ÉMILE VERHAEREN

TRANSLATED BY

CHARLES R. MURPHY

NEW YORK
JOHN LANE COMPANY
M CM XVI

CONTENTS
I.["O, the Splendour of this Joy of Ours"]
II.["What Tho' We See It Break Before Us Into Flowers"]
III.["This Carven Column Whereon Monsters Cling"]
IV.["The Night, Unfolding, Banishes the Day"]
V.["Remembering Thy Gracious Gift to Me"]
VI.["At Times Thou Art the Spacious Light and Air"]
VII.["Oh, Let It Knock Upon Our Door"]
VIII.["I Have Given All My Heart to Thee"]
IX.["The Youthful Spring with Wondrous Might"]
X.["Come Out Into the Garden Fair"]
XI.["How Swiftly is She Caught in Ecstasy"]
XII.["At That Time When in Loneliness I stood"]
XIII.["Of What Avail the Hectic Reasoning"]
XIV.["Quietly, Like Stately Queens of Old"]
XV.["To All Thy Smiles and Tears"]
XVI.["I Bathe in Thy Two Eyes My Soul Entire"]
XVII.["That Love Within Our Eyes May Be"]
XVIII.["Mid-Summer Blooms Within Our Quiet Garden-Ways"]
XIX.["May Thy Dear Eyes, Thy Clear Eyes, Be"]
XX.["Tell Me, Oh My Tranquil Friend"]
XXI.["In Those Hours When We Seem Shut Out"]
XXII.["Oh, This Happiness"]
XXIII.["Oh, Let Us Live Out Love with All Our Powers"]
XXIV.["No Sooner Lip to Lip, Than We Are Fraught"]
XXV.["That Nothing May Elude Our Close Embrace"]
XXVI.["Although, the Autumn Eves"]
XXVII.["The Gift of Body, When the Soul is Given"]
XXVIII.["Was There Ever in Us One Caress"]
XXIX.["This Fair Garden Flowering to Flame"]
XXX.["If It Ever Be"]