The Black Panther: A book of poems

THE BLACK PANTHER A BOOK OF POEMS
BY JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
AUTHOR OF “THE HUMAN FANTASY” “THE BELOVÈD ADVENTURE” “LOVE AND LIBERATION” “DUST AND LIGHT,” ETC.
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1922
Copyright, 1922, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Printed in the United States of America
The author thanks the editors of the following, for kind permission to reprint here various poems first published in their pages: All’s Well , The American Magazine , The Art World , The Bellman , The Bookman , The Century Magazine , Contemporary Verse , The Dial , The Forum , The Freeman , Harper’s Monthly , The International , The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post , The Lyric , McClure’s Magazine , The Outlook , Poetry , The Poetry Journal , The Poetry Review , Reedy’s Mirror , Scribner’s Magazine , The Smart Set , The Yale Review , Youth . Thanks are also due to Messrs. Harcourt, Brace and Company for permission to reprint “Sea-Horizons,” first published in the anthology, Enchanted Years .
There is a panther caged within my breast;
But what his name, there is no breast shall know
Save mine, nor what it is that drives him so,
Backward and forward, in relentless quest—
That silent rage, baffled but unsuppressed,
The soft pad of those stealthy feet that go