UNDER THE TREE

BY

ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS

new york      B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc.      mcmxxii

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

TO MY FATHER

SIMPSON ROBERTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Certain of these poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The University Record (the University of Chicago), Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, Child Life, and the Phoenix. The author thanks the editors of these journals for the privilege of reprinting.

CONTENTS

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• The Sky1
• The Cornfield3
• Milking Time4
• In My Pillow6
• Miss Kate-Marie8
• The Woodpecker10
• The Star11
• The Butterbean Tent12
• Big Brother14
• Mr. Wells15
• Dick and Will16
• The Pilaster18
• Firefly19
• Little Rain20
• The Pulpit22
• On the Hill24
• Autumn26
• The Rabbit28
• Crescent Moon29
• Father's Story30
• Christmas Morning32
• People Going By35
• Babes in the Woods38
• The Picnic40
• Mumps42
• The Circus44
• Strange Tree46
• The Branch48
• The Worm50
• A Child Asleep52
• Little Bush54
• At the Water