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Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collections that spanned at least twelve years from 1913 to 1924. These were composed of poems written in that year, and included a wide range of poetry from classical to avant-garde. As an African American, he also included many selections from other African American poets. He is recognized as a significant publisher of Harlem Renaissance poets. This volume includes poets such as Vachel Lindsay., Bliss Carman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joyce Kilmer, Madison Cawein, Sara Teasdale, and many others. (Summary by Larry Wilson)

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Introduction (Larry Wilson)
Landscapes by Louis Untermeyer (Lily Alphonse)
Phi Beta Kappa Poem by Bliss Carman (Larry Wilson)
The Deserted Pasture by Bliss Carman (Lily Alphonse)
To a Phoebe-bird by Witter Bynner (mleigh)
From a Motor in May by Corrine Roosevelt Robinson (Lily Alphonse)
To a Garden in April by Walter Conrad Arensberg (Lily Alphonse)
Jewel Weed by Florence Earle Coates (Lily Alphonse)
Irish by Edward J. O'brien (Lee Vogler)
The Regents' Examination by Jessie Wallace Hughan (Daniel Silverman)
Yankee Doodle by Vachel Lindsay (Lisa Greene)
Fight by Percy MacKaye (Group)
The Prophet by Lyman Bryson (Bruce Kachuk)
Newport by Alice Duer Miller (Winnifred Assmann)
To a Photographer by Berton Braley (Bruce Kachuk)
Song by Edward J. O'brien (Laurie Banza)
Sonnet XXXVII by Arthur Davison Ficke (Daniel Silverman)
The Hunting of Dian by George Starling (Alan Mapstone)
The Firemen's Ball by Vachel Lindsay (Group)
Summons by Louis Untermeyer (Larry Wilson)
Patterns by James Oppenhiem (De Anna Lee)
New York by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker (Jonathan Jones)
We Dead by James Oppenheim (redrun)
God and the Farmer by Frederick Erastus Pierce (Kerry Adams)
Song by Ruth Guthrie Harding (Laurie Banza)
Surety by Witter Bynner (De Anna Lee)
Remembrance: Greek Folk-Song by Margaret Widdemer (redrun)
The Two Flames by Eloise Briton (Daniel Silverman)
The Look by Sara Teasdale (De Anna Lee)
The Flirt by Amelia Josephine Burr (Lee Vogler)
Young Eden by Witter Bynner (NovaComms)
Ablution by John Myers O'Hare (Hope)
Pilgrmage by Laura Campbell (Jonathan Jones)
Ballad of Two Seas by George Sterling (Alan Mapstone)
Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson (De Anna Lee)
The Shroud by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Hope)
The Mother by Lydia Gibson (De Anna Lee)
A Handful of Dust by James Oppenheimer (Alan Mapstone)
A Lynmouth Widow by Amelia Josephine Burr (De Anna Lee)
The Gift of God by Edwin Arlington Robinson (aliyu)
Sonnet XXIX by Arthur Davison Ficke (Jessica Castro-Rappl)
Romance by Conrad Aiken (Jonathan Jones)
If You Should Cease to Love Me by Corrine Roosevelt Robinson (Jonathan Jones)
Vain Excuse by Walter Conrad Arnesberg (De Anna Lee)
Sonnet XXX by Arthur Davison Ficke (Jessica Castro-Rappl)
Lost Treasure by Lydia Gibson (aliyu)
Old Fairingdown by Olive Tilford Dargan (Hope)
In the Roman Forum by Amelia Josephine Burr (De Anna Lee)
Ash Wednesday by John Erskine (Jonathan Jones)
The Laggard Song by Richard Le Gallienne (Bruce Kachuk)
Grotesque by Ruth Guthrie Harding (mleigh)
Ballade of a Dead Lady by Richard Le Gallienne (De Anna Lee)
An Epitaph by Walter Conrad Arnesberg (Dereck Atwater)
War by Witter Bynner (Dereck Atwater)
France by Percy MacKaye (Nidhi Prakash)
The Drum by E. Sutton (Jonathan Jones)
If! by Bartholomew F. Griffin (Dan McNellan)
Prelude by Edmond McKenna (Dan McNellan)
The Other Army by Bartholomew F. Griffin (Alan Mapstone)
The Bugle by E. Sutton (Nidhi Prakash)
He Went for a Soldier by Ruth Comfort Mitchell (Dan McNellan)
Six Sonnets (August, 1914) by Percy MacKaye (Lisa Greene)
Litany of Nations by William Griffith (De Anna Lee)
To the Necrophile by Walter Conrad Arnesberg (Lee Vogler)
Louvain by Oliver Herford (Bruce Kachuk)
The Ancient Sacrifice by Mahlon Leonard Fisher (mleigh)
The Pipes of the North by E. Sutton (Alan Mapstone)
Out of Babylon by Clinton Scollard (Alan Mapstone)
''Funere Mersit Acerbo'' by Ruth Shepard Phelps (Alan Mapstone)
Afterwards by Mahlon Leonard Fisher (mleigh)
Evening by Charlotte Wilson (Larry Wilson)
Lights through the Mist by William Rose Benet (Larry Wilson)
The Twelve-Forty-Five by Joyce Kilmer (Alan Mapstone)
The Last Demand by Faith Baldwin (Larry Wilson)
Godspeed! By Jane Belfeld (De Anna Lee)
At the End of the Road by Madison Cawein (Winnifred Assmann)
Path-Flower by Olive Tilford Dargan (Larry Wilson)
The God-Maker, Man by Don Marquis (Alan Mapstone)
Ten Books of Poetry for a Small Library (docdlmartin)
Twenty-five Books of Poetry for a Larger Library (docdlmartin)
Supplementary List of Significant Books of Poetry for a Large Library (docdlmartin)
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