Don Blanding - All about the Vagabond Poet

DON BLANDING
First Lines...a work in progress

THE FIRST LINES GO HERE.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Poem Title"

A CUBBY-HOLE, DARK DINGY GRAY, TUCKED IN BETWEEN TWO STORES, WITH STAGNANT TUBS OF FISH ABOUT...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "The Candle Maker"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "The Candlemaker"

A GALLANT WOMAN, SPREADING MAN-MADE METAL WINGS, DEFIES THE SAVAGE DEMON OF THE STORMY SKIES...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Flight"

A GOD SEEMED TOO REMOTE FOR ME TO FIND WITH PRAYER AND INCENSE VAGUELY LOST IN SPACE. I LONGED TO TOUCH THE FEET, TO SEE THE FACE.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Messenger"

A HANDFUL OF MEMORIES, A CUPFUL OF SORROW, A FLAGON OF HAPPINESS, FAITH IN TOMORROW.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Untitled"

A HUNDRED REDS ARE CLAMORING TO CROWD THE RUDDY LIST, THE RED OF COPPER PENNIES IN A FRECKLED URCHIN'S FIST.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Varied Reds"

A LITTLE LESS THAN HUMAN, A LITTLE MORE THAN FISH, TO BE A SCALY MERMAN WAS A CHILDHOOD WISH.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "A Wish"

A LITTLE RECKLESS NARROW STREET, GOES PLUNGING DOWN THE HILL TO MEET THE BROAD AND STATELY AVENUE...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill"

A LITTLE VINE FROM FOREIGN PARTS, HAS HUNG YOUR HOUSE WITH JADE-GREEN HEARTS...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Mexican Creeper"

A SHADY RESIDENTIAL STREET, A LITTLE CHURCH, SEDATE AND NEAT, WITH SUN-BROWNED WALLS AND SLANTED ROOF...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "At St. Clements on Wilder Avenue"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "At St. Clement's Church on Wilder Avenue"

A WEED AND A REED FROM A LILY POND, A WILD PINK ROSE AND A GREEN FERN FROND...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Mixed-Bouquet"

A WINDING HONOLULU STREET GOES BY MY HOUSE. I HEAR THE FEET OF SEVEN NATIONS PASSING BY.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Footsteps"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Footsteps"

A WINE-CARNELIAN HULA-MOON AGAINST A FUSCHIA SKY, A JAVELIN OF WHIRRING WINGS WHERE RED FLAMINGO'S FLY.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Tropic Reds"

AH, YOU WERE LOVELY...LOVELY ON THAT LAST MAD NIGHT. WITH ALL YOUR FLESH WHITE-GOLD AND GOLDEN-WHITE...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "To One Hour of One Night"

AH (OH), YOU'LL NEVER KNOW HAWAII 'TIL YOU'VE KISSED AN ISLAND GIRL, AND SHE'S HUNG A GINGER LEI AROUND YOUR NECK.
Paradise Loot, 1st edition, 1925 - Title: "A Kamaaina Speaks..."
Paradise Loot, 2nd edition, 1925 - Title: "How to Know Hawaii..."
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "How to Know Hawaii"

"ALL LOST?" I THOUGHT. "THIS SUNSET THAT HAS BURNED AGAINST THE SKY IS LOST? THE FLAMES HAVE TURNED TO GRAYING CINDERS...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Lost Sunsets"

AN EMPTY ARYERY THROUGH WHICH THE YOUNG EARTH'S GUSHING BLOOD ONCE FLOWED IN AGES PAST.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Carlsbad Caverns"

AS ONE WANDERS IN AN HAWAIIAN GARDEN IDLY PLUCKING THE FLOWERS HERE AND THERE, LOVING THE COLOR OF ONE...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Introduction

AT THE STEAMER, LEIS OF LAUGHTER AFLOAT ON GAUDY STREAMERS OF AFFECTION, BROKEN BY THE SHARP TUG OF A SOB...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Leis"

AUWE! AUWE! THEY TELL ME YOU ARE GONE. THE HULA-MOON WILL MISS YOUR LAUGHING FACE, AMONG THE ONES WHO GATHER IN THAT PLACE...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Aunty Pinau"

BACK IN THE DAYS THAT ARE DIMMED BY DISTANCE, BACK IN THE DAYS THAT ARE TOLD IN LEGEND...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Yesterday's Men"
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "Yesterday's Men"
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "A Chanted Story"

BEAUTY CAN BE CRUEL WHEN MET ALONE, AND EMPTY HANDS ARE CUPS TO HOLD AN ACID WINE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Cruel Beauty"

BEFORE YOU FOLLOW THE LONE WOLF TRAIL, BE SURE THAT THIS IS KNOWN....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Lone Wolf Trail"

BELLE'S SO BLACK SHE'S ALMOST BLUE. THEY CALL HER BLUE BELLE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Blue Belle Blues"

BEWARE OF THE MAN WITH POINTED EARS, SLANT GRAY EYES AND TWISTED SMILE....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Advice to Virtuous Maidens"

BEWARE, OH MAN, WITH THE SEA COLORED EYES. THE DRUMS OF MANOA ARE SOUNDING TONIGHT.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "The Kahuna Speaks to a White Man"

