TO MY UNCLE
WILLIAM MORTON MEREDITH

CONTENTS

INVOCATION—To the Seasons[ xi]
Sat Est Vixisse[ 1]
Song[ 3]
’Tis Never Night in Love’s Domain[ 5]
Estranged[ 7]
When Friends are Parted[ 8]
Whereaway[ 9]
A Secret[ 11]
Disappointment[ 13]
Striving[ 14]
An Idolater[ 16]
Love’s Midas Touch[ 17]
In Ether Spaces[ 18]
My Paddle Gleamed[ 20]
Faithless[ 21]
Grape Bloom[ 22]
Ill-Starred[ 23]
The Soldier Heart[ 25]
An Unwritten Letter[ 27]
My Lady of the Golden Heart[ 28]
Dreams[ 30]
Cardinal Newman[ 31]
On the Mediterranean[ 32]
Watching the World Go By[ 34]
Righteous Wrath[ 36]
Sunset[ 37]
Rondeau of Eventide[ 38]
A Prince’s Treasure[ 39]
Dieu Vous Garde[ 41]
Sweetheart Time[ 42]
The Road to Happiness[ 44]
Guarding Shadows[ 46]
Art’s Lesson[ 47]
In the Shadow[ 48]
“Lead, Kindly Light”[ 50]
Songs and Words[ 51]
For a New Year’s Morn[ 53]
Three Friends[ 54]
A Rhyme of Little Girls[ 57]
The Battles Grandsire Missed[ 59]
Barred[ 61]
A Slumber Song[ 62]
Before the Fire[ 64]
October[ 66]
In Winter I was Born[ 68]
Good Night and Pleasant Dreams[ 69]
Where Love Was Not[ 71]
Down the Aisles[ 73]
Ruin[ 74]
Half Flights[ 76]
A Kind of Man[ 77]
Transfigured[ 78]
Love’s Power[ 79]
Fire-Hunting[ 80]
Heartache[ 81]
Friendship’s Sacrament[ 83]
Omar Khayyam[ 84]
A Discovery[ 86]
SONNETS
A Modern Puritan[ 89]
The Law of Life[ 90]
To Eugene Field in England[ 91]
Dependence[ 92]
By Sheridan’s Grave[ 93]
Viking[ 94]
Violin[ 95]
What the Babies Say[ 96]
Secrets[ 97]
Blind[ 98]
A Fancy[ 99]
Thoreau[ 100]

SHORT FLIGHTS