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                       POEMS BY JULIA C. R. DORR


                   [Illustration: Julia C. R. Dorr.]

                                 POEMS

                          BY JULIA C. R. DORR

                            COMPLETE EDITION

                                NEW YORK

                        CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
                               MDCCCXCII

                    COPYRIGHT, 1879, 1885, 1892, BY
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

                             TROW DIRECTORY
                    PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
                                NEW YORK




_TO S. M. D._


   _Let us go forth and gather golden-rod!
      O love, my love, see how upon the hills,
      Where still the warm air palpitates and thrills,
    And earth lies breathless in the smile of God,
    Like plumes of serried hosts its tassels nod!
      All the green vales its golden glory fills;
      By lonely waysides and by mountain rills
    Its yellow banners flaunt above the sod.
    Perhaps the apple-blossoms were more fair;
      Perhaps, dear heart, the roses were more sweet,
        June’s dewy roses, with their buds half blown;
    Yet what care we, while tremulous and rare
      This golden sunshine falleth at our feet
        And song lives on, though summer birds have flown?
    August, 1884._

   _Let the words stand as they were writ, dear heart!
      Although no more for thee in earthly bowers
      Shall bloom the earlier or the later flowers;
    Although to-day ’tis springtime where thou art,
    While I, with Autumn, wander far apart,
      Yet, in the name of that long love of ours,
      Tested by years and tried by sun and showers,
    Let the words stand as they were writ, dear heart!_




                   CONTENTS

                                                PAGE
  DEDICATION. TO S. M. D.                         v

            EARLIER POEMS.
  THE THREE SHIPS,                                3
  MAUD AND MADGE,                                 6
  A MOTHER’S QUESTION,                            8
  OVER THE WALL,                                  9
  OUTGROWN,                                      11
  A SONG FOR TWO,                                14
  A PICTURE,                                     15
  HYMN TO LIFE,                                  16
  THE CHIMNEY SWALLOW,                           18
  HEIRSHIP,                                      20
  HILDA, SPINNING,                               22
  HEREAFTER,                                     25
  WITHOUT AND WITHIN,                            27
  VASHTI’S SCROLL,                               29
  WHAT MY FRIEND SAID TO ME,                     37
  HYMN. For the Dedication of a Cemetery,        38
  YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY,                          39
  LYRIC. For the Dedication of a Music-Hall,     41
  WHAT I LOST,                                   43
  ONCE!                                          45
  CATHARINE,                                     47
  THE NAME,                                      48
  UNDER THE PALM-TREES,                          49
  NIGHT AND MORNING,                             51
  AGNES,                                         53
  “INTO THY HANDS,”                              55
  IDLE WORDS,                                    56
  THE SPARROW TO THE SKYLARK,                    58
  THE BELL OF ST. PAUL’S,                        60
  DECEMBER 26, 1910.
     A Ballad of Major Anderson,                 62
  FROM BATON ROUGE,                              66
  IN THE WILDERNESS,                             68
  CHARLEY OF MALVERN HILL,                       70
  SUPPLICAMUS,                                   73
  THE LAST OF SIX,                               75
  THE DRUMMER BOY’S BURIAL,                      79
  EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE,               82
  OUR FLAGS AT THE CAPITOL,                      84
  MY MOCKING-BIRD,                               86
  COMING HOME,                                   88
  WAKENING EARLY,                                90
  BLEST,                                         92
  HELEN,                                         94

            “PRO PATRIA.”
  THE DEAD CENTURY,                              97
  THE RIVER OTTER,                              106
  PAST AND PRESENT,                             109
  VERMONT,                                      114
  GETTYSBURG. 1863-1889.                        126
  “NO MORE THE THUNDER OF CANNON,”              133
  GRANT,                                        135

        FRIAR ANSELMO, AND OTHER POEMS.
  FRIAR ANSELMO,                                141
  THE KING’S ROSEBUD,                           146
  SOMEWHERE,                                    147
  PERADVENTURE,                                 148
  RENA. A Legend of Brussels,                   150
  A SECRET,                                     159
  THIS DAY,                                     161
  “CHRISTUS!”                                   163
  THE KISS,                                     167
  WHAT SHE THOUGHT,                             168
  WHAT NEED?                                    170
  TWO,                                          172
  UNANSWERED,                                   175
  THE CLAY TO THE ROSE,                         178
  AT THE LAST,                                  180
  TO THE “BOUQUET CLUB,”                        181
  EVENTIDE,                                     182
  MY LOVERS,                                    184
  THE LEGEND OF THE ORGAN-BUILDER,              186
  BUTTERFLY AND BABY BLUE,                      190
  KING IVAN’S OATH,                             192
  AT DAWN,                                      199
  IN MEMORIAM,                                  201
  WEAVING THE WEB,                              203
  THE “CHRISTUS” OF OBERAMMERGAU,               205
  RABBI BENAIAH,                                206
  A CHILD’S THOUGHT,                            209
  “GOD KNOWS,”                                  211
  THE MOUNTAIN ROAD,                            213
  ENTERING IN,                                  215
  A FLOWER FOR THE DEAD,                        217
  THOU KNOWEST,                                 219
  WINTER,                                       220
  FIVE,                                         221
  UNSOLVED,                                     223
  QUIETNESS,                                    226
  THE DIFFERENCE,                               227
  MY BIRTHDAY,                                  229
  A RED ROSE,                                   231
  TWENTY-ONE,                                   233
  SINGING IN THE DARK,                          235
  THOMAS MOORE,                                 236
  A LAST WORD,                                  238

            SONNETS.
  THE SONNET. I. To a Critic.                   241
   "    "    II. To a Poet.                     241
  AT REST,                                      243
  TOO WIDE!                                     244
  MERCÉDÈS,                                     245
  GRASS-GROWN,                                  246
  TO ZÜLMA, I., II.,                            247
  SLEEP,                                        249
  IN KING’S CHAPEL,                             250
  TO-DAY,                                       251
  F. A. F.,                                     252
  DAY AND NIGHT, I., II.,                       253
  THY NAME,                                     255
  RESURGAMUS,                                   256
  AT THE TOMB,                                  257
  THREE DAYS, I., II., III.,                    258
  DARKNESS,                                     260
  SILENCE,                                      261
  SANCTIFIED,                                   262
  A MESSAGE,                                    263
  WHEN LESSER LOVES,                            264
  GEORGE ELIOT,                                 265
  KNOWING,                                      266
  A THOUGHT,                                    267
  TO-MORROW, I., II.,                           268
  “O EARTH! ART THOU NOT WEARY?”                270
  ALEXANDER,                                    271
  THE PLACE, I., II., III.,                     272
  TO A GODDESS,                                 274
  O. W. H.,                                     275
  GIFTS FOR THE KING,                           276
  RECOGNITION, I., II.,                         277
  SHAKESPEARE,                                  279
  TO E. C. S.,                                  280
  A CHRISTMAS SONNET,                           281
  POVERTY,                                      282
  SURPRISES, I., II.,                           283
  C. H. R.,                                     285
  A NEW BEATITUDE,                              286
  COMPENSATION, I., II.,                        287
  QUESTIONINGS,                                 289
  REMEMBRANCE