ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE FOR 1914 AND YEAR BOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY EDITED BY WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE [Illustration] NEW YORK LAURENCE J. GOMME 1914 Copyright, 1914, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE _Published December, 1914_ _Second Edition January, 1916_ VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK TO LOUIS V. LEDOUX AND EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON _Palmam qui meruit ferat_ CONTENTS PAGE CONTENTS v INTRODUCTION ix LANDSCAPES _Louis Untermeyer_ 1 PHI BETA KAPPA POEM _Bliss Carman_ 3 THE DESERTED PASTURE _Bliss Carman_ 9 TO A PHŒBE-BIRD _Witter Bynner_ 11 FROM A MOTOR IN MAY _Corinne Roosevelt Robinson_ 11 TO A GARDEN IN APRIL _Walter Conrad Arensberg_ 12 JEWEL-WEED _Florence Earle Coates_ 12 IRISH _Edward J. O’Brien_ 13 THE REGENTS’ EXAMINATION _Jessie Wallace Hughan_ 14 YANKEE DOODLE _Vachel Lindsay_ 14 FIGHT _Percy MacKaye_ 16 THE PROPHET _Lyman Bryson_ 31 NEWPORT _Alice Duer Miller_ 32 TO A PHOTOGRAPHER _Berton Braley_ 32 SONG _Edward J. O’Brien_ 33 SONNET XXXVII _Arthur Davison Ficke_ 33 THE HUNTING OF DIAN _George Sterling_ 34 THE FIREMEN’S BALL _Vachel Lindsay_ 36 SUMMONS _Louis Untermeyer_ 43 PATTERNS _James Oppenheim_ 44