The moon’s ashine; by many a lane
Walk wistful lovers to and fro;
It must be like old days again;
How they do love! _Here lies Pierrot._
She loved me once, did Columbine.
It sets my dusty heart aglow
Merely to lie and dream how fine
Her semblance was,--_Here lies Pierrot!_
Her perfumed presence, silks and lace,
Did madden men and wrought them woe;
For me alone her witching grace.
Where is she now? _Here lies Pierrot._
We two walked once beneath the moon--
Yellow it hung, and large and low--
And listened to the tender tune
Of nightingales,--_Here lies Pierrot!_
Our foolish vows of passion shook
The very stars, they trembled so.
How it comes back, her soft, shy look,
Now I am dead! _Here lies Pierrot!_
These other men and maids, who stroll
Through moonlit poplar trees arow,
Does each play the enchanted rôle
We phantoms played? _Here lies Pierrot!_
O joy, that I remember yet
Sweet follies of the long ago!
Dear heaven, I would not quite forget!
The moon’s ashine; _Here lies Pierrot!_
_Scribner’s_ _Richard Burton_
LIST OF “DISTINCTIVE POEMS,” THEIR AUTHORS, AND THE MAGAZINES IN WHICH
THEY APPEARED
_Century_--
A Light Bearer. Marion Couthouy Smith.
Unmasked. Madison Cawein.
Robert Browning. Margaret Widdemer.
Will’s Counsellor. Charles Wharton Stork.
Song of the Open Land. Richard Burton.
Along the Road. Robert Browning Hamilton.
A Prayer. Louis Untermeyer.
Charms. William Rose Benét.
Deep Water Song. John Reed.
Not Yet. Katharine Lee Bates.
The Double Crowning. Amelia Josephine Burr.
Vermont. Sarah N. Cleghorn.
To a Scarlet Tanager. Grace Hazard Conkling.
To the Experimenters. Charles Badger Clark, Jr.
My Conscience. James Whitcomb Riley.
The Little People. Amelia Josephine Burr.
For a Blank Page. Austin Dobson.
A Message from Italy. Margaret Widdemer.
The Gentle Reader. Arthur Davison Ficke.
Submarine Mountains. Cale Young Rice.
The Last Faun. Helen Minturn Seymour.
Ritual. William Rose Benét.
Emergency. William Rose Benét.
The Mother. Timothy Cole.
Perugia. Amelia Josephine Burr.
To Elsa, with a volume of the “Arabian Nights.” Grace Hazard Conkling.
The Carpenter’s Son. Sara Teasdale.
Sarvachraddên. Leonard Bacon.
The Shoes of Happiness. Edwin Markham.
Twilight Mystery. Madison Cawein.
_Harper’s_--
Presage. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Festa. George Edward Woodberry.
Panthea. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Upland. Henry A. Beers.
In April. Margaret Lee Ashley.
Waiting. Charles Hanson Towne.
May is Building Her House. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Sea Hounds. Dora Sigerson Shorter.
The Marble House. Ellen M. H. Gates.
Loss. Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
An Adieu. Florence Earle Coates.
The Deep Places. Amelia Josephine Burr.
The Seer. Alan Sullivan.
This is Her Garden. Mildred Howells.
Folk-Song. Louis Untermeyer.
September Rain. Charles Hanson Towne.
Heart’s Tide. Ethel M. Hewitt.
The Wanderer. John Masefield.
Wind. Fannie Stearns Davis.
The Mother. Fannie Stearns Davis.
By the Curb. James Stephens.
God’s Will. Mildred Howells.
On a Bright Winter Day. W. D. Howells.
A Secret. Florence Earle Coates.
Ghosts. Fannie Stearns Davis.
Out of It All. Edith M. Thomas.
Words. Ernest Rhys.
The Telegram. Thomas Hardy.
A Winter Reverie. James Stephens.
_Scribner’s_
Return. Curtis Hidden Page.
Old Portraits Revisited. Sarah Cleghorn.
The Old Remain. Madison Cawein.
To Lie in the Lew. Margaret Vandegrift.
The Secret. John Hall Wheelock.
The Exile. Thomas Nelson Page.
At Ease on Lethe’s Wharf. Helen Coale Crew.
Discords. C. A. Price.
In the Hospital. Arthur Guiterman.
The Jail. Sarah Cleghorn.
Song for a Child. Stark Young.
Here Lies Pierrot. Richard Burton.
Himself He Cannot Save. M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
The River. Sara Teasdale.
Love of Life. Tertius van Dyke.
Daybreak in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Henry van Dyke.
A Threnody. Louis V. Ledoux.
La Preciosa. Thomas Walsh.
The Song of Love. E. Sutton.
Sonnet. R. Henniker Heaton.
No Night There. William Hervey Woods.
In a Monastery Garden. Marjorie L. C. Pickthall.
In the Old Pasture. Harriet Prescott Spofford.
The Ghost. Hermann Hagedorn.
Gran’ Boule. Henry van Dyke.
A Likeness. Willa Sibert Cather.
Sappho. Sara Teasdale.
The Dead Forerunner. C. W.
The Grief. Theodosia Garrison.
The Enchantment. Laurence C. Hodgson.
_The Forum_--
What of the Night? Willard Huntington Wright.
The Italian Dead March. Shaemas OSheel.
The Girl Who Went to Ailey. Arthur Stringer.
Copper Mountain. Edwin D. Schoonmaker.
The Republic. Madison Cawein.
The Factory. Harry Kemp.
Earth’s Deities. Bliss Carman.
St. John and the Faun. George Edward Woodberry.
The Ring Fighters. Francis Hill.
Journey. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The Swordless Christ. Percy Adams Hutchison.
Shipwreck. Hermann Hagedorn.
The City That Will Not Repent. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.
The Old Maid. Sara Teasdale.
Evening on Brooklyn Bridge. Allan Updegraff.
Mother-Heart. Anna Spencer Twitchell.
Departure. John Hall Wheelock.
A Prayer for Beauty. Witter Bynner.
School. Percy Mackaye.
Off Viareggio. Chester Allyn Reed.
In the Maternity Ward. Florence Earle Coates.
The Kallyope Yell. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.
Birth. Frances Gregg.
For Those Dear Dead. Elaine Goodale Eastman.
Crossroads. Louis V. Ledoux.
Thanksgiving for Our Task. Shaemas OSheel.
Point Bonita. Witter Bynner.
_Lippincott’s_--
The Common Road. Jane Belfield.
Quatrain. Charles Wharton Stork.
The True Prophet. Richard Kirk.
Of Melodies Unheard. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
The Neighbor. Marguerite O. B. Wilkinson.
A New Friend, An Old Friend. Madison Cawein.