NANTUCKET
WINDOWS

BY
Edwina Stanton Babcock
Author of
“Greek Wayfarers,” “The Flying Parliament,” etc.
The Inquirer and Mirror Press
Nantucket Island, Mass.
1924
Copyright, 1924, Edwina Stanton Babcock

TO ANNIE BARKER FOLGER

By whose fireside an Off-Islander first learned to love the charm and grace of Nantucket hospitality
Appreciation is expressed to The National Magazine,
the Nantucket Historical Society Bulletin, the
Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, and
other publications, for permission
to reprint some of these verses

CONTENTS

Page
[Nantucket Windows][9]
[Dock Drama][10]
[Ghost House][11]
[Song of Scarlet][14]
[Path Maker (to Maria Mitchell)][15]
[Prophecy Made Going “Down Along”][16]
[Coast Yarn][17]
[Bouncing Bet][19]
[To the “Nineties”][21]
[Structures][23]
[Psychoscience][25]
[Beacon Lights][26]
[Wheel][27]
[Nantucketer in France][29]
[Fishing on Steamboat Wharf][31]
[The Wallace Daisy Field][33]
[Youth and the Old Mill][34]
[Scissors Grinder][39]
[Whispers][41]
[Not the Gift but the Giver][43]
[The Ball][44]
[The Town Clock Gives Advice to The Tourist][46]
[Cup][50]
[To Abram Quary (The Last Indian on Nantucket)][51]
[3 A. M.][53]
[On the Jetty][54]
[Windrow][55]
[The Swimmer][56]
[In the Antique Shop][57]
[The Cardinal Flower][58]
[Wild Bird][59]
[Sabatia Pond][61]
[The Lost Dryad][62]
[Pattran][64]
[Roof Tree][65]
[Evening at Franklin Valley Farm][66]
[Vision][69]
[Lost Beauty][70]
[(An Old Man tells a Story to some Boys)][71]
[From a Window][76]
[Responsible][77]
[Tree Worship][79]
[Another Chance][81]
[Dark Minstrels][83]
[The People of Today to the Clergy of Today][84]
[Protagonist][85]
[Signal Fires][86]
[Martyr][87]
[Ballad of the Thorn Tree][88]
[Balloons on the Beach][89]
[They Pass][90]
[On the Beach][91]
[Saul’s Hills][92]
[Sea Measure][111]
[In An Old Burying Ground][112]
[Christmas Eve on Nantucket][114]
[Song of the Lightships (A Landlubber’s Chantey)][116]
[September Noon][118]
[Main Street by Moonlight][119]
[Psalm of Imagined Hunger][121]
[The Moon Canoe][123]
[Deprecation][124]

NANTUCKET WINDOWS

Out on the night they glimmer, Island houses,
Casements of orange lustre on the moors;
Dune-hidden panes where winter sea carouses
Shine on the roads that wind past farmhouse doors.