oe,
With eyes of Jael watching till he sleep.

TEMPEST.

With helms of lightning, glittering in the skies,
On steeds of thunder, cloudy form on form,
Terrific beauty in their hair and eyes,
Behold the wild Valkyries of the storm.

THE LOCUST BLOSSOM.

The spirit Spring, in rainy raiment, met
The spirit Summer for a moonlit hour:
Sweet from their greeting kisses, warm and wet,
Earth shaped the fragrant purity of this flower.

MELANCHOLY.

With shadowy immortelles of memory
About her brow, she sits with eyes that look
Upon the stream of Lethe wearily,
In hesitant hands Death's partly-opened book.

CONTENT.

Among the meadows of Life's sad unease--
In labor still renewing her soul's youth--
With trust, for patience, and with love, for peace,
Singing she goes with the calm face of Ruth.

LIFE AND DEATH.

Of our own selves God makes a glass, wherein
Two shadows image them as might a breath:
And one is Life, whose other name is Sin;
And one is Love, whose other name is Death.

SORROW.

Death takes her hand and leads her through the waste
Of her own soul, wherein she hears the voice
Of lost Love's tears, and, famishing, can but taste
The dead-sea fruit of Life's remembered joys.

A LAST WORD.

Not for thyself, but for the sake of Song,
Strive to succeed as others have, who gave
Their lives unto her; shaping sure and strong
Her lovely limbs that made them god and slave.

Not for thyself, but for the sake of Art,
Strive to advance beyond the others' best;
Winning a deeper secret from her heart
To hang it moonlike 'mid the starry rest.

_For permission to reprint a number of the poems included in this
volume, thanks are due to The Chap-Book, Cosmopolitan, Lippincott's,
Century, New England, Atlantic, and Harper's._

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