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                            THE MAGIC HOUSE




                            THE MAGIC HOUSE

                            AND OTHER POEMS

                                  BY

                         DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT

                       [Illustration: colophon]

                            METHUEN AND CO.
                         18 BURY STREET, W.C.
                                LONDON
                                 1893


        Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty




                                  TO

                               MY MOTHER




CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE

A LITTLE SONG

The sunset in the rosy west,                                           1

THE HILL PATH

Are the little breezes blind,                                          2

THE VOICE AND THE DUSK

The slender moon and one pale star,                                    5

FOR REMEMBRANCE

It would be sweet to think when we are old,                            7

THE MESSAGE

Wind of the gentle summer night,                                       8

THE SILENCE OF LOVE

My heart would need the earth,                                        10

AN IMPROMPTU

The stars are in the ebon sky,                                        11

FROM THE FARM ON THE HILL

The night wind moves the gloom,                                       13

AT SCARBORO’ BEACH

The wave is over the foaming reef,                                    15

THE FIFTEENTH OF APRIL

Pallid saffron glows the broken stubble,                              17

IN AN OLD QUARRY

Above the lifeless pools the mist films swim,                         19

TO WINTER

Come, O thou conqueror of the flying year,                            20

TO WINTER

Come, O thou season of intense repose,                                21

THE IDEAL

Let your soul grow a thing apart,                                     22

A SUMMER STORM

Last night a storm fell on the world,                                 23

LIFE AND DEATH

I thought of death beside the lonely sea,                             25

IN THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD

This is the acre of unfathomed rest,                                  26

SONG

I have done,                                                          32

THE MAGIC HOUSE

In her chamber, wheresoe’er,                                          33

IN THE HOUSE OF DREAMS

The lady Lillian knelt upon the sward,                                36

THE RIVER TOWN

There’s a town where shadows run,                                     38

OFF THE ISLE AUX COUDRES

The moon, Capella, and the Pleiades,                                  40

AT LES EBOULEMENTS

The bay is set with ashy sails,                                       41

ABOVE ST. IRÉNÉE

I rested on the breezy height,                                        42

WRITTEN IN A. LAMPMAN’S POEMS

When April moved in maiden guise,                                     45

OFF RIVIÈRE DU LOUP

O ship incoming from the sea,                                         48

AT THE CEDARS

You had two girls--Baptiste--                                         50

THE END OF THE DAY

I hear the bells at eventide,                                         54

THE REED-PLAYER

By a dim shore where water darkening,                                 56

A FLOCK OF SHEEP

Over the field the bright air clings and tingles,                     58

A PORTRAIT

All her hair is softly set,                                           60

AT THE LATTICE

Good-night, Marie, I kiss thine eyes,                                 63

THE FIRST SNOW

The field pools gathered into frosted lace,                           64

IN NOVEMBER

The ruddy sunset lies,                                                66

THE SLEEPER

Touched with some divine repose,                                      68

A NIGHT IN JUNE

The world is heated seven times,                                      70

MEMORY

I see a schooner in the bay,                                          72

YOUTH AND TIME

Move not so lightly, Time, away,                                      73

A MEMORY OF THE ‘INFERNO’

An hour before the dawn I dreamed of you,                             74

LA BELLE FERONIÈRE,

I never trod where Leonardo was,                                      75

A NOVEMBER DAY

There are no clouds above the world,                                  76

OTTAWA

City about whose brow the north winds blow,                           78

SONG

Here’s the last rose,                                                 79

NIGHT AND THE PINES

Here in the pine shade is the nest of night,                          80

A NIGHT IN MARCH

At eve the fiery sun went forth,                                      82

SEPTEMBER

The morns are grey with haze and faintly cold,                        86

BY THE WILLOW SPRING

Come hither, Care, and look on this fair place,                       87




A LITTLE SONG


    The sunset in the rosy west
      Burned soft and high;
    A shore-lark fell like a stone to his nest
      In the waving rye.

    A wind came over the garden beds
      From the dreamy lawn,
    The <DW29>s nodded their purple heads,
      The poppies began to yawn.

   