PLAYS
AND
LYRICS

BY

CALE YOUNG RICE

LONDON

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

27 PATERNOSTER ROW

NEW YORK: MCCLURE PHILLIPS & CO.

44 EAST TWENTY-THIRD STREET

1906

UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED. PRINTERS, WOKING AND LONDON.

To

IDA M. TARBELL

WITH FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP

[PREFACE]

This volume contains "Yolanda of Cyprus," a hitherto unpublished play; many new lyrics; some others that appeared in "Song-Surf," a volume whose publishers failed before it reached the public; and "David," which came out in America in 1904. The author's desire has been to include only his best work.

[CONTENTS]


PAGE
YOLANDA OF CYPRUS[1]


LYRICS—DRAMATIC:—
JAEL[91]
MARY AT NAZARETH[96]
OUTCAST[98]
ADELIL[100]
THE DYING POET[102]
ON THE MOOR[105]
HUMAN LOVE[107]
O GO NOT OUT[108]
CALL TO YOUR MATE, BOB-WHITE[110]
TRANSCENDED[112]
THE CRY OF EVE[113]
THE CHILD GOD GAVE[116]
MOTHER-LOVE[118]
ASHORE[120]
LOVE'S WAY TO CHILDHOOD[122]
LISSETTE[123]
TEARLESS[125]
THE LIGHTHOUSEMAN[126]
BY THE INDUS[128]
FROM ONE BLIND[130]
AT THE FALL OF ROME, A.D. 455[131]
PEACELESS LOVE[133]
SUNDERED[134]
WITH OMAR[135]
A JAPANESE MOTHER (IN TIME OF WAR)[144]


LYRICS—NON-DRAMATIC:—
SHINTO (MIYAJIMA, JAPAN, 1905)[146]
EVOCATION (NIKKO, JAPAN, 1905)[148]
THE ATONER[150]
INTIMATION[151]
IN JULY[152]
FROM ABOVE[154]
SONGS TO A. H. R.:—
I. THE WORLD'S AND MINE[155]
II. LOVE-CALL IN SPRING[156]
III. MATING[157]
IV. UNTOLD[158]
V. LOVE-WATCH[159]
VI. AS YOU ARE[160]
VII. AT AMALFI[161]
VIII. ON THE PACIFIC[163]
THE WINDS[165]
THE DAY-MOON[167]
TO A SINGING WARBLER[169]
TO THE SEA[170]
THE DEAD GODS[172]
AT WINTER'S END[175]
APRIL[176]
AUGUST GUESTS[177]
AUTUMN[178]
THE WORLD[179]
TO THE DOVE[180]
AT TINTERN ABBEY[182]
THE VICTORY[184]
SEARCHING DEATH'S DARK[185]
SERENITY[187]
TO THE SPRING WIND[188]
THE RAMBLE[189]
RETURN[192]
THE EMPTY CROSS[194]
SUNSET-LOVERS[196]
TO A ROSE (IN A HOSPITAL)[198]
UNBURTHENED[199]
WHERE PEACE IS DUTY[201]
WANTON JUNE[202]
AUTUMN AT THE BRIDGE[204]
SONG[205]
TO HER WHO SHALL COME[206]
AVOWAL TO THE NIGHTINGALE[208]
STORM-EBB[210]
SLAVES[212]
WAKING[213]
FAUN-CALL[214]
LINGERING[216]
STORM-TWILIGHT[217]
WILDNESS[218]
BEFORE AUTUMN[219]
FULFILMENT[221]
TO THE FALLEN LEAVES[223]
MAYA (HIROSHIMO, JAPAN, 1905)[224]
SPIRIT OF RAIN (MIANOSHITA, JAPAN, 1905)[226]
THE NYMPH AND THE GOD[227]
A SEA-GHOST[228]
LAST SIGHT OF LAND[230]
SILENCE[231]


DAVID[233]