The Garden of Years and Other Poems

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

The Garden of Years and Other Poems  (1904)  by Guy Wetmore Carryl

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This volume, published posthumously in 1904, is a collection of poems by Guy Wetmore Carryl. The poems were written between 1893 and 1902. This anthology features an introductory poem by Carolyn Wells and an introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman. The poems are listed on this page in the order published in the volume.

Verse

Guy Wetmore Carryl
Died April 1, 1904

        Yes, the gods loved him. In his one brief hour
        They gave him all fair gifts within their power.
                Yet oh, the pity of it ! Would that they
        Had paused ere they bestowed their final dower.
Carolyn Wells.

Contents

• Author’s Note (by Guy Wetmore Carryl)
• To the Reader (by Edmund Clarence Stedman)
• The Garden of Years (1901)
• The White Republic (1897)
• Rex Captivus (1901)
• Ad Finem Fideles (1898)
• When the Great Gray Ships Come In (1898)
• Tripoli (1902)
• Gloria Mundi (1900)
• The Fog (1901)
• Harlequin (1902)
• The Passing of Pan (1896)
• Phœbus Apollo (1900)
• “Whom the World Calls Idle” (1899)
• Hesperia (1896)
• Haven-Mother (1897)
• Gettysburg (1898)
• Atlantis (1899)
• The Easter Lily (1893)
• “The Winds and the Sea Obey Him” (1897)
• Derelict (1900)
• The Débutante (1902)
• Shells (1897)
• At Twilight (1898)
• Paris (1901)
• Ebb-Tide (1898)
• June (1895)
• The Children (1901)
• Narcissus (1896)
• Pompeii (1900)
• On the Prow (1896)
• A Fragment (1893)
• The Spirit of Mid-Ocean (1901)

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.