{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3920", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3920", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "jlJKAj\\nPOEMS\\nWILL SKALING\\nInscribed with every feeling of friendship and esteem,\\nTo ARTHUR LYMAN MARSH.\\nPRICE, 65 CENTS\\nSEATTLE:\\nPress of the Merchants Printing Company, Scheuerman Blk.", "height": "3952", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "43222\\nONE COPY RECEIVED.\\n[Library oi Congress\\nSEP 4 (900\\nCopyright entry\\n1 wm copy.\\n2nd Copy Delivered to\\nORDER DIVISION\\nSEP 7 1901\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nBy Will, Skaling,\\nAvon, Washington.", "height": "3920", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE.\\nPAGE.\\nAbove the Bay\\n1\\nMorn at Sea\\n23\\nA Sword Gleam\\n2\\nHurrying\\n24\\nA Kiss..\\n3\\nIdle Fancy\\n25\\nShelley s Spirit\\n4\\nThe Dying Century\\n26\\nTo Fear\\n5\\nInvitation\\n27\\nAdvent of Spring\\n6\\nThe New Born Sun\\n28\\nHope\\n7\\nMoonlight\\n29\\nTo Mv Soul\\n8\\nTo Eban H. Crandall\\n30\\nDull Time\\n9\\nPallas Shrine\\n31\\nPress On\\n10\\nBob-White\\n32\\nSidney Lanier\\n11\\nSilence\\n33\\nA Request\\n12\\nThe Unseen Fate\\n34\\nMt. Baker\\n13\\nA River Song\\n35\\nMorn on Puget Soun\\nd 14\\nA Broken Promise\\n36\\nI Linger\\n15\\nNeowana\\n37\\nTo Arthur Lyman ft\\narsh 16\\nOcean Swells\\n38\\nOn Re-Reading K(\\n3ats\\nMy Brethren\\n39\\nEndymion\\n17\\nNot for Me\\n40\\nIsabel\\n18\\nWhispers\\n41\\nThe New Religion\\n19\\nTo Isabella Evans Hadfield\\n42\\nA Tender Voice\\n20\\nInfinite\\n43\\nHope that is Forlori\\ni 21\\nOn the River\\n44\\nThe Languid Sun\\n22\\nNifhrata\\n45", "height": "3920", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3920", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "ABOVE THE BAY.\\nThis summer s day fades slow away\\nWhile scream the gulls above the bay\\nYet, as the splendor mourns again,\\nPale Eve upon the hills remain.", "height": "3920", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "A SWORD GLEAM.\\nFrowning Night advances, her white robes trailing,\\nAs fades pale Day, her splendor failing.\\nIn the fading glory of the western skies afar\\nI see the quivering sword gleam of one pale star.", "height": "3920", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A KISS.\\nA kiss, what is it? Tis the mingling of two souls in\\nrapture blended\\nTis a gleam of unseen sweetness, a living bliss that s\\nnever ended\\nTis a flash of poet s glories vanishing in the joy of\\nbirth\\nTis the tie that binds our souls in one and weds our\\njoys on earth.", "height": "3920", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "SHELLEY S SPIRIT.\\nShelley s spirit hovers o er me I can see his face afar.\\nPoor, sad Shelley, Danae loves thee, but I love\\nthe water-nymph\\nThat weeping clasped thee in her arms and bore thee\\nto yon haven-bar,\\nWhile inly blooms the asphodel, and mourns for\\nthee sweet Hyacinth.", "height": "3920", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A FEAR.\\nDread dweller in the pit of fire, from Pluto s ghostly\\nland,\\nI see thy fearful, frightened face aud hear thy\\nrustling pinion\\nThat waves awhile before my brow ere seen by the\\nFuries band\\nPale Fear, I recognize thy face, but own not thy\\ndominion.", "height": "3920", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "ADVENT OF SPRING.\\nPale Winter fades amid the gloom of the slowly\\nwaning day,\\nWhile blushing Spring on wings of dawn doth herald\\nforth the May,\\nAnd the heart of Youth is stirred by Love, regarding\\nnot the thorn,\\nAs I wander drear o er the cloud-crowned hills, all\\nsplendor in the morn.", "height": "3920", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "HOPE.\\nHope, sweet Hope, thou dost hover o er the world\\nThou dost steal away my sorrow and my care.\\nWilt thou ever hover near me with thy silver wings\\nunfurled,\\nCalm my anger, steal my sorrow, grant me Love\\ndivine, most rare.", "height": "3920", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "TO MY SOUL.\\nWhy linger in this cursed world Rise starward in\\nthe flashing light\\nCast away the thralls of Death, gaze scornful at the\\nInfinite.\\nBe haughty to the one named God oh, stop the\\ngrinding wheels of Time\\nBlast the hand that toys with us, rest in thy Godlike\\nstrength sublime.", "height": "3920", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "DULL TIME.\\nTime, dull Time, pass on with hasting wing,\\nMy heart s best love, to thee, I willing bring.