GLOUCESTER MOORS AND OTHER POEMS

NOTE

Several poems of this collection, including "An Ode in Time of Hesitation," "The Brute," and "On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines," have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly; "Gloucester Moors" and "Faded Pictures," in Scribner's Magazine; and "The Ride Back," under a different title in the Chap-Book. The author is indebted to the editors of these periodicals for leave to reprint.

AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION

(After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the head of the first enlisted negro regiment, the 54th Massachusetts.)

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1900.

THE QUARRY

1900.

THE DEPARTURE

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SONG-FLOWER AND POPPY

I IN NEW YORK

II AT ASSISI

A DIALOGUE IN PURGATORY

I BUONCONTE

II LA PIA

III BUONCONTE

IV LA PIA

V BUONCONTE

VI LA PIA

THE DAGUERREOTYPE

Transcriber's Note:

Spacing for contractions has been retained to match the original 1901 text.

Both "gray" and "grey" are used in this text, as per the original.