MANVEL 
 
 W YORK . 
 

PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 by 
 EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 BOOKS BY 
 EMANUEL 
 MORGAN 
 
 Spectra (with Anne 
 Knish) The Beloved Stran 
 ger (with Witter Bynner) 
 
Of this edition 2,000 copies printed in October, 192.0. 
 Also fifty copies on hand-made paper. 
 
TO WILLIAM MARION REEDY 
 
 1862 1920 
 
 A mirror breathed upon by Death 
 but undimmed 
 
 408761 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 BY EMANUEL MORGAN. 
 A THE SUNWISE TURN A 
 
Copyright 1910 
 by the Sunwise Turn 
 
 Caricatures by IVAN OPFFER 
 
 and 
 WILLIAM SAPHIER 
 
TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Title Page Emanuel Morgan Pinning 
 
 Copyright Page Saphier by Opffer (after which Opffer 
 dared not sit for Saphier) 
 
 Page i Marsden Hartley (slightly bored) 
 
 Page 8 Edgar Lee Masters 
 
 Page 1 1 Maxwell Bodenheim 
 
 Page 12 Emanuel Carnevali 
 
 Page 14 John Gould Fletcher 
 
 Page 1 5 Robert Frost 
 
 Page 1 7 Siegfried Sassoon 
 
 Page 1 8 Alfred Kreymborg (before he toured America) 
 
 Page 19 Vachel Lindsay 
 
 Page 20 Spoon River 
 
 Page 21 Edgar Lee Masters 
 
 Page 22 Harriet Monroe and her hobby 
 
 Page 24 Ezra Pound 
 
 Page 25 Lola Ridge 
 
 Page 26 Carl Sandburg 
 
 Page ^7 Sandburg Considering the Ingredients 
 
 Page 28 Siegfried Sassoon 
 
 Page 29 Tagore 
 
 Page 30 Louis Untermeyer 
 
 Page 3 1 William Carlos Williams 
 
 Page 32 Williams again 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE 
 
 an iron wheel 
 
 with a navel of gold 
 
 FRANKLIN P. ADAMS 
 
 Greek masks 
 
 in ink 
 
 on comic finger-nails 
 
 A E 
 
 liquid air 
 somewhere 
 
 CONRAD AIKEN 
 
 phosphorescent 
 
 plumbing 
 
 ZOE AKINS 
 brand ied 
 lotus 
 
 RICHARD ALDINGTON 
 
 an Attic vase 
 full of tea 
 
 MARY ALDIS 
 a street-car 
 shying 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG 
 water-pretzels 
 
 KARLE WILSON BAKER 
 a window 
 in the wash 
 
 WILTON AGNEW BARRETT 
 
 night-thoughts 
 
 of a dragon-fly 
 
 KATHERINE LEE BATES 
 four-and-twenty blackbirds 
 half-baked in a pie 
 
 STEPHEN VINCENT BENET 
 a pistol 
 of crystal 
 
 WILLIAM ROSE BENET 
 a river of rockets 
 in daylight 
 
 STELLA BENSON 
 
 Cinderella s 
 
 riding-breeches 
 
 10 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 MAXWELL 
 
 BODENHEIM 
 a tooth 
 toe-dancing 
 
 GORDON 
 
 BOTTOMLEY 
 by two nymphs 
 out of old England 
 
 WILLIAM 
 ASPENWALL 
 BRADLEY 
 a bearded wheel 
 barrow 
 
 BERTON 
 
 BRALEY 
 fonts of type 
 in a tambourine 
 
 ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH ROBERT BRIDGES 
 
 nectar a violet 
 
 drunk from a sainted shoe neath the Kohinoor 
 
 GELETT BURGESS 
 
 sculptured chewing-gum 
 on a trolley 
 
 AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR 
 a tortoise-shell comb 
 as a lyre 
 
 DANA BURNETT 
 a young policeman 
 with a flute in his pocket 
 
 ELSA BARKER 
 Jacob s ladder 
 for a mattress 
 
 11 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 EMANUEL CARNEVALI 
 
 in travail 
 
 RICHARD BURTON 
 
 a quill 
 
 in a button-hole 
 
 WITTER BYNNER 
 
 God 
 
 in the sugar-bowl 
 
 EMILE CAMMAERTS 
 sticky little hands 
 in yours 
 
 BLISS CARMAN 
 little hills 
 tipping their hats 
 
 EDWARD CARPENTER 
 
 Calamus 
 
 unbound 
 
 WILLIAM H. CARRUTH JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 
 Alpha and Omega oil Jove 
 