BLACK OUT OF BLACKNESS...MOUNTAINS TAKING FORM... THE SUN BEHIND GRAY CLOUDS...A HINT OF RAIN...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Dawn in the Islands"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Dawn in the Islands"

BLIND MY EYES AND STILL MY VOICE, BIND ME, CRIPPLED, TO A BED, STEAL MY SENSES ONE BY ONE...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Challenge to Fate"

BLUE LAY THE SEA, AND GREEN AND MOON-STONE GRAY;
WHITE WERE THE CLOUDS, LIKE VEILS TO HIDE THE SUN......
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Silvered Sea"

BOM...BMMM...BOM...BMMM...BOM...BMM...BOM...BM...
HARD QUICK HANDS ON A SHARK-SKIN TOM-TOM...
Hula Moons, 1930 - Chapter Heading: "Hula"

BROTHERS OF THE STARS, THEY LIVE ALOOF, WITHDRAWN, WATCHING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Mount Wilson Observatory"

CALL THE POLICE! CALL THE FIREMEN! RING THE ALARM! THE STREET'S ON FIRE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Spring Fire"

CAN DUST THAT ONCE HAS BEEN A YELLOW ROSE,
A BOOK, A SCARLET LEAF, RED LIPS OF MIRTH...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Beauty"

CAN'T YOU FEEL THE HAPPY TINGLE...CAN'T YOU HEAR THE SNAPPY JINGLE,
OF THE JAZZY UKULELE...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Luau"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "At a Luau, Hawaiian Feast"

CLEVER OF YOU TO LEAVE YOUR GLOVE BEHIND,
TOUCHED WITH A BIT OF DELICATE PERFUME.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Fragrances"

DANCER IN THE WIND.....PIERETTE TOSSING HER RUFFLED
FLOUNCES TO THE MUSIC OF THE TRADE-WINDS.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Pink Hibiscus"

DARE I KEEP TRYST WITH MEMORY IN THAT LAND WHERE ALL THE YOUTH OF ME KNEW ECSTASY AND BRIGHT ILLUSION?
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Tryst"

DEAR FOOLISH LITTLE BUBBLE-MINDED SCRAP OF FEMALE BEAUTY, I MUST REGRET THAT I MUST DO MY SANGUINARY DUTY....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Bluebeard Speaks to His 'Steenth Wife"

DEAR FRAIL GRAY MOTHER WITH YOUR QUIET HANDS,
REPOSED IN PATIENT WAITING AS THE DAYS SLIP BY...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Mother"

DEAR FUNNY FUZZLY LITTLE PUP, ASLEEP AGAINST MY FEET...
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "To Heyou"

DO NOT CARVE ON STONE OR WOOD, "HE WAS HONEST" OR "HE WAS GOOD.".
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Epitaph"

DUMBER THAN DUMB IS WHAT I THINK OF EVE.
I SIMPLY DO NOT HOPE TO UNDERSTAND JUST WHY THE PESKY WOMAN...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Regarding the Apple..."

EACH YEAR OLD MOTHER NATURE CELEBRATES THE DAYS OF '49.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Gold Rush"

EEE-E-E - YIH - BONG! AND A CLAT-A-CLAT-A-CLAT AND A BONG!...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Chinese Music"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Chinese Music"

EVEN THE UGLY CACTUS STRIVES FOR BEAUTY WITH IT'S EXOTIC BLOSSOMS.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Caption to illustration

FELICIA. OH, SMALL GALLANT VALIENT ONE,
SAD EYES HELD STEADFAST ON A DISTANT STAR...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Star-Gazer"

FILTER THE STAIN OF SUMMER'S REDDEST PEDALS, DISTIL THE DEWS THAT AUGUST MOONS HAVE WEPT...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "October's Gem"

FLARING LINES OF ORANGE LIGHTS, LIKE FIRE-FLIES APPEAR TO ME,
ABOVE THE REEF OFF WAIKIKI.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Torch-light Fishermen"

FLORA FLAME WAS THE VAMPIRE'S NAME, ON THE SCREEN AT LEAST.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Vampire"

GAY AND MAD ARE THE ONES WHO WEAR THE TWINED RED ROSE WITH A RAFFISH AIR..
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Dark Thorn Flower"

GAY AS THE LAUGHTER OF HAWAII, RED AS THE HOT BLOOD OF HAWAII...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Hibiscus"

GAY LITTLE FISHES WITH PAINTED SCALES, GOSSAMER FINS AND CHIFFON TAILS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Sea Butterflies"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Sea Butterflies"

GEISHA. GEISHA. GEISHA GIRL. ARE YOU REAL OR DO I DREAM?.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Geisha"

GOD OF THE WIND AND WAVES, BE KIND TO ME. I HAVE BEEN TOO LONG, TOO LONG ADRIFT.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Prayer of the Drifting Cocoanut"

GODS OF THE SEA...LIKE WINGING GULLS THEY SOAR,
LIGHT AS THE SPRAY THAT STINGS THEIR BRONZY BREASTS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Sons of the Surf"

