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HOW
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M.
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magic light that springs
the deep soul of things
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Their
The
COLSON
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essence
by their true
is set free;
namr,
'work, illuminate,
Showing the soul's estate,
Baring the hearts of men;
Poetry!
ANNIE
LANEY
LAURETTE
CHICAGO
A.
C.
McCLURG
1918
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FOREWORD
It
this little book
is in
treatise, that
from
offering
of
studious
May
of
The
in
addition
best
to
found
happy.
for
reading
poetry
And
the
love
that, for
best
The
is
to
way
love's
its
number.
advanced
has
marriage
that
all
of
finds
of
reasons
loves
one
is with
poetry
miracles
own
be
can
because
sake,
is
here
but
time,
best
read
in
flowers
than
that
is
of
how
and
why
war
marriage
been
works
the
their
argument
of
favor
in
hearts
sad
tion,
informa-
incontrovertible
thicker
are
away
religion.
poetic
most
for
reasons
or
hint
no
and
best
reading,
poetry
formal
conveying
Textbooks,
far
educational
or
nical
tech-
or
humbly
it sheers
that
beginning,
didactic
a
sense
no
academic
the
in
plainly stated,
be
may
its
it.
the
way,
path-
own
sympathy
and
understanding.
The
simple
Read
lover
Poetry"
"
far
of
intent, therefore,
more
is
to
assist
numerous
the
and
"
How
lay
to
poetry
universal
Foreword
than
might
be
imagined
comprehend
to
"
and,
if
the
remove
injunctions
the
that
too
curse
and
"
widely
required
non-poetic
at
heart
his
affection;
laid
by
who,
that
he
he
really
does
does.
to
scholastic
reading;"
reader
believes
reason,
poetry
defend
necessary,
to
for
not
suade
per-
ever
whatlike
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER
I
II
Why
Read
What
Do
Formal
V
VI
So-Called
61
.
Sonnet,
Blank
.
.
Ode,
the
Verse
.113
.
.
Descriptive
and
Dramatic
Narrative,
37
...
the
and
Elegy,
.
.
.
Poetry, So-Called
Poetry:
the
18
Poetry?
in
"Poetry,
"New"
The
IV
3
Seek
We
"Old
The
III
Poetry?
Poetry
Case
The
VII
149
for
the
Defense
176
POEMS
INTERPOLATED
I
I Remember
Remember,
Hood
Thomas
I
...
The
Toys
Cornucopia
of
Red
and
Soldier
.
Spring Night
In
Flanders'
.
.
.
Happiest
Heart
.ill
Teasdale
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.
McCrae
.
John
.
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Amy
The
Henley
Patmore
Coventry
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The
Ernest
William
Invictus
Cheney
.175
.
180
.
READ
TO
HOW
POETRY
I
I
remember,
The
The
It
house
I remember
I
where
Came
peeping
never
came
But
Had
remember,
The
roses
violets
The
Those
And
red
The
flowers
The
tree
day;
night
away.
white,
and
the
lily-cups,
of
robins
brother
on
is
the
made
my
laburnum
a
breath
the
and
where
soon,
remember,
lilacs where
The
sun
morn;
too
wish
my
I
the
long
too
I often
borne
at
wink
a
brought
now
in
born,
was
where
little window
Nor
I
I REMEMBER
REMEMBER,
his
light!
built,
set
birthday,
living yet
!
"
How
I
I
is
That
The
used
fir
to
It
was
But
To
know
Than
a
remember,
dark
think
their
when
slender
the
spires
sky:
ignorance,
'tis little
I'm
high,
and
against
childish
now
cool
brow.
trees
close
Were
hardly
could
my
I
remember,
The
I
on
then
now,
pool
fever
fresh
as
wing;
feathers
heavy
so
summer
The
in
rush
must
the
on
flew
spirit
My
swing,
to
air
the
swallows
To
I
used
was
thought
And
Poetry
remember,
I
remember,
Where
Read
to
joy
off
farther
I
was
a
from
boy.
Thomas
"
Heaven
Hood.
CHAPTER
Because
in
feels
and
rejoices
Ask
Why?
under
not
being,
it.
love
you
at
some
conditions,
some
poetic impulse.
in the
oracle,
mighty
some
We
authority.
omniscient
effects,
human
every
form,
some
Because
poetry?
read
time,
POETRY?
READ
WHY
WHY
I
with
Of
simplest.
with
dealing
are
causes,
some
wide
world-
and
undying
facts.
Proof?
the
lyric voice,
has
persisted
Never
tribe,
a
born
was
and
a
To
who
to
pass
cared
a
race,
would
should
"
medical
to
vent
to
cries
and
more
be
calls
or
in
the
Mother
little
less
the
its
child
rhymes
immediate
crooned
girl who
boy who
ages.
had
Goose
melodious
be
It
songs.
accorded
little
would
has
but
and
all
examples,
for
dolls, the
lyric love,
humanity.
nation
poets
"
attention;
her
with
concrete
nothing
The
proclaimed
special, individual
own
not
the
never
notes
unthinkable.
gave
and
The
How
college youth, the
his enthusiasms
"
"
yells
Read
to
Poetry
of
man
affairs,
punctuates
by rhythmic,frequentlyrhyming
"
and
slogans,"the
stimulate
lonely or
dreamy
and
half-forgottensongs
For
chanteys.
Which
yourself,good
do
easily,the
you
the
denced
American
flooded
the
For
advertisements
by
this
"
virtues
were
and
and
"
most
monitio
poetic ad-
ad."
the
or
SpotlessTown"
ca-
gles
jin-
illustration:
specific
cities,some
whose
after
of
kindred?
and
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calling
re-
madam
the
or
uncadenced
appeal
ballads
best
proverb
prose
fort
com-
by
age
sir or
remember
folk
old
ago,
years
of
a
rubberized
acclaimed
were
ticle
ar-
somewhat
manner:
Washable,
dryable,
Durable, pliable
;
Pardon
the
English, but
Isn't it tryable?
Few
name
now,
or
All memory
perhaps, could give,offhand, the
nature
have
commodity.
of the article advertised, all faintest
recollection
may
of the advertised
been
of
its maker
swept
from
and
character
the casual
rnind
How
Read
to
remembered?
ibly,
Poetry
The
rhythm,
good
friends, the rhythm!
Pursue
the
Doesn't
thought
material, manner
as
matter,
with
be honest
!
weigh almost
of us?
most
Doesn't
all events, and
At
thing is
said
of
way
his fair
have
would
in all
I could
able
affected
love
not
famous.
verbal
Because
to
an
"
least in
at
ing
inform-
and
wars
I
love you
am
able,
honor-
so
much,"
utterance
which,
to
the cherished
I
not
thee, Dear,
Honor
the sentiment
enriched
given
a
Lucasta
paid littleattention.
Loved
made
"
even
probability,
have
would
?
more
mean
much,
the
going to
am
outspoken,
impression.
lady that
dear, I
heavily
in which
way
resultant
"
much
as
tive
duly observingall conserva-
surelymatters
Lovelace,
further.
as
Be
it sometimes
proprieties,the
the
for almost
expressioncount
as
little
a
The
by beauty
music
more,
unforgettable and
beauty
of
fixes the
presented, soon
much
so
of
the
setting,the
idea
would
lace
Loveis
thought
charm
of
that, less impressively
be
swept
away.
Read
Why
Why,
do
impale this thought irretrievably,
to
"
remember
we
and
lovingly?
and
sway
mixing
"
of
in
also is emotion
for
"
even
eternal
make
evanescent,
reading
poetry.
"
But
poetry
the
help,cause,
chance
write
poetry
nowadays,
believe
forms,
at
but
we
can
all read
to
us
be
serve
pre-
joys that
fleetingorder.
It
quickens and
We
almost
though
under
possibilities
otherwise
compel
present.
the elements
nay,
it,may
beauty, surely never
that children
as
had
change"
more.
(though
and
of
of
of
sense
than
needed
Poetry,
beauty that might
does
"
admirable
and
Lamb
as
worse
in themselves
poetry
swell of song.
basic
may
tion
emo-
reflected
and
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two
"beyond
are
picture.
tranquillity."But
are
and
verse
excusable
well said, "is
recollected
Here, then,
reasons
vivid
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the liltand
by
swellingswing
indulge in
to
metaphors, the
it has
long
easily,
so
of the
Because
recollected
"
Mandalay
that frame,
Poetry,"
in and
Poetry?
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happy
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response
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pictures.
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away,"
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mental
mind
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of
power
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easilythan
painting,consists largelyin
or
visualizing
ments
senti-
joy of reading poetry,
practical,legitimate and
of the stage
ful
delight-
vicarious
more
even
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manner
and
impulses
rich
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uits
like virtue
poetry,
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stanzas,
poems,
lines !
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the
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understand
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says
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poet, dis-
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of
Poetry;"
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thing,
Poetry
is
alone
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we
to
facts
life
of
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shall
and
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in
even
yes,
time,
war
standardized,
to
as
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feeling of right,of keen,
of
for
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beauty?
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fitting
present
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popular order
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Days."
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are
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famous,
poem
transmutingthe gloom
most
varied.
my
some
Dripping days recurringfrequently
and
rain's
of
repetition
or
words
in the lives of
most
as
come
be-
mankind.
to
commonplace,
through thought
isn't
to
prone
redeemed, transfigured
a dripping day
not
many
ing,
feel-
of
into ruts,
get
that
value
truth
the
manner
physical habits, anything
truest
and
prevail."
feelings,and
our
action.
change
but
utterlyaway,
pass
past
greater
of present
source
.
falsifyand
is of
far
degree
a
our
The
.
.
.
repository of
common
our
experience, but
than
Poetry?
Read
Why
Earle's
"It
to
inspiring, if
lovable
mind
less
"Rainy
How
io
shall
Lord,
Dear
Poetry
Read
to
I
remember
up
in
Heaven
How
all the world
leaves
the
How
and
when
sweet
grows
wet,
are
rain
summer
warm
is dashed
driven
Across
my
beds
of
fern
and
nette
migno-
?
Shall
I
remember
there, when
angels
wander
Shining,across
Thy
fields and
singing
still,
the wind
How
the willow
sways
branches
yonder,
the
And
rain
murmurs
field and
over
hill?
Shall
there, in Heaven,
I remember
The
lightthat
rises not,
nor
sets,
holding
be-
nor
pales,
How
all this
day
the mists
are
folding,
folding,
Saintly
vales?
and
white,
along
the
silent
Read
Why
all
the
hushed
and
When
With
of
sound
Heavenly
courts
praise,
lowly
of
in the blessedness
Breathed
are
that stills the
peace,
it be like the benediction
Will
1 1
holy
deep
Thy
Poetry?
rainy
days?
Isn't
glory
anything worth
into
might
scarce
the
"City
"
Franklin
in the
November
miracle
whom
bustle
harsher
in behalf
often
aspects
of many
other
poetic magic.
enumerating
City
the
busy
and
streets
only
trade
note
Hood,
those
Whistles."
it
who
barter, her
but
vain
blind.
sight for the poetically
to
the harder
and
have
kindred
a
townsmen
and
spirin
in-
echoing those
purveyors
Wordsworth,
were
and
metropolitan
citysingers and
Kilmer, Howells,
weather?
wet
City,"performs
contemporary
wonder,
City Swallow,"
suggest
of
"
such
lenged,
unchal-
so
gray
of
in
"A
of
thronging
too
the
note
Wyatt,
Vespers,"
who,
those
loveliness
soft, dim
Edith
for
nature
that puts
while
to
thus
of
Towne,
dream
of
provided
How
12
Poems
Read
to
Poetry
roads, the
about
sea,
the
fields,the
the mountains
forest,the desert, the prairies,
are
for
beloved
and
many
travel,
the
as
cloddish
from
wanderlust
inertia
clogged children
humanity's passion
as
of
that
redeems
comfort-
countless
The
modernity.
mighty
underlying impulses of love, death, sin, and
interpreted,softened, hallowed,
are
sorrow
by unnumbered
and
many-veined
the persistentif
lyrics,
appeal of Tennyson
tier
evoking
vivid
pictures,of turning
and
pigments
Poetry, moreover,
but makes
under
a
us
gold
life
commonly
more
lady
truth
not
only makes
feel in universal
and
their skins
Needless
and
ments
figsented
pre-
dingy, dreary, drab.
as
Colonel's
visioning
universal
colorings the
of
power
black
to
Whit-
or
sympathetic feeling, of
rainbow
and
belittled
lies in their
Wordsworth
or
sometimes
Longfellow
or
and
poems
we
to
Julia'shusband
"
"
manner.
Julia O'Grady
all realize upon
the
say
are
Poetry, wide
of
as
Colonel
are
sisters
occasion.
himself
equally intrinsic
the
The
of expressing
is Kipling's
way
must
feel,
us
and
ship.
kin-
world, flexible
as
How
14
The
Poetry
lame, the halt,the blind
bliss of open
The
Read
to
delightin
prisoned may
inadequate body
fighter.The
and
sea
share
may
aged
the thrills of the
timid
youthful,the
be
may
and
land
shut in the
the soldier heart
Even
mountains.
skies, free motion.
wide
space,
the
know
may
be brave.
may
this
All
through
French
wings."
Just
is
so,
That's
now,
you
and
need
earliest
"
poetry
been
more
why
is
of
too
drous
won-
uninspired
least
can
gest
sug-
leaving prosaic earth
all love
we
out
with-
of
capable
when
little,at
the illusion of
is love
sentiment
prose
flights,
usually,even
fly a
"
proverb,
wingless. Poetry
variety, can
Friendship,
measure.
the wise
often
"
"
lessened, inferior
runs
Yes, but in
too?
prose
willinglyadmit
of poetry.
antiquitydown
it
the
From
to
"
for
hind.
be-
surely,
prevailinglove
the minstrels
the
"
of
newest
of
new
singers,the poet'spublicalways
or
during
editors
fondness
less assured
him, though
his lifetime.
Successful
are
quite cognizant
for
poetry.
of
has
ways
al-
not
zine
maga-
the
Magazine
eral
gen-
verses
Read
Why
printed
not
are
Poetry?
"filler"
the
solve
to
15
problem
alone.
that's
And
poetry
occasion
classic
ones
poets
for
effect
the
indeed,
of
for
its
writing,
another!
or
because
bread
yes,
"
because
"
we
is wrong
something
ments
argu-
its
good
cultural
and
all of
new
ing
Pass-
standard)
(and
poetry
the
why
fashion, why
educational,
read
we
upon
continually.
poetry
prose
other
or
reasons
stock
reading
upon
value
fashion
into
all
by
of
out
go
love
poetry
That's
it.
read
never
come
time
should
and
read
us
all
we
"
of
all
that
"
because
why
butter
at
us
one
it
love
less,
un-
"
with
ing
lov-
our
apparatus.
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kinds
of
as
or
for
all
But
not
do
so
love
to
if
it's because
we're
course,
to
poetry;
friends.
poetry
of
not,
may
we
the
don't
we're
reading
all
love
would
be
same
love
not
or
kinds
some
normal
choosing
the
as
same
table
regretof
food
of
kind
or
cause
be-
aright.
INVICTUS
of
the
Black
as
Out
For
of
the
is
this
Beyond
Looms
yet
Finds
the
of
find
shall
not
how
charged
but
unbowed.
and
tears
of the
the
me
strait
with
chance
of
wrath
of
aloud.
cried
Horror
menace
and
matters
How
the
but
pole,
soul.
nor
bloody,
place
to
be
may
bludgeonings
head
My
pole
circumstance
winced
not
Under
And
gods
fell clutch
the
from
pit
me,
covers
unconquerable
my
I have
It
the
whatever
I thank
In
night that
shade,
years
unafraid.
the
gate,
punishments
the
scroll,
I
the
am
I
am
master
the
of
captain
"
my
of
William
fate:
my
soul.
Ernest
Henley.
CHAPTER
WHAT
DO
WE
SEEK
NJOYMENT,
E
in
the
"
happy
for
poetry
with
alone
reading
We
reading
poetry
read
will
culture
or
concerned
are
for
the
should
poetry
education
utility.
only
who
those
of
purposes
conversational
or
that
beginning
Let
considered?
be
it not
(Was
course.
for
reasons
POETRY?
IN
of
agreed
"
II
the
of
sake
fun.)
Enjoyment,
J.
albeit, as
learn
P
all the
kind
same
sagely
countless
with
reading
of
of
as
of
said
in
"
nor,
for
Far
poetry.
iS
quickly,
voices
enjoyment
possible
to
every
existence.
previously suggested,
enjoyment,
kind
is
child
its
of
dissentient
denial
or
can
pronouncements
or
poetry
and
woman,
course,
puzzled
One
watching
let it be
"
question
u
says,
from
all the
And
in poetry,
object
poetry
pundits."
deafen
of
Kerfoot
from
than
before
man,
our
about
more
squirms
in the
B.
then, is
that
from
Not,
the
same
matter,
it.
the
Enjoy-
What
ment
dissimilar, as
as
varied
human
as
most
in
Poetry?
diverse,
nature
of the
One
Seek
We
Do
or
potent
studied
tendencies
and
fancy, frequent
of
poetry,
slightattention
equally pleasing
whereas, human
nature,
all
to
There
kinds
or
of
good
music
ballad
may
sonata
"
the
;
Where
many
good
be
high
would
as,
Paradise
in
as
would
be the
nor
sense
a
"
of
are
lilting
Beethoven
its
own
field
Lost."
condemn
portrait
act
ex-
another, Dante's
a
entertainingcartoon,
a
the
of poetry
there
as
"
finite
in-
an
true.
"
kinds
fine in its way
as
into
pictures. The
good
"
or
an
neither
should
readers,
patterns,
simplest of lyricsin
as
Inferno"
Who
and
or
prove
tasteful
and
good poetry
be
rank
may
as
are
lies in
must
being cast
nature
"
sonal
per-
absurd, that "good"
as
variety of shapes
is
and
to
Another
taste.
whatever
reverse
lies in the
little discrimination, such
so
careless selection,such
the
long
is read
universally
almost
with
itself.
of the
causes
supposed unpopularity of poetry
fact that poetry
infinitely
as
poetry
as
19
beautiful
because
still-life
a
of
scape,
landit was
study?
condemning
art
How
2O
Read
to
Poetry
"
the
or
lover
art
painting made
of
because
appeal to
no
deprecating all
comedy
charm
would
did
one
like
not
varieties
cause
productions befailed
tragedy
"
sensible
quiteas
Yet
to
as
the
lacked
of
such
sonal
pertice
prac-
that
decide
because
enjoy poetry
or
style of
singleobserver,
application?
or
be
a
dramatic
or
"
certain
a
to
power
tain
cer-
hold
or
please.
Frost's
stories, Lindsay's spirited
grave
Harriet
trumpeMones,
tender
and
thoughtfulness,Sara
poignant purity of
point the
moral
each
by
by
no
by
mood
of
of poetry,
as
Teasdale's
all, to
favorites, are
their very
or
polished
meter
but
manner,
identical
means
and
present
in its own
reason
ferentfeinds
Monroe's
cellent,
ex-
their virtue,
is
individuality,
synchronous.
Dif-
different poets, suit
of
mentalities,times
differing
temperaments,
life,or the day.
