Produced by David E. Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) SONGS AND SATIRES THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO SONGS AND SATIRES _By_ EDGAR LEE MASTERS AUTHOR OF "SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY" New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1916. Reprinted March, June, 1916. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A For permission to print in book form certain of these poems I wish to acknowledge an indebtedness to _Poetry_, _The Smart Set_, _The Little Review_, _The Cosmopolitan Magazine_, and William Marion Reedy, Editor of _Reedy's Mirror_. CONTENTS PAGE SILENCE 1 ST. FRANCIS AND LADY CLARE 4 THE COCKED HAT 10 THE VISION 18 SO WE GREW TOGETHER 21 RAIN IN MY HEART 31 THE LOOP 32 WHEN UNDER THE ICY EAVES 40 IN THE CAR 41 SIMON SURNAMED PETER 43 ALL LIFE IN A LIFE 47 WHAT YOU WILL 56 THE CITY 57 THE IDIOT 65 HELEN OF TROY 68 O GLORIOUS FRANCE 71 FOR A DANCE 74 WHEN LIFE IS REAL 76 THE QUESTION 78 THE ANSWER 79 THE SIGN 80 WILLIAM MARION REEDY 82 A STUDY 85 PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN 88 IN THE CAGE 91 SAVING A WOMAN: ONE PHASE 95 LOVE IS A MADNESS 97 ON A BUST 98 ARABEL 101 JIM AND ARABEL'S SISTER 108 THE SORROW OF DEAD FACES 116 THE CRY 119 THE HELPING HAND 120 THE DOOR 121 SUPPLICATION 122 THE CONVERSATION 125 TERMINUS 130 MADELINE 132 MARCIA 134 THE ALTAR 135 SOUL'S DESIRE 137 BALLAD OF LAUNCELOT AND ELAINE 140 THE DEATH OF LAUNCELOT 149 IN MICHIGAN 156 THE STAR 166 SONGS AND SATIRES SILENCE