Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.
Contents
| Bliss Carman. | 1. | Lord of My Heart’s Elation |
| William Vaughn Moody. | 2. | Gloucester Moors |
| Chester Firkins. | 3. | On a Subway Express |
| Percy MacKaye. | 4. | The Automobile |
| George Sterling. | 5. | The Black Vulture |
| Mildred McNeal Sweeney. | 6. | Chavez |
| Richard Hovey. | 7. | The Sea Gypsy |
| George Edward Woodberry. | 8. | At Gibraltar |
| Arthur Upson. | 9. | Euchenor Chorus |
| Shaemas O Sheel. | 10. | He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed |
| Louise Imogen Guiney. | 11. | The Kings |
| Louis Untermeyer. | 12. | Mockery |
| William Vaughn Moody. | 13. | An Ode in Time of Hesitation |
| Alice Brown. | 14. | Candlemas |
| Bliss Carman. | 15. | The Unreturning |
| Thomas S. Jones, Jr.. | 16. | A Song in Spring |
| Richard Le Gallienne. | 17. | May Is Building Her House |
| Madison Cawein. | 18. | Here Is the Place Where Loveliness Keeps House |
| Fannie Stearns Davis. | 19. | Water Fantasy |
| Frank Dempster Sherman. | 20. | Bacchus |
| Thomas Augustine Daly. | 21. | Da Leetla Boy |
| Arthur Upson. | 22. | Agamede’s Song |
| Bliss Carman. | 23. | Why |
| Richard Le Gallienne. | 24. | The Wife from Fairyland |
| John Hall Wheelock. | 25. | Life |
| Hermann Hagedorn. | 26. | Song Is So Old |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese. | 27. | That Day You Came |
| Florence Earle Coates. | 28. | Song |
| Theresa Helburn. | 29. | Mother |
| Anna Hempstead Branch. | 30. | Songs for My Mother |
| William Vaughn Moody. | 31. | The Daguerreotype |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese. | 32. | Tears |
| Orrick Johns. | 33. | The Sea-Lands |
| Clinton Scollard. | 34. | Bag-Pipes at Sea |
| Florence Wilkinson. | 35. | The Heart’s Country |
| Thomas S. Jones, Jr.. | 36. | Joyous-Gard |
| George Edward Woodberry. | 37. | The Secret |
| Josephine Preston Peabody. | 38. | The Nightingale Unheard |
| Louis Untermeyer. | 39. | Only of Thee and Me |
| Cale Young Rice. | 40. | When the Wind Is Low |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles. | 41. | Love Triumphant |
| Trumbull Stickney. | 42. | Be Still. The Hanging Gardens Were a Dream |
| Theodosia Garrison. | 43. | The Tears of Harlequin |
| George Sylvester Viereck. | 44. | The Buried City |
| Helen Gray Cone. | 45. | The Ride to the Lady |
| Ridgely Torrence. | 46. | Evensong |
| Frank Dempster Sherman. | 47. | Witchery |
| John Myers O’Hara. | 48. | Golden Pulse |
| Sara Teasdale. | 49. | Sappho |
| Arthur Colton. | 50. | Harps Hung Up in Babylon |
| Trumbull Stickney. | 51. | Live Blindly |
| Frank Dempster Sherman. | 52. | Love’s Springtide |
| George Sylvester Viereck. | 53. | Wanderers |
| Joyce Kilmer. | 54. | Ballade of My Lady’s Beauty |
| Anna Hempstead Branch. | 55. | Grieve Not, Ladies |
| Louise Imogen Guiney. | 56. | Of Joan’s Youth |
| Sara Teasdale. | 57. | I Shall Not Care |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese. | 58. | Love Came Back at Fall o’ Dew |
| Olive Tilford Dargan. | 59. | There’s Rosemary |
| Charles Hanson Towne. | 60. | Love’s Ritual |
| Charles G. D. Roberts. | 61. | Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea |
| Willa Sibert Cather. | 62. | “Grandmither, Think Not I Forget” |
| Elsa Barker. | 63. | “When I Am Dead and Sister to the Dust” |
| Grace Fallow Norton. | 64. | Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph’s |
| Louise Imogen Guiney. | 65. | Irish Peasant Song |
| Josephine Dodge Daskam. | 66. | The Prince |
| Sara Teasdale. | 67. | Four Winds |
| Alice Brown. | 68. | A West-Country Lover |
| Amy Lowell. | 69. | A Winter Ride |
| William Stanley Braithwaite. | 70. | Sic Vita |
| Richard Burton. | 71. | Across the Fields to Anne |
| Josephine Preston Peabody. | 72. | The House and the Road |
| Madison Cawein. | 73. | The Path to the Woods |
| Thomas S. Jones, Jr.. | 74. | Sometimes |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay. | 75. | Renascence |
| Fannie Stearns Davis. | 76. | Souls |
| Lloyd Mifflin. | 77. | Fiat Lux |
| Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. | 78. | The Dreamer |