Poetry, then, should
to
the
books
The
person
or
eager
clothes
and
or
be
mood
games
read, selected,fitted
reasonably
as
or
articles of diet.
prospectivebridegroom might
for the moment,
find
as
u
not,
Bryant's Thanatopsis
"
How
22
all the world
the
war
the
woman
of
to
thrilling
he
poetry
lullabies and
So, yet again, with
maiden
in
Who
secret.
but
"
away
in
your
fifteenth and
pocketbook
(for
finest of
twentieth
does
a
Flight of
plete
Com-
Richard
a
tucked
between
clipand
sidering
con-
tuck
adays.
now-
have
would
but
blizzard, but who,
moment,
Henry
of
kind
it sometimes)
northern
silly
birthdays,by
you
resist
and
a
for
Stoddard's
June
ple,
exam-
"The
Youth."
"
k/
n
There
are
There
gains for
are
balms
or
avidly,if
drawer
skatingsongs
Think, for
upon
"
poems
them
circumstance, could
such
poem?
bureau
or
everyone
slightappeal in
in
youth
continue?
why
of poetry
the kind
The
adolescent
jinglesyou clipped and
verses,
away
irresistible.
by recallingthe
the argument
poems,
the
day devouring
next
viewpoint
mother, suddenly finds
day consideringlove
one
the
So, again,with
of childhood
poems
all
the war-call,reads
the widened
bereaved
or
Poetry
encounters.
who, from
happy
rot"
Read
to
all our
losses,
for all
our
pain,
It takes
We
hearts,
our
and
better
are
Under
manhood's
sterner
reign,
Still,we
feel that
something
fleet
Followed
youth
will
Something
And
those
again.
come
sigh for
it
In the earth
haunting
it in vain.
everywhere,
in the air,
and
it never
if you
Now,
flyingfeet,
beautiful has vanished
we
But
with
never
behold
We
again.
comes
the hither side of
on
are
lines
probably
appear
only academically graceful
Perhaps,
the
even,
thought
rather like sentimental
But
23
again.
comes
stronger,
are
And
as
from
something
it never
And
Poetry?
youth, the dream, departs,
when
But
in
Seek
We
Do
What
if you
if,for
are
any
reason,
pressed home
reaction
on
to
will be
if
not
the other
the
you,
that
of
to
you
tender.
embodied
seems
stupid nonsense.
side of
flightof
the
and
forty
time
almost
keen
forty,or
has
been
inevitable
appreciation,
How
24
touched
with
quick
so
life"
far
looms
behind
resentment
At
uarid
have
to
as
quoted
poem
it is evident
successive
and
And
is,and
And
What
run
And
Until
And
and
bursts
to
of
and
I?
Hig-
run.
sun
hands.
two
golden bands
beams
mist,
Where-e'er
soft
damp
swells
very
the
childish dreams.
my
breathe
heart
taneous,
spon-
Fool."
April
is filled with
feel the soft
my
the
to
of sunny
have
care
ing.
read-
pleasurescarce
an
with
glitterlike
day
of
in my
chains
if the
that
reading
laugh
up
girdledround
That
I
heart
catch it back
All
It
the fields I
my
the
of, for instance,Anne
ginson Spicer'suSong
I toss
sting and
enjoyment, that
of
superlativeemotional
follow
of
if it lies
or
recognition,will follow
could
sponsive
re-
tableland
lost all
kind
all events,
Across
gently
or
vaguely near,
sadness, quiteanother
of satisfied
Poetry
If the
sadness.
middle
Read
to
depths
soak
like
me
a
I list
of
dew,
through
seed
bloom, indeed.
There
do
Who
To
do
fools, I'll let them
Unmindful
of the
There
must
be
More
than
these
And
toss
could
Nor
bit of
that
me
as
I
sun.
sympathetic to
MasefiekTs
to
of
equallydepictivepoem
for
Trees
and
Trees."
written
deep
the
Master"
Here
in
and
are
praise of
and
poems
sea
another
many
Take,
nature.
example, Sidney Lanier's
"
Ballad
Joyce
trees,
each
in
tone
and
each
instinct with
simply expressed feeling,each
reverent
of
Kilmer's
lovelypoems,
two
this
Browning's
incarnate, to
"
skies.
run
the
to
mood
they prize
April
equally sympathetic to
prove
and
daunt
Passes,
"Pippa
their way
go
rainbow
nature-love
swain
rain.
or
sun
something
the
care
April day.
heart up
my
not
shepherd
some
Poor
not
state
a
April debonair
greets his love, or
shall
25
sedate,
Who
They
Poetry?
keep
laugh, and
not
smiling,like
And
who
walk
Young
meet
In
Seek
be those
may
dignity,and
Of
"
We
Do
What
trinsi
in-
expression,
26
How
yet what
Read
to
leagues,what
essential verities that
Lanier
them!
is
Kilmer
Master,
mood
the
on
because
simple
A
tree
lovely as
whose
Against the
A
tree
A
nest
earth's
Upon
Who
whose
about
the
see
never
tree.
sweet
God
at
in Summer
robins
bosom
is prest
mouth
leafy arms
that may
of
reader.
widely appealing,
more
hungry
lifts her
And
the
doubtless, but is
poet,
a
that looks
tree
of
and
lines:
I think that I shall
poem
arouse
sympathy
widely human,
more
Kilmer
A
of
the
vergenc
this di-
must
part
something even
not
with
the trees, and
is the greater
there
A
concerned
most
divergence
comprehension
in the
differentiate
distinguish,
creative
equally marked
Lanier
eternities apart
with
of
Poetry
in her
snow
intimatelylives
with
flowing breast;
all
to
day,
pray;
wear
hair;
has
lain;
rain.
What
Poems
of
Poems
the
by fools
make
can
beloved
as
joys of travel,
tree.
a
for
and
trees
and
large in
and
being.
roads
to
widest
with
moreover,
Courage,
all
of
women,
every
and
if
trees
they
So,
are
too,
ants
unending poetic varihuman
spellof
themes.
virtue that all
a
exalt
admire,
to
agree
It has been
of almost
scope.
is
illustrate,
lies the
poems.
of
to
and
life,at least
the
of woods
popular
all the
simplest,
Woods
vastlyvaried
the best loved
upon
Herein
poems
be
must
range
men,
But
as
the road
the
reasons.
imaginative enjoyment,
human
of
poems
of
in the
almost
are
understandable
bulk
27
like me,
most
roads
Poetry?
woods
and
tr"es
as
numerous,
in
Seek
made
are
only God
But
and
We
Do
certain
much
quoted
related that upon
canvass
large and fairlyrepresentativegathering
a
Henley's intrepid "Invictus"
men
from
drawn
several
by
u
thought,
Invictus
a
hundred
hundred
of each
poem
loved
several
person
"
mouths
as
voting.
because
theory, an
pockets or
attitude
it
was
ored
hon-
ite
the favorThese
men
expressed
they
had
a
long
28
and
How
Many
Few
form
the
Under
who
grief and
and
not
Who
Where
mirth
and
are
my
am
All
motherhood,
and
scorn;
born.
my
that I
wise
I walk
hands,
above;
stone
weep
was
"
all shall befall
woman
Through
I
of
known
knows
Jewel-laden are
Do
charm
leaf,
have
woman
Fame
women,
leaf of rose,
I lie prone,
a
Henley
Cyprian Woman."
laurel
a
gray
glad, who
that Life
ner.
man-
like the idea without
subtle
"A
dusky
Scarlet
Tall
articulate
of the
resist the
Widdemer's
Any
less
brave, experienced
could
These
Poetry
might
women
caring for
Love
in
adored
deeply
All
Read
to
sleep
in love;
shadow
gray
asphodel,
have
had
could
tell.
lenge.
chalhaps,
pergaret
Mar-
How
30
falter in the
Tulips
With
blown
her
And
Here
Read
to
wind;
her eyes
leaves
flower
Rests
her
she
her
veil about
Milky
all must
between
deeply as
as
seeds
Here
she lies where
shall
its fold:
all must
men's
days
Lo
!
One
sorrow
and
spread
no
"
more
opening door,
or
or
they hold
World,
men
hearts that led
shall know
Closing door
of
of
love
wearisome
grown
Little hands
Keys
tonight,
that she had
snares
After
come.
the samisen.
on
Little hands
Into
"
light
so
the strongest
Though
Lilted
stir
not
breasts
rests;
Little feet that danced
Music
come.
rolled
quicken in
Feels
blind,
are
is dumb.
singingmouth
she lies where
Lotus
Poetry
a
where
of
grief;
withered
is
chrysanthemum
leaf.
thy distress?
the less !
What
that
Poetry?
31
is dumb,
She
Chrysanthemum.
was
So, again, in regard
countless
in
Seek
say'stthou?
what
World,
She
We
Do
tastes,
to
the
all of
or
any
thusiasms
endevotions, idiosyncrasies,
of
variouslydelightingthe children
Poetry
poetry
capable
of infinite variety of selection.
Art
lovers, for example,
will
swear
by
uWork
Kenyon
thou
for
Of
old the
Lovers
sat
muses
brethren," dogs and
and
songs
and
sonnets
of
form
or
of
"
recurrent
and
the
solace.
the poems
meant
a
To
very
goodness
faithless dwellers
who,
and
"
will
joy
Rossetti
some
strength
the
loving,
always
specialdelectation,as
at
find in
ever
and
as
religious,
of Christina
little
tire of
never
incline toward
religion?
religiouspoetry
or
"
doorstep.
religiouslyinclined
not
that
"
humanity's
cats, will
or
ning
begin-
Thomas,
that celebrate the
heart, in secret, does
kind
M.
high
on
the hearthstone
The
creed
pleasure," or
of these faithful
graces
by
Cox
Edith
friends
and
of time
the end
to
the
charming figurationof
"
pleasingof all,
there is for the
men.
have
have
the
How
32
of Francis
poems
other
and
Down
or
up
And
of human
gamut
illustrations have
of
reader.
Meynell,
so
the tale
in
pleasure
if matter
tragicwife
his
Supposing
be
R.
had
any
any
time
to
break
Or
a
into
take
supposing
wanted
man
find your
would
But
companion.
find it difficult to
mother.
he
walking,
should
or
trot, he
a
this
that
a
man
with
way,
had
if he
wish
might
keep step
it
plain
ex-
or
daughter.
that
for
taste
mulated
for-
reading
excuse
....
inestimable
an
to
their
to
always marching,
mother
Dickens
poetry
to
Wilfer
it
be
properly suited
situation.
regard
of poetry,
always,
"
be
the
thesis will be
enjoyment
reading
to
caused
followed
have
outlined
the
poetry
material
he
faction
for the satis-
provided
who
the facts in
when
followed, but sufficient
universal
again understood,
mood,
be
such
admit
to
entire
open-minded, unprejudiced
any
Any
the
"
experiencethe poetry-
been
thought-threadof
ready
around
or
"
pleasuretrail might
to
Alice
Thompson,
religioussingers.
"
list or
"
Poetry
on.
goes
to
Read
to
at
times
some-
your
Bella,
to
go
What
won't
through life,we
but we'll say
to
that the
'
March
suitable
better
with
in
in the
a
hard
day,
his food
might
Or, if he
his mind
out
put
4
It need
lies the
enjoyment:
to
time
tions.
transac-
after
or
do
'Saul,'
him.
on
to
relieve
dancing a
it
the
to
Saul,'he might find himself
in the execution
Exactly.
herein
in
song
none
in
inclined
obliged
was
'
March
Dead
time
by singinga comic
hornpipe, and
'
any
very
keep
heavy
set
a
supper
March'
Dead
likelyto
be
at
was
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the
to
Dead
"
of domestic
run
c
be
It would
instance,if he took his
For
ing
Suppos-
the
was
be difficultto
ordinary
33
companion,
a
particularoccasions
but it would
"
him
to
Well.
for
tune
with
Very good.
allotted
Saul.'
Poetry?
in
say
tune.
a
tune
'
Seek
We
Do
secret
of his
be
not
of
intentions."
lively
said
again that
with
reading poetry
suit the poetry
to
the
needs
and
of the time.
uses
Is your
mood
solemn?
ballads, sentimental
societe,stirringwar
Vance
Cookers
Are
and
you
Don't
read
triolets,
gay
songs
or
even
ping
trip-
vers
de
Edmund
"
bracing ImpertinentPoems."
in love ?
Peruse
all the love
epithalamiums available,but
seek
lyrics
not
to
How
34
stay
the
or
whipped
curb
Read
when
Sandburg.
self
one's
throbbing
steps
your
in
poetry,
as
eat
you
sleep
or
there'll
of
regale
ters
Mas-
of
sarcasm
to
with
the
with
stately
some
dirge.
or
talk
biting
strokes
or,
life,
chant
Poetry
hungry,
cream
of
joy
the
bludgeon
when
well,
As
with
soul
your
Read
to
be
no
or
a
word,
drink
for
plan
or
dress
or
the
dream
or
future.
about
nonsense
more
estly,
hon-
sensibly,
as
or
Then
not
ing
enjoy-
poetry.
For
whoso
these
with
resultant
the
air
reads
suggestions
enjoyment
and
fly.
in
poetry
no
than
could
more
he
accordance
could
leap
avert
into
THE
TOYS
little Son, who
My
from
looked
ful
thought-
eyes
moved
And
and
in
spoke
quiet
grown-up
wise,
Having
my
I struck
him,
With
hard
His
"
the
law
time
seventh
beyed,
diso-
dismissed
and
words
and
Mother,
who
unkissed,
patient, being
was
dead.
Then,
fearing
lest
his
grief
should
der
hin-
sleep,
his
I visited
found
But
With
bed,
him
darkened
slumbering
deep,
eyelids, and
their
lashes
yet
From
And
his
late
I, with
Kissing
away
sobbing
wet.
moan,
his tears,
left others
of my
own;
For,
on
a
table
drawn
35
beside
his
head,
How
36
He
A
had
A
put, within
of
box
of
A
six
or
bottle
And
To
the
beach,
heart.
I
night
I wept,
at
coins, ranged
art,
his sad
when
by
copper
careful
that
God,
Ah,
abraded
stone,
bluebells,
with
when
So
red-veined
a
shells,
seven
comfort
To
his reach,
French
two
there
glass
with
Poetry
and
counters
piece
And
Read
to
prayed
and
last
said
:
lie with
we
tranced
breath,
Not
vexing Thee
And
thou
How
our
weakly
Thy
good,
less
fatherly
not
Than
I whom
Thou
"
toys
understood
Then,
Thou'lt
what
joys,
commanded
great
the
of
rememberest
made
We
in death,
has
from
molded
clay,
leave
I will be
Thy
sorry
for
"
wrath,
their
and
say,
childishness."
Coventry
Eatmore.
How
38
of
Read
to
Whittier, Bryant, Emerson,
Longfellow,
Holmes."
and
"
The
fundamentals
of
Stanley Braithwaite
folk
chants
chant of
.
.
oral
.
Poetry
.
in which
to
From
the
as
at
Sumer
Percy,
the
in,"
through
up
medieval,
and
of the twentieth
century,
poetry
similar
has
course
up
story-songs
the
poems
through
the
of
Chaucer,
Elizabethan,
Edwardian
variouslyfloweringand
A
always
English
is icumen
Georgian, Victorian
risen.
cently,
quite re-
poetic history,by
earliest known
wandering minstrels,
the
least until
American
ballads, chants, and
Hogg,
less standardized."
or
measured.
the
"
such
forms
and
orderly if not
distinctly
progression
regular or
diction
advanced, in the English
poetichistorywhich,
includes
the
highly developed
a
more
are
from
advanced
formal
it'has
And
has
chant
communal
l
in the
"are
aptly says,
of
fixed patterns
of
William
poetry,"as
antiquityand the communal
primitivepeoples in the world today.
organism
a
Poetry
poets
to
flourishing
poets
stream
of
steadilyflowed
and
lish-cou
Engand
progression
"
The
has marked
Old"
in all known
poetry,
stages of the world's
the
of
changing course
and
followed,
forestalled
and
humanity'slife,experience,
thought.
the world
When
and
ages
has
progress,
foretold
reflected,sometimes
39
tide of other lands and
the poetry
And
races.
Poetry, So-Called
has
been
with
gay
ticism,
roman-
quick with chivalry,overcharged
sentiment, stirred by martial
filledwith
spirit,
religious enthusiasm,
disturbed
growing pains,poetry,
faithful
handmaid
the
growing
life,has
been
ever
and
ideals of her
well
says
and
forceful
a
Louis
true
to
"
is
heart
human
"
be
and
care
other
gentlesingers,fresh
of
a
in the poems
bracing
a
way
out
rare
than
more
a
though
(altired
"
surcease
Longfellow
courage
"
"
aims
life"
found
of
of
poetry,"
himself
from
has
from
and
For
interpolated,
many
soul
social
by
something
graceful,literaryescape
it may
"
mistress.
Untermeyer,
poet,
with
and
or
lus
stimu-
through the help
daring bards, poetry, like religion,
ministering,
always, to deepest human
need).
more
"It
"A
is
a
spiritedencounter
spirited sharing in
with
it."
life's encounter"
How
40
Read
to
might, perhaps,
Poetry
come
shade
a
the
nearer
truth.
This
it was
that rendered
centuries
forth
brought
the
tender
singers,the
court
Poets,
Lake
that
the
the
"
are
of
the
and
justtwo
and
added
universal
love
nature
to
the
as
of the
moreover,
with form
child
race.
levelers in the
two
who
number.
or
"
of
might
The
three
cocounts
ac-
"
poetry'searlybeginning
fact that it will endure
time.
Poetry,
of
ing
sing-
of the human
great
vinity
di-
has
contemporary
their
concomitant
long as
"
of
death," is the dictum
for the fact of
and
pourings,
out-
that
moment,
of
this it is
chivalric
and
poems
Stanley Braithwaite,
William
have
the
Emerson;
and
recent
poetry
"
of
philosophizing
larger themes
There
world
war
the
worshiping
pure
poets
much
so
to
to
lyricsof
surging acknowledgment
to
tuned
the
calls
now
love
nature
Whittier
and
Bryant
religiouspoetry, that
rich in
so
tian
early Chris-
the
races
if not
lacked
began
"
and
will persist
formality. The
the
their descendants, lineal and
finished
poets
form
justas
poetic,
of
the
"
The
child
Old"
of his later
grace
poetic child, racial
production.
the
ished
fin-
But
the
individual, always
or
otherwise,
consciously or
presses,
ex-
striving
a
in its simplest rhymform, especially
ing
toward
and
be
rhythmic developments,a striving,
Pope by
"
in
lisped
for
numbers,
moving.
the sole
represents
means
no
and
powerful
it said, frequentlymost
who
41
today frequentlylacks
of
poet
So-Called
Poetry,
the
singer
numbers
came.'
"
Milton,"
according
what
Ficke, uknew
certain
and
rhythms
"The
reason
"is
the
of
of
the very
in which
spiritof
into
sound
recurrent
"
a
kind
the mind, deaf
the distractions of the world
see
puts
singlyand solelythe
before
it.
The
Ficke
nature
the absolute
lulled
consciousness
trance
"
from
on
to
of regular
use
fact," Mr.
derived
carryingthe
the
for this
It is based
art.
waves
rhymes.
wise
effects in poetry
wholly impossiblewithout
are
Davison
will be
all poets
recognize today; that
to
Arthur
to
dream
the
a
reader
of
of
on
pended
sus-
visionary
a
around
which
of
necessity
state
for
plains,
ex-
moment
it,will
the poet
emotion-heightening,
How
42
hypnoticpower
of
of
that
is the
which
is the
almost
regular rhythms
visited
the call of
thoughts
by
the
When
the whole
it,and
effect
tion
Emo-
emotions
some
and
rhyme
might
as
rhythm
a
draws
it down
of the
the
a
into
.
