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Readers do not need to know the full history of Pegasus before opening Pegasus Selected Poems 1923 1924. It brings together 32 entries, beginning with Life by Ernest Walsh, Encounter by Dorothy Page, and Crossing the Mojave by Lila Serles. The selection turns a large run of periodical material into something a reader can enter in an afternoon and return to over time. It is not meant to replace the journal’s history. Instead, it offers a clear doorway: representative writing, useful names, and enough context to connect each piece with the publication that first carried it.

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  • Life — Ernest Walsh [Poem, p. 2]
  • Encounter — Dorothy Page [Poem, p. 4]
  • Crossing the Mojave — Lila Serles [Poem, p. 6]
  • Night-Skies — Amy Sebree Smith [Poem, p. 7]
  • Bombast — Fred Gronberg [Poem, p. 8]
  • Snow-Piece — John Drury [Poem, p. 1]
  • Indifferent — Rolfe Humphreys [Poem, p. 2]
  • The Wild-Cat Oil Well — Ruth Clay Price [Poem, p. 3]
  • One Day — Dorothy Page [Poem, p. 6]
  • Echo — Dorothy Page [Poem, p. 1]
  • Conundrum — Helene Mullins [Poem, p. 2]
  • Unframed — Howard McKinley Corning [Poem, p. 4]
  • In Passing — H. Thompson Rich [Poem, p. 6]
  • To a Nearly Completed Skyscraper — Challiss Silvay [Poem, p. 10]
  • Carriso Gorge — Ben Field [Poem, p. 3]
  • The Cathedral Window — José Maria de Heredia · translated by Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 6]
  • Segments — Howard McKinley Corning [Poem, p. 7]
  • Circe — William Griffith [Poem, p. 9]
  • Lagoon — Samuel M. Sargent, Jr [Poem, p. 11]
  • The Valley of the Muted Songbirds — Henri Faust [Poem, p. 3]
  • Dusk — Margaret Tod Ritter [Poem, p. 6]
  • Interlude — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 7]
  • The Master Earth — Ben Field [Poem, p. 13]
  • Earth-Worms — George Sterling [Poem, p. 3]
  • A Day — Virgil Geddes [Poem, p. 5]
  • Three Desert Songs — Agnes Cornell [Poem, p. 6]
  • Old Mortality — Tu Fu · translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu [Poem, p. 9]
  • Fragments — E. Richard Shipp [Poem, p. 10]
  • In Praise of My Glorious Queen the Night — Mathurin Dondo [Poem, p. 3]
  • Sawtooth and Violet — Samuel Putnam [Poem, p. 8]
  • Epic — Margie-Lee Runbeck [Poem, p. 10]
  • Octavia — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 13]
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*Pegasus Selected Poems 1923 1924*. Text/Tech Journals, digital edition, 2026.