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  POEMS

  JOHN W. DRAPER


  THE POET LORE COMPANY
  BOSTON


  Copyright, 1913, by John W. Draper

  All Rights Reserved

  THE GORHAM PRESS, BOSTON, U. S. A.




PREFACE


Most of the poems collected in this volume have already seen the light
of print in the _Colonnade_, the monthly publication of the Andiron Club
of New York University. The effort of the author has not been to write
verses especially adapted to the taste of the modern public, but rather
to create "a thing of beauty" from the theme that filled his mind at the
time. Often he has been led into somewhat bold innovations such as the
invention of the miniature ode, and the associating of an idea with a
rime-_motiv_ in the metrical short-stories. While he hopes that the new
forms will justify themselves, he realizes that after all, the poems
must stand or fall in proportion to the amount of pure artistic beauty
contained within them.




CONTENTS


                                                PAGE

  FROM A GRECIAN MYTH                              9

  "CARPE DIEM"                                    10

  THE SONG OF LORENZO                             12

  THE SONG OF WO HOU                              14

  THE AURORA                                      15

  THE WILL O' THE WISP                            16

  WHEN ON THE SHORE GRATES MY BARGE'S KEEL        18

  TO SHELLEY                                      20

  THOMAS DE