The Melody of Earth: An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets
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The Melody of Earth: An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets
English poetry; Gardens -- Poetry; Nature in literature
To Messrs. Harper & Brothers for "Roses in the Subway," Dana Burnet,
from _Poems_; for "The Wild Rose," and "If I were a Fairy," Charles
Buxton Going, from _Star-Glow and Song_; for "The Cardinal-Bird," Arthur
Guiterman, from _The Laughing Muse_; for "Wild Gardens," Ada Foster
Murray, from _Flowers of the Grass_; for "The Message," Helen Hay
Whitney, from _Sonnets and Songs_.
To Hearst's International Library Company for "Stairways and Gardens"
and "My Flower-Room," Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from _World Voices_.
To Mr. William Heinemann for "The Cactus," Laurence Hope, from _Stars of
the Desert_; for "The July Garden," R. E. Vernède, from _War Poems, and
Other Verses_; for "A Garden-Piece," Edmund Gosse, from _Collected
Poems_.
To Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. for "The Cloister Garden at Certosa,"
Richard Burton, from _Poems of Earth's Meaning_; for "The Furrow,"
Padraic Colum, from _Wild Earth, and Other Poems_; for "The Three Cherry
Trees," Walter de la Mare, from _The Listeners, and Other Poems_; for "A
Late Walk," "Asking for Roses," "The Pasture," and "Putting in the
Seed," Robert Frost, from _A Boy's Will_, _North of Boston_, and _A
Mountain Interval_; for "Joe-Pyeweed," Louis Untermeyer, from _These
Times_.
To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Blooming of the Rose" and
the selection from "Under the Trees," Anna Hempstead Branch, from _The
Heart of the Road_ and _The Shoes that Danced, and Other Poems_; for
"Spring Patchwork" and "The Flowerphone," Abbie Farwell Brown, from _A
Pocketful of Posies_ and _Songs of Sixpence_; for "The Morning-Glory"
and "Jewel-Weed," Florence Earle Coates, from _Collected Poems_; for
"Nightingales" and "A Breath of Mint," Grace Hazard Conkling, from
_Afternoons of April_; for "The Golden-Rod," Margaret Deland, from _The
Old Garden, and Other Verses_; for "A Roman Garden," Florence Wilkinson
Evans, from _The Ride Home_; for "Cobwebs," Louise Imogen Guiney, from
_Happy Ending_; for "Planting," Robert Livingston, from _Murrer and Me_;
for "Primavera," George Cabot Lodge, from _Poems and Dramas_; for "Ever
the Same," "Charm: To be said in the Sun," and "But we did walk in
Eden," Josephine Preston Peabody, from _The Singing Leaves_ and _The
Singing Man_; for "At Isola Bella" ("A White Peacock"), Jessie B.
Rittenhouse, from _The Door of Dreams_; for "The Goldfinch," Odell
Shepard, from _A Lonely Flute_; for "Daisies" and "Witchery," Frank
Dempster Sherman, from _Poems_; for "Grandmother's Gathering Boneset,"
Edith M. Thomas, from _In Sunshine Land_.
To Mr. B. W. Huebsch for "Song from 'April,'" Irene Rutherford McLeod,
from _Songs to Save a Soul_.
To Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co. for "Vestured and veiled with
twilight," Rosamund Marriott Watson, from _The Heart of a Garden_.
To Mr. R. U. Johnson (publisher) for "Como in April," Robert Underwood
Johnson, from _Collected Poems_.
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