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• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
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• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at CAPA)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
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• Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at CAPA)
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
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• Modern verse, British and American, ed. by Anita P. Forbes ... (New York, H. Holt and company, [c1921]), by Anita P. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dark of the Moon, by Sara Teasdale (Gutenberg ebook)
• The sinking of the Titanic, and other poems, by Clarence Victor Stahl (Gutenberg ebook)
• Petunia blossoms: Ballads and poems, by Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage (Gutenberg ebook)
• Enough rope: poems, by Dorothy Parker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Can Grande's castle, by Amy Lowell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jingles, by Winifred Sackville Stoner, illust. by Karl Kae Knecht (Gutenberg ebook)
• Two in Arcadia, by Lucine Finch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Puella mea, by E. E. Cummings, illust. by Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Kurt Roesch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wampum and Old Gold, by Hervey Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems, by Dennison Woodcock (Gutenberg ebook)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology, ed. by Alice Corbin Henderson and Harriet Monroe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Near Nature's Heart; A Volume of Verse, by Crawford Jackson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Shadow-Eater, by Benjamin De Casseres (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mortal Summer, by Mark Van Doren (Gutenberg ebook)
• By Scarlet Torch and Blade, by Anthony Euwer (Gutenberg ebook)
• April twilights, and other poems, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg ebook)
• Saga of the oak, and other poems, by William Henry Venable (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rosemary and Pansies, by Effie Waller Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Black Panther: A book of poems, by John Hall Wheelock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Going-to-the-Sun, by Vachel Lindsay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Twentieth Century Epic, by Reuben Brodie Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boys and Girls: The Verses of James W. Foley, by James W. Foley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Muse and Mint, by Walter Seymour Percy (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Glebe 1914/09 (Vol. 2, No. 2): Poems, by George W. Cronyn, ed. by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hoofs of Pegasus, by Letitia Stockett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems, by Marianne Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The lost chimes, and other poems, by Gustav Melby (Gutenberg ebook)
• Summer of Love, by Joyce Kilmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Heliodora, and Other Poems, by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems, by Nathalia Crane, contrib. by William Rose Benét, Nunnally Johnson, and Edmund Stanislaus Leamy (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book, by Djuna Barnes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Glebe 1913/09 (Vol. 1, No. 1): Songs, Sighs and Curses, by Adolf Wolff, ed. by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray (Gutenberg ebook)
• Introducing Irony: A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems, by Maxwell Bodenheim (Gutenberg ebook)
• Advice: A Book of Poems, by Maxwell Bodenheim (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Secret Way, by Zona Gale (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sardonic Arm, by Maxwell Bodenheim (Gutenberg ebook)
• Against This Age, by Maxwell Bodenheim (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Passing Throng, by Edgar A. Guest (Gutenberg ebook)
• Selected Poems, by Robert Frost (Gutenberg ebook)
• It Takes Practice Not To Die, by Elizabeth Bartlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The harp-weaver, and other poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Minna and Myself, by Maxwell Bodenheim, contrib. by Ben Hecht (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Modern American Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The House of Sleep, by Elizabeth Bartlett, illust. by Paul Alexander Bartlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Rubaiyat, by Sadakichi Hartmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• New Hampshire, A Poem; with Notes and Grace Notes, by Robert Frost, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Behold this Dreamer, by Elizabeth Bartlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• poems of yes and no, by Elizabeth Bartlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The House of Orchids, and Other Poems, by George Sterling (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lustra of Ezra Pound, by Bai Li and Ezra Pound, contrib. by Ernest Fenollosa (Gutenberg ebook)
• For Your Sweet Sake: Poems, by James E. McGirt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose, by Clark Ashton Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dyak chief, and other verses, by Erwin Clarkson Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Willow Pollen, by Jeannette Augustus Marks (Gutenberg ebook)
• Harps Hung up in Babylon, by Arthur Colton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems, by Jamie Harris Coleman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Facts in Jingles, by Winifred Sackville Stoner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Personae, by Ezra Pound (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bee's Bayonet (a Little Honey and a Little Sting): Camouflage in Word Painting, by Edwin Alfred Watrous (Gutenberg ebook)
• Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology, by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Tree with a Bird in it:: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle, by Margaret Widdemer, illust. by William Saphier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eight Harvard Poets, contrib. by E. E. Cummings, S. Foster Damon, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Stewart Mitchell, William A. Norris, Dudley Poore, and Cuthbert Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Colors of Life: Poems and Songs and Sonnets, by Max Eastman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sonnets from the Patagonian, by Donald Evans (Gutenberg ebook)
• Oklahoma Sunshine, by Freeman Edwin Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
• American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Oppenheim, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer (Gutenberg ebook)

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