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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 Miss Angela Morgan for "The Awakening" in manuscript.

To E. Nesbit (Mrs. Hubert Bland) for "Baby Seed Song."

To Mr. Shaemas O Sheel for "While April Rain went by" from _The Light
Feet of Goats_ (The Franklin Press).

To Mr. Clinton Scollard for "The Crocus Flame," and "Sunflowers," from
_Ballads Patriotic and Romantic_; for "In the Garden-Close at Mezra" and
"In an Egyptian Garden" from _The Lutes of Morn_.

To Mrs. Emily Selinger for "Over the Garden Wall."

To Mrs. May Riley Smith for "Sorrow in a Garden" in manuscript.

To the estate of Frank L. Stanton for "Sweetheart-Lady."

To Mr. Charles Wharton Stork for "Boulders" in manuscript, and for
"Color Notes," printed in _Lippincott's Magazine_.

To Mr. Charles Hanson Towne for "A White Rose."

To Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Henry Albert Hinkson) for "The Choice,"
published by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson in _The Poems of To-day_, an
anthology.

To Mr. Frederic A. Whiting for his own poems "A Rose Lover" and "A
Wonder Garden" in manuscript and for "Kinfolk" by Kate Whiting Patch.

To Mr. Clement Wood for "Rose-Geranium" from _Glad of Earth_.

To Mr. Henry A. Wise Wood for "The Joy of a Summer Day."

NOTE

With very few exceptions only the poets who are writing to-day, or who
have written within a period of ten years, are represented in this
collection; and certain favorite poems peculiarly suited to the spirit
of this book which chanced to be included in _High Tide_ may be missed
here. G. M. R.

CONTENTS

    WITHIN GARDEN WALLS

    Earth  _John Hall Wheelock_                                    2

    The Furrow  _Padraic Colum_                                    3

    "There is strength in the soil"  _Arthur Stringer_             4

    In the Womb  "_A. E._"                                         4

    Putting in the Seed  _Robert Frost_                            5

    The Whisper of Earth  _Edward J. O'Brien_                      6

    "Within the garden there is healthfulness"  _Emile Verhaeren_  6

    In a Garden  _Horace Holley_                                   7

    A Shower  _Rowland Thirlmere_                                  8

    The Rain  _William H. Davies_                                  9

    The Dews  _John B. Tabb_                                       9

    Sonnet  _John Masefield_                                      10

    Charm: To be said in the Sun  _Josephine Preston Peabody_     11

    The Dials  _Arthur Wallace Peach_                             12

    To a New Sundial  _Violet Fane_                               13

    The Fountain  _Harry Kemp_                                    14

    THE PAGEANTRY OF GARDENS

    The Birth of the Flowers  _Mary McNeil Fenollosa_             18

    The Welcome  _Arthur Powell_                                  19

    The Joy of the Springtime  _Sarojini Naidu_                   20

    Spring  _John Gould Fletcher_                                 20

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The Melody of Earth: An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets

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