THIS
FIRST SLIGHT OUTCOME OF TASTES TRANSMITTED BY
MY FATHER,
Is Inscribed to His Friend and Mine,
JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY.

CONTENTS.

Page
Gloucester Harbor[9]
Leonore[12]
A Ballad of Metz[14]
Private Theatricals[21]
Divination by an Easter Lily[22]
The Rival Singers[23]
After the Storm[26]
Hemlock River[28]
On One Poet Refusing Homage to Another[29]
Brother Bartholomew[33]
Reserve[36]
Patriot Chorus on the Eve of War[37]
Lo and Lu[39]
Her Voice[42]
An Epitaph[44]
The Falcon and the Lily[46]
Boston, from the Bridge[48]
The Red and Yellow Leaf[49]
“Poete my Maister Chaucer”[51]
Mount Auburn in May[52]
Among the Flags[53]
Child and Flower[54]
Knight Falstaff[56]
The Poet[57]
A Criminal[59]
Orient-Born[60]
Charondas[62]
Crazy Margaret[65]
To the Winding Charles[69]
My Neighbor[70]
The Sea-Gull[73]
Lily of the Valley[74]
Lover Loquitur[76]
Vitality[77]
To the River[78]
The Second Time they Met[79]
On Not Reading a Posthumous Work[81]
Bessy in the Storm[83]
After a Duel[85]
Indifference[87]
The Pledging[88]
At Gettysburg[90]
Early Death[92]
My Soprano[93]
The Cross Roads[94]
“Heart of Gold”[98]
A Jacobite Revival[100]
Spring[104]
Adventurers[105]
L’Etiquette[107]
The Grave and the Rose[110]

Songs at the Start.