 for soul-sprains in a pew 
 
 GILBERT K. CHESTERTON 
 
 a Cardinal 
 
 on a merry-go-round 
 
 12 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 FREDERICK MORTIMER 
 
 CLAPP 
 a collector 
 of emotional bricks 
 
 PADRAIC COLUM 
 the whistle of a kettle 
 to the petal of a thistle 
 
 SARAH N. CLEGHORN 
 
 the rosy half 
 of an old apple 
 
 GRACE HAZARD 
 
 CONKLING 
 a goblet of mist 
 for each place 
 
 EDMUND VANCE COOKE ALICE CORBIN 
 
 wit 
 
 zithering in a derby 
 
 a quiver 
 full of rulers 
 
 E. E. CUMMINGS 
 
 much ado 
 
 about the alphabet 
 
 GABRIELE D ANNUNZIO 
 a passion-flower 
 dipped in ammonia 
 
 MARY CAROLYN DAVIES 
 a flutter of skirts 
 between life and death 
 
 T. A. DALY 
 curbstone 
 carolling 
 to curbstone 
 
 OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN 
 she wears her heart 
 on your other sleeve 
 
 WILLIAM M. DAVIES 
 jewelled buns 
 
 FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS 
 
 sun-bonnets 
 
 for Minerva 
 
 WALTER DE LA MARE 
 a door-knob 
 in the mist 
 
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PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 BABETTE DEUTSCH 
 
 the phoenix 
 
 lays a purple bomb 
 
 JOHN DRINKWATER 
 
 dust 
 
 in a mug of ale 
 
 LORD DUNSANY 
 the beautiful thump 
 of the gods 
 
 MAX EASTMAN 
 
 Aphrodite 
 
 tattooed on a muscle 
 
 T. S. ELIOT 
 the wedding cake 
 of two tired cultures 
 
 JOHN ERSKINE 
 
 marbles 
 
 in a muff 
 
 DONALD EVANS 
 
 the necktie 
 of Lucifer 
 
 ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE 
 
 St. Sebastian 
 
 in gloves 
 
 trimming his arrow-tips 
 
 MAHLON LEONARD FISHER 
 fourteen feet 
 in a feather-bed 
 
 JOHN GOULD FLETCHER 
 two halves of a typewriter 
 still moving 
 
 14 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 F. S. FLINT 
 
 the halo 
 
 of a street-lamp 
 
 ROBERT FROST 
 paintings by the family 
 in birch-bark frames 
 
 NORMAN GALE 
 a knickerbockered 
 bobolink 
 
 THEODOSIA 
 
 GARRISON 
 
 a peasant 
 
 singing 
 
 in French heels 
 
 KAHLIL GIBRAN 
 
 repartee 
 
 from all three crosses 
 
 WILFRID WILSON GIBSON 
 
 there s heart 
 
 behind the heavy breathing 
 
 ARTURO GIOVANITTI 
 a crow-bar 
 loosening heaven 
 
 ROBERT GRAVES 
 a khaki bib 
 
 WILLIAM GRIFFITH 
 a little finger 
 in the dusk 
 
 EDGAR GUEST 
 communion-bread 
 with slices of bologna 
 
 15 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ARTHUR GUITERMAN 
 
 digging with palm-leaves a banjo 
 
 she buries a trumpet bumps a rose 
 
 in Oxford 
 
 HERMANN HAGEDORN 
 the silver lining 
 of the Y. M. C. A. 
 
 THOMAS HARDY 
 
 a strong man 
 
 tripping 
 
 on the shadow of a god 
 
 ELIJAH HAY 
 
 lather 
 
 but no beard 
 
 H. D. 
 
 the Winged Victory 
 
 hopping 
 
 OLIVER HERFORD 
 bottled kittens 
 
 RALPH HODGSON 
 
 a syrinx 
 
 played by a gentleman 
 
 BRIAN HOOKER 
 
 angles 
 
 at ease 
 
 A. E. HOUSMAN 
 a dead lad 
 laughing 
 
 LAURENCE HOUSMAN 
 
 Jack 
 
 out of the box 
 
 HELEN HOYT 
 
 ice-patterns 
 
 melting on the side-walk 
 
 FORDMADOX HEUFFER NELSON LESLIE JENNINGS 
 a grey-hound a sack-suit 
 
 loping with pugs of cinnabar 
 
 16 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 17 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 ORRICK JOHNS 
 the Rubaiyat 
 carved on a carrot 
 
