For a Heracles in his fighting ire there is never the
glory that follows
FORESIGHT AND PATIENCE, 89
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,
THE WARNING, 99
We have seen mighty men ballooning high,
OUTSIDE THE CROWD, 99
To sit on History in an easy chair,
TRAFALGAR DAY, 100
He leads: we hear our Seaman’s call
Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History
THE REVOLUTION, 105
Not yet had History’s Aetna smoked the skies,
NAPOLÉON, 116
Cannon his name,
FRANCE, 140
We look for her that sunlike stood
ALSACE-LORRAINE, 150
The sister Hours in circles linked,
THE CAGEING OF ARES, 170
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughed
THE NIGHT-WALK, 175
Awakes for me and leaps from shroud
AT THE CLOSE, 178
To Thee, dear God of Mercy, both appeal,
A GARDEN IDYL, 179
With sagest craft Arachne worked
A Reading of Life
THE VITAL CHOICE, 185
Or shall we run with Artemis
WITH THE HUNTRESS, 186
Through the water-eye of night,
WITH THE PERSUADER, 189
Who murmurs, hither, hither: who
THE TEST OF MANHOOD, 200
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,
THE HUELESS LOVE, 208
Unto that love must we through fire attain,
UNION IN DISSEVERANCE, 209
Sunset worn to its last vermilion he;
SONG IN THE SONGLESS, 210
They have no song, the sedges dry,
THE BURDEN OF STRENGTH, 210
If that thou hast the gift of strength, then know
THE MAIN REGRET, 211
Seen, too clear and historic within us, our sins of
omission
ALTERNATION, 211
Between the fountain and the rill
FOREST HISTORY, 212
Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.
Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameter Verse
THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES, 221
‘Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how
can one,
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