Book: The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

• Two Old Crows

  Two old crows sat on a fence rail.
  Two old crows sat on a&nbs

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• The Prairie Battlements

  (To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect)
  

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• The Chinese Nightingale

  A Song in Chinese Tapestries
  

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• The Ghosts Of The Buffaloes

  Last night at black midnight I woke with a cry,
  The windows were shaking, there was thunder on high,

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• Where Is the Real Non-Resistant

  (Matthew V, 38-48.)
  

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• The Booker Washington Trilogy

  I. A NEGRO SERMON:—SIMON LEGREE
  (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.)

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• When Bryan Speaks

  When Bryan speaks, the town's a hive.
  From miles around, the autos drive.

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• To Lady Jane

  Romance was always young.
  You come today

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• To Jane Addams At The Hague

  I. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE
  

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• Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress

  I
  The arts are old, old as the stones

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• The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree

  A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old.
  The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the cause of war in all ages. It show

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• The Flower Of Mending

  (To Eudora, after I had had certain dire adventures.)
  

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• The Merciful Hand

  Written to Miss Alice L. F. Fitzgerald, Edith Cavell memorial nurse, going to the front.
  

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• The King Of Yellow Butterflies

  (A Poem Game.)
  

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• Our Mother Pocahontas

  (Note: — Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.)
  "Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May — did she

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• Epitaphs For Two Players

  I. EDWIN BOOTH
  An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were few theatre

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• Concerning Emperors

  I. GOD SEND THE REGICIDE
  Would that the lying rulers of the world

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• The Drunkard's Funeral

  "Yes," said the sister with the little pinched face,
  The busy little sister with the funny little tract: —

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• Niagara

  I
  Within the town of Buffalo

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• The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken

  A little colt — broncho, loaned to the farm
  To be broken in time without fury or harm,

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• Mark Twain And Joan Of Arc

  When Yankee soldiers reach the barricade
  Then Joan of Arc gives each the accolade.

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• Alone In The Wind, On The Prairie

  I know a seraph who has golden eyes,
  And hair of gold, and body like the snow.

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• The Bankrupt Peace-Maker

  I opened the ink-well and smoke filled the room.
  The smoke formed the giant frog-cat of my doom.

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• How I Walked Alone In The Jungles Of Heaven

  Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone
  Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky.

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• This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky

  (Being a Chant of the American Soap-Box and the Russian Revolution.)
  

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• The Potatoes' Dance

  (A Poem Game.)
  

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• Our Guardian Angels And Their Children

  Where a river roars in rapids
  And doves in maples fret,

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• How Samson Bore Away The Gates Of Gaza

  (A Negro Sermon.)
  

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