Poems

"Poems" by John William Draper is a collection of poems. The author made an effort to create «a thing of beauty» from the theme that filled his mind at the time. Often he has been led into somewhat bold innovations such as the invention of the miniature ode, and the associating of an idea with a rime-motiv in the metrical short stories. While he hopes that the new forms will justify themselves, he realizes that after all, the poems must stand or fall in proportion to the amount of pure artistic beauty contained within them. Excerpt: «FROM A GRECIAN MYTH A palace he built him in the west, A palace of vermeil fringed with gold; And fain would he lie him down to rest In the palace he built him in the west Which every heavenly hue had dressed With halcyon harmonies untold: That palace, the sun built in the west, A palace of vermeil fringed with gold»