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HE DROPPED INTO POETRY

BY
WINTHROP PACKARD



CANTON, MASS.

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1940

THE NORWOOD PRESS,
Norwood, Mass.


                                                                                                               H. S. Adams, Photo
WINTHROP PACKARD
Taking note of the Goblin-town cries from the Great Blue Heron rookery.


Dedicated to
SILAS WEGG

CONTENTS


Invocation
Triolet
Triolet
Triolet
Chicory dooms
Signs of Spring
By Sea and Shore
A Red Rose in Her Hair
The Souls That Wait
Frost
The Lullaby
Lest Love Should Hide
The Spring Is Smiling in Your Eyes
June
The Seaward Hill
Helen Looks On at the Dance
A Ballad of Belinda
Madrigal
Rosalie
Autumn
April Night
Love's Easter
A Valentine



The Song of the Strays
Billy Bleeder
The Message
At San Juan Hill
Her Soldier Valentine
The Yankee Volunteer
The Keeping of the Alamo
The Phantom Liner
The Woman or the Devil



The Man That Bumps the Drum
In Lazy Land
The Nobody Man



Thanksgiving
Wild Calla
A Year of Waiting
The Ash
The Statue of Arthur
Afterglow
Anemone
The Cardinal Flower
The Tower of London
Spring's Call
Alaskan Gold
Life
Snow



Mother's Hand Was Hot
Sally's in the High School
The Oil of Birch
The Poet's Recipe
The Captive Rhyme
The Vagrant Thought
Circumstances Alter Kisses
Adolphe Smythe Wrote for Magazines
Chacun a Son Flue
Dream Gardens
Unwilling Fate
A Good Roads Text
Theatrical
My Lady's Sleeves
One He Slipped Up On
An Old Story—To Her
Well, Yes, It Was Cold
You Bet!
Why They Were Sad
The Tea Caddy
The Girl in the Next Front Pew
What He'd Do
To My Cyclometer
Awheel Awhile
Evolution
To a Botanist
At Bowls
Pussy Willow



The Shoogy Shoo
Kathleen at the Door
Midnight in Derry
The Leprechaun
The Hills of Donegal



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