 Trees in the Garden, 299 Sehnsucht, 278 Morning Work, 299 • xvii CONTENTS HUMBERT WOLFE (1885-1940), 300 SIEGFRIED SASSOON (Cont.) Thrushes, 301 Everyone Sang, 314 Tulip, 301 Falling Asleep, 315 The Gray Squirrel, 302 The Wisdom of the World, 315 Lamb, 302 Everyman, 315 The Lilac, 302 Conclusion, 316 The Rose, 302 Prehistoric Burials, 316 Laburnum, 302 Limitations, 316 Things Lovelier, 303 Grandeur of Ghosts, 317 Green Candles, 303 Alone, 318 Queen Victoria, 303 Presences Perfected, 318 Love Is a Keeper of Swans, 303 Elected Silence, 318 Man, 303 RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915), 319 The Waters of Life, 304 This Is Not Death, 304 The Great Lover, 320 Iliad, 305 The Chilterns, 322 The Hill, 322 FRANCES CORNFORD (1886- ), 305 Dust, 323 The Country Bedroom, 306 Sonnet (“Oh! Death will find me”), To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train, 306 The Soldier, 324 The Watch, 306 Heaven, 324 323 A Wasted Day, 306 Second Best, 324 At Night, 307 The Busy Heart, 325 The Unbeseechable, 307 Dining-Room Tea, 326 The Hills, 308 The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, 326 SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886- ), 309 EDITH SITWELL (1887- Dreamers, 310 Interlude, 330 The Rear-Guard, 311 Aubade, 330 Base Details, 311 Sir Beelzebub, 331 ), 328 Attack, 311 The King of China’s Daughter, 331 Counter-Attack, 312 Solo for Ear-Trumpet, 332 Does It Matter?, 313 Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad, 332 The Dug-Out, 313 Spinning Song, 332 Invocation, 313 Panope, 333 Aftermath, 314 Colonel Fantock, 334 CONTENTS xviii EDITH SITWELL RICHARD ALDINGTON {Cont^) (Cont.) Still Falls the Rain, 336 Possession, 350 Song (“Now that Fate is dead and gone”), 337 After Two Years, 350 OSBERT SITWELL Dirge for the New Sunrise, 338 (1892- ), 351 Fountains, 351 W. J. TURNER (1889-1946), 3 3 9 Elegy for Mr. Goodbeare, 352 Romance, 340 On the Coast of Coromandel, 353 Song (“Lovely hill-torrents are”), 340 HUGH MACDIARMID (1892- The Robber, 340 ), 354 Talking with Soldiers, 340 With a Lifting of the Head, 354 The Lion, 341 Parley of Beasts, 354 The Music of a Tree, 342 Cattle Show, 355 In Time Like Glass, 342 To a Sea Eagle, 355 India, 343 Silence, 343 On the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, 356 The Sun, 344 The Skeleton of the Future, 356 ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918), 344 WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918), 356 Midsummer Frost, 345 Futility, 357 Expression, 345 Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, 358 Chagrin, 346 Anthem for Doomed Youth, 359 Break of Day in the Trenches, 346 Dulce et Decorum Est, 359 On Receiving News of the War, From My Diary, 360 347 I Am the Blood, 347 The Unreturning, 360 The One Lost, 347 Miners, 361 The Jew, 347 Arms and the Boy, 362 The Dead Heroes, 347 Strange Meeting, 362 Greater Love, 361 The Send-Off, 363 RICHARD ALDINGTON (1892- ), 348 The Show, 364 Images, 349 The Faun Sees Snow for the First Time, 349 SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ), 365 At the British Museum, 349 Four Epitaphs, 366 Evening, 349 Country Thought, 366 Vicarious Atonement, 350 Nelly Trim, 367 (1893- CONTENTS xix SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (Cotti.) ÇCont. ) ROBERT GRAVES The Alarum, 368 Song: One Hard Look, 383 After He Had Gone, 368 A Frosty Night, 383 Elizabeth, 369 In the Wilderness, 384 Triumph of Sensibility, 369 A Forced Music, 384 Sad Green, 369 Lost Love, 385 Song (“She has left me, my pretty”), 369 Song from the Bride of Smithfield, 369 The Rival, 370 Killing No Murder, 370 Modo and Alciphron, 370 L. A. G. STRONG ), 385 (1896- Old Dan’l, 386 Zeke, 386 An Old Woman, Outside the Abbey Theater, 386 Rufus Prays, 386 The Absence, 372 The Mad Woman of Punnet’s Town, 387 Lowery Cot, 387 Building in Stone, 372 The Green Valley, 373 CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY (1895- 1915), 373 The Door, 387 March Evening, 387 Two Sonnets “Saints have adored the lofty soul of you,” 374 “Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat,” 374 EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896- ), 388 The Poor Man’s Pig, 389 A Country God, 389 The Barn, 390 The Song of the Ungirt Runners, 375 Eastern Tempest, 390 To Germany, 375 The Midnight Skaters, 391 Rooks, 376 The Recovery, 391 All the Hills and Vales, 376 ROBERT GRAVES (1895- ), 377 Neglectful Edward, 379 It’s a Queer Time, 379 A Pinch of Salt, 380 Star-Talk, 381 I Wonder What It Feels Like to Be Drowned?, 382 SACHEVERELL SITWELL (1897- )j 392 Fountains, 392 The Red-Gold Rain, 393 “Psittachus Eois Imitatrix Ales ab Indis,” 393 Tulip Tree, 394 Escape, 382 Kingcups, 394 The Traveler’s Curse After Misdirec tion, 383 The River God, 394 From “Agamemnon’s Tomb,” 395 CONTENTS XX KUTH PITTER (1897- ), 395 C. DAY LEWIS (Coni.) The Task, 396 When They Have Lost, 418 The Coffin-Worm, 396 Newsreel, 418 The Unicorn, 397 Procne, 419 Time’s Fool, 398 The Divers, 420 The Swan Bathing, 398 RICHARD HUGHES ), 419 PETER QUENNELL (1905- The Eternal Image, 397 Leviathan, 421 ), 399 (1900- LOUIS MAC NEICE ( 1907- ), 422 Invocation to the Muse, 400 The British Museum Reading Room, Tramp, 400 Lover’s Reply to Good Advice, 401 423 And Love Hung Still, 424 On Time, 402 Cradle Song, 424 Burial of the Spirit, 402 Sunday Morning, 425 Museums, 426 ROY CAMPBELL ), 403 (1902- Morning Sun, 426 The Zebras, 403 Birmingham, 426 Tristan da Cunha, 404 Nuts in May, 427 From “The Flaming Terrapin,” 406 The Palm, 410 ), 428 Who’s Who, 431 On Some South African Novelists, 412 Toledo: July, 1936, 412 The Serf, 412 (1904- Ode; To My Pupils, 432 The Strings’ Excitement, 434 From “The Georgiad,” 412 lewis (1907- Chorus from a Play, 431 Autumn, 411 C. day W. H. AUDEN This Lunar Beauty, 435 Always the Following Wind, 435 ), 413 Nearing Again the Legendary Isle, 414 Rest from Loving and Be Living, 415 Chorus from “Paid on Both Sides,” 436 Ballad, 436 Villanelle, 437 “Look, Stranger,” 438 Now She Is Like the White TreeRose, 415 Hearing of Harvests Rotting in the Valleys, 438 Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour, 416 Law, Say the Gardeners, Is the Sun, Tempt Me No More, 416 439 Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love, 440 The Conflict, 417 In Memory of W. B. Yeats, 440 Chiefly to Mind