Valeria and other poems . 248 A Pastel 250 IV. Dancing Song 253 Marriage Song 255 Slumber Song ........ 257 Love Song 258 To A Child 260 Loves Power 261 Au Revoir 263 Hope 264 Unfulfilled 265 Proh Pudor ! 267 For John Paul — who sent roses on St. Valentines Day 269 To Robert Louis Stevenson 270 Outward Bound ....... 271 To Hester ...,.,.., 272 Epitaph on a Dog ...... 273 A Question . 0 » o . -274 A Sketch ..„,,„.. 275 viii PAGE. A Daughter of the Dakotas .... 277 By the Dragon River 281 A Hymn 283 SONNETS. To My Leader 287 To A Class-mate 288 Times Perversity . 289 On Reading a Modern Romance
Valeria and other poems . 248 A Pastel 250 IV. Dancing Song 253 Marriage Song 255 Slumber Song ........ 257 Love Song 258 To A Child 260 Loves Power 261 Au Revoir 263 Hope 264 Unfulfilled 265 Proh Pudor ! 267 For John Paul — who sent roses on St. Valentines Day 269 To Robert Louis Stevenson 270 Outward Bound ....... 271 To Hester ...,.,.., 272 Epitaph on a Dog ...... 273 A Question . 0 » o . -274 A Sketch ..„,,„.. 275 viii PAGE. A Daughter of the Dakotas .... 277 By the Dragon River 281 A Hymn 283 SONNETS. To My Leader 287 To A Class-mate 288 Times Perversity . 289 On Reading a Modern Romance . . .290 The Monarch. a portrait of a lion, by Rosa Bonheur, now in the Vanderbilt collection . . 291 An Invocation to Health. For one seeking her in the Adirondacks 292 To Mrs. Yale 293 To My Sister. From over the Sea .... 294 Red Clover 295 To A Beautiful Lady ...... 296 To W. S. M. With a copy of Shelley ... 297 By Lake Michigan 298 EN VOL On Reading Longfellows Lines The Arrow and the Song. .,.,.. 301. Persons of the Prologue. PRINCE ANDREA. FLORIMOND, Count of Vancua, friend to the Prince. , a traveling child-minstrel and raconteur. ^ The action of the Prologue and of the Plaj/ takesplace in one of the petty states of Italy during thefourteenth century. S5 ^ PROLOGUE. Scene.—A roadside. In the distance a palace. Enter the child-minstrel Valeria, ragged and weary, and bearing a lute. tired the day is, and my head is hot —So hot perchance the sun has sent his beamsTo rest upon it. All the birds have me your wings, my music-makers — wings !And I will seek you where the perfumes grow,In the kings garden yonder. I will seeThe great white towers you wheel about, and hearThe voice of princes and of white-skinned you not happy when you die, my birds—You who have seen such glory? 1 believeI could be joyous all my life if onceSome youth, all gold and velvet and perfume,Like him who far away in yesterdayReined in his st
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