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