Dream tapestries
Dream Tapestries
by Louise Morey Bowman Author of “Moonlight and Common Day”
“Reason has moons, but moons not hers
Lie mirrored in her sea,
Confounding her astronomers
But, oh! delighting me.”
(Ralph Hodgson)
TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE MCMXXIV
Copyright, Canada, 1924 by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto
Printed in Canada
TO ARCHIBALD ABERCROMBY BOWMAN
I wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors of Poetry (Chicago), The Bookman (New York), The Canadian Forum , and The Canadian Magazine , in permitting me to reprint “Cold Tragedy,” “Bread and Fire,” “Moment Musical,” “Blue Moon,” and “Oranges.”
Louise Morey Bowman
Dream Tapestries
CONTENTS
THE WINGÉD CLOAK
Dream Tapestries
Oranges
ORANGES
The Mountain That Watched
THE MOUNTAIN THAT WATCHED
THE OLD FRUIT GARDEN
Songs of Women
BLUE MOON
MISTRESS MARY
DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY
THE BIRTH-NIGHT
A PORTRAIT
THE SONG OF THE WILLOW WAND
THE DEAD VIOLIN
A SKETCH
Cinquains
CITY CHILD’S EASTER
DEEP SNOW
HOKKU
TWELVE HOKKU ON A CANADIAN THEME
LIFE SEQUENCE
PRAYER IN SCARLET AND WHITE PAINT
Cold Tragedy
COLD TRAGEDY
Homespun
TWINS
BOB COONING
SYMPATHY
FALSE DAWN
THE WITCH
THE POST BOX
SONG
BREAD AND FIRE
“MOMENT MUSICAL”
Transcriber’s Notes