\\nMy Past, dim time, hath vanished with the light;\\nTo-day is gone, mid clouds of dusky night.", "height": "3920", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "IO\\nPRESS ON.\\nPress on, thou weary mortal, thy pathway long is\\nwinding\\nGaze upward at the morning sun, that roseate clouds\\nare binding.\\nHew out thy path, dispel thy fears, with song thy\\npath beguiling,\\nMount upward to the infinite, where dreamy Love is\\nsmiling.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "II\\nSIDNEY LANIER.\\nOh mourn for the one that to Poesy is dear,\\nWeep, sunny South, at the mention of Lanier\\nMourn for Lanier who sleepeth cold in Death,\\nWhile the mournful wind sigheth o er the dreary heath.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nA REQUEST\\nI worship thee, bright Phoebus, and kneeling at thy\\nfeet,\\nOh, take me to thy poet s hall where Poesy and\\nMusic meet\\nOh, let me for one minute kneel and hear the\\nwondrous singing,\\nAnd as the vision fades away I hear the echoes\\nringing.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "i3\\nMT. BAKER.\\nAll hail Mount Baker, stern yet grand, I love thy\\nfrowning head so white,\\nThy falling waters foaming free, thy snows where the\\nmoon burns bright\\nYour valleys where the wild rose blooms, here, the\\nviolet blue is seen\\nOld mountain, thou dost know the Past and Future\\ntoo, I ween.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "H\\nMORN ON PUGET SOUND.\\nThe dun, drear clouds of night are fading, while morn\\ncomes from afar,\\nThe east is blushing red with light, as sadly dies the\\nmorning star.\\nNight waves her wand before my brow, I see the\\ndarkness fail,\\nWhile glows the east with sapphire blaze and ame-\\nthystine clouds, all pale.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "x 5\\nI LINGER.\\nI linger in this lonely world, I know not why,\\nI listen to the morn-bird s song that dies in the blush-\\ning sky.\\nOh chill the wind that stirs the reeds on the wide\\nand desolate heath,\\nOh linger but a little more, then cometh blissful\\nDeath.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nTO ARTHUR LYMAN MARSH.\\nWhen, in the burial of the Past, was born anew the\\nSpirit of Song,\\nGlad Nature smiled again, amazed, and kist her\\npoet s dreaming face.\\nShe said, Oh Poet of my later days, chant songs of\\nHope, assail the wrong,\\nAnd when thou tirest of mocking Life, come to\\nmy lingering, fond embrace.\\nu Still lives the power of antique song, tho cities\\ncrumble to decay\\nEven the empires of the West are torn by\\nMight s dominion.\\nYea, die away the sceptered kings, as fades pale Death\\nbeyond the bay\\nTho world s decay in vasty space I hear the\\nrustle of sad Song s pinion.\\nFor when, dear friend, my missions o er, wilt lay me\\nin yon shady dell,\\nWhere mourns the aspen all the day, beside the\\nendless, trembling sea.\\nPerchance, when Time has passed away, then blooms\\nfor me the asphodel\\nThen, Arthur, weep above my bier, the home of\\none that wrote for thee.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "i7\\nON RE-READING KEATS ENDYMION.\\nHail, Endymion, happiest of mortals, since with thy\\nlove thou dwellest\\nPhoebus sounding lyre thou heard, as the music died\\naway in pain, anon, it sweetly swellest,\\nWhile on the wings of Mercury didst fright the listen-\\ning air and past the gleaming seven\\nWith Phoebe fair, ideal love, dost dwell in joy in\\nsounding heaven.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "i8\\nISABEL.\\nFair Isabel, sweet Isabel, bright faced nymph of the\\nriver grasses,\\nPan worships thee, I love thee, Phoebus kisses thy\\ndarkened tresses.\\nThou lovest me, neath Dian s ray, oh, Isabel, so\\ntender\\nWe ll dwell on high in the laughing sky with Love\\nin the radiant splendor.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "x 9\\nTHE NEW RELIGION.\\nL,o on my sight, the Churches war and vanish in\\nthe Past\\nThe New Religion welcomes me at the notes of the\\nbugle blast,\\nWhile Churches, Creeds and Dogmas lie in the dread\\nabyss of Time\\nAmazed they see the faith of man, the Universal\\nChurch sublime.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nA TENDER VOICE.\\nThe hawthorn blooms are falling, fading in the grass,\\nAs the bloom of Life, that, failing, grieving to the\\nend will pass.\\nThe elm trees are sighing, their boughs to the storm\\nwinds bend,\\nWhile I listen to a tender voice that charms me to\\nthe end.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nHOPE THAT IS FORLORN.\\nLife, sweet Life, wilt thou ever dwell anear me\\nThou dost hover o er the Future and dost guard the\\nbrooding sea\\nThat is covered with the wrecks of Time, with Hope\\nthat is forlorn,\\nStill gazing at the coming tide and waiting for the\\nmorn.