GRAY SHADOWS ON A SILVER SHEET, TRIUMPHANT BEAUTIES...
AGED HAGS, IN ROYAL ROBES...IN BEGGAR'S RAGS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Movies in Honolulu"

GREEN ARE THE HILLS BEHIND MY HOME:
WHITE ARE THE CLOUDS THAT FROTH AND FOAM.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 2nd edition, 1923 - Title: "Aloha House"

GYPSY TREE....GYPSY TREE....GYPSY TREE WITH YOUR SHAWL OF RED,
LOOK AT THE TATTERS YOU HAVE SHED...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "The Red Gypsy"

HAPPINESS...I THOUGHT I KNEW THE WORD, BUT YOU MADE A SONG OF IT FOR ME.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Happiness - Melody"

HE ATTEMPTED TO MARRY SOME VERY RICH GIRLS. THE CASE OF A MAN CASTING SWINE BEFORE PEARLS.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Fortune Hunter"

HE WAS AN APE-BROWED TROGLODITIC BRUTE WHOSE LEERS AND FLEERS AND SNEERS PRODUCED ACUTE HYSTERIA...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Movie Villain"

HERE IS A SQUARE OF SILK AND LACE,
THAT MASKED A ROUGISH PIERRETTE'S FACE...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Souvenir"

HERE IS THE ARID DESERT OF MY LONELINESS,
BLOSSOM THE HARSH AND SCENTLESS FLOWERS OF MY HEART.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Desert Flowers"

HERE IS WHITE MAGIC. CELLULOID AND LIGHT COMBINE TO BRING DEAR GHOSTS TO TRANSIENT LIFE.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Movie Magic"

HOLLYWOOD...HOLLYWOOD...FABULOUS FOLLYWOOD...
CELLULOID BABYLON, GLORIOUS, GLAMOROUS...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Hollywood"

HOW CAN I BE TRUE TO ANY LAND WHEN EACH LAND CALLS TO ME WITH THE SIREN VOICE?
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Faithful"

HOW CAN I TAKE FLIMSY FUTILE WORDS AND BUILD FOR YOU A LAND OF CRUEL BEAUTY FILLED WITH BRUTAL GRANDEUR...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "The Land of Cruel Beauty"

HOW FAR? HOW LONG? HOW HARD? HOW FINE? HOW HEAVY OR LIGHT THE LOAD?
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Pictures in Crystal"

I AM BLOODBROTHER OF ALL DRIFTING THINGS,
THAT RIDE THE WIND AND TIDE, OR ON SWIFT WINGS...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Drifter"

I AM UNEASY TO-NIGHT. THE FIRST STAR I SAW IN THE SKY WAS RED...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Red Star"

I AM WEARY, MY THOUGHTS, LIKE TIRED MEN,
RUN ON THE ENDLESS TREADMILL OF MY MIND...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "White Night"

I BELIEVE SO SINCERELY AT THE TIME, THAT I BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE I'M BELIEVING.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Portrait of the Author"

I BELIEVE THAT SOME ONE TOLD THE SHOWER TREES THAT HOARDING GOLD WAS VERY MUCH AGAINST THE LAW.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Gold Hoarders, Take Notice"

I BOASTED THAT IN PAYMENT FOR THE WINE,
I'D DRINK THE DREGS AND MAKE NO SICKLY WAIL.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "The Last Toast"

I BORE A WEARY BODY TO THE SEA . . . MY OWN . . . NERVE-FRAYED, SUN-HUNGRY, CITY-SICK.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Healing"

I BUILD A HUNDRED HOUSES WHILE I DRIVE A THOUSAND MILES...
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Unreal Estate"

I DIDN'T MIND GIVING WITHOUT RETURN. BLOOD AND LOVE WERE MADE TO GIVE.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "That's What Hurt"

I DO NOT HUNT THE FOUNTAIN OF ETERNAL YOUTH,
NOR CARE TO KNOW WHAT HEAVEN OR HELL COMES AFTER...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Nonsense"

I DON'T SUPPOSE I'LL EVER SEE, A DRYAD SLIPPING FROM HER TREE,
NOR HEAR THE PULSING PIPES OF PAN...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Dreamer"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Dreamer"

I GIVE YOU AS GREETING FROM HAWAII ALL OF THE SUNSHINE
THAT THE SILK-PETALLED CUP OF AN HIBISCUS BLOSSOM...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Greeting

I HAD BEEN HURT TOO CRUELLY BY LIFE,
AND SO BUILT A HIGH PROTECTING WALL...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Kapu! Keep Out!"

I HAD EXPECTED DRUMS TO MARK THE END. DRUMS ROLLING, BELLS TOLLING, STRONG DRUMS AND MOURNING BELLS TO SEND...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Poem Title"

I HOLD MOST DEAR MY SIGHT...YET, WOULD I CHOOSE
TO HEAR MORE THE MUSIC OF YOUR VOICE?
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Sight"

I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY IN HAWAII AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
YOU MAY FIND THE POT OF GOLD...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Aloha"

I KNOW THAT APRIL IS OLD AS SIN (AND THAT IS AS OLD AS MAN) BUT SHE TRICKS MY MIND WITH HER GIRLISH GRACE, AND THE BRAND NEW LIFT OF HER ANCIENT FACE....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "April Again"

I KNOW THAT I HAVE LIVED AT LEAST A THOUSAND LUSTY LIVES, I'VE KNOWN ALL PASSIONS, GRIEFS AND JOYS THAT NIMBLE MAN CONTRIVES.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "A Thousand Lives"

I LEARNED A HOST OF THINGS WHILE I WAS BLIND,
CONFINED IN DARKNESS LIKE A PRISONER.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "While I Was Blind..."

