The Book of American Poetry
Anthologies in the Bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith
Edited by: Markham, Edwin
Brace Harcourt, (1931)
Table of Contents:
Conrad Aiken
- "Chance Meetings,” pg 741
Zoë Akins
- "I Am the Wind,” pg 698
- "The Wanderer,” pg 698
Ada Alden
Mary Aldis
Anne Reeve Aldrich
- "Recollection,” pg 370
- "A Parable,” pg 370
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- "Identity,” pg 184
- "Apparitions,” pg 185
- "Memory,” pg 185
- "When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan,” pg 185
- "Fredericksburg,” pg 187
Hervey Allen
- "Gargantua,” pg 745
- "Carolina Spring Song,” pg 746
Walter Conrad Arensberg
- "The Masterpiece,” pg 831
- "Out of Doors,” pg 831
Hamilton Fish Armstrong
- "Lines for the Hour,” pg 781
Joseph Auslander
- "Pendulum,” pg 742
- "Three Things,” pg 742
- "Wings at Dawn,” pg 743
- "Spilled Flame,” pg 744
- “A Black-Bird Suddenly,” pg 744
Edwina Stanton Babcock
- "The Little Shade,” pg 640
Leonard Bacon
Karle Wilson Baker
Kendall Banning
- "Once Upon a Time,” pg 560
Elsa Barker
- From “Breshkovskaya,” pg 513
- "When I Am Dead and Sister to the Dust,” pg 514
Mavis Clare Barnet
Alice Hunt Bartlett
- "The Gift of Poets,” pg 418
- "Requiem,” pg 418
Herbert Bashford
- "Morning in Camp,” pg 411
- "By the Pacific,” pg 412
Katharine Lee Bates
- "Sarah Threeneedles,” pg 307
Morris Abel Beer
Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
William Rose Benét
- "Judgment,” pg 680
- "The Falconer of God,” pg 680
- "Mad Blake,” pg 682
Ambrose Bierce
- "Montefore,” pg 217
- "The Death of Grant,” pg 218
- "Religion,” pg 219
- "Rebuke,” pg 220
- "To a Critic of Tennyson,” pg 220
- "The Politician,” pg 220
- "Another Way,” pg 220
- "T.A.H.,” pg 221
- "An Invocation,” pg 222
Maxwell Bodenheim
- "The Old Jew,” pg 758
- "An Old Poet to His Love,” pg 759
- "Death,” pg 759
Virginia Fraser Boyle
- "Abraham Lincoln,” pg 319
William Aspenwall Bradley
- "Will Warner,” pg 533
- "Fult Faithorne,” pg 535
William Stanley Braithwaite
Anna Hempstead Branch
- "Grieve Not, Ladies,” pg 489
- "The Monk in the Kitchen,” pg 491
- From “Nimrod,” pg 495
Maria Brooks
Abbie Farwell Brown
Alice Brown
J.B. Brown
William Cullen Bryant
- "Truth, Crushed to Earth,” pg 15
- "The Evening Wind,” pg 16
- "O Fairest of the Rural Maids,” pg 17
- From “A Forest Hymn,” pg 18
- "To a Waterfowl,” pg 19
- "Thanatopsis,” pg 21
- From “The Past,” pg 23
Henry Cuyler Bunner
Dana Burnet
- "Roses in the Subway,” pg 705
Amelia Josephine Burr
- "A Lynmouth Widow,” pg 652
- "Gorgio Lad,” pg 653
John Burroughs
Struthers Burt
Richard Burton
- "In the Place de la Bastille,” pg 332
- "Mortis Dignitas,” pg 332
Witter Bynner
- "To a Phoebe-Bird,” pg 587
- "Hills of Home,” pg 588
- "A Farmer Remembers Lincoln,” pg 588
Bliss Carman
- "Daisies,” pg 334
- "Song,” pg 335
- From “The Juggler,” pg 335
- From “Spring Song,” pg 337
- From “Behind the Arras,” pg 338
- "The Eavesdropper,” pg 341
William Herbert Carruth
- "Each in His Own Tongue,” pg 310
Willa (Sibert) Cather
- "The Palatine,” pg 515
- "Spanish Johnny,” pg 516
Madison Cawein
- "A Fragment,” pg 360
- "The Rain–Crow,” pg 360
Ralph Chaplin
- "Mourn Not the Dead,” pg 739
Arthur Chapman
- "Out Where the West Begins,” pg 441
John Jay Chapman
John Vance Cheney
- "The Happiest Heart,” pg 242