Appears, 416 xxi CONTENTS W. H. AUDEN (Coni.) W. R. RODGERS (Cont.) September I, 1939, 442 White Christmas, 463 Mundus et Infans, 443 Neither Here Nor There, 464 Song: As I Walked Out One Evening, 445 Song: Fish in the Unruffled Lakes, 445 GEORGE BARKER (1913- ), 465 “My Joy, My Jockey, My Gabriel,” 466 Under Which Lyre, 446 “O Tender Under Her Right Breast,” 466 After Christmas (from “For the Time Being”), 448 “Shut the Seven Seas Against Us,” 466 Song: Stop All the Clocks, 446 “Satan Is on Your Tongue,” 467 STEPHEN SPENDER (1909- ), 449 Farewell in a Dream, 451 “O Golden Fleece,” 468 Verses for a First Birthday, 468 Statistics, 452 DYLAN THOMAS A Whim of Time, 452 (19I4- ), 469 Two Sonnets Epilogue, 453 What I Expected, 453 “Altarwise by owl-light in the half way-house,” 470 The Prisoners, 454 “Death is all metaphors,” 470 Discovered in Mid-Ocean, 453 When All My Five and Country Senses See, 471 Winter Landscape, 454 The Funeral, 455 Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, The Express, 455 The Landscape Near an Aerodrome, 456 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, 457 Mask, 457 471 The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City, 471 The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives, 472 The Hunchback in the Park, 473 Not Palaces, 458 And Death Shall Have No Dominion, I Think Continually of Those, 458 Sonnet: “You Were Born; Must Die,” 473 Especially When the October Wind, 459 Judas Iscariot, 459 473 In Memory of Ann Jones, 474 Thoughts During an Air Raid, 460 Fern Hill, 475 Winter and Summer, 461 W. R. RODGERS (1909- NORMAN NICHOLSON (1914- ), 461 476 The Raider, 462 Rockferns, 477 Sing, Brothers, Sing!, 463 The Blackberry, 477 ), CONTENTS xxii NORMAN NICHOLSON (Cont^) Michaelmas, 478 JOHN MANIFOLD ALEX COMFORT (192O- ), 481 Fear of the Earth, 481 (1915- The Griesly Wife, 479 ), 478 Epitaph, 482 Notes for My Son, 482 Song for the Heroes, 483 Night Piece, 480 Defensive Position, 480 INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES, 485
adam_txt	Contents WALT WHITMAN FOREWORD, vii PREFACE, The Poet, 79 3 WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892), {Cont.) Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, 84 33 To a Locomotive in Winter, 85 I Hear America Singing, 40 This Compost, 86 The Muse in the New World, 41 After the Supper and Talk, 87 Recorders Ages Hence, 41 The Last Invocation, 87 The Commonplace, 42 The Untold Want, 87 A Noiseless Patient Spider, 42 Joy, Shipmate, Joy, 88 To a Common Prostitute, 42 EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886), 88 When I Heard the Learn’d Astron omer, 42 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, 94 Reconciliation, 43 A Bird Came Down the Walk, 94 I Hear It Was Charged Against Me, Elysium Is as Far, 95 43 Mannahatta, 43 I Never Saw a Moor, 95 I Never Lost as Much, 95 Song of Myself, 44 Indian Summer, 95 Song of the Open Road, 63 I Died for Beauty, 95 The Broad-Ax, 65 The Sky Is Low, 95 On the Beach at Night, 65 Mysteries, 96 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 66 I Like to See It Lap the Miles, 96 Facing West from California’s Shores, 70 My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close, 96 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, 71 The Heart Asks Pleasure First, 96 O Captain! My Captain!, 76 Of Course I Prayed, 97 The Soul Selects, 96 I Cannot Live with You, 96 Dirge for Two Veterans, 77 There Is No Frigate Like a Book, 97 Come Up from the Fields, Father, 77 I Had Been Hungry All the Years, 97 Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night, 78 I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, 98 There’s a Certain Slant of Light, 98 ix CONTENTS X EMILY DICKINSON (Coni.) EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940), 10 6 I Measure Every Grief I Meet, 98 Outwitted, 106 The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky, 98 Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup, 99 The Man with the Hoe, 107 The Tint I Cannot Take Is Best, 99 Lincoln, the Man of the People, 108 The Avengers, 108 Preparedness, 108 I Dreaded That First Robin So, 99 After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes, too A Cemetery, 100 LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Tears, no Ample Make This Bed, 100 Spicewood, in Although I Put Away His Life, 100 Spring Ecstasy, III The World Feels Dusty, 100 Ownership, 111 Lightly Stepped a Yellow Star, 101 A Puritan Lady, in Go Not Too Near a House of Rose, 101 A Flower of Mullein, 112 I Reckon, When I Count at All, 101 Wild Cherry, 112 Because That You Are Going, 101 Old Saul, 112 What Soft, Cherubic Creatures, 102 Women, 113 Because I Could Not Stop for Death, 102 The Mountains Grow Unnoticed, 103 Truth Is as Old as God, 103 The Return, 103 (1856- 1935), 10g Miracle, 112 Surety, 114 GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863- ), 114 As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room, 115 Success Is Counted Sweetest, 103 After Gray Vigils, Sunshine in the Heart, 116 The Lonely House, 103 On the Death of a Metaphysician, 116 Pain Has an Element of Blank, 104 The Rustic at the Play, 116 Renunciation, 104 O World, Thou Choosest Not the Better Part, 117 Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church, 104 Purple Clover, 104 The Bee, 104 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869- 1935), 17 Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, 105 Exit, 121 The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man, Credo, 121 105 At Half-Past Three a Single Bird, 105 James Wetherell, 122 Called Back, 105 • Miniver Cheevy, 122 Cliff Klingenhagen, 122 CONTENTS xi EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (Cont.) EDGAR LEE MASTERS The House on the Hill, 123 Anne Rutledge, 149 An Old Story, 123 Silence, 149 Richard Cory, 123 STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900), 151 Bewick Finzer, 123 I Saw a Man, 152 Reuben Bright, 124 The Wayfarer, 152 For a Dead Lady, 124 Hymn, 152 Calvary, 124 The Blades of Grass, 152 Vickery’s Mountain, 125 The Book of Wisdom, 152 Too Much Coflee, 125 The Candid Man, 152 The Master, 125 The Heart, 153 Mr. Flood’s Party, 126 George Crabbe, 127 (Cont.) There Was a Man, 153 » A Learned Man, 153 Luke Havergal, 128 A Youth, 153 John Gorham, 129 JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871- How Annandale Went Out, 130 1938), 154 The Field of Glory, 130 The Creation, 154 The Clerks, 131 The Dark Hills, 131 ANNA Eros Turannos, 131 HEMPSTEAD BRANCH (1874- 1937), 157 The Sheaves, 132 The Monk in the Kitchen, 157 Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford, 132 AMY LOWELL (1874-1925), 158 New England, 140 A Lady, 161 . The Gift of God, 140 Solitaire, 161 The Prodigal Son, 141 Patterns, 161 The Pity of the Leaves, 142 Wind and Silver,' 164 Aaron Stark, 142 Night Clouds, 164 Uncle Ananias, 142 Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes, 164 Karma, 143 A Decade, 165 EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869-1950), 144 Madonna of the Evening Flowers, 165 Week-End by the Sea, 145 Evelyn Ray, 166 Widows, 146 The Taxi, 169 Petit, the Poet, 148 In Excelsis, 170 Lucinda Matlock, 148 Meeting-House Hill, 171 xii CONTENTS AMY LOWELL (Cont^) ROBERT FROST {Cont^) Lilacs, 171 Lost in Heaven, 203 The Sisters, 174 Desert Places, 203 Shooting the Sun, 177 Two Tramps in Mud-Time, 204 ROBERT FROST (1875- ), 178 Departmental, 205 A Considerable Speck, 205 The Pasture, 183 Happiness Makes Up in Height, 206 The Onset, 183 Come In, 206 The Tuft of Flowers, 183 From Plane to Plane, 207 Reluctance, 185 Closed for Good, 210 Mending Wall, 185 The Gift Outright, 210 The Cow in Apple-Time, 186 Choose Something Like a Star, 21 r The Death of the Hired Man, 186 After Apple-Picking, 191 CARL SANDBURG (1878- ), 211 An Old Man’s Winter Night, 191 Ten Definitions of Poetry, 214 Birches, 192 Chicago, 214 Brown’s Descent, 193 The Runaway, 194 Fog, 215 ■ Grass, 215 To Earthward, 195 Cool Tombs, 215 Fire and Ice, 195 Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, 216 Two Look at Two, 195 Limited, 216 A Sky Pair, 196 Canis Major, 196 Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, 216 The Peaceful Shepherd, 196 A. E. F., 218 Bereft, 196 Prayers of Steel, 218 Tree at My Window, 197 Jazz Fantasia, 218 West-Running Brook, 197 Blue Island Intersection, 218 Once by the Pacific, 199 From “Smoke and Steel,” 219 The Bear, 199 Losers, 220 Sand Dunes, 200 Wind Song, 221 The Lovely Shall Be Choosers, 200 Primer Lesson, 221 The Egg and the Machine, 201 Broken-Face Gargoyles, 222 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve ning, 202 Flash Crimson, 222 Early Lynching, 223 Nothing Gold Can Stay, 202 Precious Moments, 223 The Road Not Taken, 202 Moist Moon People, 224 A Leaf-Treader, 203 Bundles, 224 CONTENTS CARL SANDBURG xiiz (Cont.) MELVILLE CANE (1879- ), 256 Upstream, 224 Snow Toward Evening, 256 Sunsets, 225 Tree in December, 256 Elephants Are Different, 225 Dawn Has Yet to Ripple In, 257 For You, 225 Hymn to Night, 257 From “The People, Yes” They Have Yarns, 226 The People Will Live On, 229 WALLACE STEVENS (1879- ), 258 Anecdote of the Jar, 261 The Fireborn Are at Home in Fire, Peter Quince at the Clavier, 261 231 The Long Shadow of Lincoln, 232 To the One of Fictive Music, 262 Between Worlds, 234 Domination of Black, 265 VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931), 235 Sunday Morning, 263 Sea Surface Full of Clouds, 266 Annual Gaiety, 269 The Congo, 237 To a Golden-Haired Girl in a Louisi ana Town, 240 General William Booth Enters into Heaven, 240 The Eagle That Is Forgotten, 242 • The Ghosts of the Buffaloes, 242 The Traveler, 244 A Negro Sermon:—Simon Legree, 245 John Brown, 246 The Dove of New Snow, 247 The Flower-Fed Buffaloes, 247 Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, 248 When Lincoln Came to Springfield, 248 Nancy Hanks, Mother of Abraham Lincoln, 249 Homunculus et la Belle Etoile, 269 Two Figures in Dense Violet Light, 269 Gallant Château, 270 The Idea of Order at Key West, 270 Bouquet of Belle Scavoir, 271 Asides on the Oboe, 272 The Glass of Water, 273 The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man, 273 The Motive for Metaphor, 274 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ), 274 Metric Figure, 276 Love Song, 276 Dawn, 277 Poem, 277 Wild Cats, 249 January, 277 The Apple-Barrel of Johnny Apple seed, 250 Queen-Ann’s-Lace, 277 Daisy, 278 The Voyage, 250 On Gay Wallpaper, 278 The Chinese Nightingale, 250 Tract, 278 (1883- XIV CONTENTS WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ÇCont.) ELINOR WYLIE {ContT) Smell, 280 The Knight Fallen on Evil Days, 297 A Goodnight, 280 Pegasus Lost, 298 The Red Wheelbarrow, 282 Madman’s Song, 298 Flowers by the Sea, 282 Sanctuary, 299 The Poor, 282 Velvet Shoes, 299 These, 282 Escape, 299 Illegitimate Things, 283 Golden Bough, 299 The Yachts, 283 August, 300 The Yellow Season, 284 Puritan Sonnet, 300 SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933), 2 8 4 Nebuchadnezzar, 300 Let No Charitable Hope, 301 Night Song at Amalfi, 285 Confession of Faith, 301 Spring Night, 285 “Desolation Is a Delicate Thing,” 301 I Shall Not Care, 286 Peter and John, 302 The Long Hill, 286 Full Moon, 303 Water-Lilies, 286 Epitaph, 303 Let It Be Forgotten, 287 Birthday Sonnet, 303 Wisdom, 287 O Virtuous Light, 304 The Solitary, 287 The Pebble, 304 The Crystal Gazer, 287 Sonnet from “One Person,” 304 Appraisal, 288 This Corruptible, 305 On the South Downs, 288 Hymn to Earth, 307 August Night, 288 EZRA POUND (1885- Effigy of a Nun, 288 Salutation, 312 The Flight, 289 ELIZABETH MADOX ), 308 ROBERTS (1885- Sestina: Altaforte, 312 1941), 290 The River-Merchant’s Wife, 313 The Sky, 291 An Immorality, 314 Christmas Morning, 291 A Virginal, 314 Orpheus, 291 Ballad for Gloom, 315 Stranger, 292 Greek Epigram, 315 A Ballet Song of Mary, 293 Woodcock of the Ivory Beak, 294 ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928), The Eagle and the Mole, 297 The Garden, 312 294 Ballad of the Goodly Fere, 316 A Girl, 317 In a Station of the Metro, 317 Dance Figure, 317 CONTENTS xv EZRA POUND (Cont^) WILLIAM ROSE BENET (1886-1950), Silet, 318 340 Merchants from Cathay, 341 Portrait D’une Femme, 318 Night, 342 The Return, 319 The Fawn in the Snow, 343 Envoi, 319 Whale, 343 The Rest, 319 The Horse Thief, 344 Ite, 320 Brazen Tongue, 347 Canto I, 320 Jesse James, 347 AQPIA, 317 LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1885- ), 321 Eternal Masculine, 349 Prayer, 323 Inscription for a Mirror in a Deserted Dwelling, 349 Caliban in the Coal Mines, 324 Sagacity, 350 The Dark