POEMS

BY
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS

BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
211 TREMONT STREET
MDCCCLXXXVI

Copyright, 1873, by James R. Osgood and Company
and 1885, By William D. Howells.

All rights reserved.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
The Pilot’s Story[3]
Forlorn[13]
Pleasure-Pain[19]
In August[26]
The Empty House[27]
Bubbles[29]
Lost Beliefs[31]
Louis Lebeau’s Conversion[32]
Caprice[49]
Sweet Clover[51]
The Royal Portraits[54]
The Faithful of the Gonzaga[59]
The First Cricket[77]
The Mulberries[79]
Before the Gate[84]
Clement[86]
By the Sea[97]
Saint Christopher[98]
Elegy on John Butler Howells[100]
Thanksgiving[105]
A Springtime[106]
In Earliest Spring[108]
The Bobolinks are Singing[110]
Prelude[113]
The Movers[115]
Through the Meadow[120]
Gone[122]
The Sarcastic Fair[123]
Rapture[124]
Dead[125]
The Doubt[127]
The Thorn[129]
The Mysteries[130]
The Battle in the Clouds[131]
For One of the Killed[133]
The Two Wives[134]
Bereaved[136]
The Snow-Birds[138]
Vagary[139]
Feuerbilder[141]
Avery[143]
Bopeep: A Pastoral[148]
While she sang[160]
A Poet[163]
Convention[164]
The Poet Friends[165]
No Love Lost[166]
The Song the Oriole sings[199]
Pordenone[201]
The Long Days[223]