*** Most of the poems in the following pages, with the exception of those in dialect, are now published for the first time.
CONTENTS
POEMS
[DEDICATION]
[THE COAST OF BOHEMIA]
[THE VOICE OF THE SEA]
[LONG ROLL AT NAPOLEON'S TOMB]
[THE PRINCESS' PROGRESS]
[YOUTH]
[AMERICA: GREETING]
[DAWN]
[THE POET ON AGRADINA]
[THE SHEPHERD OF THE SEAS]
[SLEEP]
[TO A LADY AT A SPRING]
[UNFORGOTTEN]
[THE OLD LION]
[THE DRAGON OF THE SEAS]
[THE BENT MONK]
[THE MESSAGE]
[THE NEEDLE'S EYE]
[THE CLOSED DOOR]
[CONVENTION]
[THE MAGDALEN]
[THE REQUIREMENT]
[THE LISTENER]
[CONTRADICTION]
[THE QUESTION]
[OUR DEAD]
[MY MOTHER]
[HER INFLUENCE]
[MATTHEW ARNOLD]
[THE STRANGER]
[LOVE]
[AN OLD REFRAIN]
[TO CLAUDIA]
[THE APPLE-TREES AT EVEN]
[MY TRUE-LOVE'S WEALTH]
[A VALENTINE]
[A PORTRAIT]
[FÉLICE]
[LOVE SONG]
[THE HARBOUR LIGHT]
[FADED SPRAY OF MIGNONETTE]
[LOST ROSES]
[DE NAME OF OLE VIRGINIA]
[THE DANCER]
[THE APRIL-FACE]
[COME BACK TO US, DAVIE]
[THE WITCH]
[HUMANITY]
[ASPIRATION]
[REALITY]
[LITTLE DOLLY DIMPLE]
[A VALENTINE]
DIALECT POEMS (FROM "BEFO' DE WAR")
[UNCLE GABE'S WHITE FOLKS]
[LITTLE JACK]
[ASHCAKE]
[ZEKYL'S INFIDELITY]
[MARSE PHIL]
[ONE MOURNER]
THE COAST OF BOHEMIA
.... "Few, few are they:
Perchance, among a thousand, one
Thou shouldest find, for whom the sun
Of Poesy makes an inner day."
—The Medea of Euripides—Way's Translation.