from The devil's dictionary ; Corporal ; Elegy / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) -- Two men ; A mighty runner ; MIniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Famous baths and bathers / Carolyn Wells (1869-1942) -- Elegy ; from The lyric Baedeker : Philadelphia, Seattle ; Everything in its place ; On the vanity of earthly greatness / Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) -- The embarrassing episode of little Miss Muffet ; The harmonious heedlessness of little Boy Blue / Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) -- The Wrights' biplane ; In Divés' dive ; In a poem / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- the song of a mehitabel ; archy at the zoo ; from mehitabael's extensive past ; ballade of the under side / Don Marquis (1878-1937) -- Factory windows are always broken ; A colloquial reply : to any newsboy ; Niagara ; Kalamazoo / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931).
Us potes ; Ballade of Schopenhauer's philosophy ; The rich man ; To a thesaurus ; "Lines where beauty lingers" / Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960) -- An immorality ; Ancient music / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- The naming of cats ; Macavity : the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Tannhauser ; Carmen ; Rigoletto ; Pelleas and Melisande / Newman Levy (1888-1966) -- Survey of literature / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- from Love-songs, at once tender and informative, an unusual combination in verses of this character ; from The notebook of a schnook ; from Poems in praise of practically nothing ; from Songs about life and brighter things yet ; a survey of the entire earthly panorama, animal, vegetable and mineral, with appropriate comment by the author, of a philosophic, whimsical, humorous or poetic nature, a truly remarkable undertaking ; from Couplers, rare, medium, and well-done ; The sexes / Samuel Hoffenstein (1890-1947).
Elegy written in a country coal-bin ; "A pre-Raphaelite" / Christopher Morley (1890-1957) -- Upper family / Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954) -- First fig ; Second fig ; Thursday ; Grown-up / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Ozymandias revisited ; Eschatology ; We have been here before ; "A joker who haunts Monticello" ; Flowers of rhetoric ; Ah, to be in ... / Morris Bishop (1893-1973) -- Portrait of the artist ; Chant for dark hours ; Unfortunate coincidence ; Comment ; Words of comfort to be scratched on a mirror ; News item ; Song of one of the girls ; Fighting words ; Inscription for the ceiling of a bedroom ; Experience ; Neither bloody nor bowed ; Bohemia ; Story ; Frustration ; Résumé ; One perfect rose ; Ballade at thirty-five ; Healed ; Pour prendre congé ; Coda ; The danger of writing defiant verse ; The actress / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- "the way to hump a cow" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Orbit on Parnassus / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).
Sportif ; History of education ; Convalescence / David McCord (1897-1997) -- Week end bid I ; Week end bid II ; Lion / John Wheelwright (1897-1940) -- Marble-top ; I paint what I see ; Village revisited / E.B. White (1899-1985) -- Old story ; Aphrodite metropolis (III) ; Ballad of the Salvation Army ; Death and transfiguration of Fourteenth Street ; Cultural notes ; Dirge / Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) -- Spring comes to Murray Hill ; Watchman, what of the first first lady? ; Please pass the biscuit ; The termite ; The panther ; A beginner's guide to the ocean ; Kind of an ode to duty ; No wonder our fathers died ; A necessary dirge ; The private dining room ; What's in a name? Some letter I always forget ; Arthur ; The song of songs / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- View from a suburban window ; Trinity Place ; Why, some of my best friends are women ; Evening musicale ; Blues for a melodeon ; New England pilgrimage ; The day after Sunday / Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978).
Mr. Rockefeller's hat ; To Helen ; The princess and the pea ; Ballade of poetic material / Helen Bevington (1906-2001) -- Under which lyre ; from Academic graffiti : "My first name, Wystan," John Milton, Oscar Wilde ; Parable / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- from Uncoupled couplets / William Cole (1919 -2000) -- The Dover bitch ; Handicap ; It never rains ... ; Firmness ; From the Grove Press ; Down there on a visit / Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) -- "From the bathing machine came a din" ; "The Proctor buys a pupil ices" / Edward Gorey (1925-2000) -- Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams ; La Ville de Nice / Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) -- Above all that? ; Neo-classic ; Tomorrows / James Merrill (1926-1995) -- Japanese beetles / X.J. Kennedy (b. 1929) -- Said ("J Alfred Prufrock to") ; Said ("Agatha Christie to") ; Said ("Dame Edith Evans to") ; Said ("J. Edgar Hoover to") ; High Renaissance ; Working habits ; Boston ; On the antiquity of warfare / George Starbuck (b. 1931).
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