- "The Man with a Hoe,” pg 243
Thomas Curtis Clark
Joseph I. C. Clarke
- "The Fighting Race,” pg 238
Sarah N. Cleghorn
- "Comrade Jesus,” pg 521
- "Survival of the Fittest,” pg 522
- "The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill,” pg 523
Florence Earle Coates
- "Song of Life,” pg 250
- "The Poetry of Earth,” pg 251
- "The Morning-Glory,” pg 251
Stanton A. Coblentz
- "The Wolf, the Hornet, and the Nightingale,” pg 769
Arthur Colton
- "Harps Hung Up in Babylon,” pg 374
Isabel Fisk Conant
- "Casements,” pg 467
- "Border,” pg 467
Helen Gray Cone
- "Heartbreak Road,” pg 309
- "The Common Street,” pg 309
Grace Hazard Conkling
- "Modern Sonnet,” pg 547
- "After Sunset,” pg 548
Edmund Vance Cooke
Ina Coolbrith
- "A Memory,” pg 343
- "With the Caravan,” pg 344
Alice Corbin
- "Love Me at Last,” pg 552
- "Juan Quintana,” pg 552
- "The Green Corn Dance,” pg 553
Eleanor Rogers Cox
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Stephen Crane
- "Hymn,” pg 403
- "If War Be Kind,” pg 404
- "I Saw a Man,” pg 404
- "The Wayfarer,” pg 405
- "Eating,” pg 405
- "The Blades of Grass,” pg 406
Adelaide Crapsey
- "Triad,” pg 556
- "November Night,” pg 556
- "The Warning,” pg 557
- "Dirge,” pg 557
- "The Lonely Death,” pg 557
Gladys Cromwell
- "The Crowning Gift,” pg 667
- "The Mould,” pg 668
George Cronyn
Ernest Crosby
Countee Cullen
- "Atlantic City Waiter,” pg 801
- "Black Magdalens,” pg 801
- "To an Unknown Poet,” pg 802
Edwin Curran
- "The Painted Hills of Arizona,” pg 770
- "The Clod,” pg 770
Edith Daley
- "Miracle,” pg 805
- "The Little Words,” pg 805
Gerda Dalliba
John Daly
- "A Toast to the Flag,” pg 520
Thomas Augustine Daly
- "Mia Carlotta,” pg 409
- "The Song of the Thrush,” pg 410
Olive Tilford Dargan
James Henry Darlington
- "The Joy Awaiting,” pg 296
Josephine Dodge Daskam
Donald Davidson
Leland Davies
Mary Caroline Davies
- "Door-Mats,” pg 673
- "Rust,” pg 673
- "The Dream-Bearer,” pg 674
Fannie Stearns Davis
- "The Ancient Beautiful Things,” pg 648
- "Good-Bye!,” pg 651
Miles M. Dawson
Benjamin De Casseres
- "Moth-Terror,” pg 442
- "Yogi,” pg 442
Salomon De La Selva
Babette Deutsch
- "A Girl,” pg 786
- "Solitude,” pg 786
- "Saffron Flower,” pg 787
- "Old Woman,” pg 787
Charles M. Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
- "Parting,” pg 163
- "Called Back,” pg 164
- "No Time to Hate,” pg 164
- "Presentiment,” pg 165
- "Colloquy,” pg 165
- "Chartless,” pg 165
- "Suspense,” pg 166
- "Vanished,” pg 166
- "Post Mortem,” pg 166
- "Exclusion,” pg 167
- "Intoxication,” pg 167
George Washington Doane
Lee Wilson Dodd
Mary Mapes Dodge
Nathan Haskell Dole
- "Man’s Hidden Side,” pg 257
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
- "Heat,” pg 693
- "Oread,” pg 693
- "Keeper of the Orchards,” pg 694
- "Where Love Is King,” pg 695
Joseph Rodman Drake
- "The Culprit Fay,” pg 9
- "The American Flag,” pg 11
Glenn Ward Dresback
- "Since Youth Is All for Gladness,” pg 740
- "To a Scarlet Tanager,” pg 740
Louise Driscoll
- "The Idol,” pg 497
- "Harbury,” pg 498
Estelle Duclo
Paul Laurence Dunbar
- "Compensation,” pg 419
- "Hymn,” pg 420
Max Eastman
- "At the Aquarium,” pg 623
- "Invocation,” pg 623
T.S. Eliot
- "Portrait of a Lady,” pg 612
- From “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pg 617