Chamber, 324 Long Feud, 324 Food and Drink, 325 JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER (1886- ), 350 Last Words Before Winter, 326 High Tide, 351 Five Parodies Autumn, 352 John Masefield, 326 Sinfonia Domestica, 353 Walter De la Mare, 327 Country of No Lack, 353 Edna St. Vincent Millay, 328 Dew on a Dusty Heart, 353 Archibald MacLeish, 328 False Enchantment, 354 Edgar A. Guest, 329 H. D. (1886JOHN GOULD FLETCHER (1886-1950), 33° From “Irradiations,” 331 Green Symphony, 332 London Nightfall, 335 The Skaters, 336 Lincoln, 336 A Rebel, 337 Before Olympus, 338 ), 354 Oread, 356 Pear Tree, 356 Heat, 356 Orchard, 357 Song, 357 From “Let Zeus Record,” 357 Lais, 357 From “Halcyon,” 358 Advent, 338 Songs from Cyprus, 358 The Birth of Lucifer, 339 Holy Satyr, 359 A New Heaven, 339 The Islands, 359 Ad Majorem Hominis Gloriam, 340 Helen, 360 The Lofty House, 340 Lethe, 361 xvi CONTENTS JOHN HALL WHEELOCK (1886- ), 361 ROBINSON JEFFERS (Cont.) Summer Holiday, 385 Sunday Evening in the Common, 362 Credo, 385 Triumph of Love, 362 Pelicans, 385 Nirvana, 363 Love the Wild Swan, 386 Love and Liberation, 363 Night, 386 Earth, 363 Shine, Perishing Republic, 388 This Quiet Dust, 364 Divinely Superfluous Beauty, 388 ROY HELTON (1886- Hurt Hawks, 388 ), 364 Prescription of Painful Ends, 389 Old Christmas Morning, 365 May-June, 1940, 390 Lonesome Water, 366 MARIANNE MOORE (1887- The Inquisitors, 391 ), 367 A Talisman, 368 Original Sin, 392 T. S. ELIOT (1888- That Harp You Play So Well, 368 To a Steam Roller, 368 ), 392 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 398 England, 369 The Waste Land The Fish, 369 I. The Burial of the Dead, 402 Poetry, 370 II. A Game of Chess, 403 What Are Years?, 371 III. The Fire Sermon, 405 The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing, IV. Death by Water, 408 372 In Distrust of Merits, 373 V. What the Thunder Said, 409 Notes, 411 At Rest in the Blast, 374 ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887- Compensation, 378 Age in Prospect, 379 Ante Mortem, 379 Post Mortem, 380 Noon, 380 The Hollow Men, 414 ), 375 Journey of the Magi, 416 Ash-Wednesday, 417 From “Four Quartets” Burnt Norton, 421 JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888- ), 425 Clouds of Evening, 381 Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter, To the Stone-Cutters, 381 Gale in April, 381 427 Lady Lost, 428 Apology for Bad Dreams, 382 Blue Girls, 428 Promise of Peace, 384 Here Lies a Lady, 429 Birth-Dues, 384 Janet Waking, 429 CONTENTS JOHN CROWE RANSOM xvii {Cont.') EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY {Cont.} Spiel of the Three Mountebanks, 430 Spring, 463 First Travels of Max, 431 Passer Mortuus Est, 464 Antique Harvesters, 432 What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, 464 Piazza Piece, 433 Pity Me Not, 464 Captain Carpenter, 434 Departure, 465 Old Man Pondered, 435 I Shall Go Back, 465 Parting, Without a Sequel, 436 Elegy, 465 Prelude to an Evening, 437 Justice Denied in Massachusetts, 466 Painting: A Head, 437 Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare, 467 CONRAD AIKEN (1889- ), 438 Bread and Music, 440 On Hearing a Symphony of Bee thoven, 467 Miracles, 441 Sonnet to Gath, 467 Morning Song from “Senlin,” 441 The Cameo, 468 The Room, 443 Oh, Sleep Forever in the Latmian Cave, 468 The Puppet Dreams, 444 And in the Hanging Gardens—, 445 See Where Capella with Her Golden Kids, 468 The Road, 447 The Return, 469 Portrait of a Girl, 444 Annihilation, 448 The Quarrel, 449 At a Concert of Music, 449 Tetélestai, 450 When the Tree Bares, 452 One Star Fell and Another, 453 But How It Came From Earth, 453 Prelude VI, 454 Cloister, 455 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892- IPS0)^ 457 Renascence, 459 ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892- 469 Ars Poetica, 472 Prologue, 473 In My Thirtieth Year, 473 Memorial Rain, 473 Weather, 475 Immortal Autumn, 475 You, Andrew Marvell, 476 The End of the World, 476 The Too-Late Born, 477 Epistle to Be Left in the Earth, 477 The Pear Tree, 461 Burying Ground by the Ties, 478 God’s World, 462 Panic, 479 Wild Swans, 462 Final Chorus from “Panic,” 480 The Poet and His Book, 462 The Reconciliation, 481 ), xviii CONTENTS ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (Cont.) E. E. CUMMINGS ^Cont.') Speech to a Crowd, 481 Since Feeling Is First, 515 Land of the Free, 482 Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, The Fall of the City, 483 515 If There Are Any . Heavens, 516 The Learned Men, 502 ELIZABETH J. COATSWORTH (1893- ), 502 GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948), With Child, 517 The Old Mare, 502 The Enamel Girl, 517 Daniel Webster’s Horses, 503 Solar Myth, 518 The Circus-Postered Barn, 503 Doomsday Morning, 519 On a Night of Snow, 504 Try Tropic, 519 A Lady Comes to an Inn, 504 ), 505 MARK VAN DOREN (1894- Dilemma of the Elm, 519 Long View, 520 ROBERT HILLYER (1895- Former Barn Lot, 506 ), 520 The Pulse, 506 As One Who Bears Beneath Neighbor’s Roof, 521 The Distant Runners, 506 Pastoral, 522 The Escape, 507 Prothalamion, 522 The Whisperer, 507 Night Piece, 523 Immortal, 506 E. E. CUMMINGS (1894- ), 508 When God Lets My Body Be, 509 Sunset, 509 Variations on a Theme, 524 The Assassination, 526 A Letter to Robert Frost, ^2rj - Impression—IV, 509 La Guerre, LOUISE BOGAN (1897- ), 532 Medusa, 532 the bigness, of cannon, 510 Women, 533 O sweet spontaneous, 510 Decoration, 533 Chanson Innocent, 511 Statue and Birds, 534 Always Before Your Voice, 511 The Alchemist, 534 Song, 512 Simple Autumnal, 534 Portrait VIII, 512 Cassandra, 535 Sonnet, 512 Come, Break with Time, 535 This Is the Garden, 513 The Dream, 535 Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal, 513 Item, 514 516 DAVID MCCORD (1897- The Crows, 536 ), 536 His CONTENTS xix STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898- 1943), 538 HART CRANE (Coni.) Royal Palm, 577 Rain After a Vaudeville Show, 540 The Air Plant, 577 Winged Man, 540 The Hurricane, 578 The Ballad of William Sycamore, 541 ALLEN TATE (1899- From “John Brown’s Body” ), 578 Love Came By From the River smoke, 542 Ode to the Confederate Dead, 579 Song of the Riders, 543 Death of Little Boys, 582 1935, 544 Nightmare Number Three, 544 ), 546 HORACE GREGORY (1898- They Found Him Sitting in a Chair, Mr. Pope, 