Poems (Bacon)

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

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POEMS

JOSEPHINE

DASKAM

POEMS

BY

JOSEPHINE DASKAM

 

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

MDCCCCIII

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1903

 

D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON

TO

M. A. J.,

the first and cordial critic of many of these verses, it gives me great pleasure to dedicate this collection of them.

J.D.B.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Motherhood		1
The sleepy song		3
The golden days		5
The vigil		6
The sea man		8
The sons of sleep		12
Four songs:
i.	The peasant girl	14
ii.	An interlude	15
iii.	Heart's seasons	16
iv.	Over the hills and far away	17
The sailor's song		18
Quatrain		19
The old country		20
The little blind beggar		22
The stranger child		24
Songs of iseult deserted		26
The old captive		28
Song to ophelia		31
A christmas hymn for children		32
The gypsy maid		34
Three songs:
i.	The sailor	36
ii.	The hunter	37
iii.	The prince	38
The little dead child		39
At parting		42
The nixy		43
A japanese fan		44
Two sonnets from the hebrew
i.	The preparation	45
ii.	The incarnation	46
Ode: written for the twenty-second of february		47
The death song		50
Seven child songs
i.	Do you know?	53
ii.	The secret playmate	55
iii.	Loneliness	56
iv.	Dreams	57
v.	The shadow	58
vi.	Heaven	60
vii.	The pear tree	61
Inscriptions:
	For a child's plate	62
	For his cup	62
	For his chair	62
	For his bed	63
The wanderers		64