The Ballad of the Quest
The
Ballad
The Quest
Virna Sheard
McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., Publishers Toronto
Copyright 1922 by THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY All Rights Reserved PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
To the sweet memory of my Mother
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We acknowledge with thanks the kindness of Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, London, England, for permitting us to use the poems published by them in The Miracle ; also we thank the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire for permission to use those poems brought out by them in Carry On.
CONTENTS
Virna Sheard
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THE BALLAD OF THE QUEST
A SONG OF POPPIES
THE SHEPHERD WIND
IN SOLITUDE
THE SLUMBER ANGEL
AT MIDNIGHT
DREAMS
A SOUTHERN LULLABY
WHEN JONQUILS BLOW
LAMENT
THE SEA
THE CRY
THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS
THE SHELLS
REQUIEM
THE CROSSES
THE LONELY ROAD
TO ONE WHO SLEEPS
APRIL AGAIN!
HISTORIES
FIREFLIES
THE VANISHED
PATHFINDERS
THE CALL
BEFORE THE DAWN
THE FAIRY CLOCK
THE TEMPLE
THE WHISTLER
MARCH
ON SILVER NIGHTS
THE BIRTH-RIGHT
A LOVE SONG
A SONG
THE NIGHT OF ALL SAINTS
IN THE LAST YEAR
SHIPS
JUNE
OCTOBER GOES
THE LILY-POND