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STARVED ROCK

BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS

Author of "Spoon River Anthology," "Songs and
Satires," "The Great Valley," "Toward
the Gulf," etc.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1919
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published, October, 1919

Certain of these poems first appeared in Reedy's Mirror,
Poetry, The Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review and The
New York Sun.



CONTENTS


PAGE
Starved Rock 1
Hymn to the Dead 5
Creation 10
The World's Desire 13
Tyrannosaurus: or Burning Letters 16
Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori 22
The Folding Mirror 29
A Woman of Forty 33
Wild Birds 34
A Lady 36
The Negro Ward 40
William Shakspeare 44
For a Play 47
Chicago 49
The Wedding Feast 54
By the Waters of Babylon 58
The Dream of Tasso 60
The Christian Statesman 69
The Lament of Sophonia 77
At Decapolis 79
Winged Victory 83
Oh you Sabbatarians! 88
Pallas Athene 90

At Sagamore Hill 95
To Robert Nichols 101
Bonnybell: The Butterfly 103
Hymn to Agni 109
Epitaph for Us 111
Botticelli to Simonetta 114
Flower in the Garden 115
Inexorable Deities 117
Arielle 119
Sounds out of Sorrow 121
Mournin' for Religion 122
Thyamis 124
I Shall Go Down into This Land 126
Spring Lake 128
The Barber of Sepo 138
They'd Never Know Me Now 145
Nel Mezzo Del Cammin 156
The Oak Tree 160
The House on the Hill 162
Washington Hospital 163
Neither Faith nor Beauty Can Remain 170