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- For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen + (<div class="poem"> <p>Accept a lone eye riveted to your plane,<br /> Bent axle of devotion along companion ways<br /> That beat, continuous, to hourless days—<br /> One inconspicuous, glowing orb of praise. </p> </div>)
- The Motor Road + (<div class="poem"> <p>Across the barren uplands, sere and brown,<br /> We drive until the evening wind blows drear,<br /> And so at last we turn again toward town;<br /> The roar of traffic beats upon the ear. </p> </div>)
- The Beautiful and Damned + (<div class="poem"> <p>Adam Patch winced, visualizing a family poet with a long hair and three mistresses. </p> </div>)
- Soldiers' Pay + (<div class="poem"> <p>After a time her face became a human face and holding it in his vision he said: </p> </div>)
- Soldiers' Pay + (<div class="poem"> <p>After a while the one called Schluss took the bottle. </p> </div>)
- The Man Who Tramps: A Story of To-Day + (<div class="poem"> <p>After crawling from their hiding-place they sat <br /> down to count the money. Sandy did this, while <br /> the Frenchman looked over his shoulder. </p> </div>)
- The Beautiful and Damned + (<div class="poem"> <p>After the play they parted—Maury was going to a dance at Sherry's, Anthony homeward and to bed. </p> </div>)
- The Man Who Tramps: A Story of To-Day + (<div class="poem"> <p>After walking about a hundred yards from where <br /> they turned aside they came to a place which seemed <br /> to suit the tramp, for he said: </p> </div>)
- The Road + (<div class="poem"> <p>Ah little road, brown as my race is brown,<br /> Your trodden beauty like our trodden pride,<br /> Dust of the dust, they must not bruise you down.<br /> Rise to one brimming golden, spilling cry! </p> </div>)
- Interest Bearing Investments + (<div class="poem"> <p>All through life as taught by Him,<br /> If you take out you must put in,<br /> It’s things you do for all about,<br /> You take your biggest interest out. </p> </div>)
- The Road of Human Life + (<div class="poem"> <p>Along the Road of Human Life,<br /> So very near, on either side,<br /> With winds and storms and billows rife,<br /> There is a sea that's wide;<br /> And woe to him who trips and falls<br /> Into that darkening tide. </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>And before we could turn around to carry out his injunction, half the crowd had melted away! </p> </div>)
- Soldiers' Pay + (<div class="poem"> <p>And he had to be satisfied with this. They held each other in silence for a time. ‘How good you smell,’ remarked Cadet Lowe at last. </p> </div>)
- Cities + (<div class="poem"> <p>And in these dark cells,<br /> packed street after street,<br /> souls live, hideous yet—<br /> O disfigured, defaced,<br /> with no trace of the beauty<br /> men once held so light. </p> </div>)
- Brown’s Descent or, the Willy-Nilly Slide + (<div class="poem"> <p>And many must have seen him make<br /> His wild descent from there one night,<br /> ’Cross lots, ’cross walls, ’cross everything,<br /> Describing rings of lantern light. </p> </div>)
- Brown’s Descent or, the Willy-Nilly Slide + (<div class="poem"> <p>And stamped and said things to himself,<br /> And sometimes something seemed to yield,<br /> He gained no foothold, but pursued<br /> His journey down from field to field. </p> </div>)
- The Traffic of Life + (<div class="poem"> <p>And the country calls to the city-bred,<br /> "Come away from the fields of strife,<br /> For a breath of air from the snow-clad peaks<br /> In the traffic of Joy is Life.” </p> </div>)
- The Traffic of Life + (<div class="poem"> <p>And the dream of man is a broader dream<br /> With the span of his life’s increase,<br /> And the throbbing pulse of the motor car<br /> Bears him nearer the haunts of Peace. </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>And then came the first manifestation of a peculiar luck which followed us on our entire trip. Never saving us from catastrophe, it rescued us in the most unlikely fashion, soon after disaster. </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>And then he bit it off! </p> </div>)
- Brown’s Descent or, the Willy-Nilly Slide + (<div class="poem"> <p>And then went round it on his feet,<br /> After the manner of our stock;<br /> Not much concerned for those to whom,<br /> At that particular time o’clock, </p> </div>)
- The Traffic of Life + (<div class="poem"> <p>And we laugh at Time as the tardy Hours<br /> In their gallop from Day’s red dawn<br /> Are outdistanced far in the swift-sped race<br /> By this product of brain and brawn. </p> </div>)
- On a Tree Fallen Across The Road + (<div class="poem"> <p>And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:<br /> We will not be put off the final goal<br /> We have it hidden in us to attain,<br /> Not though we have to seize earth by the pole </p> </div>)
- On a Tree Fallen Across The Road + (<div class="poem"> <p>And, tired of aimless circling in one place,<br /> Steer straight off after something into space. </p> </div>)
- The Beautiful and Damned + (<div class="poem"> <p>Anthony waited for him to speak of "leaving something done when you pass on." Then he made a suggestion: </p> </div>)
- Safety in Conversation + (<div class="poem"> <p>Around this table without any jars<br /> They freely debated on all motor cars.<br /> They praised or condemned without any heat,<br /> Each claiming his car did all others beat. </p> </div>)
- Automobiling in the West + (<div class="poem"> <p>Arrived at the Gap and Mr. Winton soon developed uneasiness because of the enforced delay in the trip. Next morning he announced his intention of making a temporary repair and working ahead slowly through the snow. </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>As I threw in the clutch, we heard a woman's voice calling after us. It was Toby's mother, and what she said was, "Don't drive at night!" </p> </div>)
- Soldiers' Pay + (<div class="poem"> <p>As he drew away Yaphank spoke swiftly to Lowe. </p> </div>)
- Our Support + (<div class="poem"> <p>As long as one lives and stirs all around,<br /> There’s food and dress for him to be found.<br /> Industry is said to be a health maker,<br /> We find it in selling the Six Studebaker. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>As the bug whirled down on him, the tough was to be seen throwing up his hands, leaping from the high bank. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>As the car stood outside taking on gas, a man flapped up, spelled out the New York license, looked at Claire and her father, and inquired, "Quite a ways from home, aren't you?" </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>As they came into the garage, their surly acquaintance of the night before looked just as surly, but Claire tried a boisterous "Good morning!" </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>As to the purser, we left him severely alone. We did not feel we could flirt with him in the style to which he had been accustomed. </p> </div>)
- Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout + (<div class="poem"> <p>At Lakin, Kansas, he stopped with cousins for a few days, meanwhile selling two cars to be delivered later. </p> </div>)
- Safety in Conversation + (<div class="poem"> <p>At a certain round-table a good-natured bunch<br /> Of finest of fellows met daily for lunch.<br /> An hour’s interchange of thoughts and ideas,<br /> All would depart each feeling at ease. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>At eleven minutes past twelve a Gomez-Dep roadster appeared down the road, stopped at the garage. To Milt it was as exciting as the appearance of a comet to a watching astronomer. </p> </div>)
- Soldiers' Pay + (<div class="poem"> <p>At last Lowe, freed of his shoes, turned sighing to the wall and she said: </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>At last the car stirred a bit from her lethargy, the two boys put their country strength against her broad back and pushed; the engine roared like a man-eating tiger—and we got out. </p> </div>)