The Second Book of Modern Verse
Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse



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The Second Book of Modern Verse

A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets
Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Editor of The Little Book of Modern Verse
[Selections made in 1919.]





Foreword



It was my intention, when preparing `The Little Book of Modern Verse',