I LEFT MY FOOTSTEPS ON THE SANDS OF TIME AS I WAS TOLD TO DO. I LEFT MY FOOTPRINTS . . . BUT I KNEW THAT LIFE WITH SWIFT ERASING HANDS....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Footprints"

I LIKE GRAY DAYS . . . THEY DIM LIFE'S HARSH DESIGNS. WHEN TIRED EYES CRAVE RESPITE FROM THE STARK CRUEL PATTERNS OF THE YEARS...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Frost on Opals"

I LOVED YOU SO...I KNOW I TRIED TO DROWN MY HEART
IN YOUR DEAR EYES, SO WARMLY COOL...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Photograph of an Old Love"

I NEVER SAW SUCH PEACE ON ANY FACE, NOT WAXEN STILLNESS LIKE THE MASK OF DEATH. HER BOSOM ROSE AND FELL WITH EVEN BREATH.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Anesthesia"

I PLANT MY FLOWERS, ROW ON ROW,
IN HOPE THAT THEY WILL GROW JUST SO...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "My Hawaiian Garden"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "My Hawaiian Garden"

I PUT (FLING) MY HEART, LIKE A LEAF, ON THE BREEZE, TO FALL BY THE WAY OR TO VENTURE FAR...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Vagabond's Heart"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Vagabond's Heart"

I RAN AN AD IN THE PAPER TO-DAY, AND HUNG A SIGN IN MY WINDOW TO SAY, "ROOM FOR RENT. ROOM FOR RENT."
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "For Rent"

I REMEMBER...HOW COULD I FORGET...THE FIRST FAINT BEATING OF REBELLIOUS WINGS WITHIN MY HEART...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Wild Geese"

I SAT THROUGHOUT THE LONG UNGODLY NIGHT, WATCHING THE MOON CLIMB BLINDLY IN THE SKY...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Aftermath"

I SAW THE WOMAN OF FOG TODAY. I HEARD THE GHOST OF HER MURMURED SIGHS. I SAW THE GRAY OF HER BROODING EYES.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Kiss of the Fog"

I SEE A LUMINESCENT TRAIL OF POWDERED STAR-DUST, FAINT AND PALE, ACROSS THE SKY, LIKE MOTHS IN FLIGHT.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "This Night"

I THINK THAT THOSE WHO SING MOST JOYOUSLY, SING, NOT FROM JOY, BUT FOR THE LOVE OF OTHERS....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "They Sing of Joy"

I THOUGHT I KNEW THE MEANING OF THE WORD, BUT YOU HAVE MADE A SONG OF IT FOR ME.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Happiness"

I TRY TO LIVE EACH DAY, IN SUCH A WAY, THAT WHEN TO-MORROW MAKES TO-DAY A YESTERDAY...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Preface: "Fabric"

I WALK(ED) QUITE SLOWLY DOWN BABY STREET, BABIES ARE EVERYWHERE...UNDER MY FEET...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Baby Street - Down Palama Way"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Baby Street"
Hula Moons, 1930 - Chapter Heading: "Baby Street"

I WAS WEARY OF MEMORY ROOM, DUST AND CLUTTER. I THOUGHT IT BETTER TO SWEEP...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Spring Cleaning"

I WAS YOUNG AND THE YEAR WAS NEW, WITH THE DAY AT DAWN AND THE SKY CLEAN BLUE...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Farewell to Vagabond's House, Part One: Following the Dream"

I WATCHED A HULA DANCE LAST NIGHT, UPON A BEACH OF SAND SO WHITE, ITS CRESCENT REPRODUCED THE MOON.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Hula Dancers"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Hula Dancers"

I WILL BE WISE IN LOVE," I SAID AND SOUGHT. THAT WISDOM FROM THE ONES I THOUGHT WERE WISE.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: " 'Tis Folly to be Wise"

I WISH THAT I MIGHT TUNE MY MORTAL EARS TO CATCH THE MUSIC THAT THE DESERT HEARS...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Yucca Flowers in the Mojave Desert"

I WONDER IF I'VE MADE YOU SEE, THIS SUNLIT, MOON-WITCHED RAINBOW PLACE
Paradise of The Pacific Magazine, Dec. 1930 - Title: "My Garden" (Last stanza of "My Hawaiian Garden")

I WONDER IF, LONG CENTURIES AGO, I WAS A CENTAUR FOR SOMEHOW I KNOW, THAT ONCE I LED MY WILD STAMPEDING HERD...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Centaur"

I WOULD WALK WITH DREAMERS, WHOS HIGHWAY IN LIFE IS THE PATH OF THE SUN...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "To Poets and Artists"

