Illustrated by

Thomas Fogarty

Thomas Fogarty

A GRACE BEFORE WRITING

DEDICATION FOR A FIREPLACE

TAKING TITLE

THE SECRET

ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

AT THE MERMAID CAFETERIA

OUR HOUSE

ON NAMING A HOUSE

A HALLOWE'EN MEMORY

REFUSING YOU IMMORTALITY

BAYBERRY CANDLES

SECRET LAUGHTER

SIX WEEKS OLD

A CHARM

MY PIPE

THE 5:42

PETER PAN

IN HONOR OF TAFFY TOPAZ

THE CEDAR CHEST

READING ALOUD

ANIMAL CRACKERS

THE MILKMAN

LIGHT VERSE

THE FURNACE

WASHING THE DISHES

THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN

THE OLD SWIMMER

THE MOON-SHEEP

SMELLS

SMELLS (JUNIOR)

MAR QUONG, CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN

THE FAT LITTLE PURSE

THE REFLECTION (To N. B. D.)

THE BALLOON PEDDLER

LINES FOR AN ECCENTRIC'S BOOK PLATE

TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL

THE CRIB

THE POET

TO A DISCARDED MIRROR

TO A CHILD

TO A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN

TO AN OLD-FASHIONED POET

BURNING LEAVES IN SPRING

BURNING LEAVES, NOVEMBER

A VALENTINE GAME

FOR A BIRTHDAY

KEATS

TO H. F. M. a sonnet in sunlight

QUICKENING

AT A WINDOW SILL

THE RIVER OF LIGHT

OF HER GLORIOUS MADNESS

IN AN AUCTION ROOM

EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY

SONNET BY A GEOMETER

TO A VAUDEVILLE TERRIER SEEN ON A LEASH, IN THE PARK

TO AN OLD FRIEND

TO A BURLESQUE SOUBRETTE

THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK

STREETS

TO THE ONLY BEGETTER

PEDOMETER

HOSTAGES

ARS DURA

O. HENRY—APOTHECARY

FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET

TWO O'CLOCK

THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

THE WEDDED LOVER

TO YOU, REMEMBERING THE PAST

CHARLES AND MARY

TO A GRANDMOTHER

DIARISTS

THE LAST SONNET

THE SAVAGE

ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH

ADVICE TO A CITY

THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

GREEN ESCAPE

VESPER SONG FOR COMMUTERS

THE ICE WAGON

AT A MOVIE THEATRE

SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE

THE MAN WITH THE HOE (PRESS)

DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE GOD?

RAPID TRANSIT

CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW

TO HIS BROWN-EYED MISTRESS

PEACE

SONG, IN DEPRECATION OF PULCHRITUDE

MOUNTED POLICE

TO HIS MISTRESS, DEPLORING THAT HE IS NOT AN ELIZABETHAN GALAXY

THE INTRUDER

TIT FOR TAT

SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE

THE PLUMPUPPETS

DANDY DANDELION

THE HIGH CHAIR

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

AUTUMN COLORS

THE LAST CRICKET

TO LOUISE

CHRISTMAS EVE

EPITAPH ON THE PROOFREADER OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

THE MUSIC BOX

TO LUATH

THOUGHTS ON REACHING LAND

A SYMPOSIUM

TO A TELEPHONE OPERATOR WHO HAS A BAD COLD

NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE TENDER-HEARTED

THE TWINS

A PRINTER'S MADRIGAL

THE POET ON THE HEARTH

O PRAISE ME NOT THE COUNTRY

A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD

THE MADONNA OF THE CURB

THE ISLAND

SUNDAY NIGHT

ENGLAND, JULY 1913

CASUALTY

A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL

PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL SERVICE: BEING A POEM IN FOUR STANZAS