. Elysian fields, and other stuff. /o:^^-^ ^ ^/h^ . ^-^ .n\ 0^ « V I 8 ^ > ^V cO .^ ^. \ * 0 v-: .0~ •4 %1 ^.\^%^<^ anb Songs of Seventy—First Series (^f^0ian ^u^^ (XMh <Oi^tt ^^uff BY ALMONT BARNES HAMILTON ADAMS, Publisher WASHINGTON M C M V UKRARY of )0N{3K?ISS[(wo Copies i<et«voti ^ AUG 8 1905 j oupy 8. I Copyright, 1905, by Almont Barnes ZU JSorb (^affttttore (ptcee THE FRIEDENWALD COMPANYBALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. / ^^ Confenfe CONFESSION 5 DEVOIR—TO HER 8 ELYSIAN FIELDS: Elysian Fields lo Anchyses to Venus 15 Loves Ancient Gifts 17 Infelix in Amore 20 Our Lady of Dreams 24 Hom
. Elysian fields, and other stuff. /o:^^-^ ^ ^/h^ . ^-^ .n\ 0^ « V I 8 ^ > ^V cO .^ ^. \ * 0 v-: .0~ •4 %1 ^.\^%^<^ anb Songs of Seventy—First Series (^f^0ian ^u^^ (XMh <Oi^tt ^^uff BY ALMONT BARNES HAMILTON ADAMS, Publisher WASHINGTON M C M V UKRARY of )0N{3K?ISS[(wo Copies i<et«voti ^ AUG 8 1905 j oupy 8. I Copyright, 1905, by Almont Barnes ZU JSorb (^affttttore (ptcee THE FRIEDENWALD COMPANYBALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. / ^^ Confenfe CONFESSION 5 DEVOIR—TO HER 8 ELYSIAN FIELDS: Elysian Fields lo Anchyses to Venus 15 Loves Ancient Gifts 17 Infelix in Amore 20 Our Lady of Dreams 24 Home-Made Ghosts 26 SUMMER SHIMMER: Magnolia Grandiflora 28 Cloistral with Nature 31 Whippoorwill 35 Co Bossie 37 BUGLES: The Soldiers Wife—1861 41 Before the Battle—1863 43 Arlington—1878 47 Memorial Song—1905 50 The Flag 52 [3] CONTENTS SOMETHING ELSE: The Ungained Increment 55 Trinity of Home 59 A Voiceless Cry 61 Good-Bye-Land 64 Lips on Lips 66 The Undertone 68 AFTER ALL: Robins 71 NOTE 73 [4] £onfe00ton. HIS thing has been going onfor a long time, come tothink of it. First, in child-hood — needless alexan-drines, as Pope said; atleast it was near Alexandria, and it mighthave been stopped then. But from theold English Reader, administered at school,the writers mind became tainted withrhyme, and before he was fifteen he wasno longer immune. Yet there succeededmany happy days of prosy sanity; butbefore the time of coming of age thereoccurred the practically fatal Anchyses toVenus recorded herein. Inexperiencedand unguided, what better could have beenexpected of ardent youth? Still, at onetime a radical cure seemed imminent—inTupper. [5] CONFESSION But the insidious appetite for rhymingcarries its own fatality. Even those whotake the new^spaper cure may relapse; forexasperating proofs and bad print are notspecifics. The magazines are more reliablein their discouragement of the poetic habit,for these philanthropic institutions seemnobly to select their own ho
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