.
ough
thor-
heat, he will
find that what
he has
perfectlyinto
the smooth
to
flows
say
mold
.
lation,
reve-
glows into
of white
transparency
mote
re-
unspirit,
blaze of sudden
poet'stheme
tertwi
in-
and
current,
everyday consciousness.
is
to
as
seizes the thread
caverns
the mind
and
rent
recur-
poetry.
of it all; and
subterranean
and
of
specialmagic
with
"
instances
nothing else. Rhyme
of one's
and
peculiar somnambulistic
secret
to
answer
Poetry
is in many
rhymes
basis
Read
to
ally
usu-
rapidly
of
lar
regu-
verse-forms."
This
statement,
with certain
Lowell's
"
will be
of keen
a
"The
day
tion
connec-
poeticphenomena
fascinating
Vision
remembered,
in
interest in
"
also
and
vociferouslymade
that
too
and
composed
was
has
controvertingthe
meticulous
of Sir Launfal,"
its value
claim
of
devotion
to
ished
fincinctly
suc-
frequently
so
late
as
it
to
the
form
effect
limits
"
The
the
maims
subjectmatter
the
but
free
futile
of
cherished
air
or
or
is
water
or
safelyto
craft may
because
sail
a
close
for
tiny boat
or
form, is too
or
of
form
Psalms
by transmission
preciselymeasured
of
pint pitcher
a
other
no
to
mood
and
lose
meter,
gain nothing by
therefore
of
of
vessel
that
say
over-runs
sweeping
through
gain
not
any
for
other
expression. The
David, the sweeping roll of Isaiah
would
reverent
by
volume
a
it,as
use
vast
special
analysis.
mighty
contain
its
substantiated
not
that because
too
and
produced
ballad, the chante royale,it may
in effect
are
ridiculous
injuryto
poetic thought
a
the triolet
the
thesis,is
well declare
As
of
of expression,
power
sundry
will it bear
study,nor
not
much
spell,for
its
under
always,
must
monstrosities
verse
fectly
Imper-
sponsible,
claim, indirectlyre-
indicated
because
and
if
destroy grace
actually
treated.
so
technique
mastered
course,
43
expression,sometimes
of
freedom
Poetry, So-Called
Old"
greatlyby
reduction
the
most
to
a
jogging
dignifiedand
but they are
rhythmic settings,
formless.
the first to
Free
proclaim
verse
the wide
not
enthusiasts
difference
How
44
between
blank
Read
to
libre
vers
Poetry
the
and
majestic biblical
verse.
In
connection, it will readilybe
this
that for each
men
speci-
extant
every
remains
real poetry
of
and
but
cepted
ac-
evitable
best, in-
one
mold.
"
Wordsworth's
of
Ode
Immortality,"while
utterlyunsuited
is
by the
the
to
form
with
"Lalla
Moore's
Harold," Noyes'
"
Dauber," how
helped
that
so
rather
it.
change
the
of
which
scholastic
as
to
to
"
"
Byron's
deny
Valley,"
"
Childe
that these
of
into
The
with
the
are
forms
sideration
con-
this idea
or
prose
distortions
practice work"
meddle
tor
crea-
"Thana-
momentary
poems
terrible
them.
appeal
Marmion,"
or
slightestdoubt
change
dangerous
"
Should
the
dubitabl
in-
Japan," Masefield's
to
suggested
some
the
hampered by
well fitthem.
recall
known
In Old
than
trend
of its
in
Rookh,"
"
and
Bryant's
uLove
absurd
leave
force
the mind
of the Lake
Lady
and
purely lyricform,
which
topsis,"Meredith's
"
thought
strengthenedin
naturallyendowed
Scott's
in
Intimations
the
on
has
into
been
fact that it is
a
singleline
of
How
46
poets.
One
trippingsteps
while
"new"
incline
nor
grave,
of
interpreting
for
does
Here
boy,
have
the
etc.
into
but
"
the
a
purely melodic
also
read
"
reasons.
rhythm, harmoniously
on
the shore?
Reduce
this poem
admirable
singing and
God
A
note
tures
pic-
fishenran's
tenderlyvist-
almost
and
as
sveet
b
"
enjoyed for
And
does
not
with
its
recurent
free
for
be in evidence.
much
a
the
suggest
to
argument
injusticethe
oi
phrases that might
Break, Break, Break,"
would
sider,
Con-
succession
of words
music
frequentlyare
waves
for the
decay.
ships, the
have
we
the Swinburnian
and
the
to
moment.
only a
not
sea,
ful idea and
as
to
example, the Tennysonian favorite,
we
"
friend
statelyharmonies
to
sentimental
a
feel drawn
not
followinga
repeated almost
and
Poetry
Break, Break," that has been loved
"Break,
"
Read
to
Or
quoted
splashof
verse
the
the
an"
classic
an
i"rm
subject to sirilar
of
song
the resultant
Pipa's
harm:
reigns. Everything'sall righi
sterlingsentiment, truly.
With
fair
"
The
Poetry, So-Called
Old"
and
exactitude
of
"
"
not,
the
"
u
and
by
outpouring.
real poetry
called
comparatively
free
forth
There
circumstance
conformed
have
there
existence,a serious
Cornucopia
been
and
But
Louise
"
Checks
are
the
fine
will be
"
Brooke,
Red
to
specimens
the
more
good
anarchistic
justifytheir
Lowell's
"The
of
free
possible
Green
and
Driscoll's
majority of
singers
many
in all
of
War,
to
hearing. Amy
of
trolled
uncon-
by the Great
productions powerful enough
'The
in
swelling flood
productions,just as
verse
human
the
little has
standards.
verse
Of
pression,
ex-
cramps
general outlet
best
ibility,
flex-
from
be deduced
frequent assertion that form
find
or
emotions
the fact that great
reasonablymight
as
question
poetry, of form
new
is shed
do
world!
the vexed
light,again, upon
old
"
be said?
more
New
the
right with
All's
Need
Heaven
in His
God's
But
Browning.
of
the
presenting
adequacy
idea
beauty-filled
47
this
renowned
Seeger, Ledwidge,
fits,"
ComMetal
order.
war
Gib-
How
48
etc.
son,
have
"
standard
to Read
for the brave
meters
machine
and
urge
for
often
more
"gotten across"
time-hallowed
have
pulses that
v
nerves
and
souls and
"The
of
"
but
are
a
that
can
be
Margaret Wid-
their
The
"The
Comfort
Song
"The
Mitchell's
"The
of the
Bridge
Shirt,"these
magnificent rhyming
or
poems,
be
the
quite so
"
of
Face
Wilkinson's
quite forgotten.
Republic"
and
cumulative
not
that, once
instantly,
recur
tier's slave
the
if
senses.
Ruth
of the
few
time-honored
of the
Night Court," Hood's
Sighs,"and
"put over,"
are
hearts, thrill human
Florence
Makers,"
"The
not
Factories," and
Teresina,"
Flower
socialistic antagonisms,
unending
stir human
demer's
socialistic
or
rhythms, rhymes
to
power
cannon.
or
aid
by
surely as
right as
or
than
vivid heart
and
of social
surge
social
sympathies, as
and
the
"tanks,"
guns,
The
simple rhymes,
employed
that battle
songs
Poetry
dom
read, sel-
Would
Battle
mons
ser-
Whit-
Hymn
of
effective without
their pulsingswing?
lilt,
while
Whitman,
rhyme,
was
so
scorning
mere
strongly endowed
empty
with
the
"Old"
The
many
sensitive like the
oncoming
the
the
sound
that
flow
narrowest
brings
wind
high
a
times, has
at
the
thunder
ebb
tide into the
ocean
rhyme
this
is
Alfred
thought
mainly music,
be
to
singing,
who
yet,
beneath
would
consent
"The
or
like Swinburne,
Noyes,
found
"
Proserpine
be
could
sacrificingeither
without
rhythm.
or
Harte
Bret
expression.
vigorous enough
in
Kipling's stories
tenement.
of
mode
in
an
certainlylose nothing through
rhyme
"
roll of
of
sea,
Masefield,
forest.
and
the
of
49
of his lines affect the
rhythmic giftthat
or
So-Called
Poetry,
were
clear
no
their
lovely
forego
to
for
Barrel-organ"
this reason?
Yet
never
Whitman
at
his
would
The
poetry
by
The
be
granted
of all
is neither
and
nature
truth
is that
-of
lines
beauty.
as
poets,
not
old
It needs
oclastic,
icon-
and
"
poetry
new
belong
to
nor
ors.
hon-
the field of
because,
new
it is of all time.
humanity
needs
recurrent
it needs
even
"
essence,
the
rhythm, cadence,
matching
these
Whitmanesque
most
poems
which
its very
of
one
every
these, moreover,
rhyme,
beauty
other
as
of
kind
best
How
50
and
sweetest
that
Read
to
of
means
humanity
lessons
pressinghome
learn
must
easilypointedby
Poetry
that
and
this method.
most
are
It needs
them,
ish,
less,to satisfythat hunger for artistic fin-
no
perfectionwhich,
lies
deep
statelyhexameters,
verse,
these
sonnet,
but the less
without
lose
human
for
for
To
of
in
rhythmic flow
is the
that the
cannot
we
us
sing
moments
our
sions,
specialocca-
majestic features
deny
versal
uni-
great
is the
first
reaveme
joy, grief,be-
lift up
the
impulse next
to
triumph, or disaster; to
voice
eled
the chis-
reserve
aside
starving.
impulse in
the
may
would,
movement
newer
we
set
moments,
of
phases
giftof poetry
greater
fostered,
or
heart.
in every
Blank
forsworn
come.
Impressionism,cubism, futurism
doubt, with
its
the
pass,
but
and
color
remains
harmonic
ing
men
that
will
conforms
to
form
Music
even
out
with-
"key
feel-
but the children
go,
lose love
or
lesson)
love of
untroubled.
and
come
never
fundamental
verity,tone,
"
may
and
specialmessage
may
(each,no
or
sundry
longing for
basic and
of
music
unchang-
ing
The
"Old"
rules
and
regulations. So,
51
perhaps,
of
of all,in the realm
markedly
most
So-Called
Poetry,
poetic
art.
"
Poetry that is real,that is
through
that, through tender
proved
stands
all the
and
its fitness
in
hosts
of
poetasters
its era
The
the
And
poetry
has
vigorous reality,
or
and
by long
fear, needs
no
survive
defence," well
no
Underwood.
Curtis
John
says
centuries,needs
the
fit to
no
survival
strong
defenders
though
hypothetically"new"
poets
arrayed against it,declare
are
ended, its glory gone.
spelland
magic of rhyme, whether
interpenetrativerefrain
of the folk
in
song
reiteration and
ballad, the tintinnabulating
or
alliteration
of
Poe, the haunting, quivering,
pulse-quickeningmeasures
plangent,
in his
has
call
"
"
poem
and
games
and
ever
and
Noyes
Vachel
as
or
the
say
Lind-
folk-built poems
reemployed it,was
will be strong
to
move
ever,
and
us.
All the
from
burden
recurrent
relearned
is ever,
of
rim
rhythmic
wild, strange
to
songs
rim, have
and
nations
had
of the
their
spells and
world,
rhyming,
sagas,
their
How
52
and
runes
To
lullabies
marched
eras
to
far
too
nation
and
victory
nation
ahead
rhythmic
after
nation
after
nation
as
of
surge
rocked
and
in
and
sway
and
rock
of
songs
love,
battle.
the
songs
Poetry
national
and
muntras
occupation,
Read
to
will
for
war
has
ness,
happi-
march
and
vision-
present
ing.
the
Even
approaching
is
set
rhyme.
to
"music
or
of
approving
swinging,
the
spheres,"
free
splendid
verse
far
from
disorder,
rhythm
and
How
to
Read
Sweetness
honey
and
ries,
cher-
currant
Bar-le-Duc
of
flowing out
berries,
by
train,
every
It rains
amber
and
Straw-pale honey
Red-stained
Poetry
in
prosperity
Bar-le-Duc
in times
of peace.
Holy Jesus !
when
Of
be
will there
when
mercy,
ceasing
a
War!
The
bushes
currant
and
lopped
are
burned,
The
bees have
The
children
flown
and
returned,
never
of Bar-le-Duc
eat
more
no
honey.
all the money
And
in the
will
town
not
buy
of sugar
Enough lumps
Father
has
has
So
But
between
two
and
mother,
Gaston
and
for
a
sun
and
family.
sun,
little Jeanne,
Marie
"
they
one,
have
none.
Two
little children
kneelingbetween
grape-vines,
Praying
to
the
starry
Virgin,
the
Red
have
They
of
out
In
and
Green
seen
her
currant-red
a
smooth
as
the
Days
and
Still
they
Lump
and
For
hands
shines
and
brightly
days
measure
But
In
vines.
in the
sugar
and
lump,
and
them
on
slowly by,
pass
grocery,
always none
Marie,
for little Jeanne,
And
as
pray,
stripped Autumn
the
Gaston
crown
a
honey.
sun
through
and
gown
They clasp their
And
church, shining
in
window
high
a
Comfits
listen,Children.
blue, peaked
one.
Over
Germany,
there,
fairies
the
are.
Witches
who
Gnomes
live in
in
deep
and
pine-treeglades,
mines, with
pickaxes
spades.
Fairies
who
dance
upon
round
grass
rings,
And
a
Rhine-river
where
a
Lorelei
sings.
The
kind
prayer,
German
fairies know
of your
H
56
caught it
They
Read
to
o"w
it
as
Poetry
the
through
went
air.
Children
Hush,
fairies,and
Christmas, and
of
is
Christmas
!
coming.
cornucopias
sugar-plums!
Hollow
thunder
Hollow
thunder
Hollow
thunder
over
Hollow
thunder
over
Thunder
the Hartz
over
tains.
moun-
Forest.
the Black
over
the
u
Rhine.
Unter
den
den."
Lin-
kettles,
Swung
above
Forked
and
green
lightningfires,
spired lightning
Cooking candy.
Bubble, froth, stew
Stir,old
women
!
;
and
Stir, Generals
spur-heeled young
officers;
Stir,misshapen Kaiser,
And
shake
the
steam
from
your
turned
up-
moustachios.
Streaked
here,
and
polished candy
you
make
and
Red
hot
With
and
sugar
Drop
57
things;
liquids
of littleflasks,
"
Drop
"
Into the
all
And
out
other
"
and
Strange powders
Dropped
Comfits
Green
For
bubbling sugar,
Germany
laughs.
the
people
years
the
honey
and
currants
have
eaten
Bar-le-
of
Duc,
Now
they
will
give
back
for
sweetness
sweetness.
Ha
! Ha
! Ha
! from
Ha
! Ha
! Ha
I in
Ha
! Ha
! Ha
Rhine
waves.
! Ha
! Ha
Ha
of
!
to
Munich.
Schleswig-Holstein.
flowing along
echoing round
with
the
the
caves
Riigen.
Germany
And
I
Posen
sets
splitsits
out
sides
its candles
with
for
laughing,
the
coming
of the Christ-child.
:t
Heilige Nacht
flyingover
Are
the storks
!"
and
great
white
birds
Germany.
returningin mid-Winter?
58
"
How
!"
Heilige Nacht
giftsare
Read
to
Poetry
the
the
is lit and
tree
ready.
Steady,great birds, you
flown
have
past
Germany,
And
hanging
are
over
Bar-le-Duc, in
France.
The
moon
is
bright,
The
moon
is
clear,
fairies
little Children, the
Come,
are
here.
The
good
your
German
heard
fairies who
prayer,
floatingin
See them
the
air.
star-pricked
cornucopiasshake on the tree,
the star-lampsglitter
brilliantly.
The
And
of
shower
A
Peppermint, chocolate,
Red
Soon
white
and
of
comfits,a shower
the fairies answered
falls.
marzipan
the
spiralsglintin
you
balls,
moon.
"
Soon!
Soon!
Bright
are
candies
the
in the
red
and
white
moonlight
:
streaked
Red
and
Green
Comfits
fingerspointingto
the
White
corpse
Round
like
blood-dropsglistening
Fairyland come
true
and
The
blood-drops
The
corpse
Soon
!
So
Something
Rattles
An
And
on
ering.
gath-
the tongue,
crumble.
tears, Moon.
!
soon
rattles behind
a
hedge,
rattles.
"
old
for the
be had
melt
chew.
last,
fingerssplinterand
white
Weep
rubies.
suck, and
at
sweetness
Shiny stuff of joy to
sky,
:
Just pick and pick and
Sugar
50)
skeleton
is
sittingon
its
bones
thigh-
holding its gigglingsides.
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Bar-le-Duc
Now
children,sweet
Bright as
as
honey,
currants,
berries
snapped
coffins.
The
red,
currants
she has instead her dead.
Little
Like
had
skeleton
dances,
off and
packed
in
How
60
in
Dances
In
fingers
blue,
peaked
The
cooks
And
the
In
the
his
And
new
Read
to
moonlight,
wear
scullery
ribbons
Poetry
like
crack
castanets.
Germany
iron
crosses,
maids
sent
trip
to
church
Potsdam.
from
"
Amy
Lowell,
How
62
fitted
to
free
kind
every
The
and
strongest
interpreter of
and
It is'for
"
verse-form
a
"flow
balanced
less definite
its
distinct
and
greater,
more
verse
ness
free
and
not
It has
but
sustained
and
upon
and
events
its
own
the
for
emotions
before
the
dawn
of
the
enthusiasm, employed free
verse
and
cadences
with absolute
"Leaves
"
as
claim
adequately suffice.
spontaneity.
he described
or
more
assured
special virtues,
not
upon
large or prominent
too
poetry.
long
rhymes
verse,
than
rather
place
a
perhaps
Whitman,
recent
fine.
and
and
rhythm"
"
will
its medium
verse
cadence,"
units"
in modern
"
"strike
that free
upon
place
but
those
probabilitygraduallywill
own
honored
and
utime
in all
rhyme,
but
based
many
free
"
reason
an
otic,
swift, cha-
in
"
of
as
For
perceptions
this very
favor
crises which
undeniably fluid
medium
a
in
reproduce
flashes"
in broken
rial.
mate-
or
fact that poetry,
and
fragmentary
offers
idea
or
of life aspects.
climaxes
the poet
type
life, must
phases
emotional
Poetry
argument
lies in the
verse
kinds
Read
to
an
attempt
to
of
sure-
Grass"
give the spirit,
the
"
"New
The
and
body,
the man,
speech
of
(for
"
much
the
set
free
Americans,"
"
melodious-voiced
and
the
of
words
terrible
Whitman,
no
poet,
according
they will
have
Free
verse,
tongue,"
means,
be the
to
the
colossal
in
although
less than
tongue
fetters of
in
may
a
a
such
a
"
how
"
strange
and
prophet
sense
uneed
"
a
is more,
what
tongue."
summed
word, little more
of revolt
world
times, the
.new
large
perhaps
be
fluent
vista, moreover,
a
yes,
the
perfectusers
dreamed
never
"
the past.
most
in the
most
vista"
new
and
poet
contemporary
The
people, the
and
its
that
manner
a
people
fluent and
most
use
again according to
going
are
and
new
the
custom-forged
sturdy Walt,
present
street," with
the
implications,in
to
"The
expression."
againstconventionalityand
revolt
conventional
from
of
language
democratic
did
is the best
self
of
politan
cosmo-
a
the best of America
range
63
tialities
poten-
new
American,
therefore, antedated
Whitman,
the
words,
new
an
"
cosmopolitanism)
of
Poetry, So-Called
Whitman's
"new
quite simply.
than
a
It
tion
combina-
against the possiblyover-stated
64
How
but
indubitable
and
era,
root
or
mankind
prettinessof
u
that
periodical
fundamentals
or
the
for
that
the
the
Lindsay,
the
Much
carry
it to
to
take
inner
the
perfection. Much,
has
the
or
Darthe
because
poeticimpulse, fail
of
processes
much
written, from
to
is
more
a
tion,
composifor
ten,
being writ-
desire
attract
poetic
to
be
in
attention, to
notorietyby becoming bold, brazen,
bizarre.
