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The Loom of Life - Cotton Noe
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Title: The Loom of Life
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THE
LOOM OF LIFE
COTTON NOE
Author of "The Blood of
Rachel and Other Poems"
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON
Copyright, 1917, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
TO
SIDNEY STANFILL NOE
Like her who wrought at the Old-fashioned Loom,
And toiled at Distaff and Wheel,—
The grace of the Lily, the breath of its bloom,—
The flame of the Martyr's zeal,—
She has woven the Web of a beautiful Life—
Oh, consecrate LOVE, my WIFE, my WIFE!
NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The Loom of Life was published late in 1912. It has had an unusual sale for a first volume of poetry, and there is still a steady demand for the book, which has been out of print for some months. This Second Edition is issued to meet that demand.
The Publisher
CONTENTS
Proem11
A Skein of Silver
The Old-Fashioned Loom 15
The Old Old Clock 17
The Old Spinning Wheel 18
The Old Water Mill 20
Waterloo 22
In the Happy Long Ago 24
The Old Drinking Gourd 25
A Spool of Silk
Solitude 29
Love's Triumph 30
My Guiding Star 31
Rhymes and Roses 32
There's Nothing Dark About Her But Her Hair 33
Blind Tom 34
A Sonnet of the Season 35
Euterpe 36
Scarlet Days 37
Her Eyes Are Brown 38
The Naturalist 39
Dedication 40
Nearing the Meridian 41
Our Pilgrimage 42
Ante Nuptial 43
Dr. Miles Saunders 44
Worship 45
Gold and Gossamer
To the Mocking Bird 49
A Rondel 50
The Play is O'er 51
A Rondeau 52
The Red Bird 53
Sunset in Breathitt 54
Eyes Divine 55
Jack Frost 56
Ad Aquilam 57
The Ice King in the South 59
Fettered 61
Helen of Troy 62
Cow Bells 63
Hollyhocks 64
Burns 65
Robert Loveman 66
Books 67
Songs Unsung 68
The Rainbow's End 69
Linen and Lace
Down Lover's Lane 73
Beneath the Chestnut Tree 74
Jack and Jill 77
Natura 78
Her Eyes 80
The Rose of Love 81
My Jewels 83
A Recollection 84
The Moonshiners 85
Silhouettes 90
Wade 92
A Song 93
The Bloom of Love 95
My Muse 96
A Hank of Homespun
The School of Skinny 99
One-Armed Joe 101
Wes Perkins 103
The First Mess of Greens 105
Wes Banks 107
Philosophy at a Banquet 109
Anent Halley's Comet 110
PROEM
Warp and woof from the loom of Life—
A fabric wrought in endless strife:—
Lights and shadows, night and day,
A thousand tints of gold and gray—
Ten thousand shades in leaf and bloom,
WARP and WOOF from Life's great Loom.
A SKEIN OF SILVER
THE OLD-FASHIONED LOOM
The old log house where Margaret lived, whose roof had mossy grown,
Reposed amid its clump of trees, a queen upon her throne.
The landscape round smiled proudly and the flowers shed sweet perfume,
When Margaret plied the shuttle of the rude old-fashioned loom.
The world has grown fastidious—demands things ever new—
But we could once see beauties in the rainbow's every hue;
The bee could then find nectar in a common clover bloom,
And simple hearts hear music in the shuttle of the loom.
The picture that my memory paints is never seen to-day—
The April sun of by-gone years has lost its brightest ray:
A fancy-wrought piano in a quaint, antique old room,
But Margaret sang her sweetest to the music of the loom.
She
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