I WOVE A SHINING ROBE FOR YOU TO WEAR, MY HEART-STRINGS WERE THE CRIMSON WARP.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "The Shining Robe"

I WROTE OF MY HOUSE OF DREAMS ONE DAY, MY 'VAGABOND'S HOUSE.' I TOLD THE WAY...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "A Response"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "A Response"

IF I HAD JUST A LITTLE SHACK, A ROOF ABOVE, A YARD IN BACK, WITH FOUR UNPAINTED WOODEN WALLS...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Modern Color Scheme"

"IF I WERE BLIND, MY STRAYING FINGER-TIPS WOULD KNOW THE VELVET TEXTURE OF WHITE FLESH."
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Touch"

IF I WERE DEAD, I THINK THAT THIS IS TRUE, WERE YOU TO COME AND STAND BESIDE THAT COLD NUMBED FLESH...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "To One Whom I Called Awa Puhi"

"IF I WERE DEAF I KNOW MY HEART WOULD HEAR THE THUNDER OF A FAR-OFF BEATEN DRUM."
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Sounds"

IF, IN A HUNDRED YEARS, BY MAGIC WAY, I SHOULD RETURN, I HOPE THAT I MAY SEE, ALL OF THAT MOTLEY CREW...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Lei Sellers"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Lei Sellers"

IF THE REST OF THE ROAD IS HALF AS GOOD AS THE HALF THAT HAS GONE BEFORE.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "The Rest of the Road"

IF THOSE OF YOU WHO MOURN ME WHEN I GO INSIST ON DOING HONOR TO MY DUST....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Directions for the Disposal of a Vagabond's Ashes"

IF YOU COULD PROVE BEYOND ALL NEED OF PROOF THAT GOD IS BUT A NAME CRIED OUT IN FEAR BY ANGUISHED MAN, MY EARS AND MIND WOULD HEAR...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Answer to an Atheist"

IF YOU HAD SENT A STRING OF SULTRY AMBER, AMETHYST AND JADE, OR BEATEN GOLD, OR IVORY CARVED IN INTRICATE DEVICES...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Mokihana Lei"

IF YOU SHOULD BE DOWN ON THE AVENUE STROLLING ALONG WITH NOTHING TO DO...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Ye Oldene Goldene Dragone Shoppe"

IF YOU WERE AN EXTRA AND I WAS A STAR, I'D GIVE YOU A DRINK FROM MY OWN PRIVATE BAR.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Hollywood Courtship"

IF YOU WERE DUST BESIDE THE ROAD IN SULTRY SUMMER WEATHER, I'D BE A CLOUD AND RAIN ON YOU, AND WE'D BE MUD TOGETHER.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Hollywood Love Lyrics"

IF YOUR DARK ANGER NEEDS MY TEARS TO SLAKE ITS SULLEN BURNING THIRST, THEN YOU MAY TAKE FULL MEASURE OF MY PAIN....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Wounds"

I'M GLAD I DRANK THE BLOOD-RED WINE, THE CRIMSON FROTH, THE MURKY DREGS, I'M GLAD I DRANK THE AMBER ALE...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Prodigal's Song"

IN MEMORY ROOM THERE'S A CRAZY-QUILT AS GAY AS A TRUANT RAINBOW SPLIT IN SHREDS AND SHIMMERS OF BRILLIANT TINTS...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Crazy Quilt"

IN MY GARDEN OF MEMORIES I CLASSIFY ORCHIDS AS UNREGRETTED INDISCRETIONS...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "The Amateur Botanist"

IN SUMMERTIME OLD BALDY VIEWS TWO SKIES; ONE BLUE, ABOVE...THE OTHER EARTHWARD...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Old Baldy, with Lupines"

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHEN I GO, NOR HOW NOR WHY. EACH DAY A MILLION ROSES BLOW, A MILLION DIE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "I Believe..."

IT MATTERS NOT WHY I WAS THERE AT DAWN, PACING THE WHITE CHILL BEACH.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Blood on Orchids"

IT'S MORE THAN JUST AN EASY WORD FOR CASUAL GOODBYES; IT'S GAYER THAN A GREETING AND IT'S SADDER THAN A SIGH.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Aloha"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Aloha Oe - It's Meaning"

I'VE SUNG THE POMP AND PAGEANTRY OF KINGS, OF PEARLS AND PEACOCKS, FAUNS AND PHEASANTS' WINGS.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Song of the Kitchen"

IXORAS NOD WITH POM-POMS SUCH AS AIRY PIERROTS WEAR.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Caption to illustration

JUST THIS SIDE OF SOMEWHERE THERE'S A LOVELY LONELY ISLAND, A LOTUS-LANGUID ISLAND IN A MOLTEN OPAL SEA...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Dream Island"

KNOWING YOUR FEET WERE CLAY, I GAVE YOU THE HIGH PEDESTAL, BURNED INCENSE, MADE PRAYERS, WORSHIPED.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Idol"

LET US DREAM THAT, IN OUR HANDS, WE HOLD MAGIC TO MAKE REALITY A DREAM.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Let Us Dream"

LET US FRAY THE RAINBOW INTO MULTICOLORED THREADS. YOU TAKE THE CHEERFUL YELLOWS AND YOU THE SULTRY REDS...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Dream in Blue"

