The author desires to thank the editors of Appleton’s Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Smart Set, and the other publications in which the verses in this collection originally appeared, for their kind permission to reprint.

This Edition of The Rose-Jar Printed by George William Browning at Clinton New York during the Summer of 1906 consists of Three Hundred copies on Deckle-Edged Paper, with Twelve additional copies on Imperial Japan Vellum (Insetsu Kioku).

NUMBER 258

To the Memory of My Mother

CONTENTS

  1. [As in a Rose-Jar] [11]
  2. [The Island] [12]
  3. [You and I] [13]
  4. [A Ballade of Old Romance] [14]
  5. [A Voice from the Far Away] [16]
  6. [April] [17]
  7. [A Yesterday] [18]
  8. [Violets] [19]
  9. [A Song of Life] [20]
  10. [As a Still Brook] [21]
  11. [At the Window] [22]
  12. [A Sea Spell] [23]
  13. [The Silent Country] [24]
  14. [The Sport of a God] [25]
  15. [Remembrance] [26]
  16. [In Days of Old] [27]
  17. [We Once Built a House o’ Dreams] [28]
  18. [A Song of the Way] [29]
  19. [In Trinity Church-Yard at Sunset] [30]
  20. [Where Cross-Roads Part] [31]
  21. [Saida] [32]
  22. [In Arcady] [33]
  23. [The Summer Rain] [34]
  24. [Impression] [35]
  25. [Derelicts] [36]
  26. [The End of the Day] [38]
  27. [Tristesse] [39]
  28. [Interlude] [40]
  29. [To You, Dear Heart] [41]
  30. [Twilight] [42]
  31. [The Poet] [43]
  32. [The Hunchback] [44]
  33. [The Little Ghosts] [45]
  34. [I Know a Quiet Vale] [46]
  35. [Song] [47]
  36. [Immutability] [48]
  37. [In the Fall o’ Year] [49]
  38. [Love’s Song] [50]
  39. [The Golden Hour] [51]
  40. [The Dream-Way] [52]
  41. [The Spirit of Autumn] [53]
  42. [On the Long Road] [54]
  43. [A Postlude] [55]
  44. [An Old Song] [56]
  45. [Old Roses] [57]

The Rose-Jar

As in a Rose-Jar

As in a rose-jar filled with petals sweet

Blown long ago in some old garden place,