Shadows (Howe)

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SHADOWS

M. A. De Wolfe Howe

BOSTON
COPELAND AND DAY
M DCCC XCVII

COPYRIGHT 1897 BY COPELAND AND DAY

TO THE MEMORY
OF MY FATHER

JOY and love and sorrow fare
By the roadway all men share
Fleet of foot they pass us by,
Yet their image lingers nigh.

How may shadow truly stay
When the substance goes its way?
Bind it captive unto speech,
Words and shadow, each with each;
Bid them blend into a song.
So these shadows rest—how long?

CONTENTS

The Orchestra		1
For the Night		3
Interpretation		5
"Where it listeth"		7
The Lark Songs		8
Retrospect		9
The Death		10
The Horizon at Sea		12
Patri et Amico		13
The Sunrise		13
The Travellers		14
Heirs of the Years		16
A Winter Elegy		18
At the Heart		20
The Field-day		21
The Helmsman		23
The Paths		24
Goldenrod		26
A Tree		26
Symbols		28
The Sea Voice		29
The Poet's Door		30
By the Shore		31
Before the Snow		33
Song		34
Proportion		35
With a Hand-glass to a Lady		36
"When my Ship comes in"		37
The Long Shadows		38
Unconquered		39
A Treasure House		40
In an Old Book of Plays		41
To William Morris		42
Quatrains
Distinction		11
The Baconian Age		12
The First of Spring		25
"Whom the Gods love"		34
Of Elizabethan Poets		43
Weeping Willows		43
A Gala Day		44
Revelation		44
"Hoar-frost like Ashes"		44
Winter Beauty		45
Lesbia's Sparrow: from Catullus		45
The Song to the Singer		47

THIS BOOK IS PRINTED BY THE ROCKWELL
AND CHURCHILL PRESS OF BOSTON DURING
OCTOBER 1897

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

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