OPEN WATER

BY

ARTHUR STRINGER

AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN THE RAIN," "IRISH POEMS," ETC.

NEW YORK—JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON—JOHN LANE—THE BODLEY HEAD
TORONTO—BELL & COCKBURN
MCMXIV

Copyright, 1914, by
JOHN LANE COMPANY

Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co.
New York, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

A Foreword
Milkweed
Home Thoughts
Life
Some Day, Oh Seeker of Dreams
Black Hours
Before Renewal
Hill-Top Hours
Letters from Home
Chains
The Drums
Anæsthesia
A Summer Night
Sappho's Tomb
The Wild Swans Pass
At Notre Dame
The Pilot
Doors
Spring Floods
The Turn of the Year
If I Love You
What Shall I Care?
Hunter and Hunted
Apple Blossoms
The House of Life
Ultimata
The Life on the Table
You Bid Me to Sleep
The Last of Summer
At Charing Cross
Prescience
The Steel Workers
The Children
The Nocturne
The Wild Geese
The Day
The Revolt
Atavism
March Twilight
The Echo
Autumn
Faces
There Is Strength in the Soil
Life-Drunk
My Heart Stood Empty
One Night in the