 THOMAS S. JONES, JR. 
 one holly-berry 
 on an altar 
 
 HARRY KEMP 
 seven-league boots 
 on a linnet 
 
 ANNE KNISH 
 a gargoyle 
 remembering 
 
 ALFRED 
 
 KREYMBORG 
 Pierrot 
 with the hiccoughs 
 
 D. H. LAWRENCE 
 
 lovers 
 
 eating thistle-pie 
 
 LOUIS LEDOUX 
 
 Hellas 
 
 delivered 
 
 RICHARD LE 
 GALLIENNE 
 talcum-powder on the 
 tail of a wayward 
 nightingale 
 
 RUDYARD KIPLING 
 
 Pan 
 
 stoking an empire 
 
 SAPHItR 
 
 18 
 
WILLIAM ELLERY 
 
 LEONARD 
 veils 
 on an anvil 
 
 VACHEL LINDSAY 
 a street-cry 
 in heaven 
 
 HANIEL LONG 
 Harlequin 
 one leg woollen 
 the other illicit 
 
 AMY LOWELL 
 
 a rhinestone chip 
 
 on a blood-red shoulder 
 
 ALLAN ROSS 
 
 MACDOUGALL 
 a Falstaffian 
 Christ-child 
 
 PERCY MACKAYE 
 
 laurel 
 
 on a carpet-sweeper 
 
 EDWIN MARKHAM 
 
 he has learned the art 
 of leaning on a hoe 
 without soiling his beard 
 
 MAURICE 
 
 MAETERLINCK 
 a dreamy fat man 
 dancing 
 in blue gauze 
 
 > 
 
 DON MARQUIS 
 a walnut bureau 
 with crickets for handles 
 
 19 
 
JOHN MASEFIELD 
 fishing for the sunrise 
 he catches fish 
 
 WALT MASON 
 
 overalls 
 
 rhyming 
 
 EDGAR LEE MASTERS 
 a graphophone 
 in the morgue 
 
 ALICE MEYNELL 
 
 candles 
 
 burning 
 
 for one another 
 
 SCUDDER MIDDLETON 
 
 a liberty-cap 
 
 shaving 
 
 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 
 
 a hamadryad 
 
 in the tree of knowledge 
 
 RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL 
 a heart-line 
 running off the hand 
 into print 
 
 20 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 21 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 HAROLD MONRO 
 
 clay-flecks 
 
 on a thigh 
 
 ANGELA MORGAN 
 Jeanne d Arc 
 seizes a trombone 
 
 HARRIET MONROE 
 the Mother Superior 
 considers lingerie 
 
 EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 a bat 
 
 and a butterfly 
 
 mating 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY 
 
 an affectionate 
 
 scorpion 
 
 DAVID MORTON 
 waters 
 changing 
 in a lock 
 
 DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI 
 
 lightning 
 
 as a baton 
 
 GILBERT MURRAY 
 a discus-thrower 
 perfumed 
 
 STURGE MOORE 
 a proud procession 
 of pudding-stone 
 
 JOHN G. NEIHARDT 
 
 muscle-bound 
 
 but Marathon 
 
 22 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 HENRY NEWBOLT 
 the Jolly Union 
 Roger Jack 
 
 YONE NOGUCHI 
 
 incense 
 
 for breakfast 
 
 ALFRED NOYES 
 
 Robin Hood 
 
 singing 
 
 the Doxology 
 
 DAVID O NEIL 
 
 jackstraws 
 
 and a hook of silk 
 
 MOIRA O NEILL 
 
 the hands of the harpist 
 
 homespun 
 
 fingers of gauze 
 
 JAMES OPPENHEIM 
 
 vats 
 
 of star-soup 
 
 JOHN 
 OXENHAM 
 the adoring 
 eye 
 of God s dog 
 
 ROBERT NICHOLS 
 
 Mars 
 
 a la mode 
 
 GRACE FALLOW NORTON 
 
 swan s-down 
 
 in an eddy 
 
 JOHN MYERS O HARA 
 
 robes 
 
 of old yeast 
 
 GEORGE O NEIL 
 
 petals 
 
 in a glass of milk 
 
 ROSE O NEILL 
 flowers blown 
 along a sphynx 
 
 SHAEMAS O SHEEL 
 
 a dream 
 
 arguing 
 
 JOSEPHINE 
 
 PRESTON 
 
 PEABODY 
 bleeding 
 lilies 
 
 23 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 EZRA POUND 
 a book-worm 
 in tights 
 
 EDWIN FORD PIPER 
 a heart-beat 
 in a hen-house 
 
 GALE YOUNG RICE 
 a coloured post-card 
 as Hamlet 
 
 WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY 
 
 a faun 
 reciting 
 
 LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE 
 a singing hinge 
 of home 
 
 JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE 
 
 dew 
 purring 
 
 CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON 
 a big stick of maple 
 caressing a motor 
 
 24 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 LOLA RIDGE 
 
 grapes 
 
 on a ragged corsage 
 
 GEORGE STERLING 
 from a scarlet bowl 
 he feeds the smallness of life 
 to the largeness of words 
 
