A ROADSIDE HARP A BOOK OF VERSES
BYLOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
“Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers her words to trampling horses’ feet, More oft than to a chamber melody!”Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin and Company
MDCCCXCIIITO DORA AND HESTER SIGERSON
There in the Druid brake If the cuckoo be awake Again, O take my rhyme! And keep it long for the sake Of a bygone primrose‐time; You of the star‐bright head That twilight thoughts sequester, You to your native fountains led Like to a young Muse garlanded: Dora, and Hester.
March, 1893.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PETER RUGG the Bostonian 1
- A Ballad of Kenelm 8
- Vergniaud in the Tumbril 10
- Winter Boughs 13
- M.A. 1822‐1888 13
- W.H. 1778‐1830 14
- The Vigil‐at‐Arms 14
- A Madonna of Domenico Ghirlandajo 15
- Spring Nightfall 15
- A Friend’s Song for Simoisius 16
- Athassel Abbey 17
- Florentin 18
- Friendship Broken 19
- A Song of the Lilac 20
- In a Ruin, after a Thunder‐Storm 21
- The Cherry Bough 21
- Two Irish Peasant Songs 23
- The Japanese Anemone 25
- Tryste Noel 26
- A Talisman 27
- Heathenesse 27
- For Izaak Walton 28
- Sherman: “An Horatian Ode” 29
- When on the Marge of Evening 32
- Rooks in New College Gardens 32
- Open, Time 33
- The Knight Errant (Donatello’s Saint George) 34
- To a Dog’s Memory 35
- A Seventeenth‐Century Song 36
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- On the Pre‐Reformation Churches about Oxford 37
- The Still of the Year 38
- A Foot‐note to a Famous Lyric 39
- T.W.P. 1819‐1892 41
- Summum Bonum 41
- Saint Florent‐le‐Vieil 42
- Hylas 42
- Nocturne 43
- The Kings 44
- Alexandriana 47
- London: Twelve Sonnets.