The old bridge has a wrinkled face. He bends his back For us to go over. He moans and weeps But we do not hear. Sorrow stands in his face For the heavy weight and worry Of people passing. The trees drop their leaves into the water; The sky nods to him. The leaves float down like small ships On the blue surface Which is the sky. He is not always sad: He smiles to see the ships go down And the little children Playing on the river banks. I KEEP WONDERING I saw a mountain, And he was like Wotan looking at himself in the water. I saw a cockatoo, And he was like sunset clouds. Even leaves and little stones Are different to my eyes sometimes. I keep wondering through and through my heart Where all the beautiful things in the world Come from. And while I wonder They go on being beautiful. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY The following twelve volumes deal, in considerable detail, with many of the poets, groups and tendencies considered in this collection. A few treat principally of the period between 1860 and 1890; the majority, however, reflect the shifting course of contemporary poetry. Most of the dozen contain liberal quotations, references, illustrative poems and suggestions for supplementary reading. AIKEN, CONRAD. _Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry._ Alfred A. Knopf. 1919. BOYNTON, PERCY H. _A History of American Literature._ Ginn and Company. 1919. BROOKS, VAN WYCK. _America’s Coming of Age._ (Chapters II and III.) B. W. Huebsch. 1915. EASTMAN, MAX. _Enjoyment of Poetry._ Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1913. LOWELL, AMY. _Tendencies in Modern American Poetry._ The Macmillan Company. 1917. LOWES, JOHN LIVINGSTON. _Convention and Revolt in Poetry._ Houghton Mifflin Company. 1919. MONROE, HARRIET, and ALICE CORBIN HENDERSON. _The New Poetry—An Anthology._ The Macmillan Company. 1917. MORRIS, LLOYD R. _The Young Idea (An Anthology of Opinion)._ Duffield and Company. 1917. PATTEE, FRED LEWIS. _A History of American Literature Since 1870._ The Century Company. 1915. RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE B. _The Younger American Poets._ (1860 to 1900). Little, Brown and Company. 1904. UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. _The New Era in American Poetry._ Henry Holt and Company. 1919. WILKINSON, MARGUERITE. _New Voices._ The Macmillan Company. 1919. INDEX _Names of Authors are in Capitals. Titles of Poems are in Italics._ _A. E. F._, 204 ADAMS, FRANKLIN P., 237-240 AIKEN, CONRAD, xliii, 358-366 ALDRICH, T. B., 7-10 _Anne Rutledge_, 123 _Apple Tree Said, The_, 385