No More Learning

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.


VI

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.

O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.


VII

Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard? --
"What a big book for such a little head! "
Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink.
Oh, I shall love you still and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think.

I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more;
I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door,
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.


VIII

Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find
The roots of last year's roses in my breast;
I am as surely riper in my mind
As if the fruit stood in the stalls confessed.
Laugh at the unshed leaf, say what you will,
Call me in all things what I was before,
A flutterer in the wind, a woman still;
I tell you I am what I was and more.

My branches weigh me down, frost cleans the air,
My sky is black with small birds bearing south;
Say what you will, confuse me with fine care,
Put by my word as but an April truth,--
Autumn is no less on me that a rose
Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes.




BIBLIOGRAPHY




BIBLIOGRAPHY

(The following lists include poetical works only)


AMY LOWELL

A Dome of Many-Colored Glass Houghton Mifflin Co. 1912

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The Macmillan Company 1914

Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916

Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918

Pictures of the Floating World The Macmillan Company 1919

Legends Houghton Mifflin Co. 1921

Fir-Flower Tablets Houghton Mifflin Co. 1921


ROBERT FROST

A Boy's Will Henry Holt and Company 1914

North of Boston Henry Holt and Company 1915

Mountain Interval Henry Holt and Company 1916


CARL SANDBURG

Chicago Poems Henry Holt and Company 1916

Cornhuskers Henry Holt and Company 1918

Smoke and Steel Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1930

Slabs of the Sunburnt West Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1922


VACHEL LINDSAY

Rhymes to be Traded for Bread Privately Printed; 1912
Springfield, Ill.

General William Booth Enters Into Mitchell Kennerley 1913
Heaven

The Congo and Other Poems The Macmillan Company 1915

The Chinese Nightingale The Macmillan Company 1917

The Golden Whales of California The Macmillan Company 1920


JAMES OPPENHEIM

Monday Morning and Other Poems Sturgis & Walton Co. 1909

Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914

War and Laughter The Century Company 1915

The Book of Self Alfred A. Knopf 1917

The Solitary B. W. Huebsch 1919

The Mystic Warrior Alfred A. Knopf 1921


ALFRED KREYMBORG

Mushrooms Alfred A. Knopf 1916

Plays for Poem-Mimes The Others Press 1918

Plays for Merry Andrews The Sunwise Turn 1920

Blood of Things Nicholas L. Brown 1921


SARA TEASDALE

Sonnets to Duse The Poet Lore Co.