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Title: Challenge

Author: Louis Untermeyer

Release Date: September 26, 2010 [EBook #34001]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

CHALLENGE

By LOUIS UNTERMEYER

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

1914

Copyright, 1914, by

THE CENTURY CO.

Published, April, 1914

CONTENTS

I. SUMMONS

SUMMONS
PRAYER
TO ARMS
ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD
HOW MUCH OF GODHOOD
THE GREAT CAROUSAL
THANKS
GOD'S YOUTH
IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS
VOICES
REVELATION
AFFIRMATION
DOWNHILL ON A BICYCLE
MIDNIGHT--BY THE OPEN WINDOW
THE WINE OF NIGHT

II. INTERLUDES

INVOCATION
"FEUERZAUBER"
SUNDAY NIGHT
AT KENNEBUNKPORT
IN A STRANGE CITY
FOLK-SONG
IN THE STREETS
ENVY
A BIRTHDAY
LEAVING THE HARBOR
THE SHELL TO THE PEARL
THE YOUNG MYSTIC
HEALED
THE STIRRUP-CUP
SPRING ON BROADWAY
IN A CAB
SUMMER NIGHT--BROADWAY
HAUNTED
ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING
SONGS AND THE POET
THE HERETIC
I. BLASPHEMY
II. IRONY
III. MOCKERY
IV. HUMILITY
FIFTH AVENUE--SPRING AFTERNOON
TRIBUTE

III. SONGS OF PROTEST

CHALLENGE
CALIBAN IN THE COAL-MINES
ANY CITY
LANDSCAPES
TWO FUNERALS
SUNDAY
STRIKERS
IN THE SUBWAY
BATTLE-CRIES
A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS
SOLDIERS
PEACE
THE DYING DECADENT
FUNERAL HYMN
PROTESTS

For the privilege of reprinting many of the poems included in this
volume, the author thanks the editors of _The Century, Harper's, The
Forum, The Masses, The Smart Set, The Independent, The American, The
Delineator, The New Age, The Poetry Journal_ and other magazines.

SUMMONS

_To Walter Lippmann_

SUMMONS

The eager night and the impetuous winds,
The hints and whispers of a thousand lures,
And all the swift persuasion of the Spring
Surged from the stars and stones, and swept me on...
The smell of honeysuckles, keen and clear,
Startled and shook me, with the sudden thrill
Of some well-known but half-for