LET US NOT THIN THE WINE OF THIS LAST HOUR WITH BITTERNESS AND TEARS.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Last Hour"

LET US WARM THE TWILIGHT GRAYS WITH MEMORIES OF RED.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Memories in Red"

LIE STILL...AND LET ME WATCH THE SULTRY MOON MAKE TIGER-STRIPES WITH SHADOWS OF DARK VINES...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Tropic Night"

LIFE, WHEN YOU LEAVE ME, GO WITH SILENT FEET, SILENT AND SLOW AS WHEN A WOMAN GOES FROM THE ONE SHE LOVES WHEN LOVE HAS BEEN COMPLETE....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Go With Silent Feet"

LIKE BURNING COALS, THE DESERT FLOWERS GLOW BENEATH THE ASH-WHITE SMOKE-TREES.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Smoke Trees, Coachella Desert"

LIKE JEWELS OF MANY HUES SET IN A BAND, THE PICTURE BRIDGE IS STUDDED WITH DELIGHTS...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "The Picture Bridge"

LINE AFTER LINE THE GREEN BATTALIONS OF THE SEA CHARGE TO DEFEAT AGAINST THE FORTRESS OF THE LAND...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Black Point"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Black Point"

LOBSTER CURRY ON MOUNDS OF RICE...IF YOU LIKE CURRY IT'S MIGHTY NICE.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Curry"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Honolulu Curry"

LONG LINES OF PATIENT YEARNING PALMS KEEP FAITHFUL RENDEZVOUS WITH FAITHLESS LOVER-WINDS BESIDE THE SEA.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Palm Trees"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Palm Trees"

LORD, LET ME KEEP WONDER IN MY HEART, WONDER OF DAWN'S RECURRENT MIRACLE.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Wonder"

LORD, LET ME LOVE THOUGH LOVE GO UNREQUITED, (AN EMPTY HEART IS HEAVIER THAN STONE) LET ME HAVE FAITH THOUGH FAITH BE OFTEN BLIGHTED...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Prayer"

LOVE ME, LOVE, BUT LOVE ME LIGHTLY. I ACKNOWLEDGE MOST CONTRITELY, VOWS ARE BONDS THAT IRK AND TRY ME.
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Philanderer"

LOVE WILL FLY IF HELD TOO LIGHTLY; LOVE WILL DIE IF HELD TOO TIGHTLY; LIGHTLY...TIGHTLY...HOW DO I KNOW...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "The Right Touch"

MADAME DU BARRY, WAS A LIVELY OLD FAIRY, WHO SOLD HERSELF TO A KING...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Reward of Virtue"

MAGIC... IT IS ...TO CATCH THE MOONLIGHT WITH YOUR BRUSH. MAGIC... TO PAINT THE PASSING OF A BREEZE...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "To the Artists of Hawaii"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "The Artist"

MAMMY CLO IS KNEADIN' DOUGH. SWING ME HIGH AND SWING ME LOW.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Kitchen Song"

MANOA RAINBOW FLED ONE DAY, FROM ITS VALLY HOME AND HID AWAY...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Truant Rainbow"

MEMORY ROOM IS AN ATTIC ROOM WHERE NEVER A MOP AND SELDOM A BROOM DISTURBS THE DUST AND THE COBWEBS THERE.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Memory Room"

MOONFLOWERS MAKE MIMIC MOONS OF PETAL-SILK.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Caption to illustration

MOONLIGHT GILDING SILVER SWORD BLADES OF THE PALMS, THAT CHASH SOFT MUSIC IN THE BREEZE ABOVE MY DOOR...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Almost Any Night"

MOON-MISTS, LIKE VEILS OF SHEER AND TINTED GAUZE, SWEEP DOWN THE SLOPES OF TANTALUS AT NIGHT...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Koa Trees in a Mist"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Koa Trees in a Mist"

MUSTY, FUSTY, DUSTY SMELLS, GILDED GODS AND TEMPLE BELLS, CANDLESTICKS OF TWISTED BRASS...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Chinese Store"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Chinese Store"

MY GRASS-HOUSE STANDS BY THE OPEN SEA, ON A BIT OF BEACH THAT BELONGS TO ME...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Leaves From My Grass-House"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Leaves From My Grass-House"

MY HOUSE IN HONOLULU TOWN IS BIG AND COOL. THE ROOF IS BROWN. IT WAS ONCE RED, BUT NOW THE SUN HAS FADED IT.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Purple Bougainvillea Vine"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Purple Bougainvillea Vine"

MY LIFE . . . IT WAS MINE TO SAVE OR SPEND. IT WAS MINE TO LIVE . . . IT WAS MINE TO END.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "By Now"

MY MIND IS LIKE FLY-PAPER. ALL SORTS OF THINGS STICK TO IT.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "My Kind of Mind"

MY TREASURE CHEST IS FILLED WITH GOLD. GOLD...GOLD...GOLD....
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Gold"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Gold"

MY VOICE MADE MOAN NOR WEPT NOR CRIED ALOUD ALTHOUGH THE LAND LAY DEAD BENEATH A SHROUD OF SNOW.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "White Death"

