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Title: When hearts are trumps
Author: Thomas Winthrop Hall
Release Date: March 25, 2004 [EBook #11711]
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When Hearts are Trumps
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Tom Hall
New York
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Sixth Edition
September 1898
The verses in this volume have been selected from work that has appeared in various periodicals during the past five years. Especially to the editors of LIFE, TRUTH, TOWN TOPICS, VOGUE, and MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE I have to offer my thanks for their permission to republish the majority of them.
T.H.
NEW YORK, February 1, 1894.
Contents.
Kings & Queens & Bowers.
The Perfect Face.
The Moonlight Sonata.
The Kiss
The Bride.
A Problem.
To Phyllis Reading a Letter.
A Rose from her hair.
When I told her my Love.
My Lady, you Blushed.
The American Slave.
Sell Her,—That's Right.
Time and Place.
Blood on the Rose.
In Old Madrid.
The Duel.
The Shroud.
Love's Return.
One Wish.
For Me.
To a Water-color.
The Serenade.
To the Rose in her hair.
Her Reverie.
To Beauty.
Dreaming of You.
Please Return.
Almost Dying of Ennui.
Jacks from Jack.
Hyacinths.
In The Waltz.
She Is Mine.
Old Times.
Of My Love.
The Farewell.
The Last Dance.
Why he asked for a Vacation.
The Editor's Valentine.
Acting.
An Apache Love-Song.
The Old-fashioned Girl.
A Retrospect.
Hard Hit.
Rejected.
Jokers
Her Yachting Cap.
Theft.
Before her Mirror.
At Old Point Comfort.
A Drop Too Much.
Ingratitude.
A Few Resolutions.
A Dilemma.
A Choice not Necessary.
That Boston Girl.
The Hero.
The Sweet Summer Girl.
Her Fan.
Certainty.
Caught.
An Important Distinction.
Two Kinds.
What it Is.
In her Pew.
The Suspicious Lover to the Star.
A Slight Surprise.
Past vs. Present.
The Usual Way.
A Difference in Style.
Afraid.
Ye Retort Exasperating.
A Rhyming Reverie.
A Sure Winner.
Tantalization.
His Usual Fate.
On Two Letters from Her.
A Serenade—en Deux Langues.
When a Girl says No.
Uncertainty.
Her Peculiarities.
The Reply of the Observant Youth.
Tying the Strings of her Shoe.
When You are Rejected.
A Bachelor's Views.
My Cigarette.
Discovered.
The Ice in the Punch.
The Tale of a Broken Heart.
Where did you get it?
No
A Midsummer Night's Tempest.
The Abused Gallant.
After the Ball.
Vanity Fair.
For the Long Voyage.
Kings
&
Queens
&
Bowers
The Perfect Face.
The Graces, on a summer day,
Grew serious for a moment; yea,
They thought in rivalry to trace
The outline of a perfect face.
Each used a rosebud for a brush,
And, while it glowed with sunset's blush,
Each painted on the evening sky,
And each a star used for the eye.
They finished. Each a curtaining cloud
Drew back, and each exclaimed aloud:
"Behold, we three have drawn the same,
From the same model!" Ah, her name?
I know. I saw the pictures grow.
I saw them falter, fade, and go.
I know the model. Oft she lures
My heart. The face, my sweet, was yours.
The Moonlight Sonata.
The notes still float upon the air,
Just as they did that night.
I see the old piano there,—
Oh, that again I might!
Her young voice haunts my eager ear;
Her hair in the candle-light
Still seems an aureole,—a tear
Is my spectroscope to-night.
I hear her trembling tell me No,
And I know that she answered right
But I throw a kiss to
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