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THE POETRY CURE

A POCKET MEDICINE

CHEST OF VERSE

COMPOUNDED BY

ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER

Author of "Scum o' the Earth," "Magic Flame,

"Fiddler's Luck," "The Joyful

Heart," etc. Editor of "Our American Holidays" series, and
"Through Italy with the Poets."

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1932

537

COPYRIGHT, 1925

BY ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER

Published, November, 1925
Second Printing, December, 1925
Third Printing, January, 1926
Fourth Printing, March, 1926
Fifth Printing, August, 1926
Sixth Printing, January, 1927
Seventh Printing, February, 1928
Eighth Printing, April, 1929
Ninth Printing, September, 1932

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK

To the noble army of

CREATIVE LIBRARIANS

PRACTITIONERS ALL

CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY

OF THE POETRY CURE

THIS BOOK

IS RESPECTFULLY AND CORDIALLY

DEDICATED

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For their courteous permission to reprint copyrighted poems included in this volume, thanks are due to the following publishers (alphabetically listed):

D. APPLETON & Co.: "Spring Ode" from Noah anʼ JONAH AN' CAP'N JOHN SMITH, by Don Marquis. BONI & LIVERIGHT: "The Madman" and "Rufus Prays" from DUBLIN DAYS, by L. A. G. Strong.

BOWES & BOWES: "A Sonnet" from LAPSUS CALAMI AND OTHER VERSES, by James Kenneth Stephen.

PETER G. BOYLE: "A California Vignette," "Not Our Good Luck," "Salmon Fishing," "Suicide's Stone," "From Tamar" and "To the Stone Cutters" from TAMAR, by Robinson Jeffers.

JONATHAN CAPE LTD.: "Ale," "Leisure," "Sadness and Joy," and "Songs of Joy" from COLLECTED POEMS, by William H. Davies.

W. B. CONKEY COMPANY: "The World's Need" from PICKED POEMS, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & Co.: "Communion," "Sleep" and "The Soldier" from COLLECTED POEMS, by Sophie Jewett.

GEORGE H. DORAN Co.: "From Sleep" and "Verification" from PARSON'S PLEASURE, by Christopher Morley. "A Prayer for the Old Courage" from A WORLD OF WINDOWS, by Charles Hanson Towne, copyrighted by George H. Doran Company, 1919.

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY: "The Rich Man" and "Villanelle With Stevenson's Assistance" from TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS, by Franklin P. Adams. "Flood Tide" and "Ladders Through the Blue" from

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