Produced by Richard Tonsing, David Starner, Stephen Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) MODERN AMERICAN POETRY (_Revised and Enlarged Edition_) BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER Author of “_Challenge_,” “_Including Horace_,” “_The New Era in American Poetry_,” etc. [Illustration] NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, 1921, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & SODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N J ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to reprint most of the material in this volume, the editor wishes to thank not only the poets whose coöperation has been of such assistance, but also the publishers, all of whom are holders of the copyright. The indebtedness is alphabetically acknowledged to: RICHARD G. BADGER—for the poems from _Sun and Saddle Leather_ and _Grass-Grown Trails_ by Badger Clark. BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY—for two poems from _The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley_. BRENTANO’S—for two poems from _Chanteys and Ballads_ by Harry Kemp. NICHOLAS L. BROWN—for the poem from _Blood of Things_ by Alfred Kreymborg. THE CENTURY COMPANY—for the selections from _Merchants from Cathay_ by William Rose Benét and _War and Laughter_ by James Oppenheim. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE—for “Lake Song” by Jean Starr Untermeyer. DODD, MEAD & COMPANY—for the two poems from _Lyrics of Lowly Life_ and one poem from _Lyrics of Love and Laughter_ by Paul Laurence Dunbar. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY—for the selections from _Moons of Grandeur_ by William Rose Benét, _Banners_ by Babette Deutsch, _Trees and Other Poems_ by Joyce Kilmer, and _Hide and Seek_ by Christopher Morley. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY—for the selections from _In Other Words_ and _Tobogganning on Parnassus_ by Franklin P. Adams, _The Man with the Hoe_ and _Lincoln and Other Poems_ by Edwin Markham. E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY—for the selections from _The Vale of Tempe_ by Madison Cawein and _Lanterns in Gethsemane_ by Willard Wattles. FOUR SEAS COMPANY—for the quotations from _The Charnel Rose_, _The Jig of Forslin_ and _The House of Dust_ by Conrad Aiken. HILLACRE BOOKHOUSE—for the quotations from _Arrows in the Gale_ by Arturo Giovannitti.