Contents

Kansas Poets
May Williams Ward
(New York: Henry Harrison. 1935)
 

MADELINE AARON
Signals	19
The Difference	19
While Death Lay Sleeping	20
Rispetto	20
The Mother	21
Summons	21
ELLA J. AHRENBECK
Sufferance	22
Sonnets of Old	22
A Sunset	23
A September Silence	23
In Gilead	24
"As You Possess"	24
ALTAI DUCKER ANDERSON
The Gypsies	25
Messages	25
Darkness	26
Love	26
Morning	27
Precious Weaves	27
BERNICE G ANDERSON
Shore Song	28
Pioneer House	28
Late Autumn	29
Gypst Fortune Teller	29
Indian Wind Songs	30
The Coyote	30
C. P. BABER
Trilogy	31
Cycle	31
Western Days in Kansas	32
BERTIE COLE BAYS
My Window	34
Misfit	34
Comparison	35
Bargain	35
The Cherry Trees, The Almond Trees	36
The Forgotten Pipes of Pan	36
INA H. BEAN
Autumn of Life	37
March	37
Spring Styles	38
Feathered Revelry	38
A Kansas Sandstorm	39
Western Symphony	39
ETTA BEARDSLEE
A Winter Night	40
A Toast to Kansas	40
Mother	42
A Prophecy	42
EDNA BECKER
On a Rainy Day	43
You'd Think	43
Impressions	44
Afterward	44
Grass	44
Silver	45
The Reason	45
FRANCIS COFFIN BOAZ
Public Dance	46
Bats	47
The Great Poet	47
Flowers	48
Environment	48
MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS
Joseph	49
Sonnet	49
Garden Dusk	50
Summer Trees	50
Harvesters	51
Old House	51
NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD
Cats and Zinnias	52
The Mathematician	53
Song	54
Lacelike Loves of Childhood	54
NORA B. CUNNINGHAM
The Cottonwood Tree	55
Hermitage	55
I Never Go Now	56
Linens	56
Giving	57
The Feast	57
March Mood	57
ALICE C. DERBY
Its Mission	58
Autumn	58
Afterglow	59
Remorse	59
Hollyhocks	60
ELLEN DRINKWATER
Like Other Men	61
Carnival	61
In the Colorado Land	62
Mittie Oldham	63
Lee's Wife	63
JOHN J. EBERHARDT
The Circuit Rider	64
JESSIE APPLEGATE EBLE
On the Santa Fe Trail	67
Autumn Vitae	67
Whistling at the Moon	68
Dawn	69
Etching	69
MARY EDMONDS
Renouncement	70
Hallucination	70
Invasion	71
Pride Is Left	71
The Stain	71
The Gay Vagabonds	72
LESTER M. ELLIS
Pig	73
Bondage	73
The Road Ahead	74
The Victor	75
Rope	75
Sunrise on the Pines	75
MARGARET EVANS
To Lu	76
Honorarium	77
Lotus	78
Incense	78
Coda	78
PAULINE HECKARD FOULSTON
The Understanding Christ	79
Winter Bloom	79
Learning	80
Clinging Leaves	80
Puddle Beauty	81
Mirrored Pictures	81
MARIE EMERY GEORGE
A Picture	82
Wonder	82
Journeys	83
My Verses	84
Outdoor Mass	85
ERIS GOFF
Siesta	85
Outdoor Mass	85
Indian Summer on the Plains	86
The Dark Prince	86
Sonnet to Allan	87
FLORENCE FAGAN GOODRICH
The Painting	88
In the Beginning	89
Strange	90
SADA JENKINS GORMAN
Daybreak	91
Mother's Old-Fashioned Bed	91
Easter Prayer	92
The Shower	93
Loss	93
Preparation	94
JEANNE RATHBURN HAINES
Preparation	94
The Miser	94
Chinese Wall-Paper	94
Noon	98
MARGARET E. HAGAWOUT
Silk and Stones	97
Spiderwort	97
Relict	98
You Know	98
Irrefutable	99
JAMES C. HAUPT
Friend and Foe	102
NINA CLARK HEMBLING
That All May Worship Him	103
A Valentine of Long Ago	104
I Climbed a Hill	105
An Altar in My Heart	105
EDITH D. HERTZLER
The Search	106
Two See the Dawn	106
Pattern of Life	107
Even As Dreams	108
Change to Grief	108
ESTER LOLITA HOLCOMB
To Ralphn Hodgson	109
Sandals	109
Moon Moods	110
This I Ask	111
One Little Song	111
Dreaming Moonflower	111
HELEN RHONDA HOOPES
Woodcuts of Kansas	112
