Chapter I

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

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From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

(Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

(classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

any of the larger branches of a tree

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

a city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

an orange of low brightness and saturation

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

plural of “builder” — a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a period of 100 years

From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

any system of principles or beliefs

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

never dying

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

performance of moral or religious acts

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

remove the dust from

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

time without end

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

divisible by two

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

descend in free fall under the influence of gravity

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

possessive form of “father” — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

a social club for male undergraduates

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

acknowledged as a supposition

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a person who keeps watch over something or someone

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a visitor to whom hospitality is extended

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

past form of “hinder” — be a hindrance or obstacle to

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a humming noise

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

ten 10s

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

a republic in central Europe

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering. (Hách dịch, độc đoán, kiêu kỳ.)

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

plural of “land” — the land on which real estate is located

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a person who rules or guides or inspires others

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

possessive form of “love” — a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

engage in

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

one of the five boroughs of New York City

From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

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From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

come together

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

having or showing great strength or force or intensity

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

great merriment

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

subject to death

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

a condition requiring relief

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a brief written record

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

A large hole in the ground, or an abyss of darkness and peril.

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

(Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a man who plows

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901._ EDWIN MARKHAM.

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

exert pressure or force to or upon

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

interpret something that is written or printed

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

a member of the Republican Party

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

cut with a saw

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

plural of “scale” — an ordered reference standard

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

perception by means of the eyes

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a chamber that is used as a grave

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

plural of “shepherd” — a clergyman who watches over a group of people

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a short musical composition with words

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

possessive form of “song” — a short musical composition with words

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

someone who sows

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

characterized by or performed with much energy or force

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

the act of killing yourself

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

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From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

at the time that

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

a sudden desire

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

in the company of; together with

From this reading _Author of_ “The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems” Note _Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time.

someone who sees an event and reports what happened

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.

a late time of life

From this reading WEST NEW BRIGHTON NEW YORK Lincoln, the Man of the People 1 In a Corn-field 4 The Sower 5 At Little Virgil’s Window 8 The Muse of Brotherhood 9 A Blossoming Bough 13 Kyka 14 A Mendocino Memory 16 The Witness of the Dust 21 The Wall Street Pit 23 A Creed 25 The Mighty Hundred Years 26 Which was Dream?

the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

From this reading The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading 34 Our Deathless Dead 36 The Builders 39 The Angelus 40 The Suicide 44 The Ascension 45 All-Men’s Inn 48 The Field Fraternity 49 The Errand Imperious 51 Love’s To-Morrow 54 The Leader of the People 55 Art 58 On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades” 59 The Muse of Labor 60 Even Scales 63 Dreyfus 64 Memory of Good Deeds 66 The New Century 67 The Need of the Hour 70 The Lizard 72 The Humming Bird 74 The Round-Up 75 Song of the Fay 78 The World-Purpose 80 To Young America 82 The Brown o’ the Year 83 Wind of the Fall 84 The Free Press 85 A Bargain 87 “Inasmuch” 88 “The Father’s Business” 90 A Guard of the Sepulchre 91 The Song of the Shepherds 93 The Prince of Whim 96 The Plowman 97 Song’s Eternity 98 The God of Song and Mirth 99 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 101 The Joy-Maker 113 The Face of Life 114 The Story of Bacchus 115 Lost Lands 118 Poet-Lore 119 The Hindered Guest 121 Supplication 125 LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS Lincoln, the Man of the People When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She bent the strenuous Heavens and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need.