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Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. CONTENTS AMY LOWELL Lilacs Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme The Swans Prime Vespers In Excelsis La Ronde du Diable ROBERT FROST Fire and Ice The Grindstone The Witch of Cos A Brook in the City Design CARL SANDBURG And So To-day California City Landscape Upstream Windflower Leaf VACHEL LINDSAY In Praise of Johnny Appleseed I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry JAMES OPPENHEIM Hebrews ALFRED KREYMBORG Adagio: A Duet Die Kche Rain Peasant Bubbles Dirge Colophon SARA TEASDALE Wisdom Places Twilight (Tucson) Full Moon (Santa Barbara) Winter Sun (Lenox) Evening (Nahant) Words for an Old Air Those Who Love Two Songs for Solitude The Crystal Gazer The Solitary LOUIS UNTERMEYER Monolog from a Mattress Waters of Babylon The Flaming Circle Portrait of a Machine Roast Leviathan JOHN GOULD FLETCHER A Rebel The Rock Blue Water Prayers for Wind Impromptu Chinese Poet Among Barbarians Snowy Mountains The Future Upon the Hill The Enduring JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Old Man Tone Picture They Say? Rescue Mater in Extremis Self-Rejected H. D. Holy Satyr Lais Heliodora Toward the Pirus Slay with your eyes, Greek You would have broken my wings I loved you What had you done If I had been a boy It was not chastity that made me cold CONRAD AIKEN Seven Twilights The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere Now by the wall of the ancient town When the tree bares, the music of it changes [Pg x] This is the hour, she says, of transmutation Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds Heaven, you say, will be a field in April In the long silence of the sea Tetlestai EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Eight Sonnets When you, that at this moment are to me What's this of death, from you who never will die I know I am but summer to your heart Here is a wound that never will heal, I know What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find