It should be added that this is not a haphazard anthology of picked-over poetry. The poems that follow are new. They are new not only in the sense that (with two exceptions) they cannot be found in book form, but most of them have never previously been published. Certain of the selections have appeared in recent magazines and these are reprinted by permission of _The Century_, _The Yale Review_, _Poetry: A Magazine of Verse_, _The New Republic_, _Harper's_, _Scribner's_, _The Bookman_, _The Freeman_, _Broom_, _The Dial_, _The Atlantic Monthly_, _Farm and Fireside_, _The Measure_, and _The Literary Review_. Vachel Lindsay's "I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry" is a revised version of the poem of that name which was printed in _The Enchanted Years_. CONTENTS _A Foreword_ _III_ AMY LOWELL Lilacs _3_ Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme _8_ The Swans _13_ Prime _16_ Vespers _17_ In Excelsis _18_ La Ronde du Diable _20_ ROBERT FROST Fire and Ice _25_ The Grindstone _26_ The Witch of Coos _29_ A Brook in the City _37_ Design _38_ CARL SANDBURG And So To-day _41_ California City Landscape _49_ Upstream _51_ Windflower Leaf _52_ VACHEL LINDSAY In Praise of Johnny Appleseed _55_ I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry _66_ JAMES OPPENHEIM Hebrews _75_ ALFRED KREYMBORG Adagio: A Duet _79_ Die Kuche _80_ Rain _81_ Peasant _83_ Bubbles _85_ Dirge _87_ Colophon _88_ SARA TEASDALE Wisdom _91_ Places _92_ _Twilight_ (Tucson) _Full Moon_ (Santa Barbara) _Winter Sun_ (Lenox) _Evening_ (Nahant) Words for an Old Air _97_