581 Mother and Son, 582 The Cross, 583 The Mediterranean, 584 LÉONIE ADAMS (1899- 547 Poems for My Daughter, 548 April Mortality, 585 Valediction to My Contemporaries, Thought’s End, 586 549 Ask No Return, 551 Death and the Lady, 587 Home-Coming, 586 Twilit Revelation, 588 For You, My Son, 551 The Postman’s Bell Everywhere, 555 ), 584 . Ghostly Tree, 588 Is Answered This Is the Place to Wait, 556 Homage to Circe, 558 HART CRANE (1899-1932), 558 The Horn, 589 The River in the Meadows, 589 Country Summer, 589 The Mount, 590 This Measure, 590 Bell Tower, 590 Repose of Rivers, 562 To Brooklyn Bridge (Prelude to “The Bridge”), 562 Voyages: II, 563 Kingdom of Heaven, 591 Sundown, 591 Night-Piece, 592 Lullaby, 592 Voyages: VI, 564 Praise for an Urn, 565 From “The Bridge” Van Winkle, 565 LANGSTON HUGHES (1902- ), 592 Homesick Blues, 593 Brass Spittoons, 593 The River, 566 Saturday Night, 594 The Dance, 570 Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret, 594 Power: Cape Flatteras, 572 Drum, 594 The Tunnel, 573 Florida Road Workers, 594 XX CONTENTS KENNETH FEARING (1902- ), 595 MERRILL MOORE {Cont.~) The People vs. the People, 596 It Is Winter, I Know, 615 Portrait, 597 Shot Who? Jim Lane!, 615 American Rhapsody (4), 597 Warning to One, 616 Readings, Forecasts, Personal Guid ance, 598 How She Resolved to Act, 616 MARYA ZATURENSKA (1902- ), Pandora and the Moon, 617 Village Noon: Mid-Day Bells, 617 Unknown Man in the Morgue, 617 599 The Book of How, 618 The Daisy, 600 And to the Young Men, 618 The Lovers, 600 The White Dress, 601 ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905- Woman at the Piano, 603 Pondy Woods, 619 The Tempest, 603 Pro Sua Vita, 621 OGDEN NASH (1902- ), 618 Head of Medusa, 602 ), 604 Letter of a Mother, 621 History Among the Rocks, 622 The Rhinoceros, 605 Letter from a Coward to a Hero, 623 Adventures of Isabel, 605 Golly, How Truth Will Out!, 606 Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children, 606 The Owl, 625 Letter to a Friend, 625 Aubade for Hope, 626 Bearded Oaks, 626 The Evening Out, 608 The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore, 609 The Ballad of Billie Potts, 627 JAMES AGEE (1909- The Purist, 610 ), 637 Lyrics, 638 COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946), 6ll Sonnets Simon the Cyrenian Speaks, 611 So it begins. Adam is in his earth, Three Epitaphs 639 Our doom is in our being. We began, 639 For My Grandmother, 612 For a Virgin Lady, 612 Those former loves wherein our lives have run, 640 A Lady I Know, 612 Heritage, 612 MERRILL MOORE (1903- ), 613 Old Men and Old Women Going Home on the Street Car, 615 Now stands our love on that still verge of day, 640 Permit Me Voyage, 640 Song with Words, 641 CONTENTS JAMES AGEE xxi {ContT) MURIEL RUKEYSER {ContT) Two Songs on the Economy of Abun dance, 641 The Meeting, 662 In Heavy Mind, 641 Madboy’s Song, 662 Rapid Transit, 641 Holy Family, 663 ), 642 KENNETH PATCHEN (19II- In Memory of Kathleen, 642 Street Corner College, 644 ), 667 The Leg, 668 The Puritan, 669 Travelogue for Exiles, 670 The Twins, 670 Like a Mourningless Child, 644 The Dome of Sunday, 671 We Go Out Together, 645 October 1, 671 From My High Love, 645 (1911- Ajanta, 664 KARL SHAPIRO (1913- Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?, 643 The Deer and the Snake, 643 ELIZABETH BISHOP A Leg in a Plaster Cast, 661 Poet, 672 ), 645 The Fish, 646 JOHN BERRYMAN (1914- ), 674 Winter Landscape, 674 The Imaginary Iceberg, 647 Parting as Descent, 675 The Man-Moth, 648 The Ball Poem, 675 Little Exercise, 649 Canto Amor, 676 DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913- ), RANDALL JARRELL (1914- 649 ), 677 For Rhoda, 651 A Camp in the Prussian Forest, 678 Tired and Unhappy, You Think of Houses, 651 Pilots, Man Your Planes, 679 For the One Who Would Take Man’s Life in His Hands, 652 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, 681 Burning the Letters, 681 In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave, 653 Jews at Haifa, 683 Let Us Consider Where the Great Men Are, 653 A Country Life, 683 MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913- ), 654 Ceiling Unlimited, 656 Hope, 685 The Refugees, 685 PETER VIERECK (1916- ), 686 Effort at Speech Between Two People, 657 Kilroy, 687 The Soul and Body of John Brown, 658 Love Song to Eohippus, 689 Vale from Carthage, 688 xxii PETER VIERECK CONTENTS (Cont.') ROBERT LOWELL (Cont.) Blindman’s Buff, 689 Colloquy in Black Rock, 694 Poet, 690 As a Plane Tree by the Water, 695 Some Lines in Three Parts, 691 The Death of the Sheriff, 695 ROBERT LOWELL (1917- The Holy Innocents, 693 ), 692 Where the. Rainbow Ends, 696 INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES, 699 Contents THOMAS HARDY ÇCont.) FOREWORD, VÜ PREFACE, The Tree and the Lady, 33 Snow in the Suburbs, 34 The Self-Unseeing, 34 A Placid Man’s Epitaph, 34 Waiting Both, 35 Hap, 35 The Convergence of the Twain, 35 3 THOMAS HARDY (184O-I928), 23 In Time of “The Breaking of Na tions,” 25 The Darkling Thrush, 25 The Man He Killed, 26 In the Servants’ Quarters, 26 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Neutral Tones, 27 New Year’s Eve, 27 The Night of Trafalgar, 28 (1844- 1889), 37 The Roman Road, 32 My Spirit Will Not I launt the Mound, 32 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse, 32 Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, 39 Pied Beauty, 39 The Habit of Perfection, 40 The Leaden Echo, 40 The Golden Echo, 41 God’s Grandeur, 42 The Starlight Night, 42 Spring, 42 Hurrahing in Harvest, 43 The Caged Skylark, 43 Moonrise, 43 Felix Randal, 44 To His Watch, 44 The Cuckoo, 44 Heaven-Haven, 44 The Windhover, 45 Inversnaid, 45 The Dark-Eyed Gentleman, 32 The Subalterns, 33 The Oxen, 33 What I Do Is Me, 45 No Worst, There Is None, 46 My Own Heart, 46 Weathers, 28 “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”, 28 Five “Satires of Circumstance” In Church, 29 By Her Aunt’s Grave, 29 At the Altar-Rail, 30 In the Restaurant, 30 At the Draper’s, 30 Afterwards, 31 Birds at Winter Nightfall, 31 Winter in Durnover Field, 31 ix CONTENTS X ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-1930), 47 ALICE MEYNELL {Cont.