Summer of Love

Certain of the poems in this volume are reprinted by kind permission of the editors of the following magazines and newspapers: The Call, Harpers’ Weekly, The Independent, Moods, The Pathfinder, the New York Sun and the Sunday Magazine of the New York Times.

I am glad to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to my mother, Mrs. Kilburn-Kilmer, for her encouragement and assistance in making this book.

For sympathy and valuable advice, I am deeply obliged to many friends, particularly Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mills Alden and Mr. Robert Cortez Holliday.

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Summer of Love	[ 1]
Villanelle of Loveland	[ 2]
Thurifer	[ 4]
In a Book-shop	[ 5]
Eadem	[ 6]
In Fairyland	[ 7]
The Sorrows of King Midas	[ 8]
Slender Your Hands	[ 9]
Sleep Song	[ 10]
Love’s Thoroughfare	[ 11]
White Bird of Love	[ 12]
Transfiguration	[ 14]
My Lady	[ 16]
Gifts of Shee	[ 17]
Wherever, Whenever	[ 19]
Ballade of My Lady’s Beauty	[ 20]
Love’s Rosary	[ 22]
Tribute	[ 24]
Matin	[ 25]
A Valentine	[ 26]
Star of Love	[ 27]
For a Birthday	[ 28]
The Use of Night	[ 31]
Alchemy	[ 32]
Wayfarers	[ 33]
With a Mirror	[ 35]
Princess Ballade	[ 36]
Lullaby for a Baby Fairy	[ 38]
George Meredith	[ 40]
“And Forbid Them Not”	[ 41]
A Dead Poet	[ 42]
The Morning Meditations of Frère Hyacinthus	[ 43]
Villanelle of the Players	[ 46]
The Mad Fiddler	[ 47]
The Grass in Madison Square	[ 49]
Chevely Crossing	[ 50]
Said the Rose	[ 53]
White Marble and Green Grass	[ 56]
Metamorphosis	[ 57]
Absinthe	[ 58]
Theology	[ 60]
For a Child	[ 61]
To J. B. Y.	[ 62]
The King’s Ballad	[ 63]
Jesus and the Summer Rain	[ 65]
Ballade of Butterflies	[ 67]
The Clouded Sun (To A. S.)	[ 69]
In Memoriam: Florence Nightingale	[ 72]
Ballad of Three	[ 73]
Court Musicians	[ 75]
The Dead Lover	[ 76]
The Poet’s Epitaph	[ 77]
The Subway	[ 78]
The Other Lover	[ 79]
Age Comes A-wooing	[ 81]
Prayer to Bragi	[ 84]
Imitation of Richepin’s Ballade of the Beggars’ King	[ 85]
Love and the Fowler’s Boy	[ 87]
The Way of Love	[ 88]

SUMMER OF LOVE

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