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Heroism,” pg 30
- "Hymn,” pg 31
- "Forbearance,” pg 31
- "Days,” pg 32
- "The Test,” pg 32
- "The Problem,” pg 33
- "Brahma,” pg 35
- "Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4th, 1857,” pg 36
- "The Rhodora,” pg 37
- "The Humble Bee,” pg 38
- "The Snow-Storm,” pg 40
- From “Boston Hymn,” pg 41
- "Give All to Love,” pg 43
- "Good-bye,” pg 44
John Erskine
- "Valentine to One’s Wife,” pg 566
Abbie Huston Evans
John Farrar
- "Song for a Forgotten Shrine to Pan,” pg 795
Edgar Fawcett
Arthur Davison Ficke
- From “Epitaph for the Poet,” pg 630
- "Portrait of an Old Woman,” pg 631
Eugene Field
- "Little Boy Blue,” pg 247
- "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” pg 248
Sara Bard Field
Francis Miles Finch
- "The Blue and the Gray,” pg 158
John H. Finley
- "The Poor Poet’s Lullaby,” pg 348
- "H.H.,” pg 349
Chester Firkins
- "On a Subway Express,” pg 617
Mahlon Leonard Fisher
- "November,” pg 447
- "Per Contra,” pg 447
John Gould Fletcher
Hortense Flexner
Sam Walter Foss
Jeanne Robert Foster
- "The King o’Spain’s Daughter,” pg 721
Nora May French
- "The Mission Graves,” pg 800
Philip Freneau
- "The Wild Honeysuckle,” pg 1
- "To a Honey Bee,” pg 2
Frances M. Frost
Robert Frost
- "Lodged,” pg 484
- From “The Hill Wife,” pg 485
- "Snow Dust,” pg 486
- "The Road Not Taken,” pg 486
- "Mending Wall,” pg 487
- "Blue-Butterfly Day,” pg 488
Zona Gale
Hamlin Garland
- "Sport,” pg 314
- "On the Mississippi,” pg 315
- "Prairie Fires,” pg 315
- "To a Captive Crane,” pg 315
- "The Mountains are a Lonely Folk,” pg 316
- "Do You Fear the Wind?,” pg 316
- "The Eagle Trail,” pg 316
- "O the Fierce Delight,” pg 317
Theodosia Garrison
- "Stains,” pg 464
- "The Free Woman,” pg 465
Kahlil Gibran
- "Night and the Madman,” pg 731
Marie Emilie Gilchrist
- "Chance-Fallen Seed,” pg 581
Richard Watson Gilder
- "The Song of a Heathen,” pg 231
- "A Song,” pg 231
- "A Woman’s Thoughts,” pg 232
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- "Child Labor,” pg 323
- "Similar Cases,” pg 324
Gloria Goddard
- "Pruned Trees,” pg 812
- "To the Commonplace,” pg 813
Herbert S. Gorman
Agnes Kendrick Gray
- "The Shepherd to the Poet,” pg 808
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
- "De Massa Ob de Sheepfol’,” pg 297
William Griffith
- "Spring Song,” pg 500
- "Autumn Song,” pg 501
- "Shadow,” pg 501
- "I, Who Fade with the Lilacs,” pg 502
- "Pierrette in Memory,” pg 502
- "Encounter,” pg 503
Edgar A. Guest
- "What Father Knows,” pg 590
Louise Imogene Guiney
- "The Wild Ride,” pg 328
- "The Kings,” pg 329
Arthur Guiterman
- "Hills,” pg 414
- "Strictly Germ-Proof,” pg 415
- "The Legend of the First Cam-u-el,” pg 416
Herman Hagedorn
Molly Anderson Haley
Amanda Benjamin Hall
Gertrude Hall
Hazel Hall
Fitz-Greene Halleck
- "On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake,” pg 5
- "Marco Bozzaris,” pg 6
Florence Hamilton
- "Son of Morning,” pg vii
- "Conjecture,” pg 555
- "April,” pg 555
Ruth Guthrie Harding
Thomas Lake Harris
- "God Speaks in All Religions,” pg 148
- From “Silent Tongue,” pg 150
- From “Sentences of Wisdom,” pg 151
Francis Bret Harte
- "Fate,” pg 196
- "The Heathen Chinese,” pg 197
- "The Society Upon the Stanislaus,” pg 199
Gwendolen Haste
John Hay
- "Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle,” pg 193
