JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881– ) When I Am Dead 241 Cry of the People 241 Let Me Live Out My Years 242

WITTER BYNNER (1881– ) Grass-Tops 244 Voices 244 A Farmer Remembers Lincoln 245 Train-Mates 246

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JAMES OPPENHEIM (1882– ) The Runner in the Skies 250 The Slave 250 Tasting the Earth 251 The Lincoln Child 252 Night Note 257

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LOLA RIDGE Passages from “The Ghetto” 262 New Orleans 265 Wind in the Alleys 265

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WALLACE STEVENS Peter Quince at the Clavier 266

ALFRED KREYMBORG (1883– ) Old Manuscript 270 Dawns 271 Her Eyes 272 Improvisation 272

ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE (1883– ) Portrait of an Old Woman 274 The Three Sisters 275 Sonnet 275

BADGER CLARK (1883– ) The Glory Trail 276 The Coyote 279

MARGUERITE WILKINSON (1883– ) Before Dawn in the Woods 280

HARRY KEMP (1883– ) Street Lamps 282 A Phantasy of Heaven 282

MAX EASTMAN (1883– ) Coming to Port 284 Hours 285 At the Aquarium 285

ARTURO GIOVANNITTI (1884– ) From “The Walker” 287

EUNICE TIETJENS (1884– ) The Most-Sacred Mountain 290 The Drug Clerk 291

SARA TEASDALE (1884– ) Night Song at Amalfi 294 Spring Night 295 I Shall Not Care 296 The Long Hill 296 Water Lilies 297 Tired 298

GLADYS CROMWELL (1885–1919) The Crowning Gift 299 The Mould 300

EZRA POUND (1885– ) A Girl 302 A Virginal 303 Ballad for Gloom 303 Δωρια 305 In a Station of the Metro 305

LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1885– ) Summons 307 Caliban in the Coal Mines 309 Swimmers 309 Hands 312 A Side Street 312

JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER (1886– ) High Tide 315 Autumn 316 Sinfonia Domestica 317 Lake Song 318

JOHN GOULD FLETCHER (1886– ) The Swan 320 London Nightfall 321 Dawn 322 Lincoln 323 The Skaters 327

“H. D.” (1886– ) Oread 328 Pear Tree 329 Heat 329 Lethe 330

WILLIAM ROSE BENÉT (1886– ) Merchants from Cathay 331 Night 335 How to Catch Unicorns 336

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK (1886– ) Sunday Evening in the Common 338 Beauty 339 Love and Liberation 339 Nirvana 340

JOYCE KILMER (1886–1918) Trees 341 Martin 342

SHAEMAS O SHEEL (1886– ) They Went Forth to Battle, But They Always Fell 344

DAVID MORTON (1886– ) Symbols 347 Old Ships 347

ORRICK JOHNS (1887– ) The Interpreter 348 Little Things 349

MARGARET WIDDEMER Factories 350 The Two Dyings 351 The Modern Woman to Her Lover 352

ALAN SEEGER (1888–1916) “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” 353