Copyright, 1910
By John Lane Company
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

I give you this, the bitter and the sweet.
It holds my heart, can you not hear it beat?
So poor a gift to put within your hand—
Apples and Herbs!—but you will understand.

[CONTENTS]

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To Neighbor Life[1]
The Unburied[2]
Up a Little Road[3]
On Cedar Street, New York[4]
Che Sarà Sarà[5]
The Dead Wanton[6]
Leaven[7]
Quaeritur[8]
Love Land[9]
By the Western Gate[10]
For Music[11]
The Little Ghost[12]
Madonna Eve[13]
A Conversation[14]
Be Brave[15]
Forfeiture[16]
The Search[17]
Dust[18]
Nature's Child[19]
Veritatis[20]
The Peacock[21]
Anticipation[22]
The Wayfarer[23]
Renunciation[24]
Arabesque[25]
The Architects[26]
Ambush[27]
The Scales[28]
The Old Tragedy[29]
Taboo[30]
The Rivals[31]
Alone[32]
Beneath the Mask[33]
Thoth[34]
Little Dancer[35]
Sic Itur ad Astra[36]
The Judges[37]
The Spring Planting[38]
An Impressionist Picture[39]
Such Help for Singing[40]
Tempus Edax Rerum[41]
The Coward[42]
The Lost Romany[43]
Compensation[44]
Untamed[45]
To Pervanche[46]
The Belle[47]
Release[48]
The Thief[49]
I will Write Letters to the Grass[50]
Only This[51]
The Survivor[52]
Megaera[53]
The Song of Mokai[54]
To the Gypsy Man[55]
There is no Danger in Disdain[56]
The Playmate[57]
Afterwards[58]
The Old Maid[59]
Madness?[60]
The Scholar[61]
Wisdom's Secret[62]
Caged[63]
The Wife Speaks[64]
The Altar[65]

Acknowledgment is made to Messrs. Harper & Bros., the Century Company, The Metropolitan Magazine, and Collier's Weekly, for courteous permission to reproduce certain of the verses included in this volume.