Content xxiv
Mr. Flood's Party 449
The Man Against the Sky 451
JESSE RITTENHOUSE
Debt 458
GEORGE STERLING
Aldebaran at Dusk 459
The Black Vulture 459
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
Petit, the Poet 460
Many Soldiers 460
from Chicago 461
Cities of the Plain 462
from Henry C. Calhoun 464
AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY: 1870-1900
Song of Sequence (Navajo) 464
Invocation to Dsilyi N'eyani (Navajo) 464
The Whole World is Coming (Sioux) 465
from The Walum Olum or Red Score (Lenape) 465
SONGS, SPIRITUALS, HYMNS, AND POPULAR POEMS: 1870-1900
France and Johnny (Unknown, 1870-75) 466
John Henry (Unknown, 1873) 467
Home on the Range (Brewster Higley, c.1876) 468
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Joseph Scriven, 1876) 469
Carry Me Back to OLd Virginny (James A. Bland, 1878) 470
Polly Wolly Doodle (Unknown, 1883) 470
Oh My Darling Clementine (Percy Montrose, 1884) 471
Casey at the Bat (Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1888) 472
I Been Working on the Railroad (Unknown, 1894) 473
The Sidewalks of New York (James W. Blake, 1894) 473
When the Saints Go Marching In (Unknown, 1896) 474
I Never Saw a Purple Cow (Gelett Burgess, 1898) 475
VI - THE ADVENT OF THE
MODERN: 1901-1922
STEPHEN CRANE
from The Black Riders
III In the desert 479
XXIV I saw a man pursuing the horizon 479
from War is Kind
I Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind 479