Poems (Robert Underwood Johnson)

by Robert Underwood Johnson

I. THE WINTER HOUR, AND OTHER POEMS.

• Invocation: To the Gorse
• The Winter Hour
  • With Interludes:
  • Hearth-Song.
  • The Lost Rose.
  • A Madonna of Dagnan-Bouveret.
  • Love in Italy.
• A Spring Prelude
• Before the Blossom
• Love in the Calendar
• A September Violet
• September's Eve
• October
• In November
• On Nearing Washington
• "As a Bell in a Chime"
• In the Dark
• Good Measure of Love
• Noblesse Oblige
• On a Candidate Accused of Youth. (Theodore Roosevelt: 1886.)
• Washington Hymn. (Sung at the laying of the corner-stone of the Washington Memorial Arch, New York, May 30, 1890.)
• To Ralph Waldo Emerson. (On the Death of Garfield.)
• Illusions
• To-morrow
• Inscription for a Burial Urn
• Quality
• Luck and Work
• On a Great Poet's Obscurity
• Written in Emerson's Poems
• Amiel. (The "Journal Intime.")
• "The Guest of the Evening." (Read at the dinner to Richard Watson Gilder, on his birthday, February 8, 1884.)
• Salvini
• For Tears
• Apprehensions
• Browning at Asolo
• At Sea
• Moods of the Soul
  • I. In Time of Victory.
  • II. In Time of Defeat.
• To Leonora. (At her Debut, October 1 8, 1891.)
• Herbert Mapes. (Drowned August 23, 1891.)
• A Wish for New France
• Divided Honors. (Written for the dinner to James Whitcomb Riley at Indianapolis, October 18, 1888.)
• A Tracer for J*** B********

II. SONGS OF LIBERTY, AND OTHER POEMS.

• Apostrophe to Greece. (Inscribed to the Greek People on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of their Independence.)
• Song of the Modern Greeks
• To the Housatonic at Stockbridge
• Farewell to Italy
• A Chopin Fantasy
• In Tesla's Laboratory
• The Wistful Days
• "Love Once was Like an April Dawn"
• An Irish Love-Song
• "Oh, Waste no Tears"
• Her Smile
• Song for the Guitar
• Ursula
• A Dark Day
• The Surprised Avowal
• The Blossom of the Soul
• "I Journeyed South to Meet the Spring"

PARAPHRASES FROM THE SERVIAN OF ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH (after Literal Translations by Nikola Tesla):

• Introductory Note on Zmai by Mr. Tesla.
• The Three Giaours
• Luka Filipov
• A Mother of Bosnia
• The Monster
• Two Dreams
• Mysterious Love
• The Coming of Song
• Curses
• A Fairy from the Sun-shower
• "Why," you ask, "has not the Servian Perished?"
• "I Begged a Kiss of a Little Maid"
• Why the Army Became Quiet
• The Gipsy Praises his Horse

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• The Voice of Webster
• Hands across Sea

III. ITALIAN RHAPSODY, AND OTHER POEMS.

POEMS OF ITALY:

• Italian Rhapsody
• The Hour of Awe
• Titian's Two Loves, in the Borghese

POEMS ON PUBLIC EVENTS

• The Listening Sword
• Dewey at Manila
• The Welcome of Our Tears
• An English Mother
• "The White Man's Burden"
• On Reading of Atrocities in War
• The Keeper of the Sword
• Remember Waring!

POEMS OF HEART AND SOUL:

• To One Born on the Last Day of November.
• Music and Love
• At a Concert
• After the Song (To E. J. W.)
• Song for Youth
• Song of Remembrance
• Star-Song
• Song for a Wedding-day
• With a Toast to the Bride
• To June
• A Lover's Answer
• The Guest
• To One who Complained of a Lover's Persistence
• Interpreters
• The Tryst
• "Love the Conqueror Came to Me"
• The Stronger Summons
• The Flower of Fame
• The Dread before Great Joy
• Reincarnation
• Premonitions