POEMS [Illustration: Nora May French’s signature] POEMS _by Nora May French_ [Illustration: colophon] _San Francisco The Strange Company_ _1910_ Copyright 1910, BY THE STRANGE COMPANY Printed by The Stanley-Taylor Company San Francisco NORA MAY FRENCH WAS BORN AT AURORA, NEW YORK, APRIL THE TWENTY-SIXTH, 1881, AND DIED AT CARMEL, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER THE FOURTEENTH, 1907, AGED TWENTY-SIX YEARS CONTENTS The Outer Gate 1 Rain 2 Best-Loved 3 The Rose 4 Between Two Rains 5 The Message 6 By the Hospital 7 Oh, Dryad Thoughts 8 Music in the Pavilion 9 Rebuke 10 In Camp 11 The Nymph 12 Vivisection 16 The Stranger 17 The Constant Ones 18 Instinct 19 San Francisco, New Year’s, 1907 20 The Poppy Field 22 You 23 Just a Dog 24 Mirage 25 Dusk 26 The Spanish Girl--Part I 29 The Spanish Girl--Part II 39 The Spanish Girl--Part III 49 The Garden of Dolores 59 Indifference 60 After-Knowledge 61