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BOOKS BY EMANUELMORGAN Spectra (with Anne Knish) The Beloved Stran- ger (with ) Of this edition 2,000 copies printed in October, 1920. Also fifty copies on hand-made paper. TO WILLIAM MARION REEDY

1862—1920 A mirror breathed upon by Death but undimmed

PINS FOR WINGS BY EMANTUEL MORGAN.

^ THE SUNWISE TURN ^ Copyright 1910 by the Sunwise Turn

Caricatures by IVAN OPFFER and WILLIAM SAPHIER

-iOV -5 1320 (e)Ci,AG045lO TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Title Page—Emanuel Morgan Pinning Copyright Page—Saphier by Opffer (after which Opffer dared not sit for Saphier) Page 2—Marsden Hartley (slightly bored) Page 8—

1 Page 1 —Maxwell Bodenheim Page IX—Emanuel Carnevali Page 14—John Gould Fletcher 5 Page 1 —Robert Frost 7 Page 1 —Siegfried Sassoon Page 18—Alfred Kreymborg (before he toured America) Page 19— Page 20—Spoon River Page 21 —Edgar Lee Masters Page 22—Harriet Monroe and her hobby Page 24—Ezra Pound Page 25—Lola Ridge Page 26— Page 27—Sandburg Considering the Ingredients Page 28—Siegfried Sassoon Page 29—Tagore Page 30—Louis Untermeyer Page 31 — Page 32—Williams again

PINS FOR WINGS

By EMANUEL MORGAN

LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE an iron wheel with a navel of gold

FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Greek masks in ink on comic finger-nails

A E liquid air somewhere

CONRAD AIKEN phosphorescent plumbing

ZOE AKINS brandied lotus

RICHARD ALDINGTON an Attic vase full of tea

MARY ALDIS a street-car shying PINS FOR WINGS

WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG water-pretzels

KARLE WILSON BAKER a window in the wash

WILTON AGNEW BARRETT night-thoughts of a dragon-fly

KATHERINE LEE BATES four-and-twenty blackbirds half-baked in a pie

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET a pistol of crystal

WILLIAM ROSE BENET a river of rockets in daylight

STELLA BENSON Cinderella's riding-breeches

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MAXWELL BODENHEIM a tooth toe-dancing

GORDON BOTTOMLEY by two nymphs out of old England

WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY a bearded wheel- barrow BERTON BRALEY fonts of type in a tambourine ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH ROBERT BRIDGES nectar a violet drunk from a sainted shoe 'neath the Kohinoor GELETT BURGESS DANA BURNETT sculptured chewing-gum a young policeman on a trolley with a flute in his pocket

AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR ELSA BARKER a tortoise-shell comb Jacob's ladder as a lyre for a mattress

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RICHARD BURTON

a quill in a button-hole

WITTER BYNNER God y in the sugar-bowl

EMILE CAMMAERTS

sticky little hands in yours

BLISS CARMAN

little hills tipping their hats

EMANUEL CARNEVALI EDWARD CARPENTER a fire-escape Calamus in travail unbound

WILLIAM H. CARRUTH JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Alpha and Omega oil Jove

for soul-sprains in a pew

GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

a Cardinal on a merry-go-round

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FREDERICK MORTIMER SARAH N. CLEGHORN CLAPP the rosy half a collector of an old apple of emotional bricks GRACE HAZARD PADRAIC COLUM CONKLING the whistle of a kettle a goblet of mist to the petal of a thistle for each place

EDMUND VANCE COOKE ALICE CORBIN wit a quiver zithering in a derby full of rulers

E. E. CUMMINGS T. A. DALY much ado curbstone about the alphabet carolling to curbstone GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO a passion-flower OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN dipped in ammonia she wears her heart on your other sleeve MARY CAROLYN DAVIES a flutter of skirts WILLIAM M. DAVIES between life and death jewelled buns

FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS WALTER DE LA MARE sun-bonnets a door-knob for Minerva in the mist

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BABETTE DEUTSCH JOHN DRINKWATER the phoenix dust lays a purple bomb in a mug of ale

LORD DUNSANY MAX EASTMAN the beautiful thump Aphrodite of the gods tattooed on a muscle

T. S. ELIOT JOHN ERSKINE the wedding cake marbles of two tired cultures in a muff

DONALD EVANS the necktie of Lucifer

ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE St. Sebastian in gloves trimming his arrow-tips

MAHLON LEONARD FISHER fourteen feet in a feather-bed

JOHN GOULD FLETCHER two halves of a typewriter SflPHlCR still moving

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F. S. FLINT the halo of a street-lamp

ROBERT FROST paintings by the family in birch-bark frames

NORMAN GALE a knickerbockered bobolink

THEODOSIA GARRISON a peasant singing in French heels

KAHLIL GIBRAN WILFRID WILSON GIBSON repartee there's heart from all three crosses behind the heavy breathing

ARTURO GIOVANITTI ROBERT GRAVES a crow-bar a khaki bib loosening heaven

WILLIAM GRIFFITH EDGAR GUEST a little finger communion-bread in the dusk with slices of bologna

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LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ARTHUR GUITERMAN digging with palm-leaves a banjo she buries a trumpet bumps a rose in Oxford THOMAS HARDY HERMANN HAGEDORN a strong man the silver lining tripping oftheY. M. C.A. on the shadow of a god

ELIJAH HAY H. D. lather the Winged Victory but no beard hopping

OLIVER HERFORD RALPH HODGSON a syrinx bottled kittens played by a gentleman

BRIAN HOOKER A. E. HOUSMAN angles a dead lad laughing

LAURENCE HOUSMAN HELEN HOYT Jack ice-patterns out of the box melting on the side-walk

