# Poems, now first collected

New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, pages iii–xii
POEMS
NOW FIRST
COLLECTED: By
EDMUND CLARENCE
STEDMAN
BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN
AND COMPANY: NEW YORK
MDCCCXCVII
COPYRIGHT 1897 BY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO MY WIFE
| CONTENTS I VARIOUS POEMS |
| | PAGE |
| MUSIC AT HOME | 3 |
| THE HAND OF LINCOLN | 5 |
| NOCTURNE | 8 |
| "Y$^E$ TOMBE OF Y$^E$ POET CHAUCER" | 10 |
| THE CONSTANT HEART | 14 |
| GUESTS AT YULE | 16 |
| THE OLD PICTURE-DEALER | 18 |
| THE WORLD WELL LOST | 22 |
| HEBE | 24 |
| SOUVENIR DE JEUNESSE | 30 |
| A VIGIL | 32 |
| THE STAR BEARER | 34 |
| EVENTIDE | 38 |
| HELEN KELLER | 39 |
| PORTRAIT D'UNE DAME ESPAGNOLE | 41 ​ |
| A SEA-CHANGE, AT KELP ROCK | 43 |
| HAREBELL | 48 |
| THE PILGRIMS | 51 |
| MORS BENEFICA | 52 |
| PROEM TO A VICTORIAN ANTHOLOGY | 53 |
| ON WHITE CARNATIONS GIVEN ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY | 54 |
| FATHER JARDINE | 55 |
| FIN DE SIÈCLE | 58 |
| II OTHER SONGS AND BALLADS |
| FALSTAFF'S SONG | 65 |
| PROVENÇAL LOVERS | 67 |
| THE WEDDING-DAY | 70 |
| THE DUTCH PATROL | 72 |
| WITCHCRAFT, I., A. D. 1692 | 77 |
| ", II., A. D. 1884 | 79 |
| AARON BURR'S WOOING | 81 |
| COUSIN LUCRECE | 84 |
| HUNTINGTON HOUSE | 89 |
| CENTURIA | 92 |
| INSCRIPTIONS | 94 |
| III COMMEMORATIONS |
| THE DEATH OF BRYANT | 97 |
| GIFFORD | 103 |
| CORDA CONCORDIA | 105 |
| ON A GREAT MAN WHOSE MIND IS CLOUDING | 115 |
| ON THE DEATH OF AN INVINCIBLE SOLDIER | 116 |
| LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD | 119 |
| AD VIGILEM | 122 |
| "ERGO IRIS" | 123 |
| W. W. | 124 |
| BYRON | 125 |
| YALE ODE FOR COMMENCEMENT DAY | 130 |
| "UBI SUNT QUI ANTE NOS?" | 132 |
| IV THE CARIB SEA |
| KENNST DU? | 141 |
| SARGASSO WEED | 145 |
| CASTLE ISLAND LIGHT | 147 |
| CHRISTOPHE | 153 ​ |
| LA SOURCE | 155 |
| TO L. H. S. | 159 |
| JAMAICA | 162 |
| CREOLE LOVER'S SONG | 166 |
| THE ROSE AND THE JASMINE | 169 |
| FERN-LAND | 174 |
| MORGAN | 181 |
| CAPTAIN FRANCISCA | 184 |
| PANAMA | 190 |
| MARTINIQUE IDYL | 192 |
| ASTRA CAELI | 196 |
| V ARIEL |
| ARIEL | 201 |
Note—Having delayed collecting my own poems of recent years, I now find them so various in theme, motive, and expression as to render their arrangement a somewhat difficult task. The plan finally adopted seems as good as any other. With few exceptions, the pieces within each of the general divisions are given in the order of their composition as shown by the respective dates. The Caribbean series has been completed for this volume, and much of it appears for the first time.
E. C. S.
Thou,—whose endearing hand once laid in sooth Upon thy follower, no want thenceforth, Nor toil, nor joy and pain, nor waste of years Filled with all cares that deaden and subdue, Can make thee less to him—can make thee less Than sovereign queen, his first liege, and his last Remembered to the unconscious dying hour,— Return and be thou kind, bright Spirit of song, Thou whom I yet loved most, loved most of all Even when I left thee—I, now so long strayed From thy beholding! And renew, renew Thy gift to me fain clinging to thy robe! Still be thou kind, for still thou wast most dear.
1897
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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