The
at
Vachel
Tilford
pains necessary
poetic fashion,
achieve
or
been
of
legitimateor logicalconclusion,
complete the
or
the
as
Masters
of
of Olive
cause
be-
natural
and
is being written
more
ble
inevita-
verse;
confidence
writers, feelinga strong
to
things that
natural
grim pessimism
the
to
Elizabethan
the
as
torian
Vic-
being written
easy
"
and
tragic tenderness
gan.
to
of
blank
most
writers
buoyant optimism
the
return
it is
beautiful
wrote
it represents
mode
of
reason
same
dramatists
esty
mod-
the
experienceswith cyclicand
regularity. Much
for
Poetry
conventionality,mock
sentimental
and
soil"
Read
to
"new"
variance
in
poets
regard
themselves
to
the purpose
are
greatly
and
vir-
tues,
of
author
successful
described
once
character, of free
"
as
free
free
shredded
rather
has
that
of
many
have
"They
strive
they had
all this
there
He
had
own
may
every
a
On
frame
almost
work
he
seem
to
what
delicate
the
he
some,
it
chain
other
as
of
Whitman's
itself"
Ficke
to
attributes
was
form
verse
careful
as
though
order.
reviser of his
his
as
say
in the
"
different
great
a
Loose
was.
syllableof
far
of
Now,
vital
so
If
would
need
no
to
said
of
I remember
;t
acrobation.
something
poetic messages
Yet
be
he
form,"
information.
be it noted, that Mr.
manner,
4
after
would
and
osseous
an
that his message
to
to
seem
say, the form
to
there
contortion
was
poetry.
after
anything real
of itself and
come
awfully
so
seeker
recent
a
finding
as
writers
verse
poetic
real message.
no
told
record
on
free
roughs,
Bur-
John
in all serious
gone
the
ously,
contemptu-
prose."
vitallyinterested
developments,
narratives,
verse
verse,
the
later
Howells,
Dean
William
verse.
65
So-Called
Poetry,
qualityand
even
or
"
"New
The
he
with
ing
forg-
were
gold."
hand, Ezra
Pound,
one
of
66
How
the
to Read
earliest and
surgent
persistentof poetic in-
most
before
Poetry
the
insurgent
poetic development known
conventional
delicate
only believes
not
real
in the free
verse
"
to
awfully after
so
"
Cart
more
than
when
this
"
can
is
an
art
art
that
must
change
you
teach him
of the
of
thing
some-
advance
the
even
ing
tell-
striving
poet,"
he
poet
of
successful
and
editor
Chicago
of
u
Poetry,
Magazine
still in its tentative
was
"
effectively
American
famous
an
art,
of
having
can
teach the American
you
an
the
order
now
writer
form."
Monroe,
one
Verse"
of
but
his
translations,
it most
say
support
teach
you
Harriet
asked
can
manner,
arguments
and
poems
that the poet
say"
to
a
as
of
era
with
be
a
stage
"
poet that poetry
technique,with media,
in
manner
flux
constant
"
a
if it is to live?
"
that it is not
a
stant
con-
Can
pentametricecho
dogma printedin
sociological
last year's
magazines?"
The
art
surely is
of much
the
art
for
Mr.
Pound's
that conceals
techniqueis quitetoo
"
of
uncertain
popular conception.
poetry
art, while
"
But
or
Mr.
his
involved
Pound
of
limitations
belittling
predecessors,in
their
Its
career
Pound,
as
we
free
work
verse
in
wonder
untrammeled
Chicago
verse
and
recognized
"
branch
Preston
of
a
a
eddy,
related
side-eddy is
to
of
established,
as
regular
a
poetic expression.
Peabody, exquisitepoet
movement"
"new
much
seven
right
order, feels that there is
of the "old"
"
"
the
"
well settle down
may
ended
merely
freedom
poetic
free
service.
certain of
admitted
has
Josephine
ity
probabil-
spectacularsensation
a
tain
cer-
majority of
the
poetic art good
remember,
his earlier
days'
from
all reasonable
the
rendered
have
67
So-Called
Poetry,
followers, in getting away
his
and
"
"New
The
related
to
or
an
as
progress,
the main
so
"
in poetry
movement,
not
current
as
a
of
a
river."
"
The
"
singer"
sweet
"To
To
the
stands
with
similar
thus
own
this
self
standard
veritable
ized:
characterof
tools.
delights."
Teasdale, another
the
of
worker, his choice
the reader, his
Sara
faith"
working
exquisiteworker
poetic medium,
voices
a
of feeling.
catholicity
"There
is
no
surer
sign of
a
vigorous
art
68
How
Read
to
Poetry
than violent differences of
people
who
of free
verse
it
go,
wholly
of
one
of the
and
to
the
'
in free
the
is
verse
war
The
Banks
Ye
poem
question is
a
On
by Amy
Lowell
poet
a
tion
ques-
'
Boon
the other
hand,
'The
called
'
Comfits
Green
as
poem
o' Bonnie
painful.
and
It is
of such
Braes
the
[the
immediately preceding this chapter]
poem
perfectlywedded
so
subject.
idea
and
of Red
Cornucopia
rhymed
of
individuality
of his
nature
of fitness.
Burns'
that the
me
the
the respective
as
melodic
and
verse
seems
far
So
practiceit.
merits
opinion among
rapid, free
tellingrhymes
it could
how
other
with
verse
that
"
have
its form
to
"
unexpected
could
one
been
so
not
is
vivid,
a
and
most
conceive
in any
powerful
form."
Again,
Edwin
by Amy
American
in her
American
Lowell
manner,
illuminating"Tendencies
Poetry," yet
rhyming
rhythms, entertains
ask
me,"
who
similar
so
the
cluded
in-
the six notable
among
poets, all of later
in beautiful
uYou
Robinson,
Arlington
as
as
studied
in Modern
dulges
frequentlyin-
in free
verse
ideas.
dictum
included
by
How
70
after
all,forms
of
no
ticular
par-
the necessary
they are
adequate clothing to
of
Poetry
merely forms,
are
unless
value
Read
to
and
particularmanner
some
thought."
The
"New
Poetry"
mainly, a
means,
new
a
incidentally
that
such
is
Masters,
as
Ezra
Says
Miss
Lowell
this
have
no
much
on
way
poems
from
are
most
them
that
this reason,
What
course
nature
appear
so,
poems
see
absolute
so
they
its
the symbol
and
intensity,
new
of
They
constantlyupon
For
prominence.
nature
truth.
to
dwell
a
Tietjens,
less concerned
are
become
to
the
D."
huge symbol, and
symbol
taken
H.
with
more
a
need
"
of
further:
symbolic meaning.
has
ering
consid-
Frost, and
Eunice
and
poets
and
in the universe
has
and
modern
dogma
Robert
as
Pound
Sandburg
with
tion
concep-
widely differingexponents
Carl
"The
words.
surely,when
poetic school
"new"
expressing
understanding or
liighly
necessary,
such
or
and
ing,
poetic thinkof
manner
new
basic
Lowell, then,
of
manner
thinking in lines
Some
Miss
to
to
but in
is
given
be
pure
a
ent
differ-
of the older
"New"
The
writers; for
of nature,
uln
whole
'What
those
which
it is
of
as
of
of
all
today
is
era
Ideas
at-
modified
the
and
be
to
mental
funda-
expression of
it reflects this
so
from
given place to
is the
poetry
apart
ence
entire differ-
an
believed
change
to
particle."
All of which, of course,
ter
this
slowly modifying
disappeared
of man,
the smallest
vast
a
others, but all
it has
by it;
more
of outlook.
the heart
in
part
a
science.
poets
than
of the Victorian
And
nized
recog-
placein
is natural
the poets
sets
others.
a
arate
sep-
social fabric.
our
have
are
being
man
American
affected
as
of
fallinginto
conscious
been
poetry,
all
modern
some
nature
a
to
:itude is more
iave
and
whole,
71
something
now
of
and
plan,the key
not
man
man,
part
as
is
nature
from
So-Called
Poetry,
saying that
is but another
modern
nations, but
poetry,
man-
the poetry
perhaps,
especially,
of
America, is merely undergoing changes noticeible in all other
and
this
development.
forms
But
connection, that
feel the need
of the
of
human
it should
not
existence
be
all modern
noted,
in
poets
highly symbolic medium
How
72
symbolic,in
so
"
to Read
a
become
to
as
cases,
characteristic
doubly
of Ezra
"Lustra"
some
Consider, for illustration,
decidedly obscure.
that
Poetry
from
excerpt
"
Pound,
the
Before
Women
Shop:"
The
of false amber
gew-gaws
turquoise
"
Like
to
like
false
and
them.
attract
"
nature
those
:
agglutinous
yellows!
Which
distinctlyimagistic fellows, indubitably
its
the writer
to
more
means
reader.
The
wise
artistic
or
material
to
"
very
a
invade
bound, in Mr.
so
than
to
question is whether
concerning certain
A
of
like many
delightfulfragment,
own
we
concede
and
with
to
not
come
be-
....
for the sake
the title,
is
words
own
poems,
depleted fashion,
moment
it is
not
or
homely, transient antiquity."Such
if,for the
general
poetic areas
Pound's
his
of
the
poetry,
of
of the
ment,
argusort
that lives.
Or
Conrad
analyze, for
second
Arensberg's
"
specimen, Walter
Ing."
Poetry, So-Called
"New"
The
Is it possible to
Ing?
Suppose
for
ing?
mean
in g
termination
the
73
disoriented
a
series
of
fractures
simple
the
in
accordingly
has
a
value
sleep.
Soporific
for
so
And
to
present
sew
pieces.
And
p
Peace
says:
is.
i
the
suppose
soap
big in ing
Beginning.
be
to
as
Ing is
Then
ing
to
aloud
as
accompanied by times
is a possibility
the meaning
and
of ralsis.
"
not
Decidedly,distinctly,revolutionary,"
to
that strange
interesting,
say
is it
But
words.
judgment
"new"
by
by
writers
"
the
poetry" glory and
but
to
of the marked
To
use
the
modes, have
their
than
more
i.
Imagistic Creed
who, because
fair
aims
and
comparatively small
of their chosen
the
recapitulationof
terse
in the
decisive
Defer
poetry's principaltenets
expressed
with
poetry?
collection of
"
"
self
group
claimed
ac-
of
ties
peculiaricredited
been
share
as
of
"new
fame.
language of
employ always
the
exact
common
word,
speech,
not
the
How
74
near-exact,
To
2.
moods
rhythms, which
do
of
and
"
merely
u
insist upon
not
method
a
rhythms
new
new
f ree
expressed in
poet
a
free
In poetry
verse
a
not
to
verse"
writing poetry.
individualityof
old
copy
We
the
as
only
fightfor
We
it as
that the
We
believe
may
often
than
in conventional
cadence
new
the expression
as
"
word.
echo old moods.
principleof liberty.
form.
Poetry
merely decorative
the
nor
create
of
Read
to
better
be
means
new
a
idea.
To
3.
allow
absolute
is
of
subject. It
of
aeroplanesand automobiles,
bad
believe
We
of modern
there
is
nothing
as
To
present
but
we
We
an
to
reason
badly
is it necessarily
the
to
not
of the year
a
not
school
deal
we
of
should
old1911.
name:
ers,
paintrender
in vague
magnificent and
that
that
so
image (hence the
are
past.
point out
uninspiringnor
particulars
exactlyand
It is for this
nor
about
believe that poetry
however
write
the artistic values
wish
we
aeroplane
an
"Imagist").
so
art
well
passionatelyin
life,but
fashioned
4.
write
to
art
good
not
in the choice
freedom
oppose
eralities
gen-
sonorous.
the cosmic
poet,
The
"New
"
who
seems
to
produce poetry
that
us
art.
blurred
of
is of the very
brief
pledged
by
"
that
believe
us
tration
concen-
of poetry.
essence
creed
the
and
is hard
indefinite.
nor
Finally,most
The
75
culties
the real diffi-
shirk
clear,never
6.
So-Called
to
of his
5. To
Poetry,
expressed
so
not
"
primary Imagists
was
ceded
pre-
declaration:
by this significant
4
These
fallen
principlesare
not
into desuetude.
of
all great
They
poetry,
they have
new;
the
are
indeed
of
tials
essen-
all great
literature."
Miss
Lowell
"It
forms,
is
not
as
is
amplifies:
primarily on
commonly supposed, that
agist
poets
view;
it is because
the world
The
represent
in which
"new"
the work
"done
a
changed
their
the Im-
point
their reactions
of
toward
they live."
however, settingaside
Imagists,who, by
poetic independence
outworking
have
of
poetry,
of the
of
of
account
of its tenets, would
their bit"
and
their declaration
and
seem
served
practical
at
once
to
their turn,
How
Read
to
Poetry
and
such
the
Vorticists,Spectricists,
etc.
ephemeral ultra-novelty-mongersas
mainly,
"
previouslysuggested,is
concerned
ideas
with
much
quite as
which
expression
"
"
schools
new
in
such
six poets,
Carl
Masters,
Mrs.
Richard
and
tribute
to
Benet, Louis
Eunice
Fletcher
Vachel
typify all
Mr.
Lowell's
in
the
thority
au-
in her
Edward
"H.
paying
"
Pound,
"new
D."
or
but passing
Rose
opinion,
poetry"
combined
of
the
of
ilk.
the six poets
and
newer
guishing
distin-
poetic
be maintained.
and
Robinson
others
and
because
the
grouping may
'new
an
Untermeyer, James Oppenheim,
general purposes,
her
difficult.
Lindsay, William
characteristics
era,
and
Frost, Edgar
Robert
Tietjens,Ezra
named
old"
namely,
Sandburg,
generallyaccredited
For
of
Aldington (Hilda Doolittle),
Gould
John
"
be admitted
must
Arlington Robinson,
Lee
of the
connection, includes
study only
recent
modes
new
rather
occasionally
Lowell, who
Miss
new
guishing
the task of distin-
makes
followers
between
"
as
with
as
Mr.
"
represent
movement'
"
Frost, in
Miss
various
things
realism,
direct
How
78
On
with
us
It will be
over
green
your
Cover
quicklyseen,"
"
"
'
is
*
Whirl
fourth; and
Mr.
"
which
not
They
upon
or
timed
should
these
faithful
in
the
manner
no
poem
such
the
one
other;
an-
us,'
over
with
us
occasional
"H.
D."
most
follows
:
the
old
a
your
scansion,"
utime
newer
lines
naturally.
most
occur
units
syllabic,"depending
reading
words
swing
is
of her
by
sense
Gods"
for which
one
is
rocks,'
our
green
the
to
of
fillout
"Sea
"
Aldington, it is explained,
be
are
"
your
Mrs.
delaying of
to
"
pineson
great
permit themselves
are
which
is made
'
sea
up,
fifth,'Cover
the
might
even
Lowell,
fir'."
and
never
Miss
pointed pines,'is
your
Splash your
pools of
says
of fir.
that this poem
cadences, Whirl
third; 'Hurl
a
"
4
of five
cadence;
us
pools
your
discussing Oread,"
up
Poetry
rocks.
our
Hurl
"
Read
to
one
is
the
"
as
seem
hurrying
necessary
of the lines."
of
the
flower
famous, and
characteristic.
poems
it also is
Part
of this
But
"
"New
The
Poetry, So-Called
79
bring violets,
we
Great
masses
single,sweet,
"
Wood-violets, stream-violets,
Violets
from
Violets
in
clumps
with
earth
Tufts
Violets
marsh.
wet
a
violets'
with
Burnt
Violets
tint
ash
bring deep-purple
violets.
bring the hyacinth-violets,
Sweet, bare, chill
And
Of
the
to
violets whiter
your
Contrast
to
"
tufts of grass.
Bird-foot
We
gold,
rare
like red
Among
We
a
rocks,
cliff,river-violets.
Blue-violets,moss,
Yellow
the roots,
at
from
tugged
hills,
from
sea
own
this
gods,
white
the touch
than
the
"
in-rush
surf.
lovelyofferingof
the violets
its daringly beautiful
reitera-
80
How
tion
the
of
violet
Fletcher, the
with
of
poems
other
American
for this kind
of work.
Over
the
clouds
Like
Poetry
theme,
rain
equally famous
known
Read
to
the shadows
of
Imagist
and
best
of
charge
swaying
gold,
of
mountains
mandarin
Lacquered
the
of clouds
purple
the
from
the
Gould
street.
Whirlpools
Amid
the
:
the
Winds
John
the shadows
roof-topsrace
horses
down
of
one
quins
palan-
moments,
and
bar,
cinna-
balancing
vermilion
pavilions,against
jade balustrades;
Glint of the
wings
glittering
fliesin the
Silver
of
dragon-
light;
flakes
filaments,golden
settling
downwards,
Rippling,quiveringflutters,repulse and
surrender,
The
sun
The
rain
broidered
upon
rustlingwith
the rain,
the
sun.
"New"
The
Over
Like
glimpse
a
capable
as
music
given
of
is in
poem,
as
of the scope
believes
that
gradations
many
and
satility
ver-
"
poetry
in cadence
time," follow perusal of the just
with
its strong,
representing
"
ing
sweeping, rush-
of
by perusal
movement,
also
charge
street.
of this poet, who
is
of clouds
the shadows
the
catch
To
of
shadows
:
horses
down
81
So-Called
the
roof-tops race
the
clouds
Poetry,
rather
the
than
following,
describing
"
rain:
The
spatteringof
Of
afternoon
the rain upon
is like the
races
pale ter-
passing
of
a
dream
Amid
the
wet
Of
green
the
the
roses
shuddering 'gainst the
stalks
streaming trees
the
"
passing
of
wind
Upon
the
pale
lower
of
terraces
my
dream
Is
like the
robes
crinklingof
the
wet
gray
to
Read
that
come
How
82
the hours
Of
Poetry
to
turn
the
over
urn
Of
its rainydream.
day and spill
the
Vague
movement
the
over
Heavy gold pennons
gardens
Half
the
under
hidden
a
"
puddled
races:
ter-
of solemn
pomp
liquid veil
of
spring:
Far
like
trumpets
a
of faded
rout
vague
roses
Burst
the
'gainst
wet
green
tant
silence of dis-
forests:
A
clash
of
cymbals
then
"
the
swift
swaying footsteps
Of
the
wind
that
undulates
along
the
languid terraces.
