THE NIGHT OF GODS* THEIR mouths have drunken the eternal wine- Lo! when I hear from voiceless court and fane The cry of kingdoms past and gods undone,— ALDEBARAN AT DUSK * THOU art the star for which all evening waits- Above that wide and ruby lake to-West Stir silently the purple wings of Night. Edwin Ford Piper (1871 > Mr. Piper was born in Nebraska and since 1905 has taught at the University of Iowa. Most of his life has been spent in the saddle. He received his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1900 and studied at Harvard for a year. In 1918 came his book of poems Barbed Wire and Other Poems, dealing with life in the modern West. He is deeply interested in cowboy ballads and the folk-lore of his region. SWEETGRASS RANGE * COME sell your pony, cowboy Sell your pony to me; Braided bridle and your puncher saddle, "If I should sell my pony, And ride the range no more, "And let my door stand open wide From Poetry: A Magazine of verse. As I came down the sweetgrass range I heard a singing in the early dusk I heard a singing to the early stars, Arthur Guiterman was born in Vienna, Austria, of American parents. He has published numerous volumes of verse, both grave and gay. He is one of the most technically ingenious of our light versifiers, and his "Rhymed Reviews" are still a most delightful feature of Life. Mr. Guiterman has also a deep interest in ballad poetry. Though his greatest talent is for humorous verse, in "Quivira," at least, he has written a ballad of great vigor, color, and spirit. QUIVIRA * FRANCISCO CORONADO rode forth with all his train, Eight hundred savage bowmen, three hundred spears of Spain, To seek the rumored glory that pathless deserts hold The city of Quivira whose walls are rich with gold. Oh, gay they rode with plume on crest and gilded spur at heel, With gonfalon of Aragon and banner of Castile! While High Emprise and Joyous Youth, twin marshals of the throng, Awoke Sonora's mountain peaks, with trumpet-note and song. From A Ballad-Maker's Pack, by Arthur Guiterman. by Harper & Brothers. Copyright, 1921, |