Ships in Harbour

Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without notice. One printer's error was changed, and it is indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end . All other inconsistencies are as in the original. SHIPS IN HARBOUR BY DAVID MORTON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 Copyright, 1921 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Printed in the United States of America To T. B. M. AND M. W. M. This Book is Affectionately Dedicated For the privilege of reprinting some of the poems included in this book, the author's thanks are due to The Bookman , The Century , The New York Evening Post , Harper's Magazine , Poetry: A Magazine of Verse , The Designer , The Nation , The New York Sun , Collier's Weekly , Good Housekeeping , The Bellman , Contemporary Verse , Everybody's Magazine , The Smart Set , Ainslee's , The Sonnet , McCall's Magazine , The Touchstone Magazine , The Forum , and The Lyric . CONTENTS PAGE Wooden Ships 3 October Day-Moon 4 A Garden Wall 5 Napoleon in Hades 6 Symbols 7 Exiled 8 Mary Sets the Table 9 Autumn Tea Time 10 Battlefields 11 One Day in Autumn 12 An Old House and Garden 13 Immortalis 14 Touring 15 Summer 17 Old Ships 18 The Town 19 After Summer Rain 24 The Kings are Passing Deathward 25 Renewal 26 Respondit 27 Jewels 28 Chorus 29 Symbol 30 To an Unknown Ancestor 31 Intimation 32 On a Dead Moth 33 Mystic 34 Leviathans 35 Inviolate 36 Manuscripts 37 In an Old Burial Ground 38 Encore 39 Redemption 40 The Hunted 41 The Schoolboy Reads his Iliad 42 Moments 43 Clear Morning 44 Renaissance 45 An Old Lover 46 One Day in Summer 47 Vines 48 Audience 49 The Dance 50 On Hearing a Bird Sing at Night 51 Dawn 52 Daffodils Over Night 53 Values 54 A Ghost out of Stratford 55 Who Walks with Beauty 56 Raconteur 57 Affinities 58 Transfiguration 59 One Way of Spring 60 For a Sequestered Lady 61 Heritage 63 Shipping News 64 Articulation 65 Moonflowers 66 Challenge 67 Before Spring 68 Moons Know No Time 69 My Neighbour 70 At the Next Table 71 Salvage 72 In a Girl's School 73 At Eisinore 74 To William Griffith 75 Revelation 76 Discovery 77 For Bob: A Dog 78 In Summer 79…