# Poems (Robert Underwood Johnson)

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### I. THE WINTER HOUR, AND OTHER POEMS.

* Invocation: To the Gorse
* The Winter Hour
** With Interludes:
** Hearth-Song.
** The Lost Rose.
** A Madonna of Dagnan-Bouveret.
** Love in Italy.
* A Spring Prelude
* Before the Blossom
* Love in the Calendar
* A September Violet
* September's Eve
* October
* In November
* On Nearing Washington
* "As a Bell in a Chime"
* In the Dark
* Good Measure of Love
* Noblesse Oblige
* On a Candidate Accused of Youth. (Theodore Roosevelt: 1886.)
* Washington Hymn. (Sung at the laying of the corner-stone of the Washington Memorial Arch, New York, May 30, 1890.)
* To Ralph Waldo Emerson. (On the Death of Garfield.)
* Illusions
* To-morrow
* Inscription for a Burial Urn
* Quality
* Luck and Work
* On a Great Poet's Obscurity
* Written in Emerson's Poems
* Amiel. (The "Journal Intime.")
* "The Guest of the Evening." (Read at the dinner to Richard Watson Gilder, on his birthday, February 8, 1884.)
* Salvini
* For Tears
* Apprehensions
* Browning at Asolo
* At Sea
* Moods of the Soul
** I. In Time of Victory.
** II. In Time of Defeat.
* To Leonora. (At her Debut, October 1 8, 1891.)
* Herbert Mapes. (Drowned August 23, 1891.)
* A Wish for New France
* Divided Honors. (Written for the dinner to James Whitcomb Riley at Indianapolis, October 18, 1888.)
* A Tracer for J*** B********

### II. SONGS OF LIBERTY, AND OTHER POEMS.

* Apostrophe to Greece. (Inscribed to the Greek People on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of their Independence.)
* Song of the Modern Greeks
* To the Housatonic at Stockbridge
* Farewell to Italy
* A Chopin Fantasy
* In Tesla's Laboratory
* The Wistful Days
* "Love Once was Like an April Dawn"
* An Irish Love-Song
* "Oh, Waste no Tears"
* Her Smile
* Song for the Guitar
* Ursula
* A Dark Day
* The Surprised Avowal
* The Blossom of the Soul
* "I Journeyed South to Meet the Spring"

### PARAPHRASES FROM THE SERVIAN OF ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH (after Literal Translations by Nikola Tesla):

* Introductory Note on Zmai by Mr. Tesla.
* The Three Giaours
* Luka Filipov
* A Mother of Bosnia
* The Monster
* Two Dreams
* Mysterious Love
* The Coming of Song
* Curses
* A Fairy from the Sun-shower
* "Why," you ask, "has not the Servian Perished?"
* "I Begged a Kiss of a Little Maid"
* Why the Army Became Quiet
* The Gipsy Praises his Horse
* The Voice of Webster
* Hands across Sea

### III. ITALIAN RHAPSODY, AND OTHER POEMS.
#### POEMS OF ITALY:

* Italian Rhapsody
* The Hour of Awe
* Titian's Two Loves, in the Borghese

#### POEMS ON PUBLIC EVENTS

* The Listening Sword
* Dewey at Manila
* The Welcome of Our Tears
* An English Mother
* "The White Man's Burden"
* On Reading of Atrocities in War
* The Keeper of the Sword
* Remember Waring!

#### POEMS OF HEART AND SOUL:

* To One Born on the Last Day of November.
* Music and Love
* At a Concert
* After the Song (To E. J. W.)
* Song for Youth
* Song of Remembrance
* Star-Song
* Song for a Wedding-day
* With a Toast to the Bride
* To June
* A Lover's Answer
* The Guest
* To One who Complained of a Lover's Persistence
* Interpreters
* The Tryst
* "Love the Conqueror Came to Me"
* The Stronger Summons
* The Flower of Fame
* The Dread before Great Joy
* Reincarnation
* Premonitions
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