The Pocket Treasury ed. Louis Untermeyer, Philip Van Doren Stern, Eric Swenson & Caryl Brooks (Pocket Books, February 1947, 424, 25¢, 309pp, pb)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. illustrated by Warren Hunter, also contains a quiz, not detailed
- vii · Foreword · [The Editors] · fw 1947
- 1 · The Letter · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International April 1924
- 43 · Freedom · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm from “Voluntaries”, anonymously, The Atlantic Monthly October 1863, uncredited.
- 44 · Love and Death among the Molluscs · M. F. K. Fisher · ar Consider the Oyster, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941
- 50 · The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire January 1941
- 69 · Catherine Parr · Maurice Baring · pl Diminutive Dramas by Maurice Baring, Houghton Mifflin, 1911
- 77 · Some Like Them Cold · Ring Lardner · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1921
- 102 · The Shooting of Billy the Kid · Walter Noble Burns · ar The Saga of Billy the Kid, Doubleday, 1925
- 127 · The Visit · Andy Logan · ss Swarthmore Dodo 1940
- 137 · The Standard of Living · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 20 1941
- 145 · Story of a Farmer · Clarence Day · ar The Crow’s Nest by Clarence Day, Jr., Knopf, 1921 [Ref. George Washington]
- 151 · Rope Enough · John Collier · ss The New Yorker November 18 1939
- 160 · The Rich Boy · F. Scott Fitzgerald · na The Red Book Magazine January 1926 (+1)
- 206 · From Pillar to Post or How to Raise a Dog · Jack Goodman & Alan Green · ar How to Do Practically Anything, Simon & Schuster, 1942
- 217 · The Reticence of Lady Anne · “Saki” · ss The Westminster Gazette January 16 1907
- 221 · Common Cause · William Wordsworth · pm (r)
- 222 · Bats · Ivan T. Sanderson · ar Animal Treasure by Ivan T. Sanderson, The Viking Press, 1937
- 257 · The Tortures of Week-End Visiting · Robert Benchley · hu (r)
- 265 · untitled (“He prayeth best who loveth best…”) · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm (r)
- 265 · Epitaph on a Hare · William Cowper · pm (r)
- 267 · To the Cuckoo · Michael Bruce · pm (r)
- 268 · Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog · Oliver Goldsmith · pm from The Vicar of Wakefield, R. Collins, 1766
- 269 · On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup · William Oldys · pm (r)
- 270 · The Robin’s Grave · Samuel Rogers · pm (r)
- 270 · To a Skylark · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, 1807
- 271 · To a Waterfowl · William Cullen Bryant · pm Poems by William Cullen Bryant, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, 1834
- 272 · The Owl and the Pussy-Cat · Edward Lear · pm Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets by Edward Lear, 1870
- 273 · The Snake · Emily Dickinson · pm The Springfield Republican February 14 1866
- 274 · The Camel · Charles Edward Carryl · pm (r)
- 276 · The Blackbird · W. E. Henley · pm (r)
- 276 · The Runaway · Robert Frost · pm The Amherst Monthly June 1918
- 277 · The Circus Postered Barn · Elizabeth Coatsworth · pm (r)
- 278 · Native Land · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r); given as “This is my own, my native land!” in the Table of Contents.
- 279 · One Crowded Hour · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r)
- 279 · This Republic · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm from “The Building of the Ship”, 1849
- 280 · Freedom · James Russell Lowell · pm from “Ode to Liberty” (r)
- 280 · The New Colossus: Mother of Exiles · Emma Lazarus · pm (r)
- 281 · The Virginians Are Coming Again · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r)
- 285 · A Gentle Echo on Woman · Jonathan Swift · pm (r)
- 287 · Heaven · George Herbert · pm (r)
- 288 · Bonaparte and the Echo · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 289 · Echo · John Godfrey Saxe · pm (r)
- 291 · Richard Taylor-His Life and Hard Works · [The Editors] · bg 1947 [Ref. Richard Taylor]
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