--------------------------------------- This ebook is dedicated to EMMY friend, colleague, mentor, role model who fell off the planet far too soon. --------------------------------------- Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/roadsideharpbook00guinuoft A ROADSIDE HARP * * * * * * By Miss Guiney. THE WHITE SAIL, AND OTHER POEMS. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25. SONGS AT THE START. 16mo, $1.00. A ROADSIDE HARP. 16mo. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK. * * * * * * A ROADSIDE HARP A Book of Verses by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY “_Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers her words to trampling horses’ feet, More oft than to a chamber melody!_” [Illustration] Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin and Company M DCCC XCIII Copyright, 1893 By Louise Imogen Guiney All Rights Reserved The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. TO DORA AND HESTER SIGERSON _There in the Druid brake If the cuckoo be awake Again, O take my rhyme! And keep it long for the sake Of a bygone primrose-time; You of the star-bright head That twilight thoughts sequester, You to your native fountains led Like to a young Muse garlanded: Dora, and Hester._ March, 1893. TABLE OF CONTENTS _Page_ PETER RUGG the Bostonian 1 A Ballad of Kenelm 8 Vergniaud in the Tumbril 10 Winter Boughs 13 M. A. 1822-1888 13 W. H. 1778-1830 14 The Vigil-at-Arms 14 A Madonna of Domenico Ghirlandajo 15 Spring Nightfall 15 A Friend’s Song for Simoisius 16 Athassel Abbey 17 Florentin 18 Friendship Broken 19 A Song of the Lilac 20 In a Ruin, after a Thunder-Storm 21 The Cherry Bough 21 Two Irish Peasant Songs 23 The Japanese Anemone 25 Tryste Noel 26 A Talisman 27 Heathenesse 27 For Izaak Walton 28 Sherman: “An Horatian Ode” 29