} A Passer-By, 48 The Shepherdess, 61 Awake, My Heart, to Be Loved, 48 The Wind Is Blind, 61 O Weary Pilgrims, 49 November Blue, 62 Thou Didst Delight My Eyes, 49 Chimes, 62 Winter Nightfall, 50 London Snow, 50 A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age, 63 Nightingales, 51 The October Redbreast, 64 I Have Loved Flowers, 51 A Thrush Before Dawn, 64 Nirnium Fortunatus, 51 Renouncement, 65 Christ in the Universe, 65 WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849- 1903), 52 OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900), 66 Invictus, 53 Requiescat, 67 The Blackbird, 53 Impression du Matin, 67 A Bowl of Roses, 54 Hélas, 67 Before, 54 Magdalen Walks, 67 Ballade, 54 E Tenebris, 68 We’ll Go No More A-Roving, 54 Symphony in Yellow, 69 Madam Life, 55 The Harlot’s House, 69 Out of Tune, 55 From “The Sphinx,” 69 Falmouth, 55 From “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” 70 England, My England, 56 O Gather Me the Rose, 56 To Robert Louis Stevenson, 56 Margaritae Sorori, 57 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (18501894), 57 Summer Sun, 58 JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909), 71 A Ballad of Heil, 72 Imagination, 73 The Unknown, 73 A Ballad of a Nun, 74 FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907), 76 Winter Time, 58 The Celestial Surgeon, 58 Romance, 59 Requiem, 59 Go, Little Book, 59 Daisy, 77 To a Snowflake, 78 An Arab Love-Song, 78 All’s Vast, 79 Epilogue, 79 ALICE MEYNELL (1850-1923), 59 To a Daisy, 61 The Poppy, 80 The Sun, 82 xi CONTENTS FRANCIS THOMPSON ÇCont.} A. E. HOUSMAN {Cont.) A Fallen Yew, 83 The Carpenter’s Son, 101 A Counsel of Moderation, 85 Be Still, My Soul, Be Still, 101 Any Saint, 85 From Far, From Eve, 102 The Hound of Heaven, 86 I Hoed and Trenched, 102 From “Grace of the Way,” 90 The Isle of Portland, 102 To Olivia, 90 “In No Strange Land,” 90 The Laws of God, the Laws of Man, 102 Envoy, 91 The New Mistress, 103 Farewell, 103 A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936), 91 Reveille, 93 With Rue My Heart Is Laden, 94 Into My Heart, 94 ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-1945), 104 In the Wood of Finvara, 104 Modern Beauty, 105 When I Was One-and-Twenty, 94 The Crying of Water, 105 To an Athlete Dying Young, 94 The Turning Dervish, 105 Loveliest of Trees, 95 Night, 106 Is My Team Ploughing, 95 Wanderer’s Song, 106 When Smoke Stood Up from Lud low, 95 During Music, 106 When I Watch the Living Meet, 96 Oh, See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers, 96 The Lads in Their Hundreds, 96 When the Lad for Longing Sighs, 97 The Immortal Part, 97 On Wenlock Edge, 97 Oh, When I Was in Love with You, 98 Along the Field As We Came By, 98 On the Idle Hill of Summer, 98 Bredon Hill, 98 Lancer, 99 The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux, Nerves, 106 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939), 107 The Lake Isle of Innisfree, III Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, III The Song of Wandering Aengus, III Aedh Tells of the Rose in His Heart, 112 Fairy Song, ,112 When You Are Old, 112 The Cap and Bells, 113 The Indian upon God, 113 An Old Song Resung, 114 The Rose of the World, 114 99 Eight O’clock, too The Sorrow of Love, 114 Epilogue, too The Song of the Old Mother, 115 Others, I Am Not the First, 101 The Ballad of Father Gilligan, 115 CONTENTS xii WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (Cont.) "Æ" (Coni.) The Wild Swans at Coole, 115 The Great Breath, 143 Leda and the Swan, 116 Frolic, 144 Sailing to Byzantium, 117 The Secret, 144 Among School Children, 117 The Unknown God, 144 The Leaders of the Crowd, 119 Continuity, 144 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Epilogue, 145 119 To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing, 119 Germinal, 146 Exiles, 145 ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900), 147 RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936), 120 Gunga Din, 122 A Last Word, 147 Danny Deever, 124 Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, 148 Mandalay, 125 Spleen, 148 “Fuzzy-Wuzzy,” 126 To One in Bedlam, 149 Tommy, 127 Extreme Unction, 149 The Ladies, 128 Boots, 129 You Would Have Understood Me, 149 The Return, 130 Villanelle of Marguerites, 150 The Conundrum of the Workshops, Envoy, 151 131 Evarra and His Gods, 132 LIONEL JOHNSON (1867-1902), 151 La Nuit Blanche, 134 Mystic and Cavalier, 152 An Astrologer’s Song, 135 To Morfydd, 153 Recessional, 135 By the Statue of King Charles, 153 The Last Chantey, 136 To a Traveler, 154 Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, 137 The Dark Angel, 154 The Land, 138 The Precept of Silence, 155 For to Admire, 140 L’Envoi, 141 LAURENCE BINYON (1869-1943), 155 The Little Dancers, 156 "A" (1867-1935), 141 O World, Be Nobler, 156 Self-Discipline, 142 Nothing Is Enough, 156 Pain, 142 Beauty, 157 Truth, 142 A Song, 157 Tragedy, 143 The House That Was, 157 xiii CONTENTS CHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928), 158 W. H. DAVIES (1870-1940), 173 In the Fields, 159 The Hour of Magic, 175 Sea Love, 159 A Greeting, 175 I Have Been Through the Gates, 159 Days Too Short, 175 To a Child in Death, 160 The Moon, 175 Song, 160 The Villain, 175 The Farmer’s Bride, 161 The Example, 176 Beside the Bed, 162 The Two Stars, 176 From “Madeleine in Church,” 162 The Dog, 176 Again, 163 Jenny Wren, 176 Old Shepherd’s Prayer, 163 Ambition, 176 The Trees Are Down, 164 The Hermit, 176 Here Lies a Prisoner, 165 When Yon Full Moon, 177 Not for That City, 165 Sheep, 177 Absence, 165 The Mind’s Liberty, 178 On the Asylum Road, 166 A Great Time, 178 The Elements, 178 HILAIRE BELLOC (1870- ), 166 West Sussex Drinking Song, 167 Leaves, 178 Songs of Joy, 178 Tarantella, 167 To a Lady Friend, 179 The South Country, 168 Leisure, 179 Ha’nacker Mill, 170 Four Beasts The Big Baboon, 170 J. M. SYNGE (1871-1909), 179 Prelude, 180 The Yak, 170 Beg-Innish, 180 The Lion, 171 In Kerry, 181 The Tiger, 171 A Question, 181 Lines to a Don, 171 On an Island, 181 Sonnet, 172 Dread, 182 Six Epigrams In May, 182 On Lady Poltagrue, 172 A Translation from Petrarch, 182 On a Dead Hostess, 172 On Hygiene, 172 A Translation from Walter von der Vogelweide, 183 On His Books, 172 Two Translations from Villon, 183 On the Politician, 172 Queens, 184 For False Heart, 172 To the Oaks of Glencree, 184 xïv CONTENTS (1872- RALPH HODGSON ), 185 WALTER DE LA MARE (Cont.) Reason, 186 Silver, 202 Eve, 186 The