Poems (Hardy)

by Irenè Hardy

For works with similar titles, see Poems.

POEMS

POEMS

BY

IRENÈ HARDY

D. P. ELDER AND MORGAN SHEPARD

SAN FRANCISCO

1902

Edition limited to three hundred copies.

Printed from type, and type distributed.

COPYRIGHT, 1901

BY IRENÈ HARDY

The Murdock Press

San Francisco

TO THE MEMORY OF

MY FATHER AND MOTHER

Table of Contents

SONNETS
The sonnet		Page 9
The love-sonnet		10
A sonnet of stars and the sonnet		10
The sonnet is the violet		11
With the tongues of men and angels		11
To a violin		12
The immortal		12
Tamalpais		13
Books		13
Here beginneth space		14
Law		15
Mors Amoris		15
Truth		16
The emigrant exiles		16
To ———		17
As if it had not been?		17
Vocations		18
Hyacynth; a child's character		18
The lion in the desert		19
Browning		20
In the cornfield		20
Bright little comrade		21
A character		21
The mountain lioness		22
Crop and garden		23
To a friend, with a volume of Lowell's poems		23
Her calendar		24
On a photograph of school children		24
At Berkeley		25
A Shakespeare reader		26
Evening on the Oakland hills		26
Tragedy		27
Attained		27
A fable of amethysts		28
Sonnets of a lover		29
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
Sometime		33
A cameo		33
Afternoon		34
A memory of Beethoven's sonata, op. 27:1		35
Life and death		37
The rainbow		39
IN BLANK VERSE
Palatire		41
The point of view		44
A shepherd of men		45
Berym's parable		49
As it befell		50
Nephran and the law		57
In the garden		62
Gratian by the fountain		64
The romance of a clod		68
A parable of apples		71
An invitation		73
Ulan, the stone-cutter75
BY WOOD AND FIELD
Prelude: wool-gathering		81
Among the oaks		82
With the field-lark		86
In the field of February		88
In palo alto garden		91
Palo alto hills		94
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
Elian gray		95
Of a song and a dream		97
Song: Sing ivy		100
Song: When you come		101
The little gray bird		102
Perhaps if we knew		103
A foster mother's thought		104
To each other		105
Verily		106
To A. B. C.		107
Triolet		107
The fall of the leaf: a beast drama109
Ariel and Caliban117
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
A wedding-day gallop		121
The new house and home		124
November rain		126
A November poppy		127
Go forth and teach		128
My beech-tree		129
Self		130
The shepherd's mountain		131
The greek girl's invocation to Athena		132
To the wild pennyroyal133
In hermitage with fancy137
Ode for forefather's day143