Pools
of rain
Wet,
and
chill,
Towards
doors
It
might
theory
and
the
of
the
"
vacant
terraces
glistening
sunset
beyond
the broken
today.
almost
be
philosophy
said
of
that
free
the
verse,
lies in
originto popular justification,
whole
\from
the
pic-
"
"New
The
Poetry,
83
So-Called
ture-making suggestions,the slow, languorous
of those
rhythm
Lee
Edgar
lines.
psychology and
his
of
farthest
end
"
remarkable
belongs rather
than
of the
"
and
ure,
portrait-
in the
H.
placed
the
to
position
many
the
incisive
less
count-
appeal
niable.
haunting, embodying epitaphs,is unde-
in
"
but
tragedy that
"
the
Masters
Mr.
loves
Anthology," indeed,
tle
is lit-
tragedy,mental, physical,moral, spiritual,
and
that
in
expressed
of
the
uElsa
grimmest
Wertman,"
is well
"
piteous
strong.
I
was
a
peasant
girl from
Germany,
Blue-eyed,rosy, happy,
and
And
worked
the
Thomas
On
"
psychology
poeticbeauty of
as
the
Anthology
of
realm
at
To
D."
River
Spoon
cadences,
The
best
opposed
of poetry, but the
included
be
may
sex,
occupied by Fletcher
his
of character
power
ing
hard, ironic humor, and his encroach-
obsession
gamut
his wonderful
Masters, with
a
first
place
I
strong.
was
Greene's.
summer's
day
when
she
was
away
at
as
How
84
He
Read
to
Poetry
stole into the kitchen
in his
Right
and
arms
and
took
me
kissed
me
on
my
throat,
I
head.
turning my
Seemed
what
know
to
Then
of
us
happened.
I cried for what
And
neither
would
become
of
me.
And
cried
cried
and
as
show.
to
One
vday Mrs.
And
would
Greene
make
said
had
(He
given
hid
she
her
stood,
under-
for
me,
it.
adopt
farm
a
in the
she
trouble
no
And, being childless,would
So
began
secret
my
to
house
be
and
still.)
sent
out
rumors,
As
if it were
And
all
born
I
at
the
That
Gus
so
kind
child
to
was
me.
Wertman,
rallies when
political
thought I
At
were
married
the
and
her.
to
and
passed.
years
"
They
happen
to
well
went
"
Later
But
going
was
crying
eloquence of
was
not
sitters-by
it.
Hamilton
Greene
"
86
How
Read
to
provides opportunity
curiously quaint
and
Poetry
for
curious
effects,
Masters'
half romantic
half realistic,
has been
employed
effectively
Carl
stern,
method
in other
ways.
and
Sandburg, quite differently
grim
yet with
an
clearlyto
shall
not
international
uThe
Four
later
"Notes
earlier
of tenderness
underlying vein
be
discerned
here
be
by
the
thetic,
sympa"
representedby
firstbrought him
which
the
Mr.
impressive, but
if
national
but by
reputation,
cago,"
Chi-
excerpts
not
from
Brothers," (forming part of the
for
War
of
group
and
Songs")
poems
from
titled
genericallyen-
"Days."
Look!
It is four
hands
together,
people of bleedingFrance,
The
people of bleeding Russia,
people
America
are
the four
At
joined
The
The
These
in
brothers
the
of
Britain, the people of
"
four
brothers, these
are
republics.
first I said
it in anger
clenches his fistin
as
one
who
The
"New
wrath
to
of
"
I
taunting;
it
say
it
thought
calmly
in
save
will
the
in Christmas
the skull of
the pen
Lincoln, or
Abraham
and
red
glad
by
the
peace
I
to
swear
throw
to
sign of
poured
out
of
the
by
ing
morning glories climbdoors of quiet homes, by
of
God
God
ashes
of the world,
blue the
the
of
Shakespeare,
any
life
running
the mothers
By the
sword
Jefferson,the
of Tom
at
snow.
Jesus, the
of
cross
Napoleon,
of those
names
printsof bleeding feet
Valley Forge
On
at
storm.
alive the
keep
left red
who
again
over
by God, only fighterstoday
the world, nothing but fighters
now,
will
has
mountains, by the
the
sea-combers
who
one
as
and
over
night, among
I say
87
in the face
knuckles
flinghis
someone
Now
So-Called
Poetry,
of
tall
hollyhocks laughing
God
of
peaceful valleys,
in
children
mothers
new
nursingbabies,
sit at windows
only
away
reckless
their
wishing
men,
lives
ready
to
by hunger,
88
How
Read
to
Poetry
deprivation,desperate clingingto
singlepurpose
imperturbable
the
with
men
and
a
daunted,
un-
primitiveguts
of rebellion,
with
Only fightersgaunt
of labor's
labor's
sorrow
terrible
souls
with
men
on
these will
the
their brows
pride
in their
asking danger
and
save
brand
red
keep
the
and
blood,
only
"
four
big
brothers.
is the
Goodnight
kings,the
The
breakdown
The
shadow
One
to
the
the kaiser.
the
and
of
out
to
czars,
Goodnight
sweep
word, goodnight
a
gins.
be-
fade-away
great broom,
ready
to
the truth, is here.
finger is
raised
that
the
counts
czar,
The
no
The
ghost who
more
czar
great
beckoned
men
who
come
"
has gone
to
the winds
on
God's
dustpan,
pinch of nothing,
The
czar
The
last of the
a
gibbering Romanoffs.
"New"
The
Poetry,
Out
and
The
ghosts of
And
the
Out
goodnight
the
and
out,
"
Another
goodnight
kings, the
the
to
singer will speak,
the kaiser, the
ghost
million
hundred
a
palaces !
the winter
the kaisers.
czars,
And
palaces
summer
ghosts of
So-Called
who
gestures
sleeping-waking
ghosts,
The
will
kaiser
dustpan
The
God's
onto
go
great
"
last of
the
gibbering
Hohenzol-
lerns.
Look!
God
with
God
broom
a
knows
them
"
pitiesthis trash, God
dustpan,
fingerwill speak
the
Harvest
shows
group,
but
a
and
count
out.
Under
"Days"
a
and
waits
Moon,"
Mr.
Sandburg
equally characteristic
Under
When
the harvest
the soft silver
one
mood.
moon,
of
the
ferent
in dif-
How
90
Read
to
Poetry
Drips shimmering
the
Over
garden nights,
Death, the
As
a
whispers to
and
Comes
mocker,
gray
beautiful
friend
remembers.
Who
the
Under
fragrant crimson
the
Lurks
in the dusk
the wild
With
And
thousand
asks
leaves,
touches
and
a
red
little hands,
Love, with
Comes
roses
summer
When
Of
you
you
memories,
you
questions.
Beautiful, unanswerable
Mr.
Sandburg,
it will be
seen,
is
a
poet
of
large thoughts, large impulses, large ideas,
and large rhythms. Easy to understand
why
not
for him, virile
strong
to
the
to
recurrent
the
point of brutality,
edge of crudeness,
line limits,or
rhyming, lilting
bounds
blank
verse.
and
the
even
restrictions
of
ured
meas-
majestic
of Miss
Remain,
Frost
Robert
to
Poetry, So-Called
"
"'New
The
Lowell's
considered.
be
grouping, only
Arlington Robinson
Edwin
and
musical, polished,
Robinson,
shall
brilliant,many-toned poet,
poetic honors
earned
being by
exclusively"new"
order.
the
writing
of
Mr.
Frost
Robinson
him
is
is
Mr.
of
has
Lowell
Miss
England
as
of
one
these
Burns
Provencal."
is
too,
but
second
ture.
na-
distinctly
influence,"
in San
be born
been
passed
still resides.
he
that
two
carefully,
England
says
the
colored.
more
to
of
though
become
his life has
of
one
English-
Robinson
Mr.
Massachusetts, where
in
is
warmly
more
Frost, again, is
Francisco, much
not
work
that, while he happened
Mistral
be
in common,
by the "New
marked
in
it may
poetic intellectual
a
that
much
is
much
consciouslyrecords
in
But
Frost
as
The
indeed, has
that
to
just
poets,
intuitive.
men,
of
intellectual contemporary
most
most
means
no
Robinson
said, in passing, that
be
later, his well-
adequately considered
more
9*
Frost
"
is
as
New
Scotch, Synge Irish, or
Robinson
expression,suggests
a
wider
in
if
spirit,
range.
How
92
Frost, whose
"
first knew
North
its author
of
about
These
sprang.
a
Boston,"
the
and
which
poems,
their first appearance,
too
Frost
The
but
austere
as
restriction.
highly
They
to
typify
the time
at
cately
pastorals,delifine
subjectto
no
such
the
exemplify, moreover,
use
with
which
this poet
he
still does
which
and
occasion.
upon
of
repetition.
depictiveand
delicately
endowed
disdain
not
they
still distinctly
pressiv
im-
and
poems
giftfor lovelyrhyming
is
and
for present
exquisiteetching,are
an
of
happenings
mark
and
long
nature
"book
soil whence
stern
new
poetictendency distinctly
are
ing
accord-
stories, generally un-
women,
men,
inseparablefrom
English
sadly piquant
a
people," tells moving
rhymed,
Poetry
poems
publication,in
to
Read
to
Take, for
example, the gracefulthought,less firm,clean
cut,
and
vigorous
but of indubitable
real
a
Enchant
the
sun
to
come
morning.
with
the land
Slow, slow!
many
poeticvirtue,that
fine October
Retard
than
gentle mist;
with
amethyst.
later,
makes
so
How
94
Ice-storms
have
rain.
a
the
As
Often
must
you
them
with
After
Poetry
that.
do
seen
Loaded
Read
to
ice
a
They
breeze
winter
sunny
click upon
morning
themselves
rises, and
turn
many-
colored
stir cracks
the
As
and
their
crazes
enamel.
Soon
the sun's warmth
makes
them
shed
crystalshells
Shatteringand avalanching on
crust
Such
the
snow-
to
sweep
"
heaps
of
broken
glass
away
You'd
think
had
Fd
to
then
May
get away
half
me
Not
back
come
fate
no
And
inner
dome
of
heaven
fallen.
like
And
the
from
earth
it and
to
awhile
begin over.
wilfullymisunderstand
grant
what
I wish
and
me
snatch
away
to
for
return.
love
:
Earth's
the
rightplace
I
The
"New
don't
know
"
Poetry, So-Galled
it's
where
95
likelyto
go
better.
I'd like
to
white
But
tree,
snow-
a
up
trunk
heaven, tillthe
Toward
no
branches
black
climb
And
birch
by climbing a
go
could
tree
bear
more,
its top
dipped
and
set
down
me
again.
That
both
good
and
going
back.
coming
One
be
would
could
do
than
worse
be
swinger
a
of birches.
Mainly,
it may
hushed
tragedy, the
for
humanity,
of human
a
than
rather
soul
and
of
poet
said, Frost
be
of
as,
poet
tragedy
proves
of
of
passion
his
nature,
values, he
emotions,
a
in his
But
love
earth
all
hidden
and
body.
his
is
sense
himself
perhaps,
of
all
time.
The
contention
the
American
a
native
"
that, as
so-called
poetry
school"
Miss
'new
is evidence
receives
Lowell
tains,
main-
movement'
of
the
substantial
in
rise of
support
How
96
from
the fact that
the
employ
now
to
and
full field
of
Lindsay
so
American
many
medium
that
suffers
examples
riches.
But
poets
search
from
from
barrassment
em-
the
wide
offered,certain phases and
other
two
Eunice
and
Poetry
newer
for characteristic
of
Read
ductions
pro-
poets, Vachel
unusual
Tietjens,shall
be
briefly
surveyed.
Lindsay,
traditional
the
ages,
true
the
a
from
with
the poets
of
tion
only fulfils Macaulay's defini-
not
"
the
as
manner
as
art
what
the
he
colors," but
of
employing words
produce
to
imagination,the
of words
his time, yet
traits inherited
of poetry
in such
of
poet
art
of
illusion
an
doing by
painter does by
on
means
of
means
apparently believes, with
Bailey,that
is itself
Poetry
He
For
kind
of
made
be
clear
on
a
gift for
sympathetic
interpretationas
lyricsinging.
they upoem
thing of God's;
prophets poets.
Lindsay has as
prophecy based
and
and
His
a
The
games"
for
the
prehension
com-
brave
Lindsay productions,
like "The
Potatoes,"
"
Solomon
King
such
or
"
and
Poetry, So-Called
the
and
efforts
masterly
General
Queen
Booth
of
Enters
indicative
in
modern
treatment,
u
to
regard
a
produce
read
trenchant.
and
and
true
illusion
an
but
of
is
true
subjectand
imagination,"
hearts
reproduce the
a
unfailingability
the
on
are
strongly
Lindsay
in his
poet
Congo"
Heaven,"
freshness
to
97
Sheba,"
uThe
as
only rhythmic and rhymeful
not
to
"
"New
The
and
tions
emo-
of his fellows.
'The
Congo,"
for
Kerensky,"
kind
that makes
'The
of
poetry
'This,
here
for the
Chinese
another
the
saw
the
Congo
not
quotation,but
of
Chang,
in "The
of
"
gray
is
Nightingale"
of vivid color
black," should
man
ity.
human-
the
a
the
Chinese
be
and
fancy."The
small
bird"
who
refrain,
wronged
or
so
Francisco
by piecemeal
from
the
music
the
laundry-
Nightingale,"
bygone glories to
ment
move-
creeping through
vision
San
real
duces
''pro-
voodoo-like
with its stirring,
I
breast
rebuildingof
stronglystimulates
Congo,"
'Then
of the
poems,
order, that which
the illusion"
and
great
are
is made
song
my
ing
dreamof
the
ow
Sang
as
though
Who
ironed
to
the
for
soul
of him
in that bower
away
princess,loved
is the
"Where
Chang
made
Who
Poetry
dim
injusticebe shared.
without
may
Read
H
first of
the
forever,
kings
of
men?"
And'the
joss in
the
And
the
dog,
carved
stirred
corner
again;
in his arms,
curled
awoke,
Barked
forth
and
broke.
It
in
piled
a
that whirled
smoke-cloud
a
the
round
maze
ironing-
place,
there
And
Stood
the
Chinese
a
With
on
lady
scornful,
a
table wide
snowy
of
high degree,
witching,
tea-rose
face
....
she put
Yet
laid her
And
With
for
a
me.
away
all form
glimmering
childlike
smile
and
pride,
veil aside
for
Chang
and
Poetry, So-Called
this did the noble
Then
"
"
"New
The
Bird, do
lady
of
dream
you
say
99
:
coming
home-
our
day
courier
When
you
flew like
From
the
dragon-peak
a
to
before
on
palace-
our
door,
And
path
singing
"
ramping Dragon
The
in your
the steed
drove
we
of
laughter
and
wrath;
found
And
And
our
cityall aglow,
knighted this joss that
decked
golden fishes
in the
There
were
?
it so
purple
river
There
were
fishes.
rainbow
silver fishes and
And
golden junks
in the
laughing
river,
silver
And
There
were
junks
golden
junks :
rainbow
and
lilies by the
bay
and
river,
And
silver lilies and
And
tinklingwind-bells
the
By
the
Where
tiger-lilies,
in the
town
black-lacquergate
walked
in
state
gardens
of
How
IOO
to
Read
The
kind
And
his sweet-heart
king Chang
With
his
And
his
mate
of
crown
pearl
....
jade;
....
his
....
flag-borndragon
and
And
Poetry
nightingalereigningin
the mulberry
shade,
sailors
And
sands
And
soldiers
and
sea-
brown,
bowed
priestswho
song
your
the
By
the
on
them
down
to
"
city called
Han,
the
peacock
town,
By the citycalled Han,
the
nightingale
town,
The
nightingaletown."
.....
"
I have
Your
forgotten
dragons great,
and
Merry
Dim
I
mad
and
friendlyand
bold.
proud lost palace-gate.
is your
vaguely know
There
were
Troubles
hold,
heroes
more
of old,
than
the
heart
could
How
IO2
Read
to
I
They spoke,
Poetry
think,of perilspast,
They spoke, I think, of
One
"
thing I
Spring
Spring
Said
remember
forever,"
on
came
:
forever,
on
came
the Chinese
nightingale.
of "new"
China,
as
Eunice
Tietjens in "The
from
China,"
fame
articles sold in the
in the
at
Profiles
present
poetic
"
for the
and
the
as
are
of the
use
Mrs.
The
based.
shop specified
spiritworld,"
real
"
the
from
taken
poetic
is
principally
funerals
them
suggested by
Shop,"
which
on
of the writer
burned
is
poetry,
rich collection of
slightyet
aspect of
and
interpretation
Quite another
the
last.
at
peace
to
dead
dering
Tietjens,ren-
weather,
the
proves
creative, memory-searing genius hers
in
slightdegree.
The
in
He
of the
master
odor
good
is old
and
moustache
Mencius,
I
shop
with
is
the
a
pious man,
priests.
honorable, and
his white
his chin.
droops below
think, looked
be
so.
no
"New"
The
The
a
Poetry, So-Called
shop
behind
world
of
valley of
the
in smooth
mimic
world,
shams
the
"
the
"
ing
dwell-
unquiet dead.
shelves
and
splendor
the
panoply
and
scarlet
the
ranged
are
of
life,silk
gleaming rolls,silver
carving
jade,a
a
remembrance
his
on
is
pietiesand
place of
Here
him
103
in ingots,
and
embroidery
bearer-chair,a pipe for
opium
life has
Whatever
And
of, it is here,
need
it is for the dead.
Whatever
Yet
life has
it is here
in
of, it is here.
need
in
sham, in effigy,
tured
tor-
compromise.
The
dead
have
need
there
dear, and
of silk.
are
Yet
silk is
living backs
to
clothe.
The
rolls
look
too
are
Do
paper
close.
The
dead, I think, will understand.
The
carvings,too,
jade
"
not
yes,
they
the
are
shiningingots,they
bearer-chair, the
paper;
are
and
tinsel.
the
How
104
Poetry
with
made
they are
Yet
Read
to
skill and
loving
care!
priestknows
if the
And
when
know
!
serve
the
"
dead
The
He
shop
attained
has
much
moustache
white
verities.
as
feed.
can
of the
master
well
as
must
they'll
burned
they are
livingmouths
So
surelyhe
"
is
pious man.
a
honor
and
his
below
his
I burned
for
droops
chin.
"
Such
For
I
old, and
am
dwells
And,
as
shop
such
And
for
will burn
son
says,
father.
own
my
"
he
one,"
an
an
me.
half
my
life
already
him
in the
speaks, behind
I feel the presence
myriads
host, the
my
the dead."
among
he
one
of
of
a
the
hovering
immortal
dead, the rulers of the spiritin this
land.
.
For
in this
who
hands
are
to
-
.
.
.
kingdom
of
the
dead
living cling with
the
torn
fringes
they
fevered
of
the
Poetry, So-Called
"New"
The
mighty
if
And
past.
they
105
fail
a
little,
compromise
dead, I think, will understand.
The
it will be
Here,
seen,
ultra-individual variation
"at
manner,
of
and
that
manner.
the
poetic artists
Few
but
be
written
for
the
readilyto
outlet
the brush
of
any
at
varied
least
be restrained
urge
these
poems
it would
or
seem,
free
two
or
one
be,
new
poetic fervor
of
restricted,new
and
deserve
will live,long after the "new
while
number.
without
power,
of
much
worth
but
outpouring
for the unnamed
of
the
once
employ paint.
surge
yeast-wise, affects contemporary
Many
alike
another
findingtherein,it may
poems,
channel
at
words
employ
cited almost
of
writers
verse
not
poets
have
Tietjens is
who
of
fellows
might
tenor
romantic,"
and
comprising
Mrs.
