Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

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Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

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The home book of modern verse

by 20160731 frey50
Additional authors: Ed. -- Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Published by : Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York) , 1953 Physical details: 1124 pages ISBN:0030280303.
Subject(s): American poetry -- Collections | English poetry -- 20th century | American poetry -- 20th century
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Includes indexes and corrigenda to index of authors

Part I: Poems of youth and age -- The children -- Youth and age -- Part II: Poems of love -- The web of Eros -- Plaints and protestations -- The humor of love -- The irony of love -- The tragedy of love -- Love and death -- Love's fulfilment -- Love sonnets -- Part III: Poems of nature -- Mother Nature -- Dawn and dark -- The changing year -- Wood and field and running brook -- In praise of gardens -- Little creatures everywhere -- Gypsy-hearts -- Part IV: Familiar verse and poems humorous and satiric -- The kindly muse -- Sense and nonsense -- Portraits -- The barb of satire -- Part V: Poems of patriotism, history, and legend -- Shadows of war -- Poems of places -- Ballads -- Part VI: Poems of sentiment and reflection -- The philosophy of life -- The conduct of life -- Friendship and brotherhood -- The music makers -- In praise of beauty -- Romance -- Shadow-land -- Hearth and home -- Narrative and descriptive poems -- Part VII: Poems of sorrow, death, and immortality -- In the shadow -- The dark cavalier -- The deathless dead -- Sentinel songs -- O world invisible -- Our lord and our lady.

Copmrehensive collection of American and English poetry of the early 20th century