Summer of Love
SUMMER of LOVE
BY JOYCE KILMER
NEW YORK THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY 1911
Copyright, 1911, BY THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
TO ALINE
A vagrant minstrel of the street,
No poet of the laurel crown,
I kneel, dear Princess, at your feet,
And lay my book of verses down.
See all the love that lingers there,
And so, for love’s sake, find it fair.
Certain of the poems in this volume are reprinted by kind permission of the editors of the following magazines and newspapers: The Call , Harpers’ Weekly , The Independent , Moods , The Pathfinder , the New York Sun and the Sunday Magazine of the New York Times . I am glad to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to my mother, Mrs. Kilburn-Kilmer, for her encouragement and assistance in making this book. For sympathy and valuable advice, I am deeply obliged to many friends, particularly Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mills Alden and Mr. Robert Cortez Holliday.
Joyce Kilmer
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SUMMER OF LOVE
In Dedication:
CONTENTS
SUMMER OF LOVE
VILLANELLE OF LOVELAND
THURIFER
IN A BOOK-SHOP
EADEM
IN FAIRYLAND
THE SORROWS OF KING MIDAS
SLENDER YOUR HANDS
SLEEP SONG
LOVE’S THOROUGHFARE
WHITE BIRD OF LOVE
TRANSFIGURATION
MY LADY
GIFTS OF SHEE
WHEREVER, WHENEVER
BALLADE OF MY LADY’S BEAUTY
LOVE’S ROSARY
TRIBUTE
MATIN
A VALENTINE
STAR O’ LOVE
FOR A BIRTHDAY
THE USE OF NIGHT
ALCHEMY
WAYFARERS
WITH A MIRROR
PRINCESS BALLADE
LULLABY FOR A BABY FAIRY
GEORGE MEREDITH
“AND FORBID THEM NOT”
A DEAD POET
VILLANELLE OF THE PLAYERS
THE MAD FIDDLER
THE GRASS IN MADISON SQUARE
CHEVELY CROSSING
SAID THE ROSE
WHITE MARBLE AND GREEN GRASS
METAMORPHOSIS
ABSINTHE
THEOLOGY
FOR A CHILD
TO J. B. Y.
THE KING’S BALLAD
JESUS AND THE SUMMER RAIN
THE BALLADE OF BUTTERFLIES
THE CLOUDED SUN
BALLAD OF THREE
COURT MUSICIANS
THE DEAD LOVER
THE POET’S EPITAPH
THE SUBWAY
THE OTHER LOVER
AGE COMES A-WOOING
PRAYER TO BRAGI
LOVE AND THE FOWLER’S BOY
THE WAY OF LOVE
