THE BRIGHT DOOM

A BOOK OF POEMS BY JOHN HALL WHEELOCK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 1927 Copyright, 1927, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Printed in the United States of America TO MY MOTHER

Thanks are due to the editors of The Bookman, The Boston Transcript, The Century Magazine, College Humor, The Forum, Harper’s Magazine, The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, New Orleans Life, The North American Review, The Outlook, Poetry, The Saturday Review of Literature, Scribner’s Magazine, Southwest Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and other publications, for their permission to reprint certain of the following poems.