Impressions: A Book of Verse

by Lilla Cabot Perry

For works with similar titles, see Impressions.

IMPRESSIONS

A BOOK OF VERSE

LILLA CABOT PERRY

BOSTON
COPELAND AND DAY
MDCCCXCVIII

 

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY COPELAND AND DAY

 

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF TWO FRIENDS

CONTENTS

A LOVE STORY
a summer evening in the city	page 3
his morning thought	4
love's prayer	5
i ask no more	6
a misunderstanding	7
the truth entire	8
a short separation: he	9
a short separation: she	10
he is dejected	11
love's gift	12
exile: her spoken thought	13
exile: her thought unspoken	14
she is frightened at his anger at her resolving on a long absence	15
a letter she wrote but did not send	16
no letter from him!	17
she thinks he is changed	18
she loves	19
she hopes	20
she despairs	21
her letter on hearing him ill spoken of	22
self-encouragement	23
his answer	24
her answer to a sceptical letter	25
his answer	26
on receiving his letter	27
meeting after long absence: as she feared it would be	28
after long absence: as it was	29
the end	30
LOVE AND DEATH
love and death	33
death, thou art beautiful	34
sorrow	35

at sorrow's window	36
too late	37
not dead	38
in days gone by: rondeau redoublé	39
requiescat in pace	40
the smiling dead	41
some graves there are	42
life and death	43
a word from a freed spirit	44
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
art	47
allston's picture of lorenzo and jessica	48
a rainy day with the anthology	49
with a book of verse	50
with a flower from carnac	51
chateau d'hautefort: now	52
chateau d'hautefort: then	53
failure	54
the soul's self	55
the secrets of all hearts	56
to time	57
repentance	58
sympathy	59
grief's loneliness	60
meeting after absence and change	61
in the morning	62
to a despairing lover	63
once more	64
what the brook said	65
in answer to a question	66
song	67
song	68
song	69
cherry blossoms	70
december	71
here i lie dreaming: rondeau	72

to helen	73
to helen with a hand glass	74
love, art thou gone?	75
lady of the moonlight	76
must i then wound thee?	77
love and anger	78
el mihrab: the holy of holies of the mosque at cordova	79
to a bride	80
horseman springing from the dark: a dream	81