Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
By
Tom Hall
New York
Frederick A. Stokes
Company
Publishers
Frederick H. Stokes
Company
Sixth Edition
September 1898
The verses in this volume have been selected from work that has appeared in various periodicals during the
past five years. Especially to the editors of LIFE, TRUTH, TOWN TOPICS, VOGUE, and MUNSEY'S
MAGAZINE I have to offer my thanks for their permission to republish the majority of them.
T.H.
Contents.
Kings & Queens & Bowers.
The Perfect Face.
The Moonlight Sonata.
The Kiss
The Bride.
A Problem.
To Phyllis Reading a Letter.
A Rose from her hair.
When I told her my Love.
My Lady, you Blushed.
The American Slave.
Sell Her,—That's Right.
Jokers
Her Yachting Cap.
Theft.
Before her Mirror.
At Old Point Comfort.
A Drop Too Much.
Ingratitude.
A Few Resolutions.
A Dilemma.
A Choice not Necessary.
That Boston Girl.
The Hero.
The Sweet Summer Girl.
Her Fan.
Certainty.
Caught.
An Important Distinction.
Two Kinds.
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What it Is.
In her Pew.
The Suspicious Lover to the Star.
A Slight Surprise.
Past vs. Present.
The Usual Way.
A Difference in Style.
Afraid.
Ye Retort Exasperating.
A Rhyming Reverie.
A Sure Winner.
Tantalization.
His Usual Fate.
On Two Letters from Her.
A Serenade—en Deux Langues.
When a Girl says "No."
Uncertainty.
Her Peculiarities.
The Reply of the Observant Youth.
Tying the Strings of her Shoe.
When You are Rejected.
A Bachelor's Views.
My Cigarette.
Discovered.
The Ice in the Punch.
The Tale of a Broken Heart.
Where did you get it?
No
A Midsummer Night's Tempest.
The Abused Gallant.
After the Ball.
Vanity Fair.
For the Long Voyage.
Kings
&
Queens
&
Bowers
Is my spectroscope to-night.
The Kiss
Over the green fields, over the snow,
The Bride.
Before her mirror, robed in spotless white,
A Problem.
Give you a problem for your midnight toil,—
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And the Church for a pittance will wash out the shame.
In Old Madrid.
I strolled the streets in quest of any love,
The Duel.
Ten paces—one, two, three, and fire!
The Shroud.
The snow came softly, silently, down
In Old Madrid. 12
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Love's Return.
Love has come back—ah me, the joy!—
One Wish.
My thoughts are gliding down the stream,
The Shroud. 13
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For Me.
I heard her song,
To steal a sight
I turned away,
Myself abhorred.
To a Water-color.
Sweet Phyllis, maid of yesterday,
One Wish. 14
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The Serenade.
Under my casement, as I pray,
To a Water-color. 15
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To be by you or me upbraided.
Her Reverie.
A lady combed her silken hair.
The Serenade. 16
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I felt a dizziness.
To Beauty.
"Oh, Mistress Beauty," said my sigh,
Her Reverie. 17
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Dreaming of You.
My soul feels refreshed, like a rose kissed by dew,
I've one wish. 'Tis to sleep all the long ages through
Please Return.
Now, all you pretty maids in town,
To Beauty. 18
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Up to a silvery star;
Please Return. 19
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Hyacinths.
Hyacinths, tenderly sweet,
In The Waltz.
Hyacinths. 21
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She Is Mine.
There's a sparkle in her eye
She's divine.
Or like wine.
Is she mine?
Or is it all a dream,—
Superfine?
Like a vine;
In The Waltz. 22
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She is mine.
Old Times.
Ah, good old times of belles and beaux,
Of My Love.
Was ever a moon
In joyous June
She Is Mine. 23
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Never a queen
Ready to bear
We gallop away
Side by side,
The Farewell.
Not going abroad? What, to-morrow,
Of My Love. 24
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She: A bore!
Who can rule with a smile what a king could not rule,
The Farewell. 25
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Could it be?
She: He did.
She: No.
She: Oh!
He (ecstatically): Kiss.
NELL."
Acting.
Ah, my arms hold you fast! How can they be so bold
Ah, my arms hold you fast, and my lips touch your cheek,
Acting. 29
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An Apache Love-Song.[1]
A-atana she was here.
