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4487578Fox Footprints1923Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Fox Footprints

New Borzoi Poetry
Spring 1923

Fox Footprints
Elizabeth J. Coatsworth

New YorkAlfred · A · KnopfMCMXXIII

Copyright, 1923, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Published, March 1923

Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York.
Bound by H. Wolff Estate, New York.

Manufactured in the United States of America

To
I. R. and M. R. C. S.
in memory of our year in Asia

For permission to reprint certain of the poems in this volume thanks are due Contemporary Verse, The Century, The Dial, Harper's Magazine, The Liberator, The New East (Tokyo), Poetry (Chicago), Youth, and Asia, in whose pages many of them first appeared.

Contents

Enough of intersecting city streets
Moon Over Japan
Moon Over Japan 3
Daibutsu 4
Nikko 5
Fuji 6
Lacquer 7
Sails 8
At the Bridge-of-heaven 9
Code 10
Tears in the Night 11
Courtesan Arranging Her Coiffure 12
May 13
At Dusk a Fox 14
Legend 15
The Inviolable 16
Garden God 17
A Child 18
Samurai Woman 19
Bewitched 20
Mid-winter 21
Reminiscence 22
Scenes From the Makura no Shoshi and the Geni Monogatari 24
From the Pillow Sketches 24
Court Ceremony 26
The Forgotten Lover 27
Japan 28
Moon Over China
Moon Over China 33
Early Dusk 34
Spring 35
Prayer 36
From the Pavilion 37
Loneliness 38
Tribute 39
Deserted 40
By the Canal 41
Ghouls 42
Marsh Chase 43
Release 44
The Mountains 45
The Great Wall 46
Exile 47
Iris From Chinese Bulbs
Autumn 51
Peony 52
Fox Grave 53
Flattery 54
The Lover 55
The Tomb of Flowers 56
Festival 57
Love Tower 58
The Waves 59
China 60
Moon Over the Tropics
Moon Over the Tropics 63
The South Seas Islands 64
Les Seins aux Fleurs Rouges 65
Apparition 66
The Coolie Ship 67
Under the Sandalwood Tree 68
The Sacred Pastoral of Brindāban 69
Cow-Dust 69
Secret Meeting 70
Jealousy 70
Longing 71
Content 71
Adventure 72
Java 73
In Siamese Waters 74
The Oxen 75
Chang Wat 76
Bali 77
I have seen lovely sights in far-off places

Fox Footprints



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