LONDON ARTHUR F. BIRD MCMXXV
Reading edition
[from an edition:] Printed by The Scribner Press, New York, U.S.A.
Dedicated in Friendship to KATRINA TRASK AND JOHN HUSTON FINLEY
CONTENTS
SONGS OUT OF DOORS EARLY VERSES
The After-Echo 3
Dulciora 4
Three Alpine Sonnets 6
Matins 9
The Parting and the Coming Guest 10
If All the Skies 12
Wings of a Dove 13
The Fall of the Leaves 14
A Snow-Song 16
Roslin and Hawthornden 17
SONGS OUT OF DOORS LATER POEMS
When Tulips Bloom 21
The Whip-Poor-Will 24
The Lily of Yorrow 27
The Veery 29
The Song-Sparrow 31
The Maryland Yellow-Throat 33
A November Daisy 35
The Angler's Reveille 37
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet 41
School 45
Indian Summer 46
Spring in the North 47
Spring in the South 51
A Noon Song 53
Light Between the Trees 55
The Hermit Thrush 57
Turn o' the Tide 58
Sierra Madre 59
The Grand Canyon 61
The Heavenly Hills of Holland 67
Flood-Tide of Flowers 69
God of the Open Air 71
NARRATIVE POEMS
The Toiling of Felix 81
Vera 101
Another Chance 120
A Legend of Service 125
The White Bees 129
New Year's Eve 137
The Vain King 142
The Foolish Fir-Tree 147
“Gran' Boule” 151
Heroes of the “Titanic” 157
The Standard-Bearer 158
The Proud Lady 159
LABOUR AND ROMANCE
A Mile with Me 165
The Three Best Things 166
Reliance 169
Doors of Daring 170
The Child in the Garden 171
Love's Reason 172
The Echo in the Heart 173
“Undine” 174
“Rencontre” 175
Love in a Look 177
My April Lady 178
A Lover's Envy 179
Fire-Fly City 180
The Gentle Traveller 182
Nepenthe 183
Day and Night 185
Hesper 186
Arrival 187
Departure 188
The Black Birds 189
Without Disguise 192
An Hour 193
“Rappelle-Toi” 194
Love's Nearness 196
Two Songs of Heine 197
Eight Echoes from the Poems of Auguste Angellier 198
Rappel d'Amour 209
The River of Dreams 210
HEARTH AND ALTAR
A Home Song 217
“Little Boatie” 218
A Mother's Birthday 220
Transformation 222
Rendezvous 223
Gratitude 224
Peace 225
Santa Christina 226
The Bargain 229
To the Child Jesus 230
Bitter-Sweet 231
Hymn of Joy 232
Song of a Pilgrim-Soul 234
Ode to Peace 235
Three Prayers for Sleep and Waking 239
Portrait and Reality 242
The Wind of Sorrow 243
Hide and Seek 244
Autumn in the Garden 246
The Message 248
Dulcis Memoria 249
The Window 251
Christmas Tears 253
Dorothea, 1888-1912 255
EPIGRAMS, GREETINGS, AND INSCRIPTIONS
For Katrina's Sun-Dial 259
For Katrina's Window 260
For the Friends at Hurstmont 261
The Sun-Dial at Morven 263
The Sun-Dial at Wells College 263
To Mark Twain 264
Stars and the Soul 266
To Julia Marlowe 268
To Joseph Jefferson 268
The Mocking-Bird 269
The Empty Quatrain 269
Pan Learns Music 270
The Shepherd of Nymphs 270
Echoes from the Greek Anthology 271
One World 274
Joy and Duty 274
The Prison and the Angel 275
The Way 275
Love and Light 276
Facta non Verba 276
Four Things 277
The Great River 277
Inscription for a Tomb in England 278
The Talisman 279
Thorn and Rose 280
“The Signs” 281
PRO PATRIA
Patria 287
America 288
The Ancestral Dwellings 289
Hudson's Last Voyage 292
Sea-Gulls of Manhattan 299
A Ballad of Claremont Hill 301
Urbs Coronata 304
Mercy for Armenia 306
Sicily, December, 1908 308
“Come Back Again, Jeanne d'Arc” 309
National Monuments 311
The Monument of Francis Makemie 312
The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens 313
“America for Me” 314
The Builders 316
Spirit of the Everlasting Boy 330
Texas 337
Who Follow the Flag 352
Stain not the Sky 362
Peace-Hymn of the Republic 364
THE RED FLOWER AND GOLDEN STARS
The Red Flower 369
A Scrap of Paper 371
Stand Fast 372
Lights Out 374
Remarks About Kings 376
Might and Right 377
The Price of Peace 377
Storm-Music 378
The Bells of Malines 381
Jeanne d'Arc Returns 384
The Name of France 385
America's Prosperity 387
The Glory of Ships 388
Mare Liberum 391
“Liberty Enlightening the World” 393
The Oxford Thrushes 395
Homeward Bound 397
The Winds of War-News 399
Righteous Wrath 400
The Peaceful Warrior 401
From Glory Unto Glory 402
Britain, France, America 404
The Red Cross 405
Easter Road 406
America's Welcome Home 408
The Surrender of the German Fleet 410
Golden Stars 412
In the Blue Heaven 417
A Shrine in the Pantheon 418
IN PRAISE OF POETS
Mother Earth 421
Milton 423
Wordsworth 425
Keats 426
Shelley 427
Robert Browning 428
Tennyson 429
“In Memoriam” 430
Victor Hugo 431
Longfellow 434
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 437
Edmund Clarence Stedman 439
To James Whitcomb Riley 441
Richard Watson Gilder 442
The Valley of Vain Verses 443
MUSIC
Music 447
Master of Music 464
The Pipes o' Pan 466
To a Young Girl Singing 467
The Old Flute 468
The First Bird o' Spring 470
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
The House of Rimmon 473
Dramatis Personæ 474
APPENDIX CARMINA FESTIVA
The Little-Neck Clam 551
A Fairy Tale 555
The Ballad of the Solemn Ass 558
A Ballad of Santa Claus 562
Ars Agricolaris 565
Angler's Fireside Song 570
How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim 571
A Bunch of Trout-Flies 574
Index of First Lines 577