"New"
poetry
newer
specializedcharacteristics of
most
their
as
of the
"polyphonic prose"
and
novel, dignified,
best
and
interesting
an
realistic
once
variation
a
is
that,
humanity.
to
live, and
poetry"
excite-
106
How
has
ment
to Read
attained
and
faddism,
of
the
gradually will
assured
more
of Miss
The, work
glimpse to
by
be
of
less
assume
Never
"The
Lowell,
of
not
the Lowell
the
adequately represented
of
by
year
is
chastened, of
Another
already has
"
been
two
of
at
almost
forgotten,while
cause
attained
sweetness,
its
poetic freedom
more
spiritualflavor.
richer,more
newness
nature.
becoming less bizarre,
decade,
"
and
gency,
poetic insur-
wildest
poetry
Red
this
increasing strength, dignity,and
year
the
by
in this cinematic
Cornucopia
victim
a
their
poeticthought.
Comfits," partakes of
Green
ability
prob-
prominent
left behind
new
fairlyif
a
poetic
in all
writers
are
of the
maturing
become
poetic position as
poetic uncertainties
calm
and
member
accepted
society. Many
but
cious
the meretri-
just level,lost
notoriety of
recognized
Poetry
most,
and
its
ing
arrest-
inevitablywill
sterlingvalue
and
have
to
the
must
flexibility
remain.
So,
too,
albeit
that faithful and
of
with
differently,
devoted
poeticbeauty, Harriet
the work
acolyte at the
Monroe.
of
altar
"
The
Miss
Poetry, So-Called
'New"
"
of her
poets, in
popular regard
quite naturally is ranged with
But
poets.
Miss
pitality
hos-
ry"
of Verse," "Poet-
Magazine
the "new"
to
of the cordial
because
Monroe,
107
whose
Monroe,
"new"
the
magazine
also has been
of
generously hospitableto poetry
standard
order, herself is limited to
more
particularschool
no
produced good
but
belong
"
Columbian
in
Exposition
movement"
by
from
ideals and
that
"
some
anything
poems,
well withstands
so
analysis,is
of
and
finish. This
that
few
mood
or
poem,
real artists
manner,
I love my
To
almost
like
not
The
of the
bian
Colum-
the unew
"new
far
careful
moved
re-
poetry"
widely
most
"Love
the
Song"
and
criticism
geometric perfection
as
proving
restricted
shall be here
life,but
give it to
are
the
stands
but
One
manner.
for
antedated
years
bers
num-
category.
written
only
not
known
best
formal
more
Monroe
loved
and
best
Ode
has
of free, elastic nature,
poems
of her
many
She
movement.
or
to
a
point
any
enjoyed.
well
too
thee like
the
flower,
one
108
How
So
it may
to
Read
pleasurethee
life,but
not
too
well.
I love my
life,but
not
too
well
So
to
sing it note
thy soul
The
by
note
the song
away,
tell
may
desolate
beauty of the
day.
I love my
life,but
not
too
well.
I love
life,but
not
too
well
it like
cloak
my
To
cast
Against the
Between
a
thy lonelyheart
I love my
life,but
New
enchanting and
and
thine,
on
that sound
storms
poeticvoices,to
not
carry
continuallyarise
too
the
must
that of
moment.
be
mine.
well.
varied
infinitely
thought
a
ther,
littlefur-
will arise
and
The
among
tale
of
sadly incomplete tomorrow,
yesterday lacks
For
this
much
reason
at
studyof
the present
alone, if for
other, anything approaching
of
swell
and
and
English-speaking people.
today
no
hour.
an
I love my
To
as
dwell
to
in its perfume but
Deep
the
Poetry
a
full
logue
cata"
u
contemporary
poets,
new
THE
If I should
That
SOLDIER
die, think
there's
some
only
this
of
of
corner
me:
foreign
a
field
That
is forever
England.
that
earth
In
A
rich
whom
dust
made
Gave,
body
shall
richer
dust
bore,
England
be
cealed;
con-
shaped,
aware,
her
once,
to
ways
A
a
There
of
flowers
love, her
to
roam,
England's, breathing
English
air,
Washed
of
And
by
the
rivers, blest
by
suns
home.
think,
this
heart,
all
evil
shed
away,
A
pulse
Gives
in the
somewhere
by England
Her
eternal
sights
as
her
and
back
mind,
the
no
less
thoughts
given;
sounds;
day;
in
dreams
happy
How
iia
to
learnt
laughter,
And
Read
Poetry
of
friends;
and
gentleness,
In
hearts
at
under
peace,
an
English
heaven.
RUPERT
"
BROOKE.
V
CHAPTER
FORMAL
POETRY:
THE
THEpopularly
limited.
poetry
fact, the
blank
exact
obtains
to
the
effect that
the
verse,
highbrow.''
unrhymed
long
unlettered
loved
it
as
has
ages
many
readers
much
for
its
twenty-third Psalm,
third
Psalm,
"
certain
aye,
the
even
modernized
Solomon,"
Isaiah, these
sonnet,
poems
u
are
"
of
some
been
in the
hundred
one
"3
of
weakened
"
the
of
have
and
thians
Corin-
version
portions
among
existence,
substance.
as
renderings
finest
frankly
manner
the
true.
solace
the
who
is
the
in
poetry
matter
a
charity chapter"
various
are
As
frequently
reverse
and
verse
through
The
extremely
Bible, containing
The
of
"
student, the
of
be
poetically elect,the academic,
the
only by
the
to
blank
"
poetry
supposed
epics, elegies, religious
odes,
read
is
tradition
A
formal
strictly formal
of
appeal
VERSE
BLANK
AND
ELEGY,
ODE,
THE
SONNET,
THE
the
of
numerous
of
"Song
Job
and
bib-
1
How
14
and
good
the
to
Poetry
moving, always have
Let
heart.
common
the
supporting illustration,
Rise up, my
been
quote, for
us
from
passage
the
universallybeloved.
exquisiteas
"Song"
sically
intrin-
that, comprising poetry
lical extracts
dear
Read
to
fair one,
love, my
and
come
away.
For, lo, the winter
and
over
The
gone
flowers
and
the voice
our
land;
The
the
on
my
a
good
fair one,
is come,
of the turtle is heard
the vines
give
earth; the
singing of birds
figtree puttethforth
and
rain is
;
appear*
of the
time
is past, the
with
smell.
and
her
the
green
tender
Arise,
come
in
figs,
grape
love,
my
away.
Think, again, of that equallycherished
from
upliftingpassage
In the
day when
shall
the
Ecclesiastes
keepers
tremble, and
shall bow
the
and
:
of the house
strong
themselves, and
the
men
grind-
Formal
because
cease
ers
Poetry
those that look
be
they are
out
1 1
5
few, and
of the windows
darkened,
the doors shallbe shut in the streets,
when the sound of the grindingis
And
low, and he shall rise up
of the bird,and all the
shall be
musick
Also
at
the voice
daughtersof
broughtlow;
when
which
theyshall be afraid of that
is high,and fears shall be in
the way,
and
the almond
shall
tree
and the grasshopper
shall be
flourish,
cause
a
burden, and desire shall fail: be-
the
Or
go about the streets
mourners
ever
broken
be
at
wheel broken
Then
as
What
loosed,or the
broken, or the pitcher
the fountain,or the
at
shall the dust
it was
unto
:
the silver cord be
goldenbowl
be
his longhome, and
goethto
man
God
return
and the
who
gave
to
the earth
shall
spirit
return
it.
keep such poetry from the love
of all those,learned or unlearned,who are
/
"n
V
could
:
the cistern.
1
How
16
awake
to
the
Read
to
the
of
imagery,
human
impulses of
of
beauty
Poetry
high thought,of
prevailing needs
nature?
call itwhat
call it scripture,
Call
beauty, for
classic
and
that other
And
made
upon
hisv knees
before
Israel, and
But
a
which
that
all the
few
enemies
send
by
the
them, and
toward
this
chosen, and
built for
Then
hear
prayer
maintain
If
to
and
here
sent
repre-
included
kinds.
against their
war
shalt
they
pray
unto
thee
thou
hast
which
house
their
which
of
toward
thou
from
their
down
that
thy name
thou
which
way
city
the
hands
be
to
many
out
equally
congregation
must
deserves
thy people go
kneeled
his
verses
poeticanthologiesof
If
"
he
forth
spread
heaven."
almost
the prayer
when
Solomon
nothing
perfectthing it is.
the
poem,
King
or
for its calm
dear
splendidand
appreciatedbiblical
and
it poetry,
will
you
all,it still will be held
at
fect
per-
I have
;
the heavens
their
supplication,and
cause.
they sin against thee, (for there
is
no
in
1 1
be
8
to
Read
place
in
a
of
out
harmony
be
How
well
as
graced by the joyous lyricfrom
of Solomon."
of
gathering,out
gay
occasions
such
upon
Poetry
So, in like
the
might
"
Song
might
manner,
any
ever
livelyspecimen of poetry, of whatvariety, lack appeal in life's solemn
in slightest
without
degree losing
lightor
moments
specificappeal
of poetry,
lover
or' nature,
charmer.
from
the
the
of
and
times
"
Bryant's
the
Note
Forest
the
lighter,
aspects
might
of
lilting
melody
statelymeasure,
topsis."
the
of
largely compound
gaiety,at
ity
human-
or
of
turn
uPippa
a
ness
tender-
readily
Passes"
grandeur
spiritual
Hymn"
or
"Thana-
simple majesty, the
applicationof
his
spirit,many
rare
a
strongest
art
or
always
not
moods
Many
temperament
and
of music
wants
gladsome
more
to
as
The
virtue.
or
these
lines from
pressiv
im-
the
latter.
To
him
who
Communion
in the love
with
of Nature
her visible
holds
forms, she
speaks
A
various
language
;
for his gayer
hours
Formal
She
has
voice
a
of
Poetry
gladness, and
And
eloquence of beauty, and
Into
his darker
And
healing sympathy,
Their
119
musings,
with
she
glides
mild
a
that steals away
he is
sharpness,ere
smile
a
When
aware.
thoughts
Of
the
last bitter
hour
like
come
a
blight
Over
Of
thy spirit,and
the
stern
sad
images
shroud, and
and
agony,
pall,
And
breathless
darkness, and
the
row
nar-
house,
Make
thee
heart;
shudder
to
sick
grow
at
"
Go
forth, under
To
Nature's
"
the open
"
"
rest, and
In silence from
note
sky, and list
teachings
So shalt thou
Take
and
of
the
"
what
"
if thou
and
living,
thy departure?
no
draw
with-
friend
All
that
gay
will
breathe
Will
share
laugh
thy destiny.
The
How
I2O
to
thou
When
of
art
Read
Poetry
the
gone,
brood
solemn
care
Plod
each
and
on,
one
will
before
as
chase
His
favorite
yet all these shall
phantom;
leave
Their
mirth
shall
employments,
and
come
their bed
make
An4
their
and
thee.
with
the
As
long train
Of
The
youth
who
and
The
in life's fresh
full
strength
of
men
"
he
spring,and
matron,
years,
maid,
headed
one
man
by
the
and
speechless babe,
Shall
of
sons
goes
the
In
the
glidesaway,
ages
gray-
"
one
be
gathered
thy
to
side,
By those, who
in their
turn
shall follow
them.
"
"
live,that when
So
"
thy summons
"
"
comes
join
The
innumerable
caravan,
which
moves
to
Formal
To
that
Poetry
mysterious realm,
1 2 1
each
where
shall take
His
in the silent halls of
chamber
Thou
like the
not,
go
death,
quarry-slave at
night,
Scourged
his
dungeon, but sustained
soothed
and
By
to
unfaltering trust, approach thy
an
grave
Like
who
one
the
wraps
of his
drapery
couch
About
him, and
lies down
pleasant
to
dreams.
That
last
soothed, stirred,and
souls than
tus"
or
Vance
But
to
prove
poetry,
most
as
little upon
Cooke
every
or
taste
pleasing.
troubled
more
call
Herbert
or
Invic-
Kaufman.
occasion
Due
"
effusions of
highly contemporary
Edmund
not
sustained
Henley's trumpet
even
the
comforted,
has
perhaps
stanza
will
of
enjoyment
previouslysuggested, depends
the
reader's
state
of
soul
no
and
mind.
Those
popular favorites,
it
Wordsworth's
How
122
:"
to Read
I Wandered
uLead,
of Sir
Lonely
Poetry
as
a
Cloud," Newman's
Kindly Light," and
John Moore,"
with
"
Wolfe's
countless
Burial
diversely
touching poetic brethren, depend,
for
appreciation,on
intellectual
reactions
of
of the
spiritualor
reader,
formal
strictly
more
that
the
formal
general what
is
to
is
poetry
the
sonata
to
poetry,
of unusual
One
or
would
days listeningto
not
The
poems.
life and
is
musicians
fail
are
speciallystressed
some
times
single statue
When
life's
and
or
the lesser
when
tions,
condi-
strivings. To
or
the extreme?
the
to
seem
is,naturallyenough, in the realms
music
entire
Handel
or
attitudes,and
satisfyingin
sions.
occa-
willinglyspend
majority exceedinglyoppressive,but
found
the
particularize,is
sculpturegallery would
a
statuary
ture
sculp-
or
utterlyto interpretsoul
emotional
not
fact is
literature in
music
to
Beethoven
yet there
Wagner,
live in
do, indeed, hosts
as
art.
Formal
poetry
to
highest
who
has
group
of
Thus
it
of verbal
art.
the
glad spiritdances
highways
and
byways,
happily along
then
the
time
Poetry
Formal
for
jocund
moods
the
for
then
emotion
or
too
When
meter,
has
the
delicate
royale, the
de
quick-wittedvers
welcome.
glory or
regular
its
son
sea-
rhythm
dainty, staccato, tripping,the pulsing
chante
warm
resistless
or
free verse,
honor.
delightand
of life is
of
of
currents
strong
shores
bounding
rhymeless poetry,
of
the
tempestuous,
are
thought
lightsome lyrics.When
and
songs
123
societe may
triolet,the
be
death, dramatic
When
of
sure
love,
the
passion absorbs
superlative
other
attention,then the formal, the classic poetry
is
of greatness
each, in poetry
and
moment
The
for
by
the
sonnet
the
find in it
described
or
has
been
greatly
no
as
of the
to
them
more
from
and
are
thing
some-
women
if unprejudifficulty
diced,
no
because
sonnet
as
construction.
is
sonnet
artificial. Men
fightshy
been
pure
general misapprehension.
from
away
would
own
naturally loving poetry
stiff and
who
things,its
example,
too
Younglings
warned
in all
as
To
mood.
sonnet,
wronged
understood.
enjoyed and
it has
difficultof comprehension
As
a
matter
artificial or
of fact,
rigidin
con-
How
124
than
struction
Read
to
standard
other
any
Poetry
obediently followed.
if
elegance
of
the
beauty
like that of
"A
Shakespeare
would
drawn
The
Love
is
be, feel especially
yet
read
"
it alteration
this,the eighteenthof those
or
and
fifty-four
Shakespeare
surpassable
and
love
finds,
hundred
one
those
sonnets,
that
poems,
sonnet's
"cold"
ginner
be-
love
alters when
Which
reading
poetry
And
it.
not
sounds, perhaps,
it may
not,
toward
bust.
sonnet"
decidedly formal.
chiseled
high, profound
a
marble
a
the
And
has
sonnet
form
verse
attest
possible amatory
inthe
warmth
worth.
Shall I compare
Thou
art
thee
to
a
Summer's
lovely and
more
more
day?
perate
tem-
:
winds
Rough
of
And
shake
the
darling buds
May,
Summer's
a
do
lease hath
all
too
short
date:
Sometime
shines,
too
hot
the
eye
of
heaven
ia6
How
I
slow
saw
Read
to
Poetry
that
tenderness
and
tears,
woke
From
bed
sternest
for
lighta lamp
to
thee.
"
And
"
Is it true?
hope
asked
asked
and
again,
"
And
pride
And
all that I could
It is true," was
over
love
might
ungrace
rose
to
say,
hide
gray
pain
As
tears
eyes
turned
were
away.
So much
they loved
warmth,
human
By
thee
I
half
was
but
feel thee near,
to
coyed
de-
when
I put my
hand
vanished
And
all the earth
out
these
even
void,
was
near-weeping
men.
Thus
each
new
time
I find that thou
art
gone,
are
I survive
Anew
do
The
realms
rich in
all the
the world
of poetry,
sonnets
new
giving the
alone.
and
old
melodic
old, depopularizing libels.
alike,
lie
to
It is but
Formal
with
read
to
necessary
Poetry
an
this.
The
those
"great lovers,"
sonnet
was
a
two
thousand
last
ten
sonnets
in
of
sad steps, O
his
has
treasured
fine
or
Could
"
or
recent
beloved
The
mund
Ed-
composed
erotic
periences
ex-
Philip Sidney
possibly best
and
how
the Skies !
climb'st
the
"
sonnet
by those desiringto
provided
chivalric
"The
lend
"
songs
In Flanders'
and
war
"
me
Fields," the
that
sonnets
dered
ren-
undyingly
instantaneously,
testimony of
only of
alty
loy-
Sqldier""
die, think only this of
McCrae's
The
be
Brooke's
Rupert
their writers
not
century.
the
thought fitting
poeticexpression.
swan
famous.
within
along the poeticages
If I should
John
that
thou
better frame
than
than
productions,"With
Moon,
and
high
More
written
Sir
with
singing
celebrating his
All down
been
poets.
know
to
of
"nest
single year
a
besides
known
favorite
emotions.
and
best
great
were
sonnets
fifty-eight
many
mind
of the sixteenth
years
Spenser
wrote
open
that
birds," the Elizabethan
127
correctness
carven
easilymight
innumerable
be
but
nets
son-
widely
up-piled,arrayed.
elegy,again, frequentlyhas
been
ac-
ia8
How
cused
of
loved
or
being
"
Once
more
misbelief
that
far
cold, set
thoughts and
common
ple."
peo-
from
it is ultra
tional,
conven-
man
ordinary hu-
from
feelingsand
Milton's
Well
issues.
"Lycidas,"
English elegiacworks
once
these
noblest
:
O
more,
the
of
because
apart
be
to
offered,in opposing argument,
be
Yet
remote
of the
understanded
traditional
lines
Poetry
abstract,too
too
Why?
might
Read
to
ye
Laurels, and
once
more
Ye
I
Myrtles brown,
pluck your
to
come
with
Ivy
never
Berries
sere,
harsh
and
crude,
And
with
Shatter
forced
fingersrude,
leaves
your
before
ing
the mellow-
year.
Bitter
Compel
For
constraint,and
sad
disturb
your
me
to
Lycidas
Young
is dead, dead
Lycidas,
and
hath
occasion
season
in his
not
dear,
due
:
prime,
left his
peer:
Who
knew
would
not
sing
for
Lycidas?
he
of
Poetry
Formal
Himself
sing,
to
129
lofty
the
build
and
rhyme.
