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INS forWINGs. BY mamvel m^rcant TheSvnvjiseIvrnInc. NEW YORK. Ife PINS FOR WINGS by EMANUEL MORGAN ,,.. ..<.\ —i BOOKS BY EMANUELMORGAN Spectra (with Anne Knish) The Beloved Stran- ger (with Witter Bynner) 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—Edgar Lee Masters 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—Vachel Lindsay 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—Carl Sandburg Page 27—Sandburg Considering the Ingredients Page 28—Siegfried Sassoon Page 29—Tagore Page 30—Louis Untermeyer Page 31 —William Carlos Williams 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 10 By EMANUEL MORGAN 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 11 PINS FOR WINGS 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 12 By EMANUEL MORGAN 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 13 PINS FOR WINGS 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 14 By EMANUEL MORGAN 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 15 PINS FOR WINGS 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 16 By EMANUEL MORGAN 17 PINS FOR WINGS 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 Pierrot 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 18 . 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 21 PINS FOR WINGS 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 22 By EMANUEL MORGAN 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 23 PINS FOR WINGS 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 i^ ^^^1 PINS FOR WINGS 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 26 jHfOf^ 27 CUttn.^ PINS FOR WINGS 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 28 By EMANUEL MORGAN 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 30 By EMANUEL MORGAN WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS carbolic acid in love 31 By EMANUEL MORGAN 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 32 '^^: •<:;- .