The Five Books of Youth

by Robert Hillyer

Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading

Team.

THE FIVE BOOKS OF YOUTH

BY ROBERT HILLYER

AUTHOR OF "SONNETS AND OTHER LYRICS"

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Acknowledgments are due to the editors of THE NATION,
THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE DIAL, THE SONNET, THE LYRIC, ART AND
LIFE, and CONTEMPORARY VERSE, for permission to reprint
poems originally published by them.

CONTENTS

BOOK I A MISCELLANY

I La Mare des Fees
II Prothalamion
III Montmartre
IV A Letter
V Esther Dancing
VI Hunters
VII A Wreck
VIII Grave Stones in a Front Yard
IX Vigil
X When the Door was Open
XI The Maker Rests
XII The Pilgrimage
XIII Epilogue
XIV Thermopylae