POEMS OF LIFE POEMS OF LIFE By KATHARINE FORREST HAMILL PHILADELPHIA PETER REILLY, PUBLISHER 133 N. THIRTEENTH STREET 1915 COPYRIGHT 1915, BY PETER REILLY PUBLISHED JULY, 1915 FIRST IMPRESSION TO GRACE BARTLETT STRYKER Words fail me when I strive to say What you’ve meant to me--for so long a day Hope--Inspiration--Sympathy. Steadfast and true, whate’er might be. O priv’lege rarest to the end As in the past, to call you--_friend_. AUTHOR’S NOTE The poems contained within the following pages are _children of the brain_ which at intervals obtruded their company, and which, such as they are, at the solicitation of my friends, I have ventured to set down. K. F. H. CONTENTS Dedication IX Author’s Note XI POEMS OF LIFE. Page Today 5 Jewels 6 Something Gone 7 A-Maying 8 Tribute 9 Good-Bye 10 The Wondrous Song 14 Miladi 17 The Something-my-life-has-missed 18 Contentment 20 Gone 21 To My Muse 22 Conception 24 Awakening 25 The House Built on Sands 26 To a Butterfly 28 A Fragment 29 Query 30 I Close Mine Eyes 32 Understanding 33 We Met in May 34 I Turn Me Down a Lighted Way 36 Counsel 37 Decision 39 You Never Guessed the Secret 40 The Light 42 Education 43 Re-Adjustment 44 FROM “RHYMES FOR WEE SWEETHEARTS” When Grandmama Was Little 53 Harold’s Lament 55 Mrs. Spider 57 The Naughty Little Girl 58 On the Stair 60 The Land O’Dreams 61 The Middle of the Night 63 When Our Fathers Were Little Boys 65 Slumber Land 67 The New Brother 68 POEMS OF LIFE TO-DAY