HERMIONE AND OTHER POEMS - 1899 - the publishers of this volume issued a small collection of Mr. SiIIs poems under the title Poems by Edward Rowland Sill. In the prefatory note a brief account was given of the poet and his productions, and attention was drawn to the scattering of his poems during his lifetime in many forms of print and even with a variety of signatures. The volume then gathered was purposely small and gave a hint only of the activity of Mr. Sills poetic nature. Two years later a second collection was made, and published under the title The Hermitage, aand Later Poems, with a tributary lyric by Mr. Aldrich. These two volumes have won many readers, and the strong personal interest in Mr. Sill thus created has led to an urgent demand for a still further collection of his scattered iv Note poems. After a lapse of ten years, therefore, the publishers present a third and final volume, in which they have endeavored to gather from print and manuscript such verses as may satisfy a demand created by reading an author who gave freely, but after all would have set light store upon many of his gifts. Thus the three volumes really contain a selection rather than a collection of Mr. Sills poetical writings. March, 1899. CONTENTS PAGE HERMION . E I . The Lost Magic . . . I1 . Influences . . . . . 111 . The Dead Letter . . . IV The Song in the Night REPROO I F N LOVE . . . . . TEMPTED . . . . . . . . . ALONE . . . . . . . . . . To A MAID DEMURE . . . . THE COUP DE GRACE . . . . THE WORLD RUNS ROUND . . ONE TOUCH OF NATURE . . . THE CRICKET I S N THE FIELDS SUNDAY . . . . . . . . . ON SECONDT HOUGH . T . . HIS LOST DAY . . . . . . FERTILITY . . . . . . . . THE MYSTERY . . . . . . . THE LOST BIRD . . . WARNING . . . SUMMERA FTERNOON . . . . SUMMERN IGHT . . . . . . Contents A CALIFORNIANDSR EAMS . . . . . . FULFILLME . N . T . . . . . . . . . THE S INGER . . . . . . . . . . . THE THING T S H AT WILL NOT DIE . g . THE SECRET . . . . . . . . . . . LOST LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . APPRECIATED . . . . . . . . . . . MOODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SPACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UNTIMELYT HOUGHT . . . . . . . . THE LIFE NATURAL . . . . . . . . THEO RACLE . . . . . . . . . . . FORCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUNDOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . NIGHT AND PEACE . . . . . . . . . THES INGERSC ONFESSION . . . . . . LIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVEN T HERE . . . . . . . . . . . SUMMER R AIN . . . . . . . . . . . A RESTING-PLACE . . . . . . . . . A MEMORY . . . . . . . . . . . . THEO PEN WINDOW . . . . . . . . ON A PICTURE O F MT . SHASTA B Y KEITH THE TREE OF MY LIFE . . . . . . . A CHILD AND A STAR . . . . . . . AT DAWN . . . . . . . . . . . . AN ADAGE FROM THE ORIENT . . . . . APARADOX . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents HERMIONE THE LOST MAGIC HITE in her snowy stone, and cold, With azure veins and shining arms, Pygmalion dotli his bride behold, Rapt on her pure and sculptured charms. Ah in those half-divine old days Love still worked miracles for men The gods taught lovers wondrous ways To breathe a soul in marble then. He gazed, he yearned, he vowed, he wept. Some secret witchery touched her breast And, laughing April tears, she stepped Down to his arms and lay at rest. Dear artist of the storied land I too have loved a heart of stone... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.