A Tree with a Bird in it: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle
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A Tree with a Bird in it - Margaret Widdemer
Margaret Widdemer
A Tree with a Bird in it
A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD
By the Collator
ILLUSTRATIONS
A TREE WITH A BIRD IN IT
Jessie B. Rittenhouse
RESIGNATION
Edwin Markham
THE BIRD WITH THE WOE
Witter Bynner
THE UNITY OF ONENESS
Amy Lowell
OISEAURIE
Edgar Lee Masters
IMRI SWAZEY
Edwin Arlington Robinson
RAMBUNCTO
Robert Frost
THE BIRD MISUNDERSTOOD
Carl Sandburg
CHICAGO MEMORIES
Edith M. Thomas
FROST AND SANDBURG TONIGHT
Charles Hanson Towne
THE UNQUIET SINGER
Sara Teasdale
AT AUTUMN
Ezra Pound
RAINUV: A ROMANTIC BALLAD FROM THE EARLY BASQUE
Margaret Widdemer
THE SIGHING TREE
Richard Le Gallienne
BALLADE OF SPRING CHICKENS
Angela Morgan
OH! BIRD!
Conrad Aiken
THE CHARNEL BIRD
Mary Carolyn Davies
A YOUNG GIRL TO A YOUNG BIRD
Marguerite Wilkinson
THE RUNE OF THE NUDE
Aline Kilmer
ADMIRATION
The Benet Brothers
THE GRACKLE OF GROG
Lola Ridge
PREENINGS
Edna St. Vincent Millay
TEA O' HERBS
John V. A. Weaver
THE WEAVER BIRD
David Morton
SONNET: TREES ARE NOT SHIPS
Elinor Wylie
THE GRACKLE IS THE LOON
Leonora Speyer
A LANDSCAPE GETS PERSONAL
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
THE SYMPOSIUM LEADING NOWHERE
Ridgely Torrence
THE FOWL OF A THOUSAND FLIGHTS
Henry van Dyke
THE ROILING OF HENRY
Cale Young Rice
PANTINGS
Bliss Carman
THE WILD
Grace Hazard and Hilda Conkling
THEY SEE THE BIRDIE
Theodosia Garrison
A BALLAD OF THE BIRD DANCE OF PIERRETTE
William Griffith
PIERRETTE REMEMBERS AN ENGAGEMENT
Edgar Guest
AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL!
Don Marquis
THE MEETING OF THE COLUMNS
Christopher Morley
THE MOCKING-HOARSE BIRD
Franklin P. Adams
TO A GRACKLE
Tom Daly
CARLO THE GARDENER
Vachel Lindsay
THE HOBOKEN GRACKLE AND THE HOBO
DIES ILLA: A BIRD OF A MASQUE
Arthur Guiterman
A TREE WITH A BIRD IN IT: A RHYMED REVIEW
FOREWORD
Table of Contents
By the Collator
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A little while since, I had the fortune to live in a house, outside of whose windows there grew a pear-tree. On the branches of this tree lived a green bird of indeterminate nature. I do not know what his real name was, but the name, to quote our great exemplar Lewis Carroll, by which his name was called was the Grackle. He seemed perfectly willing to be addressed thus, and accordingly was.
Aside from watching the Pear-Tree and the Grackle, my other principal occupation that winter was watching the Poetry Society of America now and then at