HERVEY ALLEN
NEW HAVEN * YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON * HUMPHREY MILFORD * OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXXI
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For permission to reprint poems appearing in this volume,thanks are due to the editors of The North AmericanReview, The New Republic, Contemporary Verse, Life, La France,Harvey's Weekly, The Southern Review, The New YorkTimes, The Boston Evening Transcript.
TO
FRANCIS FOWLER HOGAN
SOLDIER POET
CORPORAL FOURTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY
KILLED IN ACTION IN THE ARGONNE FOREST
OCTOBER SEVENTEENTH
1918
"Though my hands have not learned to model
The dreams of a groping mind,
Though my lips have not spoken their music
And are leaving no songs behind,
Think not that my life has been futile,
Nor grieve for an unsaid word,
For all that my lips might never sing
My singing heart has heard.
"I have etched the light on a willow
With neither a plate nor style;
I have made a song of the crescent moon
And a poem of only a smile;
Are they less because lips could not know them,
These songs that my heart has known?
Am I wholly mute who have sung with my heart
And sung with my heart alone?"
F. F. H.
CONTENTS.
POEMS WRITTEN SINCE 1918:
Confession
Despair
Vale
Aftermath
Hylas
Bacchus Is Gone
Tiger Lilies
Three Landscape Moods:
Youth
High Tide o' Life
Old Age
The Seasons:
Spring's Pilgrimage
Summer
Autumn Portents
Autumn Invocation
Dream Fragment
When Shady Avenue Was Shady Lane
Triangles vs. Circles
The Old Judge
Bewitched
The Wingless Victory
POEMS WRITTEN IN FRANCE AT THE FRONT:
The Blindman
Hands Off
Soldier-Poet
Doomed
White Light
Beaumont
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