Main Street and other poems

by Joyce Kilmer

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MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS

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MAIN
STREET

and

OTHER POEMS

by

Joyce Kilmer

New York

George·H.·Doran Company

COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY GEOEGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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TO
MRS. EDMUND LEAMY

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Some of these poems are reprinted by permission; which is hereby gratefully acknowledged, of The Bellman, The Bookman, The Boston Transcript, the Catholic World, Collier's, The Columbiad, Contemporary Verse, The Delineator, Extension, House and Garden, The Magnificat, McBride's Magazine, The National Sunday Magazine, The New Witness, The New York Times, The Outlook, Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, The Poetry Review, The Queen's Work, and Studies.

CONTENTS

	Page
Main Street	13
Roofs	16
The Snowman in the Yard	19
A Blue Valentine	22
Houses	26
In Memory	28
Apology	31
The Proud Poet	34
Lionel Johnson	38
Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J.	39
Gates and Doors	40
The Robe of Christ	43
The Singing Girl	47
The Annunciation	48
Roses	49
The Visitation	51
Multiplication	52
Thanksgiving	54
The Thorn	55
The Big Top	56
Queen Elizabeth Speaks	60
Mid-ocean in War-time	61
In Memory of Rupert Brooke	62
The New School	63
Easter Week	66
The Cathedral of Rheims	68
Kings	73
The White Ships and the Red	74