HAY-COCK

This is another kind of sweetness
Shaped like a bee-hive:

This is the hive the bees have left,

It is from this clover-heap

They took away the honey

For the other hive!

THE OLD BRIDGE

The old bridge has a wrinkled face.

He bends his back

For us to go over.

He moans and weeps

But we do not hear.

Sorrow stands in his face

For the heavy weight and worry

Of people passing.

The trees drop their leaves into the water;

The sky nods to him.

The leaves float down like small ships

On the blue surface

Which is the sky.

He is not always sad:

He smiles to see the ships go down

And the little children

Playing on the river banks.

I KEEP WONDERING

I saw a mountain,

And he was like Wotan looking at himself in the water.

I saw a cockatoo,

And he was like sunset clouds.

Even leaves and little stones

Are different to my eyes sometimes.

I keep wondering through and through my heart

Where all the beautiful things in the world

Come from.

And while I wonder

They go on being beautiful.

The following twelve volumes deal, in considerable detail, with many of the poets, groups and tendencies considered in this collection. A few treat principally of the period between 1860 and 1890; the majority, however, reflect the shifting course of contemporary poetry. Most of the dozen contain liberal quotations, references, illustrative poems and suggestions for supplementary reading.

AIKEN, CONRAD. Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry. Alfred A. Knopf. 1919.

BOYNTON, PERCY H. A History of American Literature. Ginn and Company.

1919.

BROOKS, VAN WYCK. America's Coming of Age. (Chapters II and III.) B. W. Huebsch. 1915.

EASTMAN, MAX. Enjoyment of Poetry. Charles Scribner's

Sons. 1913.

LOWELL, AMY. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. The Macmillan Company. 1917.

LOWES, JOHN LIVINGSTON. Convention and Revolt in Poetry. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1919.

MONROE, HARRIET, and ALICE CORBIN HENDERSON. The New Poetry-An Anthology. The Macmillan Company. 1917. MORRIS, LLOYD R. The Young Idea (An Anthology of Opinion). Duffield and Company. 1917.

PATTEE, FRED LEWIS. A History of American Literature Since 1870. The Century Company. 1915.

RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE B. The Younger American Poets. (1860 to 1900). Little, Brown and Company. 1904.

Untermeyer, Louis. The New Era in American Poetry. Henry Holt and Company. 1919.

WILKINSON, MARGUERITE. New Voices. The Macmillan Company. 1919.