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A diverse collection of lyrical and narrative poems that range from classical-myth retellings and sunrise and auroral landscapes to intimate love lyrics, mourning, and philosophical meditations on art and death. Many pieces adopt dramatic voices or brief metrical stories, and a few are direct tributes to earlier writers. Imagery moves between luminous and gloomy settings—balconies, moors, seas, and temples—while tone shifts from exhortatory Carpe Diem brightness to quiet sorrow and reflective solitude. The poet experiments with condensed odes and rhyme-motivated miniature narratives, favoring musical diction and formal variety over contemporary fashion.

XX

And when the soul has torn the fleshly veil,
And moves majestic to that monotone,
When echo-like upon the air I sail
Whither the wingèd skylark, Faith, has flown,
And borne me fainting upward; then my soul
May seek the God of art which silent, lone,
Broods on a crystal-argent sea, the goal
Of all humanity. Incarnate pain
Is calmed to everlasting peace. There roll
No waves upon the sea. Charmed has it lain
Through incommensurate time; charmed will it lie
Through all eternity; and there again
Upon my soul in silence wrapped, shall sigh,
Most beautiful—a mother's lullaby.

December, 1912.
January, 1913.