Dark Summer
DARK SUMMMER
LOUISE BOGAN
DARK SUMMER
DARK SUMMER
POEMS
By
LOUISE BOGAN
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1929
COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Copyright, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, by Republic Publishing Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1928, by Harriet Monroe
Copyright, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, by The Nation, Inc.
Copyright, 1923, Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Copyright, 1923, by The New York Evening Post, Inc.
Copyright, 1924, by The Century Company
Copyright, 1923, by Robert M. McBride & Company
Copyright, 1924, 1925, by The Measure
Copyright, 1926, by New York Tribune, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
RAYMOND HOLDEN
Magazine, The Measure, The Nation, The New Republic,
"Books" (The New York Herald Tribune), Poetry, A Ma-
-gazine of Verse, and The Century, and thanks
are due to the editors for the permission to
reprint them, and especially to Robert M.
McBride and Company for permission
to include in this volume certain
poems reprinted from "Body
of This Death," published
by them in 1923.
CONTENTS
I
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| Winter swan | 3 |
| If we take all gold | 4 |
| The drum | 5 |
| Division | 6 |
| Cassandra | 7 |
| The cupola | 8 |
| Girl's song | 9 |
| Feuernacht | 10 |
| Second song | 12 |
| The mark | 13 |
| Late | 14 |
| Simple autumnal | 15 |
II
| |
| The flume | 19 |
III
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| Medusa | 33 |
| Sub contra | 35 |
| Ad Castitatem | 36 |
| Portrait | 38 |
| The romantic | 39 |
| The alchemist | 40 |
| Men loved wholly beyond wisdom | 41 |
| Stanza | 42 |
| Chanson un peu naïve | 43 |
| Fifteenth farewell | 44 |
| Since you would claim the sources of my thought | 46 |
IV
| |
| Dark summer | 49 |
| For a marriage | 50 |
| Didactic piece | 51 |
| Tears in sleep | 53 |
| Song for a slight voice | 54 |
| The crossed apple | 55 |
| Sonnet | 57 |
| Fiend's weather | 58 |
| I saw eternity | 59 |
| Come, break with time | 60 |
| Old countryside | 61 |
V
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| Summer wish | 65 |
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