FLASHLIGHTS
BY MARY ALDIS AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCESS JACK” AND “PLAYS FOR SMALL STAGES”
NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1916, by Mary Aldis
The author desires to make acknowledgement for permission to reprint to Poetry, The Little Review, The Masses, Others, The Trimmed Lamp, The Survey, The Los Angeles Graphic, The Chicago Herald and The Chicago Evening Post.
ICITY SKETCHES
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[Pg 3]
THE BARBER SHOP
[Pg 8]
LOVE IN THE LOOP
[Pg 12]
CONVERSE
[Pg 16]
WINDOW-WISHING
[Pg 20]
A LITTLE OLD WOMAN
[Pg 25]
[Pg 27]
II
DESIGN
[Pg 28]
THE WORLD CRY
BROWN SANDS
SEEKING
[Pg 31]
MAY 11, 1915
[Pg 32]
WATCHERS
[Pg 35]
TO MAURICE BROWNE
(On his creation of Capulchard in Cloyd Head’s “Grotesques.”)
[Pg 37]
PRAYERS
[Pg 39]
MY BOAT AND I
[Pg 42]
PICTURES
[Pg 44]
FORWARD, SINGING!
[Pg 46]
BARBERRIES
[Pg 48]
TWO PATHS
[Pg 50]
WHEN YOU COME
(“There was a girl with him for a time. She took him to her room when he was desolate and warmed him and took care of him. One day he could not find her. For many weeks he walked constantly in that locality in search of her.”—From Life of Francis Thompson.)
[Pg 52]
REST
[Pg 54]
MORITURUS TE SALUTO
[Pg 56]
FLASHLIGHTS
[Pg 63]
FLOODGATES
The Man
The Woman
The Man
[Pg 69]
CHLOROFORM
(Written in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke.)
[Pg 75]
THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY
[Pg 79]
IIISTORIES IN METRE
[Pg 81]
THE PRISONER
[Pg 86]
ELLIE
[Pg 92]
THE PARK BENCH
A Stranger, a Man, a Woman
The Stranger
The Man
The Stranger
The Woman
[Pg 93]
The Man
The Stranger
The Woman
The Stranger
The Man
The Stranger
The Woman
The Stranger
The Woman
The Stranger
[Pg 95]
The Woman
The Stranger
The Woman
The Stranger
The Woman
The Man
[Pg 98]
The Woman
The Man
The Stranger
The Man
The Stranger
[Pg 99]
The Man
The Woman
The Stranger
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
[Pg 103]
The Man
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
The Man
[Pg 104]
The Woman
The Man
The Woman
The Man
[Pg 105]
THE SISTERS
[Pg 110]
REASON
[Pg 115]
HER SECRET
[Pg 117]
A LITTLE GIRL
I
[Pg 118]
II
[Pg 119]
III
[Pg 120]
IV
[Pg 121]
V
[Pg 122]
VI
[Pg 124]
VII
[Pg 125]
VIII
[Pg 126]
IX
[Pg 127]
X
[Pg 128]
XI
[Pg 129]
XII
[Pg 130]
XIII
[Pg 131]
XIV
THE END
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