Sara Henderson Hay
- "Cordial Soul,” pg 817
- "Mary,” pg 817
- "For a Little Bird That Blundered Into Church,” pg 818
- "For a Dead Kitten,” pg 818
Paul Hamilton Hayne
Du Bose Heyward
- “Dusk in the Low Country,” pg 669
- "The Equinox,” pg 669
Robert Hillyer
- "Nocturne,” pg 783
- "Thermopylae and Golgotha,” pg784
Daniel Henry Junior Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "The Voiceless,” pg 74
- "The Chambered Nautilus,” pg 75
- "The Boys,” pg 76
- "The Height of the Ridiculous,” pg 78
- "A Logical Story—The Deacon’s Master-piece,” pg 80
Richard Hovey
- "At the Crossroads,” pg 357
- "The Sea Gipsy,” pg 358
- From “Barney McGee,” pg 359
Julia Ward Howe
- "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” pg 141
William Dean Howells
- "The Bewildered Guest,” pg 191
- "Heredity,” pg 192
Helen Hoyt
Langston Hughes
- "The Negro,” pg 803
- "Dream Variation,” pg 804
John James Ingalls
Robert G. Ingersoll
- "Life is a Narrow Vale,” pg 175
Helen Hunt Jackson
- "Poppies in the Wheat,” pg 168
- "Habeas Corpus,” pg 169
Winifred Virginia Jackson
Robinson Jeffers
Orrick Johns
- "The Song of Youth,” pg 700
- "Second Avenue,” pg 701
Robert Underwood Johnson
- "Markham,” pg 280
- "The Wistful Days,” pg 281
- "Browning at Asolo,” pg 281
Ralph Mortimer Jones
Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
- "Sometimes,” pg 619
- "Dusk at Sea,” pg 619
- "Youth,” pg 620
Charles Augustus Keeler
- "Pescadero Pebbles,” pg 413
Harry Kemp
- "The Conquerors,” pg 627
- "Blind,” pg 628
- From “A Prayer,” pg 629
- "Alienation,” pg 630
Aline Kilmer
- "To Saphho, About Her Apple,” pg 712
- "I Shall Not Be Afraid,” pg 712
Joyce Kilmer
- "Trees,” pg 677
- "Martin,” pg 678
Frederick L. Knowles
- "Love Triumphant,” pg 392
Alfred Kreymborg
- "The Tree,” pg 624
- "Old Manuscript,” pg 625
- "Idealists,” pg 625
- "Cézanne,” pg 626
- "Credo,” pg 626
Sidney Lanier
- "Evening Song,” pg 214
- "The Stirrup-Cup,” pg 215
- From “Marshes of the Glynn,” pg 215
Louis V. Ledoux
- "Persephone (Singing,)” pg 586
- "Master Dolorosa,” pg 586
Agnes Lee
- "Peace,” pg 654
- "The Sweeper,” pg 654
- "Convention,” pg 655
- "Motherhood,” pg 655
Muna Lee
- "It Will Be Easy to Love You When I Am Dead,” pg 789
- "Gifts,” pg 789
Derrick N. Lehmer
Mary Sinton Leitch
William Ellery Leonard
Elias Lieberman
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Vachel Lindsay
- "The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken,” pg 567
- "The Eagle That Is Forgotten,” pg 569
- "General William Booth Enters into Heaven,” pg 570
- From “The Congo,” pg 573
Therese Lindsey
Haniel Long
- "A Book of Economics,” pg 733
- "His Deaths,” pg 733
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "The Arrow and the Song,” pg 63
- From “My Lost Youth,” pg 63
- "Hymn to the Night,” pg 65
- "The Day is Done,” pg 66
- "The Psalm of Life,” pg 68
- "Paul Revere’s Ride,” pg 69
Robert Loveman
Amy Lowell
- "A Gift,” pg 459
- "Patterns,” pg 459
- "A Lady,” pg 463
- "Night Clouds,” pg 463
James Russell Lowell
- From “She Came and Went,” pg 112
- From “Present Crisis,” pg 112
- From “After the Burial,” pg 115
- "What Rabbi Jehosha Said,” pg 116
- "The Street,” pg 117
- Prelude to Part First of “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” pg 118
- "Winter Pictures,” pg 121
