The Little Book of Modern Verse
ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse



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The Little Book of Modern Verse
A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets


Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
[Selections made in 1913.]





Foreword



"The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies,