Chapter I: Front Matter

HERBS AND APPLES

HERBS AND APPLES

BY

HELEN HAY WHITNEY

AUTHOR OF "SONGS AND SONNETS," "GYPSY VERSES," ETC.

NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD MCMX

Copyright, 1910 BY JOHN LANE COMPANY

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

I give you this, the bitter and the sweet. It holds my heart, can you not hear it beat? So poor a gift to put within your hand-- Apples and Herbs!--but you will understand.

CONTENTS

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TO NEIGHBOR LIFE 1

THE UNBURIED 2

UP A LITTLE ROAD 3

ON CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK 4

CHE SARÀ SARÀ 5

THE DEAD WANTON 6

LEAVEN 7

QUAERITUR 8

LOVE LAND 9

BY THE WESTERN GATE 10

FOR MUSIC 11

THE LITTLE GHOST 12

MADONNA EVE 13

A CONVERSATION 14

BE BRAVE 15

FORFEITURE 16

THE SEARCH 17

DUST 18

NATURE'S CHILD 19

VERITATIS 20

THE PEACOCK 21

ANTICIPATION 22

THE WAYFARER 23

RENUNCIATION 24

ARABESQUE 25

THE ARCHITECTS 26

AMBUSH 27

THE SCALES 28

THE OLD TRAGEDY 29

TABOO 30

THE RIVALS 31

ALONE 32

BENEATH THE MASK 33

THOTH 34

LITTLE DANCER 35

SIC ITUR AD ASTRA 36

THE JUDGES 37

THE SPRING PLANTING 38

AN IMPRESSIONIST PICTURE 39

SUCH HELP FOR SINGING 40

TEMPUS EDAX RERUM 41

THE COWARD 42

THE LOST ROMANY 43

COMPENSATION 44

UNTAMED 45

TO PERVANCHE 46

THE BELLE 47

RELEASE 48

THE THIEF 49