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 NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1932 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 AN' 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 |