Song of Shadows, 202 Time, You Old Gypsy Man, 186 Nod, 203 The Birdcatcher, 187 The Last Chapter, 203 The Moor, 187 Peace, 203 After, 187 G. K. CHESTERTON The Song of Honor, 188 The Late, Last Rook, 190 Ecclesiastes, 205 The Bull, 190 Lepanto, 205 (1874-1936), 204 The Bells of Heaven, 192 A Prayer in Darkness, 208 The Hammers, 192 Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 209 Stupidity Street, 192 The Donkey, 209 The Mystery, 192 The Praise of Dust, 209 The Gipsy Girl, 193 Wine and Water, 209 Ghoul Care, 193 The Sword of Surprise, 210 WALTER DE LA MARE (1873- 194 The Song of Finis, 196 The Listeners, 196 An Epitaph, 197 The Truants, 197 ), The House of Christmas, 210 GORDON BOTTOMLEY (1874-1948), 211 The End of the World, 212 Dawn, 213 Eager Spring, 213 Eagle Song, 213 Old Susan, 198 Martha, 198 EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917), 214 Someone, 198 The New House, 215 The Sleeper, 198 Tall Nettles, 215 The Old Men, 199 If I Should Ever by Chance, 215 At the Keyhole, 199 Cock-Crow, 215 The Mocking Fairy, 199 The Penny Whistle, 216 Sam, 200 The Trumpet, 216 Berries, 200 All But Blind, 201 Digging, 216 Thaw, 217 Summer Evening, 201 Gallows, 217 There Blooms No Bud in May, 201 Fifty Faggots, 217 The Scarecrow, 202 Haymaking, 218 The Ghost, 202 Out in the Dark, 218 xv CONTENTS JOHN MASEFIELD (1878- ), 219 W. W. GIBSON (1880- A Consecration, 221 Prelude, 241 Sea-Fever, 221 The Stone, 241 A Wanderer’s Song, 222 Sight, 242 Sorrow of Mydath, 222 The White Dust, 242 Tomorrow, 222 ), 240 ALFRED NOYES (1880- ), 243 The West Wind, 223 Sherwood, 244 Rounding the Horn (from “Dauber”), 223 The Barrel-Organ, 245 C. L. M., 225 Epilogue, 248 , Cargoes, 225 PADRAIC COLUM Captain Stratton’s Fancy, 226 ), 249 The Plower, 249 Night on the Downland, 226 An Old Woman of the Roads, 250 On Growing Old, 227 Interior, 250 Sonnets “Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door,” 228 “Is there a great green common wealth of Thought,” 228 Laugh and Be Merry, 228 A Drover, 250 Wild Ass, 251 JOSEPH CAMPBELL (1881- ), 251 I Am the Mountainy Singer, 251 The Old Woman, 252 The Choice, 229 The Passing Strange, 229 HAROLD MONRO (1879-1932), (1881- LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE (1881-1938), 231 Every Thing, 231 From “Week-End,” 233 The Bird at Dawn, 234 Children of Love, 235 252 Song from “Judith,” 253 Epilogue, 254 Woman’s Beauty, 255 Witchcraft: New Style, 256 Epitaph, 259 Strange Meetings If Suddenly a Clod of Earth, 235 A Flower Is Looking, 236 JAMES STEPHENS (1882-1950), 259 Evening, 260 Solitude, 236 The Lake, 261 Milk for the Cat, 236 The Shell, 262 Dog, 237 What Thomas an Buile Said in a Pub, 262 Man Carrying Bale, 238 The Nightingale Near the House, 239 To the Four Courts, Please, 263 City-Storm, 239 Little Things, 263 The Hurrier, 240 The Red-Haired Man’s Wife, 264 xvi CONTENTS JAMES STEPHENS (Cont.) ÇConl.') ANNA WICKHAM Hate, 265 Weapons, 278 The Watcher, 265 The Last Round, 278 Righteous Anger, 265 To a Crucifix, 279 Odell, 265 Friend Cato, 279 Blue Blood, 266 The Song-Maker, 279 The Main-Deep, 266 Dedication of the Cook, 279 In Waste Places, 266 Meditation at Kew, 280 Good and Bad, 267 The Affinity, 280 The Outcast, 267 The Tired Woman, 281 The Crest Jewel, 267 Divorce, 282 JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941), 2 6 8 After Annunciation, 282 The Cherry-Blossom Wand, 282 Strings in the Earth, 269 Soul’s Liberty, 283 I Hear an Army, 269 O Sweetheart, Hear You, 270 All Day I Hear, 270 The Singer, 284 Envoi, 284 Song, 270 On the Beach at Fontana, 270 Flood, 271 JAMES ELROY FLECKER To Men, 283 D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), 284 A Youth Mowing, 286 (1884-1915), Lightning, 287 Suspense, 288 271 A Young Wife, 288 The Old Ships, 272 Cherry Robbers, 288 Stillness, 272 The War Song of the Saracens, 273 A Winter’s Tale, 288 Love on the Farm, 289 Tenebris Interlucentem, 273 To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence, 274 Piano, 290 Green, 291 The Town Without a Market, 274 A White Blossom, 291 The Ballad of Hampstead Heath, 275 Wedding Morn, 291 Whether or Not, 292 ANNA WICKHAM (1884- ), 276 Aware, 298 Creatrix, 277 Kisses in the Train, 298 Song, 277 Spring Morning, 298 Self-Analysis, 277 Trees in the Garden, 299 Sehnsucht, 278 Morning Work, 299 • xvii CONTENTS HUMBERT WOLFE (1885-1940), 300 SIEGFRIED SASSOON (Cont.) Thrushes, 301 Everyone Sang, 314 Tulip, 301 Falling Asleep, 315 The Gray Squirrel, 302 The Wisdom of the World, 315 Lamb, 302 Everyman, 315 The Lilac, 302 Conclusion, 316 The Rose, 302 Prehistoric Burials, 316 Laburnum, 302 Limitations, 316 Things Lovelier, 303 Grandeur of Ghosts, 317 Green Candles, 303 Alone, 318 Queen Victoria, 303 Presences Perfected, 318 Love Is a Keeper of Swans, 303 Elected Silence, 318 Man, 303 RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915), 319 The Waters of Life, 304 This Is Not Death, 304 The Great Lover, 320 Iliad, 305 The Chilterns, 322 The Hill, 322 FRANCES CORNFORD (1886- ), 305 Dust, 323 The Country Bedroom, 306 Sonnet (“Oh! Death will find me”), To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train, 306 The Soldier, 324 The Watch, 306 Heaven, 324 323 A Wasted Day, 306 Second Best, 324 At Night, 307 The Busy Heart, 325 The Unbeseechable, 307 Dining-Room Tea, 326 The Hills, 308 The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, 326 SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886- ), 309 EDITH SITWELL (1887- Dreamers, 310 Interlude, 330 The Rear-Guard, 311 Aubade, 330 Base Details, 311 Sir Beelzebub, 331 ), 328 Attack, 311 The King'of China’s Daughter, 331 Counter-Attack, 312 Solo for Ear-Trumpet, 332 Does It Matter?, 313 Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad, 332 The Dug-Out, 313 Spinning Song, 332 Invocation, 313 Panope, 333 Aftermath, 314 Colonel Fantock, 334 CONTENTS xviii EDITH SITWELL RICHARD ALDINGTON {Cont^) (Cont.) Still Falls the Rain, 336 Possession, 350 Song (“Now that Fate is dead and gone”), 337 After Two Years, 350 OSBERT SITWELL Dirge for the New Sunrise, 338 (1892- ), 351 Fountains, 351 W. J. TURNER (1889-1946), 3 3 9 Elegy for Mr. Goodbeare, 352 Romance, 340 On the Coast of Coromandel, 353 Song (“Lovely hill-torrents are”), 340 HUGH MACDIARMID (1892- The Robber, 340 ), 354 Talking with Soldiers, 340 With a Lifting of the Head, 