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    A Tree with a Bird in it: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle
    A Tree with a Bird in it: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle
    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: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "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. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 4, 2022
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    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

      EAN 8596547225492

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      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

      Table of Contents

      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 its monthly

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