American Poetry 1922
AMERICAN POETRY
1922
A MISCELLANY
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.
CONTENTS
A Foreword III
- Lilacs3
- Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme8
- The Swans13
- Prime16
- Vespers17
- In Excelsis18
- La Ronde du Diable20
- Hebrews75 ALFRED KREYMBORG
- Adagio: A Duet79
- Die Küche80
- Rain81
- Peasant83
- Bubbles85
- Dirge87
- Colophon88
- Wisdom91
- Places92
- Twilight (Tucson)
- Full Moon (Santa Barbara)
- Winter Sun (Lenox)
- Evening (Nahant)
- Words for an Old Air97
- Those Who Love98
- Two Songs for Solitude99
- The Crystal Gazer
- The Solitary
- Monolog from a Mattress103
- Waters of Babylon110
- The Flaming Circle112
- Portrait of a Machine114
- Roast Leviathan115
- A Rebel127
- The Rock128
- Blue Water129
- Prayers for Wind130
- Impromptu131
- Chinese Poet Among Barbarians132
- Snowy Mountains133
- The Future134
- Upon the Hill136
- The Enduring137
- Old Man141
- Tone Picture142
- They Say—143
- Rescue144
- Mater in Extremis146
- Self-Rejected147
- Holy Satyr151
- Lais153
- Heliodora156
- Toward the Piræus161
- 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
- Seven Twilights171
- 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
- "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
- Tetélestai184
- Eight Sonnets193
- 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY201
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