The Second Book of Modern Verse
A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets
Selections made in 1919.
Contents
- Foreword
- The Road not taken ()
- Symbol ()
- Spring ()
- "There will come Soft Rain" ()
- Spring Song ()
- The Day before April ()
- Berkshires in April ()
- In Excelsis ()
- Blue Squills ()
- Earth ()
- Trees ()
- Idealists ()
- Blind ()
- Yellow Warblers ()
- April — North Carolina ()
- Path Flower ()
- Little Things ()
- New Dreams for Old ()
- Invocation ()
- Dream ()
- Four Sonnets ()
- Chanson of the Bells of Oseney ()
- Poets ()
- Acceptance ()
- In the Hospital ()
- Overnight, a Rose ()
- The Idol-Maker prays ()
- Reveille ()
- The Breaking ()
- The Falconer of God ()
- Dilemma ()
- To a Portrait of Whistler in the Brooklyn Art Museum ()
- Flammonde ()
- The Chinese Nightingale ()
- Love Songs ()
- Love is a Terrible Thing ()
- Valley Song ()
- Spring in Carmel ()
- Music I heard ()
- Dusk at Sea ()
- Old Ships ()
- The Wanderer ()
- Harbury ()
- A Lynmouth Widow ()
- City Roofs ()
- Eye-Witness ()
- God's Acre ()
- General William Booth Enters into Heaven ()
- Compensation ()
- A Girl's Songs ()
- The Enchanted Sheepfold ()
- Where Love is ()
- Interlude ()
- The Lover envies an Old Man ()
- "If you should tire of loving me" ()
- The Flower of Mending ()
- Venus Transiens ()
- The Dream of Aengus Og ()
- "I am in Love with High Far-Seeing Places" ()
- You ()
- Choice ()
- Song ()
- Romance ()
- Good-Bye ()
- Beyond Rathkelly ()
- A Song of Two Wanderers ()
- In the Mushroom Meadows ()
- The Path that leads to Nowhere ()
- Days ()
- Ellis Park ()
- A Note from the Pipes ()
- Afternoon on a Hill ()
- Open Windows ()
- Old Amaze ()
- Voyage a l'Infini ()
- After Sunset ()
- Morning Song of Senlin ()
- Good Company ()
- "Feuerzauber" ()
- Birches ()
- Fifty Years Spent ()
- The City ()
- The Most-Sacred Mountain ()
- The Chant of the Colorado ()
- The Water Ouzel ()
- Old Manuscript ()
- The Runner in the Skies ()
- Evening Song of Senlin ()
- A Thrush in the Moonlight ()
- Orchard
- Heat
- Madonna of the Evening Flowers ()
- The New God ()
- Patterns ()
- Richard Cory ()
- Of One Self-Slain ()
- The Silent Folk ()
- Convention ()
- Mad Blake ()
- The Name ()
- Songs of an Empty House ()
- The Hill Wife ()
- A Love Song ()
- Envoi ()
- Our Little House ()
- The Homeland ()
- Cradle Song ()
- Slumber Song ()
- Ballad of a Child ()
- Ambition ()
- The Gift ()
- The Ancient Beautiful Things ()
- Mater Dolorosa ()
- Prevision ()
- "A Wind Rose in the Night" ()
- How much of Godhood ()
- The First Food ()
- The Monk in the Kitchen ()
- A Saint's Hours ()
- A Lady ()
- The Child in Me ()
- The Son ()
- Muy Vieja Mexicana ()
- Hrolf's Thrall, His Song ()
- The Interpreter ()
- Old King Cole ()
- Spoon River Anthology ()
- Lincoln ()
- Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight ()
- Prayer during Battle ()
- Prayer of a Soldier in France ()
- The White Comrade ()
- Smith, of the Third Oregon, dies ()
- Song ()
- Lonely Burial ()
- I have a Rendezvous with Death ()
- Rouge Bouquet ()
- Francis Ledwidge ()
- April on the Battlefields ()
- Earth's Easter ()
- The Fields ()
- In Spite of War ()
- Wide Haven ()
- To Any one ()
- Peace ()
- The Kings are passing Deathward ()
- Jerico ()
- Students ()
- Tampico ()
- Which ()