| Richard Le Gallienne. | 79. | A Caravan from China Comes |
| Clinton Scollard. | 80. | As I Came Down from Lebanon |
| Louis V. Ledoux. | 81. | The Only Way |
| George Sterling. | 82. | The Dust Dethroned |
| Cale Young Rice. | 83. | Kinchinjunga |
| Robert Haven Schauffler. | 84. | “Scum o’ the Earth” |
| Thomas Augustine Daly. | 85. | Da Boy from Rome |
| Florence Wilkinson. | 86. | The Fugitives |
| Richard Burton. | 87. | The Song of the Unsuccessful |
| Shaemas O Sheel. | 88. | They Went Forth to Battle, but They Always Fell |
| Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. | 89. | The Eagle That Is Forgotten |
| Florence Wilkinson. | 90. | A Memorial Tablet |
| Helen Gray Cone. | 91. | To-Day |
| Edwin Markham. | 92. | The Man with the Hoe |
| George Cabot Lodge. | 93. | Exordium |
| Elsa Barker. | 94. | The Frozen Grail |
| Florence Earle Coates. | 95. | The Unconquered Air |
| John Vance Cheney. | 96. | The Happiest Heart |
| Anna Hempstead Branch. | 97. | To a New York Shop-Girl Dressed for Sunday |
| John Myers O’Hara. | 98. | A Faun in Wall Street |
| Witter Bynner. | 99. | The Mystic |
| Josephine Preston Peabody. | 100. | The Cloud |
| Richard Hovey. | 101. | The Thought of Her |
| Florence Earle Coates. | 102. | Song |
| Robert Cameron Rogers. | 103. | The Rosary |
| Trumbull Stickney. | 104. | Once |
| John Hall Wheelock. | 105. | Love Knocks at the Door |
| George Sylvester Viereck. | 106. | The Candle and the Flame |
| Theodosia Garrison. | 107. | Stains |
| Sarah Pratt McLean Greene. | 108. | De Massa ob de Sheepfol’ |
| Richard Burton. | 109. | Black Sheep |
| Arthur Colton. | 110. | Let Me No More a Mendicant |
| Edwin Markham. | 111. | Lincoln, the Man of the People |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson. | 112. | The Master |
| Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. | 113. | On the Building of Springfield |
| John G. Neihardt. | 114. | The Poet’s Town |
| Witter Bynner. | 115. | The New Life |
| Joyce Kilmer. | 116. | Martin |
| George Santayana. | 117. | “As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room” |
| Arthur Upson. | 118. | Ex Libris |
| Mildred McNeal Sweeney. | 119. | The Poet |
| John G. Neihardt. | 120. | When I Have Gone Weird Ways |
| George Cabot Lodge. | 121. | Trumbull Stickney |
| Witter Bynner. | 122. | Sentence |
| George Edward Woodberry. | 123. | Comrades |
| Richard Hovey. | 124. | Comrades |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson. | 125. | Calverly’s |
| Percy MacKaye. | 126. | Uriel |
| Robert Gilbert Welsh. | 127. | Azrael |
| Lloyd Mifflin. | 128. | The Flight |
| James Whitcomb Riley. | 129. | The Rival |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese. | 130. | A Rhyme of Death’s Inn |
| Nora May French. | 131. | The Outer Gate |
| George Sterling. | 132. | The Ashes in the Sea |
| George Santayana. | 133. | “We Needs Must Be Divided in the Tomb” |
| Hermann Hagedorn. | 134. | Departure |
| Richard Le Gallienne. | 135. | Song |
| Edwin Markham. | 136. | The Invisible Bride |
| Edith M. Thomas. | 137. | The Inverted Torch |
| Edward J. Wheeler. | 138. | Night’s Mardi Gras |
| Cale Young Rice. | 139. | The Mystic |
| George Santayana. | 140. | “I Would I Might Forget That I Am I” |
| Clinton Scollard. | 141. | To William Sharp |
| Charles Hanson Towne. | 142. | The Quiet Singer |
| Arthur Upson. | 143. | After a Dolmetsch Concert |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles. | 144. | On a Fly-Leaf of Burns’ Songs |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson. | 145. | Miniver Cheevy |
| Richard Hovey. | 146. | At the End of the Day |
| Edwin Markham. | 147. | The Joy of the Hills |
| Ridgely Torrence. | 148. | The Lesser Children |
| Bliss Carman. | 149. | A Vagabond Song |
| John Vance Cheney. | 150. | Somewhere |
| Edith M. Thomas. | 151. | “Frost To-Night” |
| Madison Cawein. | 152. | Under Arcturus |
| Charles G. D. Roberts. | 153. | The Recessional |
| Morris Rosenfeld. | 154. | I Know Not Why |
| Edith M. Thomas. | 155. | Winter Sleep |
| Louise Imogen Guiney. | 156. | Tryste Noël |
| Alice Brown. | 157. | Hora Christi |
| James Whitcomb Riley. | 158. | A Parting Guest |