CONTENTS

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Starved Rock[1]
Hymn to the Dead[5]
Creation[10]
The World's Desire[13]
Tyrannosaurus: or Burning Letters[16]
Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori[22]
The Folding Mirror[29]
A Woman of Forty[33]
Wild Birds[34]
A Lady[36]
The Negro Ward[40]
William Shakspeare[44]
For a Play[47]
Chicago[49]
The Wedding Feast[54]
By the Waters of Babylon[58]
The Dream of Tasso[60]
The Christian Statesman[69]
The Lament of Sophonia[77]
At Decapolis[79]
Winged Victory[83]
Oh you Sabbatarians![88]
Pallas Athene[90]
At Sagamore Hill[95]
To Robert Nichols[101]
Bonnybell: The Butterfly[103]
Hymn to Agni[109]
Epitaph for Us[111]
Botticelli to Simonetta[114]
Flower in the Garden[115]
Inexorable Deities[117]
Arielle[119]
Sounds out of Sorrow[121]
Mournin' for Religion[122]
Thyamis[124]
I Shall Go Down into This Land[126]
Spring Lake[128]
The Barber of Sepo[138]
They'd Never Know Me Now[145]
Nel Mezzo Del Cammin[156]
The Oak Tree[160]
The House on the Hill[162]
Washington Hospital[163]
Neither Faith nor Beauty Can Remain[170]

STARVED ROCK

As a soul from whom companionships subside

The meaningless and onsweeping tide

Of the river hastening, as it would disown