SOLDIERS OF THE
LIGHT
BY
HELEN GRAY CONE
BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
1911
Copyright, 1910, by Helen Gray Cone
All Rights Reserved
Many of the poems included in this volume areused through the courteous permission of the editorsof The Century Magazine, The Churchman,The Atlantic Monthly, and Scribner’s Magazine,where they originally appeared.
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| The Soldiers of the Light | 5 |
| The Third Day at Gettysburg | 7 |
| Abraham Lincoln: February 12, 1909 | 33 |
| Greencastle Jenny: A Ballad of ’Sixty-Three | 38 |
| By the Blockhouse on the Hill: A Ballad of ’Ninety-Eight | 40 |
| The Admiral’s Story | 42 |
| Death After War | 45 |
| The Riddle of Wreck | 46 |
| The Common Street | 47 |
| Calnan’s Christmas | 48 |
| Guion | 50 |
| Poverty Row | 52 |
| The Inn of the Star | 54 |
| Marina Sings | 55 |
| The King’s Diamond | 58 |
| Death-Tryst | 61 |
| The Iris-Bridge | 63 |
| Desire of Fame | 64[Pg 4] |
| Rose-Rent | 65 |
| The Frigate-Ghost | 66 |
| Fair England | 69 |
| To the Memory of Richard Watson Gilder | 71 |
[Pg 5]