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Part 4

Richard Burton's Poems of Earth's Meaning

Francis Carlin's My Ireland The Cairn of Stars

Padraic Colum's Wild Earth and Other Poems

Grace Hazard Conkling's Wilderness Songs

Walter De La Mare's The Listeners and Other Poems Peacock Pie. Ill'd by W. H. Robinson Motley and Other Poems Collected Poems 1901-1918. 2 Vols.

Robert Frost's North of Boston Mountain Interval. New Edition, with Portrait A Boy's Will

Carl Sandburg's Cornhuskers Chicago Poems

Lew Sarrett's Many Many Moons

Louis Untermeyer's These Times ---- and Other Poets Poems of Heinrich Heine (Translated) The New Era in American Poetry

Margaret Widdemer's The Old Road to Paradise Factories and Other Poems

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THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE

American and English 1580-1918 Selected and arranged by Burton Egbert Stevenson Third Edition Revised and Enlarged

Over 4,000 pages of the best verse in English, ranging all the way from the classics to some of the best newspaper verse of to-day. In several different editions.

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HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

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Transcriber Notes

Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are listed below.

Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation is preserved.

Author's punctuation style is preserved, except where noted.

Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.

Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.

Transcriber Changes

The following changes were made to the original text:

Page 46: Added period after =trees= (Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn, And even fruit =trees.=)

Page 63: Added stanza break between go and Don't (And three miles more to =go!" "Don't= let him go.)

Page 63: Single quote changed to double after =through= ("He'll pull =through."=)

Page 72: Removed extra stanza break after =stumbles= (The handle =stumbles. The= stubborn thing, the way it jars your arm!)

Page 74: Removed extra stanza break after =wife= ("Hello, Meserve. You're there, then!--And your =wife? Good!= Why I asked--she didn't seem to answer.)