- From “What Mr. Robinson Thinks,” pg 123
Charles F. Lummis
John Russell McCarthy
Isaac McClellan
- "The Death of Napoleon,” pg 47
Virginia Taylor McCormick
- "Flower of Quince,” pg 529
F.R. McCreary
Franklin McDuffee
- From “Michaelangelo,” pg 799
Gertrude Huntington McGiffert
Percy MacKaye
- "The Automobile,” pg 470
- "France,” pg 471
- "Goethals,” pg 471
- "The Mocking-Bird, Misnamed,” pg 473
Anna Catherine Markham
- "In an Alameda Field,” pg 362
Edwin Markham
- "Child of My Heart,” pg 263
- "Lincoln, the Man of the People,” pg 264
- "Outwitted,” pg 265
- "The Man with the Hoe,” pg 266
- "Virgilia,” pg 268
Virgil Markham
Don Marquis
- "Unrest,” pg 543
- "The Tom-Cat,” pg 544
- From “Song of a Thousand Years,” pg 545
Edgar Lee Masters
- "Anne Rutledge,” pg 377
- "Lucinda Matlock,” pg 378
- "Alexander Throckmorton,” pg 378
- "Doc Hill,” pg 379
- "Mollie McGee,” pg 379
Clara Platt Meadowcroft
- "Night in the Green Hill,” pg 582
Marjorie Meeker
- "They,” pg 771
- "Where My Step Falters,” pg 771
Grenville Mellen
- "The Lonely Bugle Grieves,” pg 27
Scudder Middleton
- "A Woman,” pg 711
- "Interlude,” pg 711
Lloyd Mifflin
Bailey Millard
- "The Crotalus,” pg 311
- "The Apache in Ambush,” pg 312
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- "Afternoon on a Hill,” pg 761
- "Euclid,” pg 761
- "Feast,” pg 762
- "Siege,” pg 762
- "Autumn Chant,” pg 763
- "Elaine,” pg 763
- "A Prayer to Persephone,” pg 764
- "God’s World,” pg 765
- "Wild Swans,” pg 765
- "Elegy,” pg 766
- "Sonnet,” pg 767
- "The Anguish,” pg 768
- "Winter Night,” pg 768
Kathleen Millay
- "The Masterpiece,” pg 820
- "Hermit Thrush,” pg 820
- "The Spinner’s Song,” pg 821
- "The Little Gift of Laughter,” pg 821
Joaquin Miller
- "Columbus,” pg 203
- "In Men Whom Men Condemn,” pg 205
- "Twilight at the Hights,” pg 205
- "Crossing the Plains,” pg 205
- "Dead in the Sierras,” pg 206
- "Vaquero,” pg 207
- From “Walker in Nicaragua,” pg 208
- From “Myrrh,” pg 209
- From “Exodus for Oregon,” pg 210
Nellie B. Miller
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
- "The Night Court,” pg 602
Harriet Monroe
- "The Shadow Child,” pg 430
- "On the Porch,” pg 432
- "A Farewell,” pg 433
- "Nancy Hanks,” pg 433
Roselle Mercier Montgomery
- "Ulysses Returns,” pg 657
William Vaughn Moody
- From “Gloucester Moors,” pg 380
- "Pandora’s Song,” pg 383
- "I Stood Within the Heart of God,” pg 383
Virginia Moore
- "Rust,” pg 811
- "To the Woman I Will Be Fifty Years Hence,” pg 811
Angela Morgan
- "Gandhi,” pg 592
- "Song of the New World,” pg 593
Christopher Morley
- "At the Mermaid Cafeteria,” pg 754
- "To the Little House,” pg 755
- "To a Child,” pg 755
Harrison S. Morris
Elizabeth Morrow
David Morton
- "Old Ships,” pg 684
- "The School Boy Reads His Iliad,” pg 685
- "These Fields at Evening,” pg 685
Louise Chandler Moulton
- "The House of Death,” pg 183
Dennis Murphy
- "Boy with a Silver Plow,” pg 829
- "Etching,” pg 830
- "Ozark Song,” pg 830
Robert C.V. Myers
- "If I Should Die To-Night,” pg 646
Robert Nathan
- "Sonnet,” pg 819
- "The Mountaineer,” pg 819
John G. Neihardt
- "Let Me Live Out My Years,” pg 596
- "Battle Cry,” pg 597
- "Cry of the People,” pg 598
Yone Noguchi
- “The Poet,” pg 402 (Note this poem is missing from the book. Supposed to be on pg 402)
Charles Norman
- "Any Town,” pg 824