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nTHE LANGUID SUN.\\nWhisper sweetly, gentle west wind, in thy murmuring\\nundertone,\\nWhile the waving pine-tops shiver in the evening air\\nalone.\\nLo the languid sun is sinking in the calm and\\nsplendid west,\\nWhile the gently dying west wind kiss my weary\\neyes to rest.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nMORN AT SEA.\\nHast thou heard the dreamy beating of the surf upon\\nthe shore,\\nIn the flushing dawn of morning while the sea doth\\nmorn adore\\nOh the splendor and the radiance of a morn-break\\nbright at sea,\\nWhile the winds that kiss the billows moaneth ever\\nrestlessly.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nHURRYING.\\nHurrying along through life we go,\\nReck not for sorrow or heart-breaking woe\\nHustling, bustling, we dance to the end,\\nThen pray that the gods on our souls may attend.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nIDLE FANCY.\\nI gaze upon the lonely hills their eternal silence\\nkeeping,\\nAnd listen to the midnight moan of Oreads sleeping,\\nThe snow-clad hills that waken me from idle Fancy\\nstraying\\nYet, Fancy hovers near me still, her airy flight\\ndelaying.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nTHE DYING CENTURY.\\nLo as the dying century fades in battle-clouds and\\nand storm,\\nFrom out the womb of palsied Time appears a won-\\ndrous form,\\nA Cherubim, within whose hand is seen an olive\\nbranch of Peace\\nOn her mild form the nations gaze and from their\\ndread wars cease.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\nINVITATION.\\nThe hawthorn bloom invites the bee,\\nThe stretch of sands doth meet the sea,\\nWhile swaying pine boughs kiss the breeze\\nThat stirs the forest draperies.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nTHE NEW BORN SUN.\\nOh, unrisen splendor of the new born sun,\\nEre white robed Hesper her course hath run,\\nHail, clouds that blushing red with light\\nDoth kiss the stars that grieve at death of night.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\nMOONLIGHT.\\nWeirdly the moonlight glimmers, pale on the swelling\\ntide,\\nWhere the grass and the rushes shiver and the water\\nnymphs abide.\\nDreamily murmur the waters as the tide doth ebb and\\nflow,\\nWhile over the gleaming beauty night s breezes whis-\\nper low.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "3\u00c2\u00b0\\nTO EBEN H. CRANDALL.\\nDear friend, if this displeases you, then pardon me\\nBut from my high regard for you I brim my glass to\\nthee.\\nRemember me as one alone, think of me when I m\\ndead,\\nYet, while the world malign me, shed one poor tear\\nabove my head.\\nStill, as my slowly waning star sinks in the sleepy\\nwest,\\nAnd as the winds blow o er my tomb, wilt wreath a\\ncrown for one at rest,\\nOnce again, dear Eben, I see you while the storm-\\nwinds flee,\\nAnd with my failing breath, dear friend, I quaff a\\nhealth to thee.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "3i\\nPALLAS SHRINE.\\nThe breath of wanton springtime cometh stealing o er\\nthe cresses,\\nAs stole the fawns upon the nymphs in Delphian\\nwildernesses.\\nThen will I tread the dreary heath and write within\\nthe wildwood,\\nAnd build a shrine to Pallas wise and worship in the\\nsolitude.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nBOB-WHITE.\\nBob- White ethereal songster of my Avon s sleeping\\nmeadows.\\nMelodies of vanished orbs I hear, but, not for thee\\nhath Pluto shadows.\\nAll to thee my verse is offered, I that linger near thy\\nshrine\\nThy song hath wooed my soul afar, thou vernal bird\\ndivine.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nSILENCE.\\nWhite-robed silence hovers o er the sea,\\nCalming the billows with a deeper mystery,\\nSailing o er the wave, her white plumes waving.\\nHer pearly hands in the salt wave laving.\\nFading away at the slow approach of morn,\\nNight s wreaths of darkness doth her form adorn.\\nFare the well, sweet Silence, thy long embrace\\nart tender,\\nVanish, pale Silence, in the dreamy splendor.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nTHE UNSEEN FATE.\\nMen, my brethren, why wilt sorrow for the lost and\\nvanished days\\nCease thy pining, face the Present, tread down Time s\\ndevious ways\\nFling thy pleasures in the Past, entomb each vain\\ndesire,\\nYea, girding on your former might, follow yon waver-\\ning fire.