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I am his friend, nor ever was his foe? Whose the sweet season, if it be not mine? Mine, not the bobolinks, that song divine, Chasing the shadows o'er the flying wheat! 'Tis a dead voice, not his, that sounds so sweet.

Whose passionate heart burns in this flaming rose

But his, whose passionate heart long since lay still?

Whose wan hope pales this snowlike lily tall,

Beside the garden wall,

But his whose radiant eyes and lily grace Sleep in the grave that crowns yon tufted hill?

All hope, all memory,

Have their deep springs in me; And love, that else might fade, By me immortal made,

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III

SECOND LYRICAL PERIOD

(IN THREE DIVISIONS)

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE HUNDREDTE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR

1861-1889

Mitchell (S. Weir's) first book of verse, "The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems" (Boston) did not appear until 1882

Hayne (Paul H.'s) “Poems”: Boston, 1854

Winter's "Poems": Boston, 1854; "The Queen's Domain": Boston, 1858

Mrs. Moulton's " This, That, and the Other": Boston, 1854 ;

"Poems": Boston, 1877

Aldrich's" The Bells" New York, 1854; "The Ballad of Babie Bell": N. Y. Journal of Commerce, 1855; "The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”: New York, 1858

Stedman's "Poems Lyrical and Idyllic": New York, 1860

Piatt's and Howells's "Poems of Two Friends": Columbus, 1859

Mr. and Mrs. Piatt's "The Nests at Washington": New York, 1863

Mrs. Spofford's " Amber Gods," prose: Boston, 1863 ; "Poems": Boston, 1881

Howells's "No Love Lost": New York, 1869; "Poems": Boston, 1873

'Harte's "Luck of Roaring Camp": Overland Monthly, 1868; "Poems": Boston, 1870 Miller's "Songs of the Sierras": Boston, 1871

Hay's "Pike County Ballads": Boston, 1871

Mrs. Jackson's" Verses by H. H.": Boston, 1873

Lanier's" Corn": Lippincott's, 1874; "Centennial Cantata," 1876

2

Miss Lazarus's "Poems and Translations": New York, 1866; “Aametus and Other Poems":

New York, 1871

Sill's "The Hermitage": New York, 1867

O'Reilly's "Songs from the Southern Seas": Boston, 1873

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Gilder's The New Day": New York, 1875

Miss Coolbrith's " A Perfect Day, and Other Poems": San Francisco, 1881

Mrs. E. M. (Hutchinson) Cortissoz's "Songs and Lyrics": Boston, 1881

Riley's "The Old Swimmin'-Hole, and 'Leven More Poems”: Indianapolis, 1883

Thompson's “Songs of Fair Weather": Boston, 1883

Miss Thomas's "A New Year's Masque": Boston, 1884

Bates's "Berries of the Brier": Boston, 1886

Field's "Culture's Garland": Boston, 1887; "A Little Book of Western Verse": Chicago, 1889

Tabb's "Poems": Baltimore, 1882; "Poems": Boston, 1894

Markham's" The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems": New York, 1899

3

Woodberry's" The North Shore Watch, a Threnody" (privately printed): Cambridge, 1883; "The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems": Boston, 1890

Bunner's " Airs from Arcady": New York, 1884

Miss Guiney's "Songs at the Start": Boston, 1884

Miss Cone's "Oberon and Puck": New York, 1885

Sherman's "Madrigals and Catches": New York, 1887

Miss Reese's "A Branch of May": Baltimore, 1887; "A Handful of Lavender": Boston, 1891 Miss Monroe's "Valeria, and Other Poems": Chicago, 1891; "Commemoration Ode": deliv ered, Chicago, 1892, published, Chicago, 1893

Garland's "Prairie Songs": Cambridge and Chicago, 1893

Burton's "Dumb in June": Boston, 1895

The dates given are those of copyright entry

SECOND LYRICAL PERIOD

(IN THREE DIVISIONS)

DIVISION I

(MITCHELL, TIMROD, HAYNE, MRS. JACKSON, MISS DICKINSON, STEDMAN, THE PIATTS, MRS. SPOFFORD, MRS. MOULTON, WINTER, ALDRICH, Howells, HAY, HARTE, sill, MILLER, LANIER, and others)

Silas Weir Mitchell'

ON A BOY'S FIRST READING
OF "KING HENRY V"

WHEN youth was lord of my unchallenged
fate,

And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state

The great of older days, who, faithful still,
Have kept with me the pact my youth had
made.

And I remember how one galleon rare
From the far distance of a time long dead
Came on the wings of a fair-fortuned air,
With sound of martial music heralded,
In blazonry of storied shields arrayed.

So the Great Harry with high trumpetings,
The wind of victory in her burly sails!
And all her deck with clang of armor
rings:

And under-flown the Lily standard trails,
And over-flown the royal Lions ramp.

The waves she rode are strewn with silent
wrecks,

Her proud sea-comrades once; but ever yet Comes time-defying laughter from her decks,

Where stands the lion-lord Plantagenet, Large-hearted, merry, king of court and camp.

Sail on! sail on! The fatal blasts of time That spared so few, shall thee with joy escort;

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1 See BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, p. 810.

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