NAMES! THE LURE OF NAMES OF PLACES, STIRRING THOUGHTS OF FOREIGN PLACES, PORTS AND PALACES AND STEAMERS.
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Names are Ships"

NEVER A TIDE GOES OUT TO SEA, BUT CARRIES A BIT OF THE HEART OF ME...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Driftwood"

NOT FOR ALL THE LONELY WINDING ROAD THAT LEADS ACROSS THE HILL INTO THE NEVERNESS BEYOND...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Preface: "Vagabond's Road"

NOT WITH HEMPEN ROPE OR CHAIN, NOT WITH FRETTING LINKS OF STEEL, NOT WITH VOW OR PROMISE VAIN...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Ginger Lei"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "White Ginger Lei"

NOW I KNOW WHERE THE JEWEL-TREES GROW, WHERE BLOSSOMS OF ROSE-CARNELIAN BLOW...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Jewel Trees"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Jewel-Trees"

NOW THAT THE SHADOWS OF TWILIGHT ARE STEALING INTO THE CORNERS OF MY ROOM...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Twilight"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Twilight"

OH, IT'S COLOR...COLOR...COLOR..LOVELY, LAVISH LIVING COLOR, FROM THE GREEN THAT'S IN THE MOUNTAINS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Colors of Paradise"

OH, PELE OF THE FLAMING HAIR. OH, PELE OF THE BURING EYES. THE EARTH QUAKES TO YOUR ANGER. THE LAVA FLOWS AT YOUR COMMAND.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Chant to Pele"

OH, WE'RE GOING TO A LUAU, TO A LUAU, TO A LUAU, WHERE WE'LL DANCE THE HULA-HULA...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Luau"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Luau - An Hawaiian Feast"

ONCE HE HELD AUDIENCES SPELLBOUND WITH THE SAD SYLLABLES OF HAMLETS SOLILOQUY.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Extra Man"

ONCE MOTHER EVE (I MEAN, OR COURSE, BEFORE SHE WAS A MOTHER) WAS SEEKING TO AMUSE HERSELF IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Bonnets"

ONE FINGER, TWO FINGER, THREE FINGER POI! GO TO A LUAU AND EAT IT WITH JOY.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Poi"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Poi"

ONE LEI I'LL WEAR...IT WILL NOT FADE, ONE LEI I NEED NOT PUT (TOSS) AWAY...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Aloha Oe"
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "Untitled"

ONLY THE DESERT GODS HAVE WATCHED THE SLOW AND SECRET SCULPTORS, WIND AND SAND AND RAIN...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Red Rock Canon"

OUT AT WAIKIKI BY THE SOBBING SEA, IN A DISTRICT RATHER SPORTY, IN A BANYAN'S SHADE LIVED A VIRGIN MAID...
The Virgin of Waikiki; A Torrid Tragedy of the Tropics, 1926 - Title: "The Virgin of Waikiki"

OUT OF THE GRAB-BAG JUMBLE OF MY RADIO, BETWEEN IMPASSIONED PLEAS FOR PUNKUM'S PILLS...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Hawaiian Music"

OUT OF THE SEA THEY CAME AND FOR THE SEA THEY YEARN, CURSED BY A WITCH'S SPELL THEY CAN NOT NOW RETURN.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Coral Hibiscus"

PARAKEETS AND PEACOCKS..."DAISY" IN A PEN...IBISES AND EMUS...GUINEA PIGS AND MEN...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Kapiolani Park"

PASSION HAS BEEN A RIDER WITH SPURS, A GLAZE OF ICE AND A CLOAK OF FLAME, A ROCKET THAT SOARED ME TO THE SKIES, A WILL O' WISP THROUGH SWAMPS OF SHAME.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Release"

PATTERNS OF FURY ETCHED IN FLAME.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Kilauea"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Kilauea - The Volcano"

PENNY WASTER, MEMORY MISER, WHO CAN SAY MY WAY'S NOT WISER?
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Untitled"

(POETIC JUSTICE...) I SAT BESIDE MY GRASSY HUT AND WROTE AN ODE. IT READ "OH, COCONUT, OH COCONUT."
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Afterthought"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Poetic Justice"

REGAL TREE, YOU FLAUNT YOUR DRESS OF SCARLET BRAZENLY. YOU ROYAL VERMILION HARLOT...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Poinciana Regia Tree"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Poinciana Regia Tree"

SEA ASLEEP...EXCEPT FOR RESTLESS SIGHING; DROWSY MOON...ABOVE THE TRADE-CLOUDS SHOWING...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Waikiki"

SEA....SKY....YOU....I....MOON....TREES....SONG....BREEZE....SUN....DAWN....YOU....GONE....JUST....ME, WAIKIKI
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Last Night"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Last Night"

SHADOWS OF TRADE-CLOUDS RACING ON THE SAND, NIGHTS THAT ARE WEBS OF MOONLIGHT SPUN WITH SONG...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "What is Hawaii"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "What is Hawaii?"
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "What is Hawaii?"

