UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH

UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH

A BOOK OF VERSES

By GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND

THE GRAFTON PRESS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1903, by GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND

This little book is offered to AGNES its inspirer, in this the tenth year of her reign.

I desire to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Titus Munson Coan, Mr. Justo Quintéro and Mr. A. B. Myrick for assistance rendered, and to acknowledge the kind permission to reprint certain of these verses given me by The Literary Digest, Harvard Illustrated Magazine, Vogue, Middletown Forum, Red Letter, Literary Review, Boston Transcript, Town Topics, Smart Set, The New York Herald and other periodicals.

G. A. E.

CONTENTS.

THE RACE OF THE MIGHTY

The Race of the Mighty[A]

[Pg 6]

SONGS & SONNETS

[Pg 8]

Love Beatified.

Morning, Noon and Night.

Dante.

Love’s Blindness.

Hesperides.

I

[Pg 14]

II

[Pg 16]

III

[Pg 17]

IV

My Garden.

With a copy of “Sonnets of this Century.”

Erinnerungen.

The Battle Royal.

España.

Love’s Fear.

Longings.

The Eighth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.

To C. Martius Censorinus.

“Donarem pateras grataque commodus...”

Ricordatevi Di Me!

(Terza Rima.)

The Tower.

I

[Pg 29]

II

Love’s Prayer.

“Combien J’ai Douce Souvenance...!”

(After Chateaubriand)

My Little Red Devil and I.

“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.” Twelfth Night.

The College Pump.

I Disputanti.

“Quand Vous Serez Bien Vieille...”

Ronsard.

One Summer Night.

The Fens, June, 1897.

A Une Fleurette

Blest Be the Day.

The XXXIXth Sonnet of Petrarch to his Lady Laura.

He blesseth all the divers causes and effects of his love toward her.

“Mignonne Allons Voir Si La Rose....”

After Ronsard.

Religion.

The Great Woods Were Awakening.

“Les grands bois s’éveillaient; il faisait jour à peine...” Pradel.

I-N-R-I.

Fayre Robyn.[B]

Coeur de Femme.

[Pg 52]

BALLADES & RONDEAUX

Ballade of the Sick.

Three Rondeaux from Charles d’Orléans.

I. LE TEMPS A LAISSIÉ SON MANTEAU.

[Pg 57]

II. DIEU! QU’IL LA FAIT BON REGARDER!

[Pg 58]

III. LES FOURRIERS D’ESTE SONT VENUS.

The Song of the Poor.

“O Rois qui serez jugés à votre tour.” Banville.

Kyrielle.

Rondeau.

When I First Saw Edmée

(Villanelle.)

My Old Coat.

“Sois-moi fidèle, ô pauvre habit que j’aime.” Béranger.

A Pantoum.

When Doris Deigns.

THE YEAR

Spring. MAY EVENING.

Summer. AUGUST RAIN.

Autumn NOVEMBER IN CAMBRIDGE.

Winter. HAMPTON HOLIDAYS.

[Pg 76]

MORS OMNIUM VICTOR

Gunga Din in Hell.

“An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!” Kipling.

Cui Bono?

The Bride-Bed.

Dead Loves.

Death, the Friend.

La Jeune Fille.

“Elle était bien belle, le matin, sans atours!”

Lucie.

Luctus in Morte Passeris.

“Lugete, O Veneres Cupidenesque, et quantum est hominum venustiorum.” C. Valerius Catullus.

Death in December.

I.

II.

[Pg 91]

III.

The Royal Council.

(To the Peruvian Mummies in the Peabody Museum at Cambridge.)

Carmen Mortis.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] From Gaëtan de Méaulne’s “Course des Grands Masqués.” Here reprinted by courtesy of the New York “Herald.” To this translation was awarded the Herald’s First Prize of 500 francs.

[B] This North Country ballad probably dates from about 1525. It was found in a fragmentary condition in a copy of the 1684 edition of Abraham Cowley’s Poetical Works, and is here for the first time completed and made public.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.