Flight Over Kansas	113
Trove for a Traveler	113
Sunday Excursion	114
Prairie Imprisoned	114
JUDITH AYLMERA JACOBS
Our Hilltop May-basket	115
Beneath the Willow	115
Too Small	115
A Gift	116
Fulfillment	116
Recompense	117
Late Spring in Itaska	117
STEVA PEARL JAMES
Lest We Forget	118
A July Nightfall At Pike's Peak	120
Snowfall	120
EDITH J. KENNEDY
Springtime	121
The New Year	121
The Ozarks	122
Resignation	123
Snow in March	123
MARGUERITE KINGMAN
Values	124
Pictures	124
Nymphs	125
Gypsy Maid	125
Fantasy	126
AMY LATHROP
Desert Dusk	127
A Day in the Desert	127
Ole Trouble Tree	128
Desert Road	128
Inferiority Complex	128
Desert Contrasts	129
Desert Storm	129
Ocotilla	129
LOELLA TRACY LEWIS
Winds in the Trees	130
That I May Forget You	130
A Song	131
Winds at Night	131
Winds Do Not Forget	132
The Return	132
MAMIE MAXON McQUILLEN
Ambassador	133
If	133
When Night Is Calm	134
Rehearsal	134
The Sphinx	135
To an Elfin Child I Knew	135
KIRK MECHEM
Prairie Night	136
Metamorophosis	136
A Song for Pierrot	137
Impromptu	138
NOEL W. MELLICK
A Love Song	139
North	140
Loneliness	140
Hope	141
FLORENCE LEIDIGH MERRICK
Beach	142
An Unfinished Symphony	143
The Paint of a Flip Glass	143
My Giftful Tree	144
Spirit and Science Bethrothed	144
SOPHIE MOLK
Man	145
The Tramp	145
Twilight	146
The Radio Announcer	146
The Divider	147
MARCO MORROW
The Wall	148
Youth	148
In Autumn	149
The Minor Poet	150
Thanksgiving	150
VERNA SJOLANDER NIMS
Litany of Self	151
B to A	153
Afternoon Tea	153
Tuition	153
ALICE WILSON OLDROYD
A Child's Candle	154
The Lake	154
Soul Topography	154
Octave	155
Dark Sight	155
Communion	155
A High Lake	156
To a Cinderella Silhouette	156
JOSEPH STANLEY PENNELL
Horace	157
Towns	157
Mrs. Johnston's Son	158
To Dorothy	159
Village	159
FREELAND F. PENNEY
Wind-rifts	160
Cornland	160
Free Soil	161
Epiitaph Carved by the Wind	162
NORMA SAIP
Dream	163
September Day	163
Fear	164
Interlude	165
KENNETH SELTSAM
Sketched in a Psychopathic Ward	166
ALBERTA McMAHON SHERWIN
Bondage	169
Veiled Eyes	169
Winter Landscape	170
Star Dust	170
Whom the Gods Love	171
Gray Days	171
GEORGIA BLANEY SKAER
Embers	172
Valleys and Mountain Tops	172
If	173
Rebirth	174
FLORENCE L. SNOW
The Mendicant	175
Adolescence	175
Victor Hugo	176
Colatura	176
Spirea	177
Louis Bromfield	177
HANNAH DOAN TRAUTWINE
To A Buddha	178
To the Night	180
EUNICE WALLACE
Sonnet	181
Chill	181
Sonnet	182
Trees	182
Sonnet	183
LESLIE WALLACE
Accord	184
Eyes of Youth	186
ETTA L. WARD
Retribution	187
The Triumvirate	187
The Fount	188
Silhouettes	188
Sunflowers	189
MAY WILLIAMS WARD
Rise Like The Flood You Are	190
Tree	190
Legend	191
I Apprehended Petals	192
Contender	192
IRMA WASSALL
November Midnight	193
Moon-Bride	193
Afterglow	193
Love Like Leaves	195
ELLEN WENTWORTH
Solitude	196
Petal and Wing	196
Voice of the Plains	197
I Woke One Morning -- It Was May	197
September's Mood	198
SELDON LINCOLN WHITCOMB
The Winnebago	199
Prairie and Sky Are Enough	200
Tonight	201
LEILA KEPLER WILLIAMS
The Old House	202
Hope Deferred	202
Transition	203
Dawn Thought	203
Metallic Seasons	204
November Treasure	204
Forest Storm	204
NELL LEWIS WOODS
To . . .	205
And She Told Me of the Wind	205
Men Know the Penalty	206
Portrait in a Plush Trimmed Frame	206
The Pasture Pool	207