He
must
float
not
his
upon
watery
bier
welter
and
Unwept,
the
to
parching
wind,
the
Without
of
meed
melodious
some
tear.
thou
Now
Thee,
and
gone,
Shepherd,
must
never
thee
the
Woods,
and
the
gadding
turn!
re-
and
Caves,
desert
wild
With
art
Thyme
Vine
o'ergrown,
all their echoes
And
The
and
Willows
mourn.
the
Hazel
Copses
green,
Shall
now
Fanning
more
no
their
be
joyous
seen,
Leaves
to
thy soft
lays.
As
Or
killingas
Taint-worm
that graze,
the Canker
to
the
to
the Rose,
weanling Herds
How
130
Or
Frost
Read
to
Poetry
wardrobe
gay
wear,
first the White-thorn
When
their
that
Flowers,
to
Such, Lycidas, thy loss
blows
;
Shepherd's
to
ear.
is found
What
here
feeling,natural
but
and
worded
as
wide
timeless, world-
but
sympathetic,fittingly
flavored
fitlytinged and
by
of Milton's
specialthought and mode
time?
What, in "Adonais," Shelley'slovely
the
the
of
love
world-old
deeper
for
richer
and
for comrade,
comrade
the
poeticsettingof expressionand
for Adonais
I weep
Oh,
the universal,
elegy for Keats, but
and
lament
for
weep
"
all
wonderful
verbal
frame
he is dead!
Adonais
!
though
our
tears
Thaw
dear
And
the
not
a
frost which
binds
so
head!
thou, sad Hour, selected from
all
years
To
mourn
compeers,
our
loss,rouse
thy obscure
?
Formal
And
"
Died
With
;
the
131
own
sorrow.
me
Adonais
Forget
thine
them
teach
Say:
Poetry
tillthe Future
dares
Past, his fate and
fame
shall be
An
echo
Oh,
and
lightunto
a
for
weep
Adonais!
"
eternity!
"
the
quick
Dreams,
The
passion-winged
ministers
of
thought,
Who
his flocks,whom
were
near
the
livingstreams
Of
his young
he
he fed, and
spirit
taught
The
love which
not
its music, wander
was
"
Wander
no
more,
from
kindlingbrain
brain,
to
But
whom
droop there,whence
and
mourn
Round
their
the
sweet
they sprung;
their lot
cold
heart, where,
pain,
after
How
132
ne'er will
They
home
a
He
Read
to
again.
wakes
is
'tis Death
"
he;
not
Mourn
for
not
Adonais
Thou
"
Dawn,
young
Turn
find
gather strength,or
lives,he
dead,
Poetry
all thy dew
to
splendor,for
from
thee
The
spiritthou
Ye
lamentest
and
caverns
is
not
gone
forests,cease
ye
;
to
moan!
Cease,
faint flowers
ye
thou
and
Which
O'er
fountains,
Air,
like
hadst
and
a
mourning
veil
thy
scarf
thrown
the abandoned
Earth,
leave
now
it bare
Even
to
its
He
the
joyous
stars
which
smile
on
despair!
is made
one
with
Nature
:
there is
heard
His
moan
voice
in all her
music, from
the
How
134
To
his
to Read
Poetry
likeness,as each
own
mass
may
bear,
And
in its
bursting
its
and
beauty
might
From
and
trees
Heaven's
Who,
with
would
music
The
popular
whit lessened
responsive
quoted
because
pearls on
"
fine
a
In
its
of
is in
no
sweeping, splendid
with
strung
verses
delicate
its
sweet
like
rare
thought-thread; Tennyson's
Memoriam,"
expression and
stanzas?
of its majestic rhythms,
rhymes,
of
mighty
the poem
swing. Gray's "Elegy,"
succession
the
to
"Adonais"
of
message
its harmonious
spiritualvision,
memory,
thrill
of the few
early-dead friend
and
sweet
in
not
into the
men
light.
a
beloved
and
beasts and
strong
with its unforgettable
if sentimental
ment
treat-
son's
tenderlyhallowed subject;Stevenself-directed
Requiem," these are too
a
"
well
known,
hint
of
"
What
happy
too
well
loved
quotation. Richard
of the Darkness
dead
?
"
people," strikes
need
to
le
Gallienne's
dedicated
a
merest
similar
"
to
note.
the
Formal
of the darkness?
What
there
Are
Poetry
great
Is it very
calms?
fair?
find
and
lence
si-
we
there?
Like
all your
soft-shut lilies,
With
strange
some
peace
faces
glow
our
faces
never
our
faces
never
know,
With
strange
some
dare
faith
"
Dwells
it in Darkness?
Do
you
find it
there?
Is it a Bosom
Is it
a
Mouth
Is it
a
Hand
Is
it
a
where
to
to
Voice
tired heads
kiss
our
still the
that
holds
not
such
may
lie ?
weeping dry?
pulse'sleap?
the
of
runes
sleep?
shows
Day
us
comfort
where
any-
"
Dwells
it in Darkness?
Do
you
find it
there?
Out
of
call
Day
so
the
Day's deceiving light
we
"
that shows
small,
man
so
great, and
God
136
How
hides
That
grass
O
Read
to
the
"
too
undistracted, do
of the Darkness?
Is
the Eternal
beautifullythat
of the poem
human
is
is the
Martha
individual
asked
so
Practically
every
time,
some
upon
read,
to
modern,
more
of "A
Gilbert
here
alarming elegiac feature
how
note
fair?
Is it very
Question
the
know
setting. Even
find truth there ?
forgotten?
being, at
must
lying glass!
a
you
What
not
magnifies the
stars, and
is the Darkness
Or
Poetry
to
yet
Club-Man's
Dickinson
expression
sion,
occa-
some
enjoy
less ageless,
no
Requiem,
Bianchi's
of
"
highly
widely
a
such
shared
thought.
Warren
has
and
gone;
who
we
loved
him
best
think of him
Can't
as
"
But
he
has
gone;
has
longer
echo
entered
left the
into rest."
morning
street,
The
clubs
no
Nor
shall
we
see
him
to
lift his
his feet,
yellow
wine
Formal
To
the
pledge
Poetry
random
137
host
the
"
purple
vine.
At
His
of other
doors
whining dogs
his horses
men
wait,
false their master's
scent
fate;
His
"
chafingyacht
ashore," her idle pennant
Owner
has gone
Warren
winter
loved
flies.
"
Forsook
Of
mooring lies;
harbor
at
the
"
his well-
from
turned
nights
jovialways
plays,
The
dreams
and
schemes
and
deeds
of
busy
brain,
And
pensive habitations
built in
Spain.
Gone, with his ruddy hopes ! And
him
knew
Can't
who
we
best
think of him
So when
"
as
entered
the talk dies
out
or
into rest."
lightsburn
dim
We
often
What
is keeping him
what
"
destinythat all-subduingwill,
That
For
ponder
golden wit, that
we
who
love of
silent smoke,
life,fulfil?
who
loved
him
best,
Can't
fancy Warren
"
entered
into
rest."
How
138
Closelyakin
universal
Poetry
elegiacpoetry, equallymoving
to
dread
Stoddard's
dislike
and
feeling of
by uthe
confronted
first gray
the
the
growing
old.
of
quoted, but this
been
the
expresses
celebrates
hair
better
no
humanity
average
"
slope
western
than
comforting suggestionsof
a
or
low's
Longfel-
does
its artistic
"vMorituri Salutamus," with
and
"
Flight of Youth
graceful "The
already has
even
Read
natural, is that which
and
when
to
change
not
entirelysad.
But
why,
be
To
ask
you
me,
should
this tale
told
men
who
growing
grown
old,
late !
Ah, nothing is too
or
are
old?
It is
too
Till the tired heart
What
then?
Shall
The
nighthath
come
The
nighthath
shall
sit
we
cease
late
tate.
palpi-
to
idlydown
and
say
quite
not
;
it is no
yet
come
longer day
; we
are
not
?
Formal
off from
Poetry
labor
by
the
Something remains
for
us
Cut
Even
oldest
the
tree
139
failinglight;
to
do
or
dare
;
fruit may
some
bear.
For
is
age
Than
less
opportunity no
youth itself,though
in
another
dress,
the
And
as
The
sky
evening twilightfades
is filled with
stars,
away
invisible
by
day.
Formal
poetry? Yes,
close
creeps
the
like
u
as
human
solace
as
"
"
here
much
ode.
!"
morning
warmly
but
in
human,
invaluable
and
custom
as
full of
"Hertha"
Ode
Intimations
as
the
on
parts
feared
ing
greetoutline.
ternal
sempi-
sympathy, comprehension
Swinburne's
serve
that
heartstrings.Only formal,
commonplace
Good
Really
the
to
but of the kind
of
worth's
Words-
tality"
of Immor-
shall
which, incidentally,
shining example
and
or
and
of
another
maligned poetic form,
the
How
140
There
and
It is
not
seem
it hath
as
By night
The
Rainbow
And
lovely
The
Look
of yore
been
"
I have
seen
comes
and
I
can
now
more.
no
see
dream.
day,
or
things which
The
a
I may,
whereso'er
Turn
of
the freshness
and
now
light,
in celestial
Apparelled
glory
grove,
sight,
common
every
did
me
The
meadow,
stream,
earth, and
To
Poetry
when
time
a
was
The
Read
to
is the
goes,
Rose;
Moon
doth
with
round
her
when
delight
the
heavens
are
bare;
Waters
But
That
a
beautiful
Are
The
on
sunshine
yet
I
is
know,
there
from
hath
the
starry
and
a
night
fair;
glorious birth;
where'er
passed
earth.
I go,
away
a
glory
How
142
Is
that
something
That
The
Poetry
doth
so
was
thought
!
fugitive
of
past
our
Perpetual benediction:
which
that
blest
Delight
and
is
worthy
most
busy
for these I raise
The
song
of thanks
and
sense
Fallingsfrom
about
Moving
us,
praise;
questionings
outward
things,
vanishings;
a
Creature
in worlds
instincts before
High
and
misgivingsof
Blank
rest,
in
still fluttering
obstinate
for those
at
or
"
Not
Of
be
the simple creed
liberty,
his breast
But
to
"
new-fledged hope
With
me
indeed
not
Childhood, whether
Of
in
years
breed
doth
For
live,
yet remembers
nature
What
Read
to
not
which
realized,
our
mortal
Nature
Did
tremble
But
like
for those
Those
a
guiltythingsurprised:
first affections,
shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what
they may,
Formal
Are
143
all
fountain-light of
the
yet
Poetry
our
day,
Are
yet
master-lightof
a
Uphold
seeing;
our
have
cherish, and
us,
power
make
to
Our
all
noisy
in the
moments
seem
years
being
Of
the eternal
To
Silence
truths that wake,
perish never;
Which
neither
Nor
Man
Can
utterly abolish
in
a
joy,
destroy!
or
of calm
season
have
with
enmity
inland
Though
Souls
at
deavor,
en-
Boy,
nor
all that is
Hence,
mad
listlessness,
nor
Nor
Our
:
far
weather,
be,
we
sight of
that
immortal
sea
Which
Can
And
in
brought
a
moment
the
see
us
hither,
travel
children
thither
sport
upon
the
shore,
And
hear
the
mighty
waters
rollingevermore.
How
144
And
O,
Read
to
Poetry
Hills,
Fountains, Meadows,
ye
Groves,
and
Forbode
not
of
severing
any
our
loves !
Yet
heart
in my
of
hearts
I feel your
might;
I
only
To
have
live
relinquishedone
beneath
delight
habitual
more
your
sway.
the
I love
Brooks,
channels
Even
when
I
tripped lightly
they:
as
The
their
down
fret,
than
more
which
brightnessof
innocent
a
new-born
Day
Is
The
lovelyyet;
that
Clouds
gather
round
the
ting
set-
sun
Do
take
That
a
sober
hath
coloringfrom
kept watch
an
o'er man's
eye
tality
mor-
;
Another
are
Thanks
hath
race
to
been, and other palms
won.
the human
live,
heart
by
which
we
Formal
Thanks
145
tenderness, its joys, and
its
to
Poetry
fears,
To
the
me
flower that blows
meanest
can
give
Thoughts that
do
often lie too
for
deep
tears.
certain
I
That
ode!
uAn
ode
an
good
delightfully
So
it is, dear
from
too
poems,
to
say
and
friend
nothing
religiouspoetry
gested,
and
of
of
that need
day
every-
that's
And
sufferer
fellow
fine
the
formal"
"
wide
only
of
range
here
be
sug^
classic translations, ancient
modern, that need
and
or
stuff."
hosts of other
are
so
Why,
poeticmisapprehension,so
common
it is,and
*
ordinary,
pleasure!
understanding or
hear
can
something dry
was
classical for
too
or
one
exclaiming.
surprisedreaders
thought
deary
ode?"
an
but
to
be known
to
be
enjoyed.
Many
induced
a
to
supposedly languid poetry student,
read
poetry
the
right place,would
the
positionof
the
rightly,beginning in
find him
Moliere
or
herself
character
in
who
How
146
had
talked
it.
"Good
"
stuff
the
as
in
senior
from
should
critic
in
"
ficult
dif-
hypothetically
of
marked
re-
abounds
chapter
its
ujust
"
Morley
task-work
it
seldom
the
freshman
often
too
gets
high
school
"specializing
in
the
childhood.
our
be,
normal
formal
in
the
human's
is
and
unhappy
Read
as
pleasure
soul.
mentally
books
"skip"
would
poetry
chameleon-
color,
takes
surroundings
with
links
every
knowing
reading
comparatively
its
catalogued
of
good
of
college
read,
like,
without
literature."
English
So
and
because
the
or
life
astonished
character,
beyond
Poetry
his
earlier
an
that,
poetry
all
prose
reading"
Read
to
armor
it
might
forge
and
tant
impor-
fortifying
NIGHT
SPRING
The
is filled with
park
veils
The
The
dim
and
Gold
The
Oh,
I
am
With
take
a
earth's
Why
have
Why
am
I for
in
are
whom
I put
I
misty lake,
sunken
swords,
joy
me?
over
with
praise, and
beneath
not
you
after
love
singing
voice
wonder
off my
with
pride,
pensive night
147
the
sky.
enough?
unsatisfied,
the
streets,
be
ache
crying
youth,
paths
empty
to
beauty
should
beauty,
Why
To
this
kneel
Should
the
shake.
enough
not
throat
My
world,
lights like
and
with
Here
the
the
gleaming
Glimmer
is it
about
the
gleaming
mirrored
Oh,
fog,
pearled.
and
and
Gold
and
lights along
drowsy
Are
drawn
are
night
and
eyes
surprise?
I
How
148
Binds
I
for
Like
Oh,
Why
her
all
in
incense
beauty,
Poetry
a
crying
light,
with
burns
beauty
are
I
Read
hair
cloudy
whom
am
to
million
not
you
after
urns?
enough?
love?
Sara
"
Teasdale,
How
150
the
ters,
traced
of
course
informed
of the
"
all these
Storage,"
moved
The
or
"The
and
the
natural
narrative
and
satisfies
of
needs
"
of
story-hungerand
mind
is
the
pleased by
rhythmic
or
also, presents
a
concrete
"
or
all
the
short, archaic
or
adventurous, is
or
because
people
"
These
feeling. The
narrative's
soothed
The
it
tastes
or
nature.
harmonic
the
the
always clearly
human
rhyming.
of
and
poeticlaws.
the
stirred
senses
Long
Godiva
instinctive desires
two
perhaps
"
not
long
poem,
eternallybeloved
in the
springs,follow
same
ultra-modern, romantic
are
"Love
Tennyson's
terbury
Can-
Widow
Daughter
recognized if
formulated
The
B. Fuller's "Lines
by
well
same
"
otees
dev"
Chaucer's
Bye-Street,"Meredith's
Short," Howells'
are
successive
Masefield's
and
Valley,"Henry
be
may
moreover,
spirit,
same
poetic story.
Tales
poetry
true.
intent,the
same
has
Poetry
narrative
straightand
The
in the
to Read
sion,
progres-
by cadences
narrative
theme
in
a
poem,
concrete
way.
And
just
as
human
fondness
always
has
Narrative
the
crowned
narrative
narrative
narrative
time,
in part,
for
accounts
of the great
"
the
"
of which
Lake"
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of
Ancient
"The
sagas,
Idyls of
folk-tales and
in
and
has
as
"
been
not
Mother
a
plainprose
Infant
races,
delight in
Goose
statement
the
as
Rookh,"
the Norse
and
Indian, and oriental
all the
semi-historic,
legends
of
all the
tongues.
said before,
What
story.
out
of the
Lady
rhyme, especiallythe rhyme
a
ballads
Lalla
and
races
larity
popu-
"Hiawatha,"
King,"
lyricsand
kindred
itself into
a
the
of
recitals,
semi-romantic
Infants,
The
Mariner," and
of the Indian, East
human
"
least
at
the "Iliad"
as
naturally, of
grew
The
and
tive
narra-
unchanging
of the Scotch
"
Marmion
the
as
This,
epics,such
Odyssey,"
is precisely
difference
due
ages.
the
The
day
conventions,
the
aspects
nature.
present
of the middle
always,
same
allowing for
customs,
poem
and
the
of
the same,
of
the
to
general human
poem
151
so,
poem,
caters
poem
instincts of
and
Poetry
that
natural
rhyme,
delight
shapes
child prefers
a
jingle,to
of fact?
also has been
rhyming story,
said before,
the
narrative
How
152
Poetry
popularityof
the
Witness
poem.
Read
to
the tribal
singer,the oriental story teller,the minstrel
in all ages
climes.
and
do
nor
War
as
dear
as
are
"
poems
during the
of the
Wars
of the Norman
Narrative
are
almost
as
prose
as
varied
the
Viking
or
era
in kind, form, and
narratives,
verse,
that, under
or
come
of mankind's
down
or
poem
grades
from
beginning; the
and
simple story-lyric;
the
story, of
rhyming order,
different titles and
has
nature.
primitiveor
realistic poem
verse
nature
into the heroic
story of the
the
free
human
as
or
themselves
poem
Ages;
blank
as
now
lightly,
particularize
to
poems,
romantic
Middle
is
humanity
Roses, the period
Conquest,
Briefly,
they range
story
heroes
war
Rome.
and
Greece
days
and
far, fair, poetry-haloeddays of early
those
or
of
the heart
to
story,
races
of
poems
"
never
rhyming
fullygrown
and
growing
nations.
for the
the love
quiteoutgrow
infants
fully grown
and
Growing
the
of
preciat
ap-
dawn-
short
and
episodic poem
in miniature, that
story in little,
and
typically
almost
solelycharacteristic
Narrative
of America
dear
so
the
as
Poetry
episodicprose
the American
to
the
Perhaps
variety of
"
for
Richard
terseness
Mr.
