Dream Tapestries

by Louise Morey Bowman Author of “Moonlight and Common Day”

(Ralph Hodgson)

TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE MCMXXIV

Copyright, Canada, 1924 by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto

Printed in Canada

TO ARCHIBALD ABERCROMBY BOWMAN

I wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors of Poetry (Chicago), The Bookman (New York), The Canadian Forum, and The Canadian Magazine, in permitting me to reprint “Cold Tragedy,” “Bread and Fire,” “Moment Musical,” “Blue Moon,” and [Pg 9]“Oranges.”

THE WINGÉD CLOAK

[Pg 13]

[Pg 12]

[Pg 15]

Dream Tapestries

(1) HYACINTH

[Pg 16]

(2) ENCHANTED WOOD

[Pg 19]

(3) GREEN APPLES

[Pg 23]

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[Pg 22]

[Pg 25]

Oranges

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

[Pg 31]

[Pg 33]

The Mountain That Watched

[Pg 40]

THE OLD FRUIT GARDEN

MEMORY

GRAPES

RED CURRANTS

AMBER RASPBERRIES

[Pg 43]

[Pg 45]

Songs of Women

BLUE MOON

[Pg 46]

MISTRESS MARY

[Pg 47]

DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY

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[Pg 48]

THE BIRTH-NIGHT

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[Pg 50]

A PORTRAIT

[Pg 52]

THE SONG OF THE WILLOW WAND

[Pg 54]

THE DEAD VIOLIN

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[Pg 57]

A SKETCH

[Pg 59]

[Pg 58]

[Pg 61]

Cinquains

CITY CHILD’S EASTER

[Pg 62]

DEEP SNOW

[Pg 63]

HOKKU

*“‘Hokku’ (seventeen-syllable poem) in Japanese mind might be compared with a tiny star, I dare say, carrying the whole sky at its back. It is like a slightly-open door, where you may steal into the realm of poesy. It is simply a guiding lamp. Its value depends on how much it suggests.”

(Yone Noguchi, from The Pilgrimage, published by Elkin Mathews, London, Eng.)

[Pg 64]

TWELVE HOKKU ON A CANADIAN THEME

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)[Pg 65]

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

[Pg 66]

LIFE SEQUENCE

(In The Hokku Manner)

[Pg 67]

PRAYER IN SCARLET AND WHITE PAINT

[Pg 69]

[Pg 68]

[Pg 71]

Cold Tragedy

FLORENCE

VENICE

ROME

[Pg 73]

[Pg 75]

Homespun

TWINS

(The old Housekeeper speaks)

[Pg 80]

BOB COONING

[Pg 84]

SYMPATHY

[Pg 85]

FALSE DAWN

(1)

(2)

[Pg 86]

THE WITCH

[Pg 88]

THE POST BOX

[Pg 89]

SONG

[Pg 90]

BREAD AND FIRE

[Pg 91]

“MOMENT MUSICAL”