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A complete listing of the selections in this remarkable collection from America's most prominent poets of the day:AMY LOWELL Lilacs Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme The Swans Prime Vespers In Excelsis La Ronde du DiableROBERT FROST Fire and Ice The Grindstone The Witch of Coös A Brook in the City DesignCARL SANDBURG And So To-day California City Landscape Upstream Windflower LeafVACHEL LINDSAY In Praise of Johnny Appleseed I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles CryJAMES OPPENHEIM Hebrews ALFRED KREYMBORG Adagio: A Duet Die Küche Rain Peasant Bubbles Dirge ColophonSARA TEASDALE Wisdom Places Words for an Old Air Those Who Love Two Songs for SolitudeLOUIS UNTERMEYER Monolog from a Mattress Waters of Babylon The Flaming Circle Portrait of a Machine Roast LeviathanJOHN GOULD FLETCHER A Rebel The Rock Blue Water Prayers for Wind Impromptu Chinese Poet Among Barbarians Snowy Mountains The Future Upon the Hill The EnduringJEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Old Man Tone Picture They Say- Rescue Mater in Extremis Self-RejectedH. D. Holy Satyr Lais Heliodora Toward the PiræusCONRAD AIKEN Seven Twilights TetélestaiEDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Eight Sonnets