In the Morning

by Willis Boyd Allen

Emerson.

NEW YORK:

ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH AND CO.
38 West Twenty-Third Street.

1890.

Copyright, 1890,
By Willis Boyd Allen.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

To my Mother.

CONTENTS.

	Page
At Chrystemesse-Tyde	[9]
Vita Nuova	[11]
Not in the Whirlwind	[15]
Diapason	[17]
Chamounix	[20]
In the Morning	[22]
Marigold	[25]
“Seventeen, Eighteen, Maid’s A-Waiting!”	[27]
To M——, on her Birthday	[29]
“Yours Truly”	[30]
A Sermon by a Lay Preacher	[32]
In Somno Veritas	[36]
Thalatta	[38]
Unknown	[39]
My Cross	[41]
A Valentine	[42]
White Pink	[44]
Aprille	[45]
May	[46]
August	[47]
Carlo’s Christmas	[48]
The Sun was Red and Low	[50]
Two Visions	[52]
My Creed	[54]
Again?	[55]
Pansy	[56]
Golden-Rod	[57]
To Margaret, on St. Valentine’s Day	[58]
To a Very Small Pine	[59]
Mosses	[61]
The Mount of the Holy Cross	[63]
Christmas Snow	[64]
The “Creation”	[65]
The Happy Valley	[67]
Dollie’s Spring	[71]
The Third Day	[73]
The Seventh Day	[73]
Fern Life	[75]
Its Home	[75]
At School	[76]
Asleep	[76]
A Cradle-Song of the Night Wind	[77]
The Chime	[77]
The Hymn of the Northern Pines	[78]
At Last	[79]
Pauses and Clauses	[80]
To M——, with a Copy of “The Peterkin Papers”	[81]
Memorial Poem	[83]
Dandelion	[90]
Marjorie	[92]
Primrose	[94]
Content	[96]
With a Small Letter-Opener	[98]
Sea-Girls	[102]
Homeward	[104]
A Nonsense-Song for M——	[107]
Translations	[113]
In the North-land	[113]
A Lovely Flower	[113]
Eagerly I cry	[114]
He who for the first Time	[114]
Little Maid	[115]
It was as if the Heavens	[115]
In Morning-Land	[117]
Sic Itur ad Astra	[119]
The Comet, November, 1882	[121]
“His Star”	[122]
“Licht, Mehr Licht!”	[124]
Psalm LXXX	[126]
Unto the Perfect Day	[127]
Hymn for Christmas Eve	[128]
Blind	[130]
Refuge	[133]
Guido Reni’s “Ecce Homo”	[135]
On Christmas Eve	[136]
By Night	[139]
“Star of Bethlehem”	[141]
“Blessed”	[143]
A Christmas Pastoral	[146]
The Fourth Watch	[148]
“With You Alway”	[151]
December 31	[152]
In my Arm-Chair	[154]