FORD MADOX HEUFFER NELSON LESLIE JENNINGS a grey-hound a sack-suit loping with pugs of cinnabar

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ORRICK JOHNS THOMAS S. JONES, JR. the Rubaiyat one holly-berry carved on a carrot on an altar

HARRY KEMP RUDYARD KIPLING seven-league boots Pan on a linnet stoking an empire

ANNE KNISH a gargoyle remembering

ALFRED KREYMBORG with the hiccoughs

D. H. LAWRENCE lovers eating thistle-pie

LOUIS LEDOUX Hellas delivered

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE talcum-powder on the tail of a wayward nightingale

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By EMANUEL MORGAN

WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD veils on an anvil

VACHEL LINDSAY a street-cry in heaven

HAN I EL LONG Harlequin one leg woollen the other illicit

AMY LOWELL a rhinestone chip on a blood-red shoulder

ALLAN ROSS MACDOUGALL a Falstaffian Christ-child MAURICE PERCY MACKAYE MAETERLINCK laurel a dreamy fat man on a carpet-sweeper dancing in blue gauze EDWIN MARKHAM he has learned the art DON MARQUIS of leaning on a hoe a walnut bureau without soiling his beard with crickets for handles

19 JOHN MASEFIELD fishing for the sunrise he catches fish WALT MASON overalls rhyming EDGAR LEE MASTERS a graphophone in the morgUe ALICE MEYNELL candles burning for one another SCUDDER MIDDLETON a liberty-cap shaving EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY a hamadryad in the tree of knowledge RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL a heart-line running off the hand 3A?Hltfv. into print 20 PINS FOR WINGS

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HAROLD MONRO ANGELA MORGAN clay-flecks Jeanne d'Arc on a thigh seizes a trombone

EMANUEL MORGAN a bat and a butterfly mating

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY an affectionate scorpion

DAVID MORTON

DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI lightning as a baton

HARRIET MONROE GILBERT MURRAY the Mother Superior a discus-thrower considers lingerie perfumed

STURGE MOORE JOHN G. NEIHARDT a proud procession muscle-bound of pudding-stone but Marathon

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HENRY NEWBOLT ROBERT NICHOLS the Jolly Union Mars Roger Jack a la mode

YONE NOGUCHI GRACE FALLOW NORTON incense swan's-down for breakfast in an eddy

ALFRED NOYES JOHN MYERS O'HARA Robin Hood robes singing of old yeast the Doxology

DAVID O NEIL GEORGE O NEIL jackstraws petals and a hook of silk in a glass of milk

MOIRAONEILL ROSE O NEILL the hands of the harpist flowers blown homespun along a sphynx fingers of gauze

JAMES OPPENHEIM SHAEMAS O'SHEEL vats a dream of star-soup arguing

JOHN JOSEPHINE OXENHAM PRESTON the adoring PEABODY eye bleeding

of God s dog lilies

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EZRA POUND WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY a book-worm a faun in tights reciting EDWIN FORD PIPER LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE a heart-beat a singing hinge in a hen-house of home

CALE YOUNG RICE JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE a coloured post-card dew as Hamlet purring CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON a big stick of maple caressing a motor 24 By EMANUEL MORGAN

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CLINTON SCOLLARD a mouse in the piano

EVELYN SCOTT candied colon

MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT in a bath-tub filled with Pierian springs she washes off her inhibitions with a gurgling elbow

ROBERT W. SERVICE the red corpuscle courts the white with a cornet

CARL SANDBURG GERTRUDE STEIN a snow-pudding wings rotting of fists under water

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EDWARD SHANKS a teaspoon lost in rose-leaves

ODELL SHEPARD spring-wind up the trouser-leg

LEONORA SPEYER a velvet train in a brook

CHARLES WHARTON STORK stilts clasping

ARTHUR SYMONS SIEGFRIED SASSOON enchanted Puck Roquefort at an autopsy

SARA TEASDALE EDITH M. THOMAS one hand throws away a pearl stairs whispering rounded by an oyster in a steeple the other clings to a bit of shell rounded by the waves

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE a bearded child by the world-old sea making a temple of pebbles and a phallus

EUNICE TIETJENS she exclaims through a magnifying glass into a mirror

RIDGELY TORRENCE a long black cloak circling a lake

CHARLES HANSON TOWNE church-bells on a bicycle

HENRY VAN DYKE a pulpit slowly waltzing

LEONARD VAN NOPPEN the great i amb PINS FOR WINGS

LOUIS UNTERMEYER Paris awarding the apple to Vulcan

GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK a palanquin on a dachshund

CHARLES VILDRAC Judgment-day and the footstool carved in jade

ARTHUR WALEY THOMAS WALSH woollen gloves top-sails assorting feathers of lace

EDA LOU WALTON WILLIAM WATSON the wandered wisp a gray-maned lion of a tepee heart-ache and tooth-ache but royal

WILLARD WATTLES CAROLYN WELLS the alarm-clock English sparrows of Christ in vaudeville

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK MARGARET WIDDEMER a floral display a darting umbrella in an ice-cream parlor

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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS carbolic acid in love

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FLORENCE W I LK I NSON MARGUERITEWILKINSON Gothic carvings arms left in a cloak-room thrown around outdoors CLEMENT WOOD the west wind in rebellion against a wall CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD he finds in the desert a Rogers group of the kingdom of heaven GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY grape-juice in the Holy Grail EDITH WYATT a cornstalk held up with a hairpin WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS a pot of mould at the foot of the rainbow

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