Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II Book

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Anonymous Songs and Chants
1. Hawaii Song [I will not chase]
Kawelo's War Chant Kamapuaa's Chant Shark Hula for Ka-lani-'opu'u Chant of Welcome for Ka-mehameha Paoa's Lament for Lohiau Paoa's Proclamation to Hiiaka Hiiaka's Lament for Hopoe
2. Native America Five Hunting Songs Békotsidi's Song of Blessing A Prayer of Begochidi A Stalking Song of Be'gocidí
A Hogan-Building Song of Be'gocidí
Three Songs of Initiation Song of the Alyha's Skirt Song of the Hwame Song of the Boy Who Paints Dice
3. Cowboy Riding Song The Lavender Cowboy The Little Bunch of Cactus on the Wall Three Limericks There was a cowboy named Hooter A cowboy named Bill Young cowboys had a great fear
4. Voodoo Devotee's Song Lesson Song Invisibility Song Priest's Song Song Announcing Death Song of Reproach Song of Allegiance Song Requesting Protection Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake, of New York, Sept., 1820
Song
[To Carlos Menie]
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883)
From Frodmer's Drama The Friends Love and Thought Friendship Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867)
The Confessional The Annoyer To-
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Absence of Love The Dahlia, the Rose, and the Heliotrope The One in All Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Indeed indeed, I cannot tell I'm guided in the darkest night I knew a man by sight Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Monody C-'s Lament After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traced Under an Image of Amor Threatening Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
In Paths Untrodden City of Orgies We two boys together clinging George Henry Boker (1823-1890)
From Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
To My Shadow The Knock Alphabet Dwelling Places Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
Beloved, since they watch us On the Town The Messenger at Night Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
The Torso To a Persian Boy L'Envoi Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Her breast is fit for Pearls Going-to-Her!
Precious to Me-She still shall be Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899)
Friar Anselmo The Whipporwill and I The Fountain of Youth Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
Anonyma To Bayard Taylor Holyoke Valley Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)
A Memory Infelix My Heritage Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)
Expectation Utopia The Secret Well Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
Flowers in the Dark Together A Caged Bird We'wah (1849-1896)
Legend Edgar Saltus (1855-1921)
Infidelity Imeros Hope Henry Fuller (1857-1929)
Tobias Holt, Bachelor Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
A Mountain Soul The Victory To One Who Waits George Santayana (1863-1952)
To W.P.
Dedication of the Later Sonnets to Urania Apollo in Love Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
Fulfillment The Magic Streets Two Loves Hasteen Klah (1867-1937)
Song of the Sun The Song of the Earth Spirit Old Age Song Jessie B. Rittenhouse (1869-1949)
The Door Myself The Secret Wilbur D. Nesbit An Artificial Tragedy The Trail to Boyland The Four Guests Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Asphodel Antinous Sonnet Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Crepuscule du Matin The Letter Orientation David O'Neil (1874-1947)
A Character The Explorer The Beach Rose O'Neill (1874-1944)
The Master-Mistress The Sonnet Begs Me She Wrote It Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
From "Lifting Belly"
America Your Own Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
The Gift You! Inez!
I Sit and Sew Helen Hay Whitney (1876-1944)
Love and Death To a Woman Lyric Love Esther M. Clark (1876-?)
The Pictured Eyes The Heart's Desire Her Mouth Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)
The Love of Judas Double Being Love's Comrades Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
Un Recuerdo-Hermano-Hart Crane R.I.P.
He Too Wore a Butterfly K. von F. -1914-Arras-Bouquoi Douglas Malloch (1877-1938)
The Love of a Man One The Bachelor Persis M. Owen (?-?)
