TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

Contents

In Woodland Ways[9]
Ashes of Roses[11]
A Challenge[13]
And Yet ...[15]
The Master-Player[16]
Afterbloom[17]
To Bliss Carman[18]
When Love Passed By[19]
Hedonism ... Euthumism [21]-[22]
Under the Leaves[23]
Carmen[23]
To R. D. MacLean[26]
Love and Death[26]
A Winter Landscape[27]
Roses and Rue[28]
Severance[47]
Spartacus[48]
The Dead Leader[50]
Hagar[51]
Flower-Fancies[52]-[53]
Circe[54]
To A. M. M.[55]
Loveless[56]
Clytie—The Sunflower[57]
In Bondage[61]
To a Singer[63]
Blossom of Brine[64]
A Memory[65]
To Margaret[66]
Regret[67]
"God Bless You, Dear"[69]
Roses[71]
The Poet[72]
Shylock[72]
To Charles J. O'Malley[73]
Antithesis[74]
In Fortune's Twilight[74]
Fate[75]
The Path of Dreams[76]
An Autumn Song[78]
Vain[79]
Sartor Resartus[80]
Illumed[82]
In The Play[83]
To E. P. B.[84]
Through The Dark[85]
Preluding[86]
The Heights of Silence[87]
Andromeda[88]
Requital[90]
When Fades the Light[91]
Butterflies[92]
In the Dark Forest[93]
Insatiate[95]

To One Who Sleeps

(Obiit, June 8th, 1894.)

Tho' storm and summer shine for long have shed
Or blight or bloom above thy quiet bed,
Tho' loneliness and longing cry thee dead—
Thou art not dead, belovèd. Still with me
Are whilom hopings that encompass thee
And dreams of dear delights that may not be.
Asleep—adream perchance, dost thou forget
The sometime sorrow and the fevered fret,
Sting of salt tears and long unbreathed regret?
Liest thou here thro' long sunshiny hours,
Holding sweet converse with the springing flowers,
Harking the singing of the warm sweet showers
That fall like happy tears ... dost hear
The birds that unafraid assail thine ear—
And yet art silent when I whisper? Dear,
Dost thou not hear?