- Apology ()
- The Great Hunt ()
- Dialogue ()
- Song ()
- The Bitter Herb ()
- Behind the House is the Millet Plot ()
- Men of Harlan ()
- Have you an Eye ()
- After Apple-Picking ()
- Autumn ()
- Autumn Movement ()
- God's World ()
- Overtones ()
- When the Year grows Old ()
- In the Monastery ()
- The Narrow Doors ()
- "I Pass a Lighted Window" ()
- Doors ()
- Where Love once was ()
- Irish Love Song ()
- Nirvana ()
- A Nun ()
- Silence ()
- The Dark Cavalier ()
- Indian Summer ()
- Death — Divination ()
- The Mould ()
- In Patris Mei Memoriam ()
- Ad Matrem Amantissimam et Carissimam Filii in Aeternum Fidelitas ()
- Afterwards ()
- Pierrette in Memory ()
- The Three Sisters ()
- Song ()
- The Unknown Beloved ()
- Cinquains ()
- The Lonely Death ()
- Exile from God ()
- Loam ()
- Hills of Home ()
- The Last Piper ()
- The Provinces ()
- Omnium Exeunt in Mysterium ()
- Moth-Terror ()
- Old Age ()
- Atropos ()
- A. Biographical Notes
- Conrad Aiken
- Zoe Akins
- Margaret Steele Anderson
- Walter Conrad Arensberg
- Karle Wilson Baker
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Stephen Vincent (Benét) Benét
- William Rose (Benét) Benét
- William Aspinwall Bradley
- Anna Hempstead Branch
- Dana Burnet
- Amelia Josephine Burr
- Maxwell Struthers Burt
- Witter Bynner
- Francis (James F. C. MacDonnell) Carlin
- Sarah N Cleghorn
- Grace Hazard Conkling
- Alice (Mrs. Wm. Penhallow Henderson) Corbin
- Eleanor Rogers Cox
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Gladys Cromwell
- Olive Tilford Dargan
- Mary Carolyn (Mrs. Leland Davis) Davies
- Fannie Stearns (Mrs. Augustus McKinstrey Gifford) Davis
- Benjamin De Casseras
- Louise Driscoll
- Arthur Davison Ficke
- Mahlon Leonard Fisher
- John Gould Fletcher
- Jeanne Robert Foster
- Robert Frost
- Theodosia (Mrs. Frederick J. Faulks) Garrison
- Caroline <Mrs. Leo P. Harlow> Giltinan
- William Griffith
- Arthur Guiterman
- Hilda Doolittle
- Hermann Hagedorn
- Ruth Guthrie <Ruth Guthrie Thomson Harding Burton> Harding
- Helen Hoyt
- Orrick Johns
- Thomas S., Jr Jones
- Harry Kemp
- Aline (Mrs. Joyce Kilmer) Kilmer
- Joyce Kilmer
- Alfred Kreymborg
- Agnes (Mrs. Otto Freer) Lee
- Muna Lee
- Louis V Ledoux
- William Ellery Leonard
- Vachel Lindsay
- Amy Lowell
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Scudder Middleton
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Harriet Monroe
- Angela Morgan
- David Morton
- John G Neihardt
- Grace Fallow Norton
- Edward Joseph O'Brien
- Norreys Jephson O'Conor
- John Myers O'Hara
- Shaemas O Sheel
- James Oppenheim
- Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel Marks) Peabody
- William Alexander Percy
- Edwin Ford Piper
- Cale Young Rice
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Carl Sandburg
- Robert Haven Schauffler
- Alan Seeger
- Clara Shanafelt
- Odell Shepard
- May Riley Smith
- Leonora Speyer
- George Sterling
- Charles Wharton Stork
- Sara Teasdale
- Eunice Tietjens
- Ridgely Torrence
- Charles Hanson Towne
- Jean Starr Untermeyer
- Louis Untermeyer
- Thomas Walsh
- Willard Wattles
- John Hall Wheelock
- Margaret Widdemer
- Florence (Mrs. Wilfrid Muir Evans) Wilkinson
- Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson
- Clement Wood
- B. Notes to the text:
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