The Dead have mourners plenty Dawn at Abbazia
[Poem: I-VII]
Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949)
Vision A World of Windows Haunted John Erskine (1879-1951)
"Beneath This Beauty"
Love That Never Told Can Be Parting Angeline Weld Grimké (1880-1958)
A Mona Lisa El Beso For the Candle Light Witter Bynner (1881-1968)
The Ballad of a Dancer Ghost The Earth-Clasp Walter de Casseres (1881-1900)
Phantoms The Battle of the Passions The Suicide Mina Loy (1882-1966)
Songs to Joannes: XIII Lunar Baedeker Faun Fare Edward Slocum (1882-1946)
The Garden Sumer Is Icumen In The Dark Mirror Badger Clark (1883-1957)
The Lost Pardner My Enemy The Smoke-Blue Plains Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
To a Picture of Eleanora Duse in The Dead City Song What Do I Care George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962)
2.Samuel, I.26
Children of Lilith The Master Key William Alexander Percy (1885-1952)
In New York Prologue Safe Secrets H.D. (1886-1961)
For Bryher and Perdita At Baia Toward the Piraeus Leonard Bacon (1887-1954)
Mnemonic System for Psycho-analysts Sonnet on a Portuguese The Eyes Samuel Loveman (1887-1976)
Remonstrance Understanding Belated Love T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of St. Sebastian Hysteria Eyes that last I saw in tears Haniel Long (1888-1956)
Ordeal by Fire The Masker Song of Young Burbage Scudder Middleton (1888-1959)
Friends Pilots Rebellion Antoinette Scudder (1888-1958)
The Lesbians The Swimming Pool Tea Making Willard Austin Wattles (1888-1950)
John Only a Cloud Dissolving How Little Knows the Caliph Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Adolescence The Barrier Absence Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
Six Songs of Khalidine Lullaby First Communion James Fenimore Cooper, Jr. (1892-1918)
To a Friend Isolation The Tryst Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
I, being born a woman and distressed Night is my sister, and how deep in love I too beneath your moon almighty Sex Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968)
Soiled Hands We Three Infatuation Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)
Just Daylight Married For Eager Lovers Robert Hillyer (1895-1961)
A Failure A Letter From "Sonnets": XIV Robert McAlmon (1895-1956)
Taunt to the Egoist Ero-Somnambulism The Mother Bernice Kenyon (1897-?)
The Letter Mediaeval
"A Woman Like a Shell"
John Wheelwright (1897-1940)
Adam Phallus Apocryphal Apocalypse Elsa Gidlow (1898-?)
The Beloved Lost Love Dies Conquest Royal Murdoch (1898-1981)
The Earthling She Walks Alone The Thrall Hart Crane (1899-1933)
Episode of Hands C33
Modern Art Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)
Song of the Unholy Oracle Admonition in Ivory Before a Departure Robert Francis (1901-1987)
The Goldfish Bowl If We Had Known Boy Riding Forward Backward Glenway Wescott (1901-1987)
Natives of Rock Mountain III: Coyotes Magnolias and the Intangible Horse Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Café: 3 a.m.
Low to High Impasse Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Fruit of the Flower Advice to Youth Sacrament Edwin Denby (1903-1983)
The Subway Summer People on Sunday Frank Belknap Long (1903-?)
In Antique Mood The Rebel A Time Will Come Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
Mapperley Plains The Common Cormorant On His Queerness Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)
Narcissus Bastard Song Who Asks This Thing?
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
From "Five Songs"
From "Twelve Songs"
Lullaby Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966)
Lament It's Me, Oh Lord, Standing with a Gun Always Overtures Lincoln Kirsten (1907-1996)
October Salesman Blackmail Parker Tyler (1907-1974)
Ode to Hollywood The Erotics His Elegy Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989)
The Dolls The Piazza The Masks Gale Wilhelm (1908-1991)
A Group of Sonnets Quest Paul Bowles Blessed Are the Meek Scene III Love Song Charles Henri Ford (1909-2002)
Baby's in jail, the animal day plays alone January wraps up the wound of his arm Somebody's Gone Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Casabianca Chemin de Fer The Gentleman of Shalott Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
Ballade to Jean Cocteau A Cyclist Out of the Tulip Tree Willard Maas (1911-1971)
Poem [anonymous calling]
Poem [o rivers of my flesh]
Poem [the great arm]
May Sarton (1912-1995)
From "Encounter in April": 1
From "Sonnets": 6
Strangers James Broughton (1913-1999)
Papa Has a Pig Mrs. Mother Has a Nose Junior's Prayer Robert Friend (1913-?)
Meaning Strangers Impossible Blue Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Letter, Unposted The Handclap Drunken Girl Alicia Kay Smith (1913-?)
Before the Dawn Identity It Is Reality Now Owen Dodson (1914-1983)
Midnight Bell Drunken Lover The Reunion Dunstan Thompson (1918-1975)
This Tall Horseman, My Young Man of Mars In All the Argosy of Your Bright Hair Return of the Hero

Acknowledgments Contributors Author Index Title Index