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SPIDER-WEBS IN VERSE

CONTENTS.

SPIDER-WEBS IN VERSE.

A CHORAL OF SUNSET.

THE POET’S PRAYER.

UPS AND DOWNS.

THE OLD BENONI TREE.

A SLUMBER RHAPSODY.

BAREFOOT AFTER THE COWS.

GIFT AND GIVER.

A SORTO’ PLAYED-OUT OL’ BOUQUET.

DOWN TO THE CANDY-MAN’S SHOP.

SOUL OF MY SOUL.

MINCE PIE.

TEARS AND LAUGHTER.

MIST-WING.

ECHO SONG.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

SONNETS OF LIFE.

II.

THE NIGHTMARE.

FAMILY OF THE EPHEMERA.

II.

SONG OF THE STARS.

I WONDER.

MY DEFEAT.

THERE’S A LAUGH.

TO SLEEP.

WHEEL AND SHUTTLE.

THE PRESS OF PENURY.

LIFE.

BORROWING BRAINS.

SLEEP.

TO A WILD-ROSE BOUQUET.

SONG ON THE SEA.

WOODLAND LAY.

IN THE ANGELS’ KEEP.

THOUGHT.

THE LONE WAYSIDE WILD ROSE.

TWENTY.

BEAUTIFUL MAY.

A HUMPTY-DUMPTY IDIOTIC CHAP.

TO FANCY.

GOOD-NIGHT, MY LOVE.

THROUGH REVERENT EYES.

WHAT IS POETRY?

USELESS?

A MORTAL.

TO MORPHEUS.

A DREAMY APRIL EVENING IN THE WOODS.

TO THEE ABOVE.

CHORUS.

THE LURLEI.

TOUGH MUTTON, PERHAPS.

TO MISS ——.

MADRIGAL.

WORDS AND THOUGHTS.

REX FUGIT.

THE SICKLE OF FLOWERS.

THIS TOUCH OF AN ANGEL’S HAND.

JUST AS USUAL.

A DEPLORATION.

I LOVE YOU, KATE.

PITY THE POOR.

THE DEMONIAC.

THE WEATHER FIEND.

WHO KNOWS!

THE DEATH-HOWL.

ON PLUCKING A CROCUS.

DEATH—LIFE.

HOT?—WELL, RATHER!

A YEAR AGO.

THE SWEETEST OF ALL.

THE LOVER’S COMPLAINT.

BUZZ.

CHORUS.

’MONG THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SOUL.

HAL A-HUNTIN’.

WRITE FROM THE HEART.

WHITHER?

OUR ALMA MATER.

FATHER TIME.

THUS LIFE’S TALE.

II.

ON KINGSLEY’S “FAREWELL.”

THE GREATEST THING ON EARTH.