CONTENTS
THE LOST CHIMES
THE SIBYL'S PROPHECY
ELEGIACS IN MEMORIAM Judge Gorham Powers, Died April 15, 1915. I
THE FAREWELL In Memoriam Frank J. Cressy, M. D.
BABY BRUCE
A FUNERAL OF A CHILD ON CHRISTMAS EVE
THE WREATH
LINES WRITTEN ON RECEIVING NEWS OF MY FATHER'S DEATH
THE GREAT STRIFE WAR AND PROVIDENCE
THE YELLOW PERIL
THE VETERAN
DIES IRAE
A MAY MORNING, 1917
MY SAILOR-LAD'S LETTER
THE BUGLE CALL
FLAG-RAISING
THE RED CROSS ( In hoc signo vinces. )
THE DOLEFUL MOTHER OF MANKIND
MIDWINTER'S DREAM -1918
BY THE WAYSIDE THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
MOUNT SHASTA
VERSES Written while sailing from Vancouver to Seattle.
TO AN UNKNOWN MUSICIAN
SEATTLE (A meditation)
GJOA Capt. Amundsen's Ship in San Francisco
THE GRAVE IN THE DESERT
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE PROPHET
CHICAGO
THE ISLE OF DREAMS
LAKE HARRIET
THE CUBIST
THE HANDCLASP
A COUNTRY STORE
SUNSETS ON CLEARWATER LAKE, MINN. (To Mrs. A. W. W.) First
TWILIGHT
APRIL
I'M A PART OF THE WIND AND THE CURLING WAVE
THE CHIPPING SPARROW
IN THE LILAC-BLOSSOM-TIME
THE RUNNEL'S DITTY
THE CHILD AND THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN
THE BIRTHDAY CAKE
MY GOLDFISH
THE FIDDLER'S CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Founded on a Norwegian Folk-lore.)
CRUEL KITTY
TO
FAREWELL
ALONE
LINES ON AN OLD SONGBOOK
PEARLS AND PALACES
VICTOR HUGO
TO A FRIEND
TO A "KNOCKER"
A VISION
SIGNS CELESTIAL
DESPAIR
HOPE
BE STILL MY SOUL, BE STILL
AWAKE
THE AWAKENING
ASTERS
BUTTERFLIES
THE ROSEBUSH
TWO ASPECTS
THE GREAT "I AM"
THE DEATH CHANT
THE LETTER
GOD'S TRUTH-TELLER
THE DEATH OF THE POET
IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT
THE CHRISTMAS CACTUS
CHRISTMAS NIGHT
A NEW YEAR'S INVOCATION, 1918
EASTER
SONNETS LUX EX ORIENTE (Inscription on Haskal hall, University of Chicago)
ON THE STATUE OF VOLTAIRE (In the Art Institute, Chicago)
A VENETIAN WELL-HEAD (XV CENTURY) (In the Gothic room of the Minneapolis Art Institute)
THE PROSPECT
THE HARVEST
THE REWARD OF EPIMENIDES
THE LOST CHIMES
And Other Poems
GUSTAV MELBY
BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
Copyright, 1918, by Gustav Melby
All Rights Reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
To the Memory of My Friend
Dr. Frank J. Cressy
Whose Skill as a Physician Saved My
Child’s Life, and Whose Kindness as
a Friend Lent Inspiration to Life’s
Pursuits
