POEMS

JOHN W. DRAPER

THE POET LORE COMPANY
BOSTON

Copyright, 1913, by John W. Draper

All Rights Reserved

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

PREFACE

Most of the poems collected in this volume have already seen the lightof print in the Colonnade, the monthly publication of the Andiron Clubof New York University. The effort of the author has not been to writeverses especially adapted to the taste of the modern public, but ratherto create "a thing of beauty" from the theme that filled his mind at thetime. Often he has been led into somewhat bold innovations such as theinvention of the miniature ode, and the associating of an idea with arime-motiv in the metrical short-stories. While he hopes that the newforms will justify themselves, he realizes that after all, the poemsmust stand or fall in proportion to the amount of pure artistic beautycontained within them.

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