- "Chant of the Old Men in the Woods,” pg 824
Grace Fallow Norton
- "Love Is a Terrible Thing,” pg 509
Edward J. O’Brien
John Myers O’Hara
- "Vespasian’s Circus,” pg 507
- "A Haunted Room,” pg 507
- "Atropos,” pg 508
Rose O’Neill
- "The Gift,” pg 453
- "As I Went By,” pg 453
- From “Love-Ending,” pg 454
- "I Made a House of Houselessness,” pg 455
James Oppenheim
- "The Runner in the Skies,” pg 605
- "A Handful of Dust,” pg 606
- "Slums,” pg 607
- "The Slave,” pg 608
- "Tasting the Earth,” pg 609
Frances Sargent Osgood
- "Celeste Dancing,” pg 108
Shaemas O’Sheel
- "He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed,” pg 674
- "They Went Forth to Battle But They Always Fell,” pg 675
Martha Ostenso
- "The Unicorn and the Hippogrif,” pg 793
Thomas William Parsons
- "On a Bust of Dante,” pg 125
Josephine Preston Peabody
- "The Enchanted Sheepfold,” pg 457
James Larkin Pearson
Samuel Minturn Peck
William Alexander Percy
Edward Coate Pinkney
- "The Serenade,” pg 28
- "A Health,” pg 28
Edgar Allan Poe
- "To Helen,” pg 85
- "Annabel Lee,” pg 86
- "Ulalume,” pg 87
- "Israfel,” pg 90
- "The Haunted Place,” pg 92
- "Lenore,” pg 94
- "The Sleeper,” pg 95
- "The City in the Sea,” pg 97
- "The Raven,” pg 99
Ezra Pound
- "The Garret,” pg 660
- "Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” pg 660
- "Piccadilly,” pg 662
- "Further Instructions,” pg 663
Rose Powers
John Cowper Powys
- "The Rider,” pg 435
- "The Truth?,” pg 436
- "The Hour Before Dawn,” pg 437
- "To One Who Spoke of Eternal Things,” pg 438
Harry Noyes Pratt
- "The Gypsy Heart,” pg 577
Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer
- "Ecstasy,” pg 690
- "The Riderless Horse,” pg 690
- "Winged Victory,” pg 691
James Ryder Randall
Beatrice w. Ravenel
- "The Day You Went,” pg 408
Richard Realf
Lizette Woodworth Reese
- "Tears,” pg 293
- "Love Came Back at Fall o’Dew,” pg 294
- "Keats,” pg 294
- "Immortality,” pg 295
Cale Young Rice
- "Atavism,” pg 426
- "The Wife of Judas Iscariot,” pg 427
Ruth Mason Rice
- "A Japanese Print,” pg 576
Lola Ridge
- "Child and Wind,” pg 722
- "The Ghetto,” pg 722
- "Débris,” pg 724
- "Sons of Belial,” pg 724
James Whitcomb Riley
- "A Life-Lesson,” pg 276
- "Bereaved,” pg 276
- "When She Comes Home,” pg 277
- "Little Orphant Annie,” pg 277
Jessie Rittenhouse
- "The Hour,” pg 530
- "Debt,” pg 531
- "The Ghostly Galley,” pg 531
Amelie Rives
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Mary Eleanor Roberts
- "The Witch-Wife,” pg 518
- "The Heaven Soaring Lark,” pg 519
Walter Adolphe Roberts
- "For Poets Slain in War,” pg 689
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
- "The Master,” pg 394
- "Richard Cory,” pg 396
- "Miniver Cheevy,” pg 397
- "The House on the Hill,” pg 398
- "Flammonde,” pg 399
- "Many Are Called,” pg 402
Edwin Meade Robinson
- "The David Jazz,” pg 562
- "It Happens Often,” pg 564
- “A Disagreeable Feature,” pg 564
John Jerome Rooney
Josephine Royle
- "Bright Spirit,” pg 823
- "Deep Peace,” pg 823
- "Give Us This Day,” pg 823
Irwin Russell
Kathryn White Ryan
- "The Turquoise Bowl,” pg 752
Francis Saltus Saltus
- "The Sphinx Speaks,” pg 246
Carl Sandburg
- "Fog,” pg 538
- "Chicago,” pg 538
- "Cool Tombs,” pg 539
- "Fire Logs,” pg 540
- "Kin,” pg 540
- "Old Timers,” pg 541
- From “Prairie,” pg541
- "Prayers of Steel,” pg 542
