[Illustration] THE BLACK PANTHER THE BLACK PANTHER A BOOK OF POEMS BY JOHN HALL WHEELOCK AUTHOR OF “THE HUMAN FANTASY” “THE BELOVÈD ADVENTURE” “LOVE AND LIBERATION” “DUST AND LIGHT,” ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Printed in the United States of America The author thanks the editors of the following, for kind permission to reprint here various poems first published in their pages: _All’s Well_, _The American Magazine_, _The Art World_, _The Bellman_, _The Bookman_, _The Century Magazine_, _Contemporary Verse_, _The Dial_, _The Forum_, _The Freeman_, _Harper’s Monthly_, _The International_, _The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post_, _The Lyric_, _McClure’s Magazine_, _The Outlook_, _Poetry_, _The Poetry Journal_, _The Poetry Review_, _Reedy’s Mirror_, _Scribner’s Magazine_, _The Smart Set_, _The Yale Review_, _Youth_. Thanks are also due to Messrs. Harcourt, Brace and Company for permission to reprint “Sea-Horizons,” first published in the anthology, _Enchanted Years_. CONTENTS PAGE _The Black Panther_ 3 _I. Dim Wisdoms_ NIGHT HAS ITS FEAR 7 THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE 12 OCTOBER MOONLIGHT 13 THE FLESH AND THE DREAM 15 VAUDEVILLE 16 1914 18 THE BELOVÈD 19 PROUD DOOM 21 THE SECRET ONE 22 THE UNDISSUADABLE AUSTERITY 25 BLIND PLAYERS 26 TRAVAIL 28 THE POET TELLS OF HIS LOVE 29 THE BURIED DREAM 31 HAUNTED EARTH 32 LONG AGO 34 TCHAIKOVSKY: FIFTH SYMPHONY 35 MIRROR 36 PLAINT 38 ANDANTE 39 THE DEAR MYSTERY 42 IN THE DARK CITY 43 _II. Space and Solitude_ IMMENSITY 47 SEA-HORIZONS 48 OF DAY CAME NIGHT 51 PILGRIM 53 BY THE GRAY SEA 54