Tree with a Bird in it
Margaret Widdemer
43 chapters · 1 h 21 min · English
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Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a poem based on the aforementioned topic. Summary by MLeigh.
Chapters
1 Forward 2 min 2 Resignation by Jessie B. Rittenhouse 1 min 3 The Bird with the Woe by Edwin Markham 1 min 4 The Unity of Oneness by Witter Bynner 1 min 5 Oiseaurie by Amy Lowell 1 min 6 Imri Swazey by Edgar Lee Masters 1 min 7 Rambuncto by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2 min 8 The Bird Misunderstood by Robert Frost 1 min 9 Chicago Memories by Carl Sandburg 2 min 10 Frost and Sandburg Tonight by Edith M. Thomas 1 min 11 The Unquiet Singer by Charles Hanson Towne 2 min 12 At Autumn by Sara Teasdale 1 min 13 Rainuv by Ezra Pound 4 min 14 The Sighing Tree by Margaret Widdemer 1 min 15 Ballade of Spring Chickens by Richard Le Gallienne 2 min 16 Oh! Bird! by Angela Morgan 1 min 17 The Charnel Bird by Conrad Aiken 1 min 18 A Young Girl to a Young Bird by Mary Carolyn Davies 1 min 19 The Rune of the Nude by Marguerite Wilkinson 1 min 20 Admiration by Aline Kilmer 1 min 21 The Grackle of Grog by William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet 2 min 22 Preenings by Lola Ridge 2 min 23 Tea o' Herbs by Edna St. Vincent Millay 2 min 24 The Weaver Bird by John V. A. Weaver 2 min 25 Sonnet: Trees Are Not Ships by David Morton 1 min 26 The Grackle Is the Loon by Elinor Wylie 1 min 27 A Landscape Gets Personal by Leonora Speyer 1 min 28 The Symposium Leading Nowhere by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson 2 min 29 The Fowl of a Thousand Flights by Ridgely Torrence 2 min 30 The Roiling of Henry by Henry van Dyke 2 min 31 Pantings by Cale Young Rice 3 min 32 The Wild by Bliss Carman 1 min 33 They See the Birdie by Grace Hazard and Hilda Conkling 2 min 34 A Ballad of the Bird Dance of Pierrette by Theodosia Garrison 3 min 35 Pierrette Remembers an Engagement by William Griffith 1 min 36 Ain't Nature Wonderful! by Edgar Guest 1 min 37 The Meeting of the Columns by Don Marquis 3 min 38 The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird by Christopher Morley 3 min 39 To a Grackle by Franklin Pierce Adams 1 min 40 Carlo the Gardener by Thomas Augustin Daly 1 min 41 The Hoboken Grackle and the Hobo by Vachel Lindsay 3 min 42 Dies Illa: A Bird of a Masque by Percy Mackaye, Josephine Preston Peabody, and Isabel Fiske Conant 11 min 43 A Tree with a Bird in It: Rhymed Review by Arthur Guiterman 2 min