An Apache Love-Song.[1] 30
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[1]
A-atana, yesterday. Hi-you, where. A-coo, here. U's-tey, come, or bring. U'-ga-sha, go, or take. A-oo, yes. I
have no authority for the spelling of these words. I rendered them phonetically from the pronunciation of a
young Apache whom I hired to teach me the language. Many Apache words have no perceptible accent. A,
here, has the sound of a in father.
And she knows not the styles of the Spring or the Fall;
A Retrospect.
I was poor as a beggar,—she knew it,—
Hard Hit.
I guess that I'm done for, old chappie!
A Retrospect. 32
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Rejected.
Aw, yes, bah Jove. I thought you'd answer "No."
Hard Hit. 33
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Jokers
Jokers 34
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Theft.
The moonlight steals around the pine;
Theft. 35
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Of presenting papaw
Ingratitude.
Last night young Cupid lost his way,
A Few Resolutions.
(With Reservations)
Ingratitude. 38
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A Dilemma.
A letter for me,
A jewel—a gem—ah!
A precious dilemma,
Here is a kiss;
A Dilemma. 39
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You hesitate,
Be quick—
The Hero.
He looked so handsome, proud, and brave,
Her Fan.
A dainty thing of silk and lace,
The Hero. 41
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I broke it at a ball.
Certainty.
Phyllis, love may be for you,
A million, as I know.
Her Fan. 42
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Caught.
When Phyllis turned her eyes on me
An Important Distinction.
She said, without a single sigh,
Two Kinds.
Oh, her eyes, her beautiful eyes!
Caught. 43
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Or her e's,
N's, or u's
As you please
What it Is.
Just a little melancholy,
That is what it is to be
Two Kinds. 44
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In her Pew.
She looked up from her pew
Or in the dance
In her Pew. 45
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Particular,
A Slight Surprise.
Come, lovely Laura! strike the lyre,
A Difference in Style.
Sweet Phyllis sat upon a stile,
Afraid.
Down the broad stairs,
Stranger to cares,
Ye Retort Exasperating.
"Sweete maide," ye lovesicke youthe remarked,
A Difference in Style. 48
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A Rhyming Reverie.
It was a dainty lady's glove;
A Sure Winner.
Oh, treat me not with cold disdain,
Ye Retort Exasperating. 49
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Collects in admiration;
Tantalization.
She stands beneath the mistletoe
A Sure Winner. 50
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Lost to reason,
We were single.
He is through us,
Worried, harried.
Love is sighing;
Love is dying.
We are married.
A kiss, a sigh,
A melting eye.
A winter at Nice
Plenty of wine,
A winter complete
On Uneasy Street,
A temptation to rob,
A twelve-dollar job,
A boarding-house meal,
Uncertainty.
Jenny has a laughing eye,
But why?
But when?
But which?
Her Peculiarities.
The Question of the Learned Man.
Uncertainty. 54
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"Good day,"
Be quite
Polite;
A Bachelor's Views.
A pipe, a book,
A cosy nook,
A dog, a glass;—
Is but a jade,
In silken gown
To you or me
So let us drink
To her,—but think
In bachelordom,—it's cheaper.
My Cigarette.
Ma pauvre petite,
My little sweet,
'My cigarette—
(I'll be discreet.)
Away from me
You see I do
To be that boy
A Bachelor's Views. 57
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Discovered.
AN EPISODE ON BEACON HILL.
I don't wonder.
Reading Browning;
Hard as thunder!
I abhor it.
Now to me it—
It must be hard so
Upside down.
And the harp makes one fancy that angels are near.
Discovered. 58
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There's naught like the clink and the clank and the crunch
There's naught like the clink and the clank and the crunch
Beautiful,
Dutiful,
Grand,
Rosier,
Cosier,
And
pelling me,
Selling me,
Stage, was a
Rage, as a—
Why—
Papers her
Capers were
Writ.
Dollar and
Holler and
Sit
No
"No!" The word
And a coupé;
SCENE: Elsinore—a platform before the castle (on an improvised stage). Inky darkness. Shade of
Hamlet (solus).
Shade of Hamlet: Oh, did you see him, did you see the knave,
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So abominably.
A feminine assault.
Vanity Fair.
Oh, whence, oh, where
Is Vanity Fair?
Is Vanity Fair.
It's North and it's South, and it's East and it's West;
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