A LONELY FLUTE
BY
ODELL SHEPARD
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY ODELL SHEPARD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April 1917
TO
M. F. S.
And now 't was like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song
That makes the Heavens be mute.
COLERIDGE.
CONTENTS
[PROEM]
[LAUS MARIÆ]
[RECOLLECTION]
[NIGHTFALL]
[A BALLAD OF LOVE AND DEATH]
[BIRDS OF PASSAGE]
[WASTE]
[THE WATCHER IN THE SKY]
[HOUSEMATES]
[POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE]
[THE HIDDEN WEAVER]
[VANITAS]
[SPENSER'S "FAËRIE QUEENE"]
[MORNING ROAD SONG]
[EVENING ROAD SONG]
[WINDY MORNING]
[THE GRAVE OF THOREAU]
[EARTH-BORN]
["WHENCE COMETH MY HELP"]
[UNITY]
[VISTAS]
[A NUN]
[LOVE AMONG THE CLOVER]
[CERTAIN AMERICAN POETS]
[THE SINGER'S QUEST]
[DEAD MAGDALEN]
[THE ADVENTURER]
[THE GOLDFINCH]
[ORIOLES]
[BY A MOUNTAIN STREAM]
[APRIL]
[A CHAPEL BY THE SEA]
[EPHEMEROS]
[WANDERLUST]
[THE IDEAL]
[THE FIRST CHRISTIAN]