354 The Lion, 341 Parley of Beasts, 354 The Music of a Tree, 342 Cattle Show, 355 In Time Like Glass, 342 To a Sea Eagle, 355 India, 343 Silence, 343 On the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, 356 The Sun, 344 The Skeleton of the Future, 356 ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918), 344 WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918), 356 Midsummer Frost, 345 Futility, 357 Expression, 345 Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, 358 Chagrin, 346 Anthem for Doomed Youth, 359 Break of Day in the Trenches, 346 Dulce et Decorum Est, 359 On Receiving News of the War, From My Diary, 360 347 I Am the Blood, 347 The Unreturning, 360 The One Lost, 347 Miners, 361 The Jew, 347 Arms and the Boy, 362 The Dead Heroes, 347 Strange Meeting, 362 Greater Love, 361 The Send-Off, 363 RICHARD ALDINGTON (1892- ), 348 The Show, 364 Images, 349 The Faun Sees Snow for the First Time, 349 SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ), 365 At the British Museum, 349 Four Epitaphs, 366 Evening, 349 Country Thought, 366 Vicarious Atonement, 350 Nelly Trim, 367 (1893- CONTENTS xix SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (Cotti.) ÇCont.') ROBERT GRAVES The Alarum, 368 Song: One Hard Look, 383 After He Had Gone, 368 A Frosty Night, 383 Elizabeth, 369 In the Wilderness, 384 Triumph of Sensibility, 369 A Forced Music, 384 Sad Green, 369 Lost Love, 385 Song (“She has left me, my pretty”), 369 Song from the Bride of Smithfield, 369 The Rival, 370 Killing No Murder, 370 Modo and Alciphron, 370 L. A. G. STRONG ), 385 (1896- Old Dan’l, 386 Zeke, 386 An Old Woman, Outside the Abbey Theater, 386 Rufus Prays, 386 The Absence, 372 The Mad Woman of Punnet’s Town, 387 Lowery Cot, 387 Building in Stone, 372 The Green Valley, 373 CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY (1895- 1915), 373 The Door, 387 March Evening, 387 Two Sonnets “Saints have adored the lofty soul of you,” 374 “Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat,” 374 EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896- ), 388 The Poor Man’s Pig, 389 A Country God, 389 The Barn, 390 The Song of the Ungirt Runners, 375 Eastern Tempest, 390 To Germany, 375 The Midnight Skaters, 391 Rooks, 376 The Recovery, 391 All the Hills and Vales, 376 ROBERT GRAVES (1895- ), 377 Neglectful Edward, 379 It’s a Queer Time, 379 A Pinch of Salt, 380 Star-Talk, 381 I Wonder What It Feels Like to Be Drowned?, 382 SACHEVERELL SITWELL (1897- )j 392 Fountains, 392 The Red-Gold Rain, 393 “Psittachus Eois Imitatrix Ales ab Indis,” 393 Tulip Tree, 394 Escape, 382 Kingcups, 394 The Traveler’s Curse After Misdirec tion, 383 The River God, 394 From “Agamemnon’s Tomb,” 395 CONTENTS XX KUTH PITTER (1897- ), 395 C. DAY LEWIS (Coni.) The Task, 396 When They Have Lost, 418 The Coffin-Worm, 396 Newsreel, 418 The Unicorn, 397 Procne, 419 Time’s Fool, 398 The Divers, 420 The Swan Bathing, 398 RICHARD HUGHES ), 419 PETER QUENNELL (1905- The Eternal Image, 397 Leviathan, 421 ), 399 (1900- LOUIS MAC NEICE ( 1907- ), 422 Invocation to the Muse, 400 The British Museum Reading Room, Tramp, 400 Lover’s Reply to Good Advice, 401 423 And Love Hung Still, 424 On Time, 402 Cradle Song, 424 Burial of the Spirit, 402 Sunday Morning, 425 Museums, 426 ROY CAMPBELL ), 403 (1902- Morning Sun, 426 The Zebras, 403 Birmingham, 426 Tristan da Cunha, 404 Nuts in May, 427 From “The Flaming Terrapin,” 406 The Palm, 410 ), 428 Who’s Who, 431 On Some South African Novelists, 412 Toledo: July, 1936, 412 The Serf, 412 (1904- Ode; To My Pupils, 432 The Strings’ Excitement, 434 From “The Georgiad,” 412 lewis (1907- Chorus from a Play, 431 Autumn, 411 C. day W. H. AUDEN This Lunar Beauty, 435 Always the Following Wind, 435 ), 413 Nearing Again the Legendary Isle, 414 Rest from Loving and Be Living, 415 Chorus from “Paid on Both Sides,” 436 Ballad, 436 Villanelle, 437 “Look, Stranger,” 438 Now She Is Like the White TreeRose, 415 Hearing of Harvests Rotting in the Valleys, 438 Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour, 416 Law, Say the Gardeners, Is the Sun, Tempt Me No More, 416 439 Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love, 440 The Conflict, 417 In Memory of W. B. Yeats, 440 Chiefly to Mind Appears, 416 xxi CONTENTS W. H. AUDEN (Coni.) W. R. RODGERS (Cont.) September I, 1939, 442 White Christmas, 463 Mundus et Infans, 443 Neither Here Nor There, 464 Song: As I Walked Out One Evening, 445 Song: Fish in the Unruffled Lakes, 445 GEORGE BARKER (1913- ), 465 “My Joy, My Jockey, My Gabriel,” 466 Under Which Lyre, 446 “O Tender Under Her Right Breast,” 466 After Christmas (from “For the Time Being”), 448 “Shut the Seven Seas Against Us,” 466 Song: Stop All the Clocks, 446 “Satan Is on Your Tongue,” 467 STEPHEN SPENDER (1909- ), 449 Farewell in a Dream, 451 “O Golden Fleece,” 468 Verses for a First Birthday, 468 Statistics, 452 DYLAN THOMAS A Whim of Time, 452 (19I4- ), 469 Two Sonnets Epilogue, 453 What I Expected, 453 “Altarwise by owl-light in the half way-house,” 470 The Prisoners, 454 “Death is all metaphors,” 470 Discovered in Mid-Ocean, 453 When All My Five and Country Senses See, 471 Winter Landscape, 454 The Funeral, 455 Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, The Express, 455 The Landscape Near an Aerodrome, 456 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, 457 Mask, 457 471 The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City, 471 The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives, 472 The Hunchback in the Park, 473 Not Palaces, 458 And Death Shall Have No Dominion, I Think Continually of Those, 458 Sonnet: “You Were Born; Must Die,” 473 Especially When the October Wind, 459 Judas Iscariot, 459 473 In Memory of Ann Jones, 474 Thoughts During an Air Raid, 460 Fern Hill, 475 Winter and Summer, 461 W. R. RODGERS (1909- NORMAN NICHOLSON (1914- ), 461 476 The Raider, 462 Rockferns, 477 Sing, Brothers, Sing!, 463 The Blackberry, 477 ), CONTENTS xxii NORMAN NICHOLSON (Cont^) Michaelmas, 478 JOHN MANIFOLD ALEX COMFORT (192O- ), 481 Fear of the Earth, 481 (1915- The Griesly Wife, 479 ), 478 Epitaph, 482 Notes for My Son, 482 Song for the Heroes, 483 Night Piece, 480 Defensive Position, 480 INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES, 485
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