- "Joy,” pg 542
George Santayana
- "What Riches Have you?,” pg 349
- "As in the Midst of Battle,” pg 350
Lew Sarett
- "Wind in the Pine,” pg 717
- "Broken Drake,” pg 718
- "So Like a Quiet Rain,” pg 718
- "The Loon,” pg 719
- "The Great Divide,” pg 719
- "Four Little Foxes,” pg 719
- "Granite,” pg 720
Robert Haven Schauffler
- "To Browning, The Music Master,” pg 578
Herman Scheffauer
- "The Leper of London,” pg 549
- "Miserere,” pg 551
Clinton Scollard
- "Cricket,” pg 320
- "As I Came Down from Lebanon,” pg 320
- "Petition,” pg 322
- "Memnon,” pg 322
Alan Seeger
- "I Have a Rendezvous With Death,” pg 715
- "Sonnet VIII,” pg 716
Marjorie Allen Seiffert
- "The Secret Temple,” pg 815
- "The Ancient Tree,” pg 815
- "From Winter’s Tree,” pg 816
Robert W. Service
- "The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” pg 448
Frances Shaw
Rena Carey Sheffield
Frank Dempster Sherman
- "A Hollyhock,” pg 313
- "Bacchus,” pg 313
Mary Siegrist
Lydia H. Sigourney
Edward Rowland Sill
- "The Fool’s Prayer,” pg 211
- "Opportunity,” pg 213
Laura Simmons
- "The Rich Young Man,” pg 511
- "Hail to Thee Blithe Spirit,” pg 512
Mabel Simpson
Constance Lindsay Skinner
- "Parting Song,” pg 594
- "Love Song,” pg 595
Clark Ashton Smith
Langdon Smith
Marion Couthouy Smith
- "The Perfect Sign,” pg 407
May Riley Smith
- "The Child in Me,” pg 228
- "The Last Dance,” pg 229
Lilian White Spencer
Leonora Speyer
- "Duet,” pg 421
- "The Ladder,” pg 422
- "Pan Crucified,” pg 423
- "Let Not My Death Be Long,” pg 423
- "Hark! Hark!,” pg 424
- "Little Lover,” pg 424
- "Protest in Passing,” pg 425
- "Measure Me, Sky,” pg 425
J.E. Spingarn
- "Out of the Italian,” pg 468
Frank L. Stanton
- "A Plantation Ditty,” pg 299
- "Wearyin’ for You,” pg 299
Vincent Starrett
- "Villon Strolls at Midnight,” pg 692
Edmund Clarence Stedman
- "Pan in Wall Street,” pg 176
- "Falstaff’s Song,” pg 179
George Sterling
- "The Black Vulture,” pg 385
- "The Dust Dethroned,” pg 386
- "Pumas,” pg 386
- "The Skull of Shakespeare,” pg 387
- "The Young Witch—1698,” pg 388
- "Willy Smith at the Ball Game,” pg 390
- "Omnium Exeunt in Mysterium,” pg 391
William L. Stidger
- "The Child and the Book,” pg 635
Charles Warren Stoddard
- "Wind and Wave,” pg 230
- From “Tamalpais,” pg 230
Richard Henry Stoddard
- "The Flight of Youth,” pg 153
- "The Dying Lover,” pg 154
Charles Wharton Stork
- "A Flemish Madonna,” pg 595
William Wetmore Story
A.B. Street
- "The Settler: America in the Making,” pg 106
Marion Strobel
- "Pitiful in Your Bravery,” pg 788
Muriel Strode
- "I Am the Cry,” pg 611
- "How Shall I Go?,” pg 611
Eva Ingersoll Swasey
- "My Love for You, Mother,” pg 790
Ivan Swift
John B. Tabb
- "Evolution,” pg 234
- "The Sisters,” pg 234
- "Anonymous,” pg 235
- "The Difference,” pg 235
- "Fame,” pg 235
- "Poe’s Critics,” pg 236
Bayard Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor
- "Canopus,” pg 363
- "Old Stuff,” pg 364
- "Post-Impressionism,” pg 365
Sara Teasdale
- "The Flight,” pg 643
- "Wood Song,” pg 644
- "Let It Be Forgotten,” pg 644
- "Over the Roofs,” pg 644
- "Peace,” pg 645
- "I Shall Not Care,” pg 645
- "Wisdom,” pg 646
Celia Thaxter
Edith M. Thomas
- "Evoe!,” pg 283
- "Frost,” pg 284
- "The Courage of the Lost,” pg 285
- From “The Quiet Pilgrim,” pg 286
Maurice Thompson