 JAMES STEPHENS 
 
 meadows 
 
 amazed with men 
 
 EDWIN 
 
 ARLINGTON 
 
 ROBINSON 
 from inside the rim of 
 his eye-glasses he 
 wipes away the tears 
 of two counties 
 deftly 
 with a lilac 
 
 ROBERT ALDEN 
 
 SANBORN 
 back-scratchers 
 in bloom 
 
 GEORGE 
 
 SANTAYANA 
 a withered 
 rose-window 
 
 ROBERT HAVEN 
 SCHAUFFLER 
 
 hobnail etchings 
 in excelsis 
 
 WALLACE STEVENS 
 the shine of a match 
 in an empty pipe 
 
 I. C. SQUIRES 
 
 a ballet 
 
 of marshmallows 
 
 25 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 CLINTON 
 
 SCOLLARD 
 a mouse 
 in the piano 
 
 EVELYN SCOTT 
 candied colon 
 
 MARJORIE ALLEN 
 
 SEIFFERT 
 in a bath-tub filled 
 with Pierian springs 
 she washes off her 
 inhibitions with a 
 gurgling elbow 
 
 ROBERT W. 
 SERVICE 
 the red corpuscle 
 courts the white 
 with a cornet 
 
 CARL SANDBURG 
 a snow-pudding 
 of fists 
 
 GERTRUDE STEIN 
 wings rotting 
 under water 
 
 26. 
 
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PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 EDWARD 
 SHANKS 
 
 a teaspoon 
 
 lost in rose-leaves 
 
 ODELL 
 SHEPARD 
 
 spring-wind 
 
 up the trouser-leg 
 
 LEONORA 
 SPEYER 
 
 a velvet train 
 in a brook 
 
 CHARLES 
 WHARTON STORK 
 
 stilts 
 clasping 
 
 ARTHUR SYMONS 
 
 enchanted 
 
 Roquefort 
 
 SIEGFRIED SASSOON 
 
 Puck 
 
 at an autopsy 
 
 SARA TEASDALE 
 
 one hand throws away a pearl 
 
 rounded by an oyster 
 
 the other clings to a bit of shell 
 
 rounded by the waves 
 
 EDITH M.THOMAS 
 stairs whispering 
 in a steeple 
 
 28 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 RABINDRANATH TAGORE 
 
 a bearded child by the world-old sea 
 
 making a temple 
 
 of pebbles and a phallus 
 
 EUNICE TIETJENS 
 she exclaims 
 
 through a magnifying glass 
 into a mirror 
 
 RIDGELY TORRENCE 
 a long black cloak 
 circling a lake 
 
 CHARLES HANSON TOWNE 
 
 church-bells 
 
 on a bicycle 
 
 HENRY VAN DYKE 
 a pulpit 
 slowly waltzing 
 
 LEONARD VAN 
 NOPPEN 
 
 the great 
 i amb 
 
PINS FOR WINGS 
 
 LOUIS UNTERMEYER 
 
 Paris 
 
 awarding the apple 
 
 to Vulcan 
 
 GEORGE SYLVESTER 
 VIERECK 
 a palanquin 
 on a dachshund 
 
 CHARLES VILDRAC 
 Judgment-day and the 
 footstool carved in jade 
 
 ARTHUR WALEY 
 woollen gloves 
 assorting feathers 
 
 THOMAS WALSH 
 
 top-sails 
 
 of lace 
 
 EDA LOU WALTON 
 the wandered wisp 
 of a tepee 
 
 WILLIAM WATSON 
 a gray-maned lion 
 heart-ache and tooth-ache 
 but royal 
 
 WILLARD WATTLES 
 the alarm-clock 
 of Christ 
 
 CAROLYN WELLS 
 English sparrows 
 in vaudeville 
 
 JOHN HALL WHEELOCK 
 
 a floral display 
 
 in an ice-cream parlor 
 
 MARGARET WIDDEMER 
 a darting umbrella 
 
 30 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 
 carbolic acid 
 in love 
 
 31 
 
By EMANUEL MORGAN 
 
 FLORENCE WILKINSON MARGUERITE WILKINSON 
 Gothic carvings arms 
 
 left in a cloak-room thrown around 
 
 outdoors 
 
 CLEMENT WOOD 
 the west wind 
 in rebellion 
 against a wall 
 
 CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD 
 
 he finds in the desert 
 
 a Rogers group 
 
 of the kingdom of heaven 
 
 GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY 
 
 grape-juice 
 
 in the Holy Grail 
 
 EDITH WYATT 
 
 a cornstalk 
 
 held up with a hairpin 
 
 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 
 
 a pot of mould 
 
 at the foot of the rainbow 
 
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