I am his friend, nor ever was his foe? Whose the sweet season, if it be not mine? Mine, not the bobolinks, that song divine, Chasing the shadows o'er the flying wheat! 'Tis a dead voice, not his, that sounds so sweet. Whose passionate heart burns in this flaming rose But his, whose passionate heart long since lay still? Whose wan hope pales this snowlike lily tall, Beside the garden wall, But his whose radiant eyes and lily grace Sleep in the grave that crowns yon tufted hill ? All hope, all memory, Have their deep springs in me; And love, that else might fade, By me immortal made, www I saw her scan again the scroll, - Name after name, with quick reply, "George "Dick 1 Bookra To-morrow. III SECOND LYRICAL PERIOD (IN THREE DIVISIONS) FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE HUNDREDTE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR 1861-1889 Mitchell (S. Weir's) first book of verse," The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems" (Boston) did not appear until 1882 66 Hayne (Paul H.'s) " Poems": Boston, 1854 66 Winter's "Poems": Boston, 1854; The Queen's Domain": Boston, 1858 Mrs. Moulton's "This, That, and the Other": Boston, 1854; "Poems”: Boston, 1877 Aldrich's" The Bells" : New York, 1854; “The Ballad of Babie Bell”: N. Y. Journal of Commerce, 1855; "The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems": New York, 1858 Stedman's "Poems Lyrical and Idyllic": New York, 1860 Piatt's and Howells's "Poems of Two Friends": Columbus, 1859 Mr. and Mrs. Piatt's "The Nests at Washington": New York, 1863 Mrs. Spofford's “ Amber Gods,” prose: Boston, 1863; “Poems”: Boston, 1881 'Harte's "Luck of Roaring Camp": Overland Monthly, 1868; "Poems": Boston, 1870 Hay's "Pike County Ballads": Boston, 1871 Mrs. Jackson's " Verses by H. H.": Boston, 1873 Lanier's "Corn": Lippincott's, 1874; "Centennial Cantata," 1876 2 Miss Lazarus's "Poems and Translations": New York, 1866; Sill's " The Hermitage": New York, 1867 O'Reilly's "Songs from the Southern Seas": Boston, 1873 Gilder's" The New Day": New York, 1875 “Aametus and Other Poems": Miss Coolbrith's "A Perfect Day, and Other Poems": San Francisco, 1881 Mrs. E. M. (Hutchinson) Cortissoz's “Songs and Lyrics": Boston, 1881 Riley's "The Old Swimmin'-Hole, and 'Leven More Poems": Indianapolis, 1883 Thompson's "Songs of Fair Weather": Boston, 1883 Miss Thomas's "A New Year's Masque": Boston, 1884 Bates's "Berries of the Brier": Boston, 1886 Field's "Culture's Garland": Boston, 1887; "A Little Book of Western Verse": Chicago, 1889 Tabb's "Poems": Baltimore, 1882; "Poems": Boston, 1894 Markham's" The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems": New York, 1899 3 Woodberry's "The North Shore Watch, a Threnody" (privately printed): Cambridge, 1883; "The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems": Boston, 1890 Bunner's" Airs from Arcady": New York, 1884 Miss Guiney's "Songs at the Start": Boston, 1884 Miss Cone's" Oberon and Puck": New York, 1885 Sherman's "Madrigals and Catches": New York, 1887 Miss Reese's "A Branch of May": Baltimore, 1887; "A Handful of Lavender": Boston, 1891 Miss Monroe's "Valeria, and Other Poems": Chicago, 1891 ; "Commemoration Ode": deito ered, Chicago, 1892, published, Chicago, 1893 Garland's "Prairie Songs": Cambridge and Chicago, 1893 Burton's "Dumb in June": Boston, 1895 The dates given are those of copyright entry SECOND LYRICAL PERIOD (IN THREE DIVISIONS) DIVISION I (MITCHELL, TIMROD, HAYNE, MRS. JACKSON, MISS DICKINSON, STEDMAN, THE PIATTS MRS. SPOFFORD, MRS. MOULTON, WINTER, ALDRICH, Howells, HAY, HARte, sill, MILLER, LANIER, AND OTHERS) Silas Weir Mitchell1 ON A BOY'S FIRST READING WHEN youth was lord of my unchallenged And time seemed but the vassal of my will, And I remember how one galleon rare So the Great Harry with high trumpetings, And under-flown the Lily standard trails, The waves she rode are strewn with silent Her proud sea-comrades once; but ever yet Comes time-defying laughter from her decks, Where stands the lion-lord Plantagenet, Large-hearted, merry, king of court and camp. Sail on sail on! The fatal blasts of time That spared so few, shall thee with joy escort; 1 See BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, p. 810. |