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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
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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 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
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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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