When Hearts are Trumps

By

Tom Hall

New York

Frederick A. Stokes

Company

Publishers

Frederick H. Stokes

Company

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.

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