SHE GAMBLES AT THE GAME OF LOVE WITH ZEST, AND PLAYS HER CARDS WITH SKILLFUL PRACTICED HANDS...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Portrait of a Charming Cheat"

SHE WAS JUST THE LITTLE GIRL ACROSS THE STREET, ALL LEGS AND CURLS AND GREAT BIG EYES AND RESTLESS DANCING FEET...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "The Little Girl Across the Street"

SINCE WE SPEND DREAM-MONEY . . . I CAN GIVE YOU GEMS, NECKLACES AND BRACELETS, RINGS AND DIADEMS, JEWELS AS GAY AS LAUGHTER...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Dream of Jewels . . . "

SIX MONTHS THE LONG GREEN CACTUS BRANCHES SPRAWL, LIKE SPINY SERPENTS CARVED FROM OPAQUE JADE...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Night-Blooming Cereus"
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Night-Blooming Cereus"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Night-Blooming Cereus"

SOME DAY IN SOME COLD CITY OF THE NORTH, I'LL HEAR THE TATTERED FRAGMENT OF A SONG - "ALOHA OE."
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Aloha Oe"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Fragment"

SOME OF US DRIFT TO THESE SHORES ON THE TRADE-WINDS; DRIFT HERE AND LINGER.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Drifters"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Hawaiian Driftwood"

SOMEDAY WHEN DEATH WITH CALLOUS CARELESS HANDS STRIKES FROM MY GRASP THE LOVELY GIFT OF LIFE...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Someday"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Someday"

SOMEHOW HERE THE MOON IS NEARER, WARMER, BRIGHTER. STARS ARE CLEARER, DAYS OF SUMMER LINGER LONGER...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Somehow"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Hawaii"

SOMEONE GAVE THIS PRETTY VINE A NAME, "MEXICAN CREEPER." I THINK THAT'S A SHAME.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Hearts-On-A-String"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Hearts-On-A-String"

SOMETIMES THE STRIDENT REDS AND BURNING BLUES, THE RAW VERMILLIONS AND MAGENTA HUES...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "White Flowers"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Night Flowers of the Tropics"

SOMEWHERE SOMEONE WORKS FOR HOURS, CUTTING PATTERNS OF THE FLOWERS, FROM THE RAINBOW'S TINTED GAUZES...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "It Might Be True...."

SOMEWHERE WHITE PEACOCKS DREAM ON PEDESTALS OF TWISTED BRASS, OR SPREAD THEIR PALE FANTASTIC FANS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "From a Javanese Batik in a Fort Street Window"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "From a Javanese Batik"

SORROW SILENTLY RECEDES DOWN THE GRAY TWILIGHTS OF TIME.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Black Swan"

SPIRALS OF COLORED PAPER . . . TINTED SNOWDRIFTS OF CONFETTI . . . SEQUINS AND OSTRICH PLUMES . . . HOLLYWOOD, WITH A HEART FOR BEAUTY-SPOT....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Spirit of Hollywood"

STAID PEOPLE SAY THAT PAN IS DEAD, BUT THEY ARE WRONG. HIS SHAGGY HEAD I SAW BUT YESTERDAY AT NOON...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "The Moon-Rainbow"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Moon Rainbow"

NIGHTS WHEN I HAVE LAIN AWAKE ALONE, WITH ONLY SORROW'S GRAY COMPANIONSHIP...
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Stars For Friends"

STORM-CLOUDS, LIKE MUFFLED PURPLE THUNDER, PASS...BLOWN BY THE KONA. MOUNTAINOUS, THEY MASS...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Clearing of the Kona Storm"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Clearing of a Kona Storm"

STRANGE TO SEE YOUR HANDS IN COLD REPOSE...HANDS THAT RAN LIKE EAGER HOUNDS IN SWIFT PURSUIT OF ANTELOPES..
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Stilled Music"

SURELY THERE IS AN OLD FORGOTTEN MAGIC IN THE PERFUME OF WHITE GINGER FLOWERS...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "White Ginger"

SWIFT-CHANGING CURVES. THE GESTURES OF HER HANDS, TAUGHT WAVES TO DRAW WHITE LINES UPON THE SANDS.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "To Leilehua Beamer"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "To Leilehua"

SWIFTLY THE SEASONS PASS BENEATH HAWAII'S SUN, WITH LITTLE CHANGE EXCEPT THAT SOME NEW FLOWER-FACE...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Hawaiian Year"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Hawaiian Year"

TEN TIMES TEN THOUSAND CRESCENT MOONS, ARE PENDANT IN THE KOA TREES...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Koa Trees"

THANK GOD FOR THAT FIERCE DRIVING DISCONTENT, THAT URGE WHICH MAKES MAN HEW RESISTANT STONE TO FORMS OF BEAUTY...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Creative Urge"

THE AVERAGE MERMAID'S NIGHT AND DAY IS ONE-THIRD SLUMBER AND ONE-THIRD PLAY.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "A Mermaid's Day"

THE CHILL REPTILIAN COILS IN SCALY CURVES, WRITHE ON MEDUSA'S BROWS..
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Medusa"

THE CITY BREATHES...AND TO ITS METAL LUNGS ARE DRAWN THOSE FRANTIC PARTICLES OF DUST...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Commuters"

THE DAY AWAKENING, DROWSILY OPