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New voices; an introduction to contemporary poetry

Marguerite Wilkinson · 1921 · Scanned text · Free in the US

130,620 words · about 9 h 9 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Marguerite Wilkinson
Language
English
Published
1921
Length
130,620 words · about 9 h 9 min
Sections
7 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (7)
  1. Front matter about 13 min
  2. PART I The Technique of Contemporary Poetry about 1 min
  3. PART II The Spirit of Contemporary Poetry about 1 h 31 min
  4. II In which Many Autos pass Westward about 1 h 50 min
  5. IV about 1 min
  6. VI about 5 h 6 min
  7. Epilogue about 27 min

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Front matter

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PART I The Technique of Contemporary Poetry

Patterns 33

Renascence 36

Indian Summer 41

The Dying Patriot 43

Cinquains 44

The Cedars 44

Tampico 45

Who Loves the Rain 45

A Cyprian Woman: Greek Folk Song 45

Psalm 46

Deirdre 47

An April Morning 48

The Answer 48

What Dim Arcadian Pastures 49

The Santa Fe Trail — A Humoresque 67

Coming to Port 71

Monotone 72

The Bombardment 72

The Virgin's Slumber Song 75

Seal Lullaby 76

The Listeners 7^

Remembrance: Greek Folk Song 77

The Bacchante to Her Babe 7^

The Most-Sacred Mountain 80

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xviii CONTENTS

PAGE

Song of the Full Catch 8i

Little Things 8i

Cargoes 96

The BuU 97

Sea Gods ir2

Windmills 104

Lincoln, the Man of the People 105

Standards 106

Pandora's Song 107

A White Iris 107

"Frost to-night" 108

Silver 108

From "Variations" 109

An Old Woman of the Roads 109

The Dark Cavalier no

Said a Blade of Grass no

Symbols in

Her Words 131

The Song of Wandering Aengus 132

Grieve not for Beauty 133

Old Age 133

The End of the World 134

The Old Bed 135

Sunrise on Rydal Water 136

Leaves 137

Spring 138

In the Poppy Field < . . . 138

Mystery 139

The Gum-Gatherer 139

At Night (To W. M.) . . 141

From "Variations" 141

Daybreak 143

Vistas 144

Certain American Poets 144

After Sunset 145

Ships 146

CONTENTS xix

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Song 159

Forty Singing Seamen 159

Ash Wednesday 163

Around the Sun 168

The Flight 170

"My Lady Ne'er Hath Given Herself to Me" 171

i^ ., , Path Flower 172

From "Night" 188

Clay Hills 191

Cool Tombs 192

Loam ■ 192

IdeaUsts i93

Old Manuscript 193

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