Don Folquet and Other Poems

CONTENTS PAGE DON FOLQUET 13 ARIFA quotTHE TREE OF LIGHTquot … 67 MURILLO PAINTS quotTHE ASSUMPTIONquot . 80 MOTHER GOOSE SONNETS 89 HUMPTY DUMPTY 9O LITTLE Miss MOFFET 91 THE SPRATS 92 THE PHILOSOPHERS 93 To BANBURY CROSS 95 BO-PEEP 96 MADAM O SnoE 97 ONE CONTRARY 98 BOY BLUE 99 ON THE TREE-TOP 100 MOTHER HUBBARD 101 IN THE CAFE EUROPA 103 THE SAVING VIRTUES 107 THE WIDOWY DRONE 109 AN AUTUMN SONG no THE SEA-WOMAN 113 iz THE BROWN-STONE Row 116 CATULLUS ANENT His LESBIA … 119 GUITAR SONG 120 To JOYCE KILMER JULY 30, 1918 . . 121 THE SIGH FOR DEIRDRE 126 THE MOTHERS OF HEAVEN …. 128 AD LIMINA 130 NIGHTINGALE TO THE LARK … . 131 ALGONKIN SPRING 132 FULFILMENT 135 DON FOLQUET ANDOTHER POEMS DON FOLQUET I THE apple orchards on the hills were white With blossoms, and the languid clouds beyond Lifted like polar mountains in the blue. There where the little road went down the vale Beside the River Argens, Folquet heard The springtime murmuring across the lands, The chirruping of birds, the herdsman s voice, The human echoes from the fields afar. And yet he came not from his hidden lodge Among the trees, but with a thoughtful eye He marked the throngs of dames and gal lants pass Upon their dappled palfreys, brightly gay, Under the blosmy archway of the road, 13