TO THE MEMORY OF
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
SOLDIER, SCHOLAR, FRIEND
The author thanks the editors of the following publications for the right to reprint certain poems of hers that they first published:
Scribner's Magazine, Horace III-29. Collier's Weekly, Horace I-14. Poet Lore, Horace I-11. Chicago Interocean, The Fading Vision. The Christian Union, Jack Frost and the Flowers. New York Sun, The Rivals. Metropolitan Magazine, Strength Renewed. Christian Endeavor World, Town and Country. Boston Transcript, Summer in London; His Monument; Memorial Day. Boston Herald, The Cry of the Women. Ladies' Home Journal, The Christmas Letter. Woman's Home Companion, Frightened. The Delineator, The Victim; A Modern Grandmother. The Youth's Companion, A Curiosity.
CONTENTS
| I | |
| PATRIOTIC AND SERIOUS | |
| PAGE | |
| Memorial Day | [1] |
| Flowers for the Brave | [2] |
| His Monument | [3] |
| Your Country and Mine | [4] |
| The Grand Army Passes | [5] |
| The Harvard Regiment | [6] |
| Summer in London | [7] |
| Serbia | [8] |
| Canadian Trooper to His Horse | [9] |
| The Cry of the Women | [10] |
| Cassandra | [11] |
| Song of Spring | [12] |
| Life and Death | [12] |
| Man of Today | [13] |
| The Fading Vision | [14] |
| The Titanic | [15] |
| If Love were All | [16] |
| The Rover | [16] |
| Ah! Little Lake | [17] |
| Severus | [18] |
| Town and Country | [19] |
| Strength Renewed | [20] |
| At Miami | [20] |
| Which | [21] |
| The Blessed Dead | [22] |
| Oak Leaves | [22] |
| Self-satisfied | [23] |
| My Vigil | [23] |
| To Mrs. Julia Ward Howe | [24] |
| The Soarer | [24] |
| A Fancy | [25] |
| The Shrieking Woman | [25] |
| The Huguenot Lovers | [26] |
| To John Townsend Trowbridge | [27] |
| Weed or Flower | [27] |
| To Thomas Wentworth Higginson | [28] |
| II | |
| LIGHTER VERSE | |
| PAGE | |
| Frightened | [31] |
| The Christmas Letter | [32] |
| A Victim | [33] |
| Jack Frost | [34] |
| A Curiosity | [35] |
| The First Lie | [35] |
| The Parasol | [36] |
| A Modern Grandmother | [37] |
| Signs for the Serious | [38] |
| Trimming | [39] |
| The Annex | [40] |
| A Liberty Bond | [41] |
| A Hero | [42] |
| The Rivals | [44] |
| III | |
| FROM THE ODES OF HORACE | |
| PAGE | |
| To Mæcenas | [47] |
| To Leuconoë | [49] |
| Neobule | [49] |
| The Hardy Youth | [50] |
| To the State | [51] |
| To Apollo | [52] |
| To Diana | [52] |
| To Melpomene | [53] |
| Horace and Lydia | [54] |
| To Censorinus | [55] |
| To Thaliarchus | [56] |
| To Chloe | [56] |
| To Fuscus | [57] |
| To Venus | [57] |
| A Palinode | [58] |
| Lasting Fame | [59] |
| Religion | [59] |
PATRIOTIC AND SERIOUS