Robinson
Richard
poetry
The
is
wont,
makes
no
story
as
a
that,
rule, to
appeal to
go.
tells
other,
an-
with
as
avidly devoured
by
men
that
assert
me.
from
Flammonde,
man
further
in "Flammonde"
Cory,"
women
"
a
interpretation
could
scarce
longer rhyming
and
Cory,"
vivid depiction and
force, vitality,
nutshell
:"
is Edwin
poem
psychological-dramaticstory
that
story
of the best known,
one
Robinson's
Arlington
short
heart.
best, as
of this
examples
153
God
knows
where,
With
firm address
With
news
And
never
one
"
in his talk
his walk
"
iron in his eyes,
glintof
Appeared,
As
of nations
foreign air
something royal in
With
But
and
doubt,
and
yet
nor
stayed,and
surprise,
held
his head
by kings accredited
until,by sheer
transformed
a
force
tight
of
he
personality,
little American
had
town
How
154
Read
to
of
through enlargement
monde
serves
the
almost
haunting
of
sense
of
"
exclusively American
type, the type
poem-sketch
of
but endowed
with
"
Gale's
different
very
the
A
story.
than
ually
act-
suggestive
key
and
half-hinted
same
other
an-
story
that indicates rather
tells the embodied
is Zona
Flam-
real though
intensely
"
his vivid chronicle
about
remote
its vision.
that strange,
with
always
hero
as
Poetry
tenor
vitality
Mother."
I wish
I had
said
About
your
simple
So
more.
tasks
long, so long
I watched
you,
dear;
I knew
craved
you
the word
you
did
not
hear.
I knew
brave
spirit,
your
chaste
and
and
strong,
Was
that
wistful
it
might
not
do
the
wrong;
all its wistfulness
And
in
Were
your
eyes
and
all its fear
whenever
I
was
near.
And
yet you
song.
always
went
your
way
with
Narrative
prodigal of
All
When
with
for other
smiles
last there
life. At
I led my
Poetry
careless
some
eyes
came
day
a
I turned
word
away
From
what
fashioned
you
for
sweet
a
surprise.
Ah,
now
My
vase
it is
of
myrrh
to
me
I had
God
would
"
pour
more!
said
Charles
sketch
late for
too
Hanson
Rained
"It
mother
All
in
of
penumbra
Towne's
delicate
Day"
enshrines
this
just
poem-
loving
same
faintly shadowed
other
an-
glory
and
grace.
It rained
And
She
yet she
said
then
And
It rained
And
Ah
How
all
day, the day she died,
thought it sweet
the sunshine
she
all
whispered
me
kissed
She
that
woke
the
!
Thank
God
cold
and
dreary
fair;
her
hair,
satisfied.
slept,all
day:
and
she
sky
never
again
blue.
was
knew
fell the rain.
How
156
So
like her
And
life 1
yet she
She
loved
She
never
"
To
From
And
Certain
true
are
few
of
and
a
less
a
would
not
of
Edgar
miles
narrative
not
away
mile
cut
stay,
away
come.
Lee
poems
life may
sharply
"
"
Masters'
in the
in that
seemingly slightstrokes
whole
entire
an
thought would
of those
notably many
gray.
you,
benumb
heart
but
were
You
were
too.
came,
all my
If you
"
today
from
yet the old dull
And
night
be found?
thousand
a
you
and
may
the woods
away
you
But
Paradox"
to
hide
bright;
was
the skies
the emotions
out
went
day
day,
compressed beauty of Jessie B.
Rittenhouse's
I
all
it all
toiled all
thought
tragedy of
Poetry
It rained
thought
and
in the
And
Read
to
be
noted.
narrative
poem
poems,
"Anthology,"
through
their
the progress
An
earlier,
is Words-
158
How
An
interestingvista
conjecture
"
Lucy
"
is
with
of
opened
watch
by
by
"
For
a
"
Evelyn Hope
"
is dead,
her side
sweet
hour
an
"
called
narrative
to
Meredith's
"
and
colorful
and
style.
of
in the
narrative
Hall," "Godiva,"
"The
etc.,
almost
any
are
the
"
that
"
pital,"
Hos"Riz-
perhaps, than
narrative
poems,
occasionallypartake
In marked
long
uLocksley
Countryman,"
modern
gard
re-
substance
Children's
better known,
other
they, too,
poems,
"In
North
Valley
in
instanced
be
may
splendid in
so
poem
which
that
manner"
grand
poetry
Love
Tennyson's
pah,"
"
the
ing
lov-
girl.
young
Contrasting example
might be
of
comparison
tender, simple,and
superlatively
of
life-study
and
poetic study
Evelyn Hope
Sit and
another
Poetry
Browning's
Beautiful
and
Read
to
of
and
the
grand
manner.
more
musical, is the simple, singing verse,
riotingin rhyme
as
a
contrast,
floweringplant in
even
bios-
Narrative
of Alfred
soms,
perhaps,
Old
in
rather
Barrel
Of
the
in another
poem,
There's
a
City as
the
the
music's
not
world
And
And
it
That
the
large
the
Symphony
as
Like
pain
like
light;
and
a
part
play again
and
Yes;
pleasure of
glory
a
the
glow.
sunset
singingorgan
eternal
they'vegiven it
the
the
City and
but
it sweet
pulses through
to
In
has made
surrounds
low;
immortal;
the
a
And
sinks
sun
fulfilled it with
the
a
street,
In the
And
ously
gener-
given here.
barrel-organ caroling across
golden
in
poem
city,a
a
shall be
appetizing excerpt
sense
narrative
true
story of
"In
one
narrative
truest
that it tells the whole
and
former, in
a
his best,
at
Organ"
descriptivethan
a
159
is
Noyes
Noyes.
"The
Japan."
Poetry
that
rules
night.
the music
a
changes,
prismatic glass,
the
day
How
160
It takes
Go
down
it
colors
to
glimpse of
a
all
forgets.
lilac-time,in lilac-
in
Kew
;
regrets,
givesthe world
The
that pass
carnival
common
passions and
And
ranges
all the moods
the
Dissects
Poetry
lightand
the
Through
Of
Read
to
time, in lilac-time;
Go
down
to
from
And
you
down
shall wander
to
And
in lilac-time
(itisn't far
and
perfume
near
so
there
they
to
of bloom
seas
song
(and
London!)
say,
when
a
cuckoo, though he's
a
perfume,
sweet
all the world's
sing
and
of bloom
seas
are
cherry-trees
and
The
Kew
with
in hand
wonderland;
are
cherry-trees
oh,
(itisn't far
London!)
soft
The
hand
in summer's
from
The
in lilac-time
London!)
love
Go
Kew
for
dawn
blaze
very
London.
is
of
high
sky
shy, will
Narrative
nightingale is rather
The
Kew,
to
near
The
linnet
after
And
the
and
the
throstle, too,
long
that
of
tu-whoo
ogle London.
"""""
There's
face of frozen
a
In the
There's
thief, perhaps, that
a
with
There's
a
a
listens
stone,
sinks
sun
low;
of business
portlyman
a
with
a
of his own,
clerk and
there's
butcher
of
returningto
the
a
soft, reposefultone,
they'reall
heavens
They
the
City as
balance
And
and
halloo
golden-eyed tu-whit,
"
(and oh,
London!)
dark
owls
yet
there
in lilac-time
Kew
at
and
rare
him
they say you'llhear
At
161
Poetry
of them
they
have
crammed
are
busses
and
"
known;
and
jammed
they'reeach
in
of them
alone
In the land where
There's
a
smile
very
the dead
modish
is very
woman
bland,
dreams
go.
and
her
so
How
162
In the
the
City as
her hansom
And
Read
to
Poetry
sinks low;
sun
but her
jinglesonward,
littlejeweled hand
Is clenched
she
little tighterand
a
not
can-
understand
What
she
wants
that undiscovered
For
the
of
the dead
the
City as
his hand
he
sees
a
there he
And
For
loafer
turns
into
stares
April
dreams
listens
go.
the
to
love
he hears
sinks low
sun
begins
face is rather
As
all the
of the dead
voices
And
that
laborer
a
In the
at
not
are
thing she planned,
In.the land where
There's
to
land,
partiesthere
sort
she wanders
why
or
to
tremble
;
his
and
red
watching
him
and
"
his head
the
sunset
his
where
is fled,
her
softlysinging and
lonely soul
is led
Through
the
lands
dreams
go.
where
the
his
dead
Narrative
There's
hardened
and
old
an
it's ringingin her
In the
the wild
With
love
and
empty
be
and
her
the land
For
sears,
then
onward,
be
of the
years,
little harsher
brimmed
are
of the
sorrows
the bitter burden
bears
laugh's a
eyes
;
she hears,
sure
unforgotten
And
sinks low
sun
if she hurries
sure,
demi-rep,
ears,
blights and
that
Oh, and
Hears
the
City as
163
Poetry
with
tears
the dead
where
her
and
dreams
go-
There's
barrel-organcaroling across
a
golden
In the
Though
Just
as
and
Mellows
street
the music's
to
sinks low;
only Verdi
there's
a
it sweet
where
sunset
heaven
the
earth
meet
all the
marching
sun
make
yonder
hundred
Are
the
City as
world
a
sooty
thousand
on
poppies and
to
City!
Hark,
a
feet
glory through
the wheat
the
How
164
to
In the land
Come
down
Read
the dead
where
to
Poetry
Kew
dreams
go.
in lilaclilac-time,
in
time, in lilac-time;
Come
down
to
far from
And
you
far
hand
in summer's
down
(it isn't
London!)
shall wander
Love
Come
in lilac-time
Kew
to
from
in hand
wonderland,
in lilac-time
Kew
with
(itisn't
London!)
v
Another
remarkable
poem-story
that of
Mitchell
Comfort
trasted
con-
city,like
a
psychologicinsight and
wondrously
interpretation,
Ruth
sharply
of the soul of
in its
Noyes
and
unlike
in all
"The
names
else,
Night
Court"
"
Call
Rose
Costara
!"
Insolent,she
The
keen,
watchers, practiced,
turn
comes.
down
their thumbs.
The
walk, the talk, the face
shell tint
that
sea-
"
It is old stuff;they read
print.
"
her
like
coarse
How
i66
Read
to
Poetry
the hectic hat
No, the pink face beneath
her
back
Gives
aghast
own
and
sickened
stare
With
her
From
rather cheerful
the littlenovelist
then
And
and
detached
a
red.
sees
all
heart
chaste
air,
clemency
is
fled.
"
Oh, loathsome
Off
with
before
you
!
venomous
head!
her
Rose
Call
!
!"
Costara
But
stop,
shelve
And
decent
your
rage,
Let's call the cop.
call
Let's
brought
the
her
in.
weary-eyed night
The
who
plain-clothescop
of
watchman
the
law,
A
shuffling
person
Loose-lipped and
of
with
a
hanging jaw,
Sallow, rather
vague
chin,
rubber-heeling
Comes
at
his
Honor's
rap.
He
and
set
trap
"
baited
and
then
sprung
the
The
trap
Let's
by
"
his unsavory
why
him
ask
report.
first
but
"
call the
Let's
only the grim figurein
Not
the
Sphinx-likeabove
167
Poetry
Narrative
court.
the chair,
age
wreck-
waste
and
retold
tale,
there,
of
Skeptical,
weary
the frail
An
A
hive, the false,
humming
the whole
But
a
"
old young
with
woman
a
lying witness waiting in
her
Planning
to
heart
silly
a
case,
Mexican,
Reporters questioninga
Sobbing
face,
place,
his
lawyers nosing out
ferret
Two
weasel
out
for her
man,
her, "lone, desperate,
feature
"
pretty
Yes, call the
"
But
court.
wait !
Let's call the
Call the
all the
Call
town
Call
community
!
city.
Call up, call down,
speeding, mad,
unheeding
then
call velvet
!
rags
gown!
and
tags
and
i68
How
Go,
to
Read
them
summon
Poetry
from
and
tenements
clubs,
office floors and
On
Shout
the
to
over
steaming
tubs!
behind
the
and
boxes
scenes,
Then
push-carts and
the
to
the
sines
limou-
!
the lecture-room, the cabaret
Arouse
them
Confound
with
!
trumpet-blastand
a
say,
uAre
you
That
you
dull, so
so
mistake
deaf
and
blind
harvest
the
for
deed,
in-
the
seed?"
Condemn
them
for
"
but stay !
Let's
The
facile
call the
thing they've
their mode
code
fashioned
"
to
:
Smug
sophistriesthat
That
numb
and
smother
and
stupefy; that
fool,
be-
clumsy
thing
That
measures
foot
rule,
mountains
with
a
three-
And
Narrative
Poetry
the
with
plumbs
ocean
169
pudding-
a
string
"
The
little,brittle code.
Here
is the
root,
Far
of
out
sight, and
buried
safe
and
deep,
And
Rose
On
every
Costara
limb
is the bitter fruit.
and
leaf, death, ruin,
creep.
So, lady novelist,go home
Rub
bitingacid
Look
back
and
on
your
out
and
again.
little pen.
and
up
in, and
then
Write
that
it is
for
job
no
pruning-
shears.
Tell
them
dig for
to
years
and
years
and
years
The
twined
and
twisted
roots.
Blot
out
the page;
Invert
the
Reverse
blundering order
the scheme
:
of the
age;
the last shall be the
first.
Summon
worst
the
"
system,
starting with
the
i
How
JO
The
Read
to
Poetry
code
lying,dying
!
On, down
the
line,
The
city,and
The
guilt,the blame,
lash, and
Call
each
the court, the cop.
Assign
the shame
I
Sting,
spur!
all 1
and
Call
!
us
And
then
call her!
Who,
a
with
soul
a
heart
strain
to
feel,a mind
to
v
could
help being
whether
or
inevitable
Florence
Flower
Makers,"
of the
city;with
Fields"
and
story-poems
service
and
in behalf
and
akin
The
to
with
"
uThe
Wilkinson's
kindred
themes
stirring
uThe
Daffodil
New
England
Frost's
perform similarlysuggestive
of the
romantic
the present
poeticrealism
let
metropolitan regions :
of those
poem,
tragic Bridge
Masefield's
Robert
to
a
Leaving these,
of Hood's
memory
Sighs,
such
by
previously arrayed against
no
"
of
moved
in the abstract?
poetry
think,
leashing conventions,
its
at
to
us
think, for
poems,
era,
that
both
are
so
of less
a
ment,
mo-
of previous
closely
poetic drama.
"
Canterbury Tales,"
the
Arthurian
Narrative
the Icelandic
poem-legends,
the
folk-songsof
although the
reader
by business, and
sickened
"
them;
"
ballads
kin
whether
theater, need
dramatic
G.
To
well
that
of
in
poetic
art
across
poem-drama
to
the
need
form
of the
attention,but
classic poets
poetry
us,
greatly prize.
instanced, with
friendly chasm
are
stirring
most
receive
now
and
this realm
known
Dauber,"
poetry's sister
to
tale-
Kipling
Neihardt, Lindsay, and
follow
the
such
though
even
poems
bridge the
to
nothing of
poetry,
or
not
contemporary
would
and
"
rapid action
dramas,
by John
say
"Kilmeny"
sundry
as
strictly
belonging
the
poem-stories like Byron's
to
in prose
Actual
bored
war,
quickening qualitiesof
and
"
mended
earnestly recom-
Masefield's
and
rich in the
event
with
Hogg's
Marmion,"
present-day
is
but
Manfred,"
Scott's
Indians
wearily longing for genuine
intellectual refreshment
to
all,of
are
reproduction
Red
own
our
171
Sagas,
impossible of present
course,
as
Poetry
for
the
at
others
countless
least will
those
narrow
who
der
bor-
realm.
Browning classics,too
even
passing mention,
How
172
such
and
u
field's
"
Read
to
specimens
contemporary
Philip the
King," Lily
and
Radisson,"
Josephine
uThe
body's incomparable
poetic-dramatic
Head's
u
Poetry
"
"
Drake"
well
may
Piper,"
with
Cloyd
as
the
queer
"
Rosas
Noyes'
and
in
employed
be
hero-
such
Again
"
Masefield's
as
Pea-
Kreymborg, will provide
of Alfred
delightful introduction.
tales
Long's
Preston
and
"Grotesques"
Mines
A.
such
fantasies
Mase-
as
the
friendlycapacityof bridge.
Since
has
practically
every
done
in the
work
good
distinction
of
poet
of
way
logic;
psycho-
description,natural, imaginative or
since lines,stanzas,
at
will
and
to
since
showing
indication
rather
is the
present
forth
poetry,
such
as
directlyanalyzed
example
other
has
surely,could
of
the
in
poetic phases.
quotation might
run
conclude
than
on
not
picked poetic area
and
forever.
this
technical
now
be
Plentiful
connection
Apt
;
object,descriptive
considered.
occurred
reader
every
alone, shall
or
spring
must
poems,
of almost
the memory
poetic
with
fascinating
But
few,
bird's-eyeglimpse
without
conscious
In
the
Between
the
fields
Flanders'
place ;
our
amid
heard
Scarce
Dead.
the
We
lived, felt dawn,
and
In
Take
from
you
torch; be
If ye
break
shall
In
glow,
lie
we
now
fields.
to
yours
us
foe
the
:
throw
we
hold
it
who
die
sleep, though
Flanders'
ago
sunset
saw
faith with
not
days
falling hands
The
We
below.
guns
quarrel with
our
sky
singing, fly
loved, and
were
Flanders'
up
in the
Short
are
Loved
row,
and
the
We
To
on
larks, still bravely
The
blow
poppies
row
crosses,
mark
That
FIELDS
FLANDERS'
IN
high.
poppies
blow
fields.
"
175
JOHN
MCCRAE.
CHAPTER
CASE
THE
VII
FOR
HERE,
then,
whole
matter:
conclusion
the
is
should
Everybody
DEFENSE
THE
read
the
of
poetry.
Why?
Because
see
Chapter
Again,
why?
Because
seeks
loves
everybody
I.)
loves,
everybody
enjoyment,
(For particulars
it.
the
and
properly performed
and
universal
of
enjoyment
needs,
of
reading
desires,
poetry,
for
makes
pursued,
high, rich,
pensive,
inex-
rare,
and
highly diversified, never-ending
ever-vernal
Chapter
see
How,
poetry,
in
a
word,
Why,
and
easy.
to
in
"How
good
this
extract
plain
to
sir
Read
or
enjoyment
reading
poetry
cause
treasures
rare
particulars
II.
then,
to
further
(For
order.
and
Read
madam,
poetry
176
to
painless
from
yield
its
manner,
Poetry?"
perfectly simple
just
as
you
would
bathe
dress
or
dinner
for the Defense
Case
The
write
or
take
play golf or
or
Suit the action
If
the
to
If you
If you
a
much
life
If your
taste
tender
love
to
"home
of
why,
songs
not
are
taste.
"old"
read
to
admit
that
read
that
standard
poetry
the
much
so
to
and
of
better;
rejoice in
may
simplestof
the
the
lyrics,
war
you
the
preferredpoeticdainty.
runs
mother"
You
the
the
and
have
the
reading it, either.
of
enjoy
to
supply of
weather,
poetry,
classic order,
have
you
"new"
naturallyenjoy
or
grave
the
to
ashamed
ashamed
be
the
it.
prefer
don't
and
town.
to
poetry,
be
read
like and
you
"old"
don't
and
poetry
your
down
car
the nature,
mood,
like
you
a
eat
or
the time, the food
to
appetite, the clothing
poetry
letter
a
177
least
impressive of
jingles,the
or
passion,"
for
cause
indubitablyfortunate
supply always
will
than
more
tive
primi-
most
of
"poems
still great
verse,
ing?
rejoicin that
equal
the
demand.
If you
like poetry
of all kinds
and
of all kinds, read
don't think
apology, explanation,nor
the
any
case
poetry
requires
attention other
How
178
than
Read
to
Poetry
should
Why
deprecate
one
emotional
intellectual,
than
natural
matter-of-fact, pleased and
physicalappetitesin
or
likingsany
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