- "Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus,” pg 233
Henry David Thoreau
- From “Inspiration,” pg 127
Eunice Tietjens
- "The Most-Sacred Mountain,” pg 641
- "Sonnet,” pg 642
Henry Timrod
- "Quatorzain,” pg 160
- "Magnolia Cemetery,” pg 161
Ridgely Torrence
- "Eye-Witness,” pg 474
- "The Son,” pg 481
- "The Bird and the Tree,” pg 481
Charles Hanson Towne
- "Of One Self-Slain,” pg 527
- "Baboon,” pg 527
Horace L. Traubel
- From “I Served in a Great Cause,” pg 304
- "If All the Voices of Men,” pg 305
Grace Hyde Trine
- "Coming and Going,” pg 561
- "An Echo,” pg 561
John T. Trowbridge
Virginia Lyne Tunstall
John Curtis Underwood
- "The Strong,” pg 443
- "The Weak,” pg 445
Jean Starr Untermeyer
- "The Altar,” pg 686
- "The Passionate Sword,” pg 686
Louis Untermeyer
- "Caliban in the Coal Mines,” pg 664
- "Portrait of a Child,” pg 665
- "How Much of Godhood,” pg 665
- "Prayer,” pg 666
Arthur Upson
Mark Van Doren
- "Good Night,” pg 781
- "Marriage,” pg 782
- "Deduction,” pg 782
Henry Van Dyke
- "The Maryland Yellow-Throat,” pg 254
- "America for Me,” pg 256
Leonard Van Noppen
William Henry Venable
George Sylvester Viereck
- "Prayer,” pg 636
- "The Candle and the Flame,” pg 637
Harold Vinal
- "Judas,” pg 757
- "Of Mariners,” pg 757
Madge Morris Wagner
- "To the Colorado Desert,” pg 369
Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
Thomas Walsh
David A. Wasson
Willard Wattles
- "The Builder,” pg 713
- "From the Parthenon I Learn,” pg 714
John V.A. Weaver
Amelia B. Welby
- "Twilight at Sea,” pg 147
Winifred Welles
- "Gesture,” pg 776
- "Second Growth,” pg 777
- "Climb,” pg 777
- "School,” pg 778
- "White Fear,” pg 779
Robert Gilbert Welsh
John Hall Wheelock
- "The Black Panther,” pg 687
- "Immensity,” pg 688
- "The Lion-House,” pg 688
- "Prayer to the Sun,” pg 689
George Meason Whicher
- "On Coming to an End,” pg 318
Sarah Helen Whitman
Walt Whitman
- "The Great City,” pg 129
- "O Captain! My Captain,” pg 130
- From “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” pg 131
- "The Mocking-Bird,” pg 133
- From “Song of Myself,” pg 137
John Greenleaf Whittier
- "Maud Muller,” pg 54
- "The Barefoot Boy,” pg 58
Margaret Widdemer
- "Factories,” pg 727
- "A Modern Woman to Her Lover,” pg 728
- "Mary, Helper of Heartbreak,” pg 729
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- "Laugh, and the World Laughs with You,” pg 288
- "The One Need,” pg 289
Florence Wilkinson
- "Our Lady of Idleness,” pg 524
Marguerite Wilkinson
- "Scatheless,” pg 632
- "A Proud Song,” pg 633
- "Peace,” pg 633
- "A Song of Two Wanderers,” pg 634
Nathaniel P. Willis
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
- "The Desert,” pg 258
- "When I Walk Alone,” pg 259
- "The Mammon Monster,” pg 259
- "Sweat-Shop Slaves,” pg 260
- "The Devil’s Auction,” pg 261
Clement Wood
- "If the Seas Dry,” pg 707
- "The Singing Saviors,” pg 708
- "The Old Men and the Young Men,” pg 708
- "De Glory Road,” pg 709
George Edward Woodberry
- "The Secret,” pg 290
- "Oh, Inexpressible as Sweet,” pg 291
- "At Gibraltar,” pg 291
- "When First I Saw Her,” pg 291
Elinor Wylie
- "Madman’s Song,” pg 735
- "Parting Gift,” pg 736
- "The Puritan’s Ballad,” pg 736
Barbara Young
- "Earth Angel,” pg 833
- "When I Shall Hear You Coming,” pg 833
Marya Zaturensky
- "Elegies Over John Reed,” pg 796