Short Flights
BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
With a weak, uncertain wing
And a short flight, faltering
Like a heart afraid to sing.
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOWEN-MERRILL CO. 1891
Copyright 1890 BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
TO MY UNCLE WILLIAM MORTON MEREDITH
SHORT FLIGHTS
Meredith Nicholson
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SHORT FLIGHTS
CONTENTS
TO THE SEASONS.
SAT EST VIXISSE.
I.
II.
III.
SONG.
’TIS NEVER NIGHT IN LOVE’S DOMAIN.
ESTRANGED.
WHEN FRIENDS ARE PARTED.
WHEREAWAY.
A SECRET.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
STRIVING.
AN IDOLATER.
LOVE’S MIDAS TOUCH.
IN ETHER SPACES.
MY PADDLE GLEAMED.
FAITHLESS.
GRAPE BLOOM.
ILL-STARRED.
THE SOLDIER HEART.
AN UNWRITTEN LETTER.
MY LADY OF THE GOLDEN HEART.
DREAMS.
CARDINAL NEWMAN.
ON THE MEDITERRANEAN.
THE GREEK GIRL’S SONG.
THE SHEPHERD’S SONG.
WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY.
RIGHTEOUS WRATH.
SUNSET.
RONDEAU OF EVENTIDE.
A PRINCE’S TREASURE.
DIEU VOUS GARDE.
SWEETHEART TIME.
I.
II.
THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS.
GUARDING SHADOWS.
ART’S LESSON.
IN THE SHADOW.
“LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.”
SONG AND WORDS.
I.
II.
III.
FOR A NEW YEAR’S MORN.
THREE FRIENDS.
A RHYME OF LITTLE GIRLS.
THE BATTLES GRANDSIRE MISSED.
BARRED.
A SLUMBER SONG.
BEFORE THE FIRE.
OCTOBER.
“IN WINTER I WAS BORN.”
GOOD NIGHT AND PLEASANT DREAMS.
WHERE LOVE WAS NOT.
DOWN THE AISLES.
RUIN.
HALF FLIGHTS.
A KIND OF MAN.
TRANSFIGURED.
LOVE’S POWER.
FIRE-HUNTING.
“HEARTACHE.”
FRIENDSHIP’S SACRAMENT.
OMAR KHAYYAM.
A DISCOVERY.
A MODERN PURITAN.
THE LAW OF LIFE.
TO EUGENE FIELD IN ENGLAND.
DEPENDENCE.
VIKING.
VIOLIN.
WHAT THE BABIES SAY.
SECRETS.
BLIND.
A FANCY.
THOREAU.
