Minstrel Weather
by
Minstrel Weather
BY
With Illustrations and Decorations
By Clinton Balmer
Knowledge, we are not foes.
Long hast thou toiled with me;
But the world with a great wind blows,
Crying, and not of thee!
Long hast thou toiled with me;
But the world with a great wind blows,
Crying, and not of thee!
EURIPIDES
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Minstrel Weather
Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published November, 1920
For
AMY LOVEMAN
The Minstrel Made His Tune
of Hours and Seasons
Dewfall, moonrise, high sweet clover,
Chimney swifts at their twilight play;
Quail call, owl hoot, moth a-hover,
Midnight pale at the step of day.
Chimney swifts at their twilight play;
Quail call, owl hoot, moth a-hover,
Midnight pale at the step of day.
Star wane, cobweb, brown-plumed bracken;
Morning laughs, with the frost in flower;
Duck flight, hound cry; wild grapes blacken.
Day leaps up at the amber hour.
Morning laughs, with the frost in flower;
Duck flight, hound cry; wild grapes blacken.
Day leaps up at the amber hour.
Sun dark, snowcloud, eaves ice cumbered,
Gray sand piled on a carmine West;
Faint wing, flake dance; winds unnumbered
Swing the cradles where leaf-buds rest.
Gray sand piled on a carmine West;
Faint wing, flake dance; winds unnumbered
Swing the cradles where leaf-buds rest.
Wide light, bough flush, gold-fringed meadows,
Berries red in the rippled grass;
Stream song, nest note, dream deep shadows
Drawn back slowly for noon to pass.
Berries red in the rippled grass;
Stream song, nest note, dream deep shadows
Drawn back slowly for noon to pass.
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Faces of Janus | 1 |
| II. | A Woodland Valentine | 7 |