ÉMILE VERHAEREN

AUTHOR OF

"POEMS," "THE SUNLIT HOURS," ETC.

TRANSLATED BY

CHARLES R. MURPHY

NEW YORK
JOHN LANE COMPANY
MCMXVII

CONTENTS
I.["Slowly Maturity Has Come to Our Surprise"]
II.["Roses of June, You the Most Fair"]
III.["If Other Flowers Decorate Our Home"]
IV.["Shadows Are Lustral in the Iris'd Dawn"]
V.["I Bring You, This Eve, an Offering of Joy"]
VI.["Come, Let Us Rest a While Beside the Path"]
VII.["Sweetly and More Sweetly Still"]
VIII.["Within the House Our Love Has Chosen for Its Birth"]
IX.["My Pleasant Work by Open Windows Wide"]
X.["All Faith Lies at the Bottom of Our Love"]
XI.["Dawn, Shadow, Evening, Space and Stars: What Night"]
XII.["It Is the Pleasant Hours When Lamps Are Lit"]
XIII.["Dead Kisses of the Long Dead Years"]
XIV.["It Is Now Fifteen Years That We Have Thought as One"]
XV.["I Thought Our Joy Had Been Forever Dulled"]
XVI.["All That Lives About Us Here"]
XVII.["With All My Heart and Brain, My Feeling and My Seeing"]
XVIII.["Oh Days of Fresh and Quiet Healthfulness"]
XIX.["I Have Left the Groves of Sleep"]
XX.["Alas! When the Poison of Disease"]
XXI.["Within the Garden There Is Healthfulness"]
XXII.["It Was June in the Garden"]
XXIII.["Your Gift of Self Is Ever Prodigal"]
XXIV.["O Quiet Garden Wherein Nothing Moves"]
XXV.["As With Others, Time and Change and Strife"]
XXVI.["The Golden Ships of Summer Time"]
XXVII.["Fervency of Sense, of Heart, of Soul"]
XXVIII.["The Moveless Beauty"]
XXIX.["You Spoke That Evening Words So Beautiful"]
XXX.["Sun-lit Hours," "Hours of Afternoon"]