CONTENTS
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HYMN TO THE DEAD
CREATION
THE WORLD'S DESIRE
TYRANNOSAURUS: OR BURNING LETTERS
LORD BYRON TO DOCTOR POLIDORI
THE FOLDING MIRROR
A WOMAN OF FORTY
WILD BIRDS
A LADY
THE NEGRO WARD
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE
FOR A PLAY
CHICAGO
THE WEDDING FEAST
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
THE DREAM OF TASSO
THE CHRISTIAN STATESMAN
THE LAMENT OF SOPHONIA
AT DECAPOLIS Mark, Chap. V I THE ACCUSATION I am a farmer and
WINGED VICTORY
OH YOU SABBATARIANS!
PALLAS ATHENE
AT SAGAMORE HILL
TO ROBERT NICHOLS
BONNYBELL: THE BUTTERFLY
HYMN TO AGNI
EPITAPH FOR US
BOTTICELLI TO SIMONETTA
FLOWER IN THE GARDEN
INEXORABLE DEITIES
ARIELLE
SOUNDS OUT OF SORROW
MOURNIN' FOR RELIGION
THYAMIS
I SHALL GO DOWN INTO THIS LAND
SPRING LAKE
THE BARBER OF SEPO
THEY'D NEVER KNOW ME NOW
NEL MEZZO DEL CAMMIN
THE OAK TREE
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
WASHINGTON HOSPITAL
NEITHER FAITH NOR BEAUTY CAN REMAIN
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1919
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Copyright, 1919
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published, October, 1919
Certain of these poems first appeared in Reedy's Mirror,
Poetry, The Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review and The
New York Sun.