\\nBreak from the narrow creeds of Time, defy the\\nChurch s hate,\\nPlace on thy head the crown of thought, search out\\nthy unseen Fate\\nDestroy the Old, bring forth the New, and curb the\\nworld-wide Wrong,\\nTill Earth s united people s join in one triumphant", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nA RIVER SONG.\\nThe river s monotone is like sweet music dying,\\nOr like a love-lorn maid, her love a-sighing\\nTis like the wail of lyres, in languor dwelling,\\nOr tis a grand triumphant chant to Phoebe swelling.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nA BROKEN PROMISE.\\nOnly a broken promise, only a bleeding heart,\\nOnly a lingering kiss before we part\\nOnly a scornful world laughing at my grief,\\nTis only kissing Death that giveth me relief.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nNEOWANA.\\nNeowana, fair as Helen, came to dwell awhile with\\nme,\\nRousing me from dreamy slumbers, lying near the\\nhappy sea.\\nSilken tress of midnight darkness, eyne of starry,\\nmelting brown,\\nForm of angel sweetness, rests in my embrace like\\ndown.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nOCEAN SWELLS.\\nOcean swells beneath the crags and moaneth in the\\ndarkened caves,\\nOh, waft me perfumes from the east, gems where the\\npalm tree waves,\\nCorols from the dusky south, with feldsfar from the\\nfretted north\\nOh, bear me on thy foaming tides far over bars and\\nforth.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "39\\nMY BRETHREN.\\nI sing again my brothers wrongs and weep for thee,\\noh, fellow man\\nI feel thy sorrows, cares and grief, thy path I inly\\nscan.\\nPlace thy trust in the Infinite, buckle on the sword of\\nmight,\\nAnd drive before thy allied ranks the demons of the\\nnight.\\nTear down the palaces of Vice, those parasites of man,\\nDestroy the fragments of old Time, fling gold beneath\\nyour ban\\nHurl down the idols of the Church and burn them on\\nthe shore,\\nWhile in the wonder of the New, wilt reach the\\nGolden Age once more.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "4o\\nNOT FOR ME.\\nNot for me the rose is blooming, I, who linger in this\\nworld,\\nNor for me hath Fame a guerdon, e en the swelling\\nmusic dies.\\nEven mankind inly scorns me, cometh Death with\\nplumes unfurled\\nu Oh reck not for the hated world, my soul in\\ndread replies.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "4i\\nWHISPERS.\\nThe river calletb to the mountains, the forest and the\\nsea,\\nAnd murmurs by its sedgy banks to ocean tossing\\nrestlessly.\\nIt mourneth for the fading stars in sandy wildernesses,\\nAud whispers to the cooing doves, in new-born Rove s\\ncaresses.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nTO ISABELLA EVANS HADFIELD.\\nThe morn-blooming roses blush red as you dream,\\nWhile earth is a bower wherever thou art\\nDost gaze on the ocean neath Phoebe s mild beam,\\nThe nymphs there abiding, weep whiles you depart.\\nIsabella, Neowana and Onona,\\nHappy three,\\nDancing where the moonlight glimmers on the waters\\nRestlessly.\\nMy sadness departs as weird Beauty appears,\\nSweet Fancy hath vanished, still weeping, depart,\\nThy presence hath left me, while hasten the years,\\nThe lustre of dark eyne dwells long in my heart.\\nOnona, Neowana and Isabel,\\nTo thee, farewell\\nDreaming in the starlight, sleeping Venus daughters,\\nFair Isabel.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nINFINITE.\\nThe Religions of the world are false, I hate them\\nmore and more\\nThey vanish in the depths of Time, they die away in\\nthe darkling Past.\\nWhile war-drums sound the death of State and Echo\\nanswer nevermore,\\nYet live eterne, dread Infinite, that triumphs in the\\nbugle blast.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nON THE RIVER.\\nSilently walk, pale silvery moon, o er the starry\\nwaves to-night,\\nSleepily glide the sparkles of foam on the murmer-\\ning river tide.\\nDrousily scream dim birds of the dark, alone in their\\nsudden flight,\\nFade in the west, thou radiant orb, fair, blushing\\nspirit-bride.", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "45\\nNIFHRATA.\\nPale Evening in the distance dies, the stars hath lost\\ntheir lustre,\\nThe hills of dawn in wonder sleep, fade slow away the\\nPlead cluster.\\nAurora in the dreamy east, her morning vigils keep-\\ning.\\nAnd near yon silver rivulet, Nifhrata lieth sleeping.", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "1900\\ni", "height": "3878", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3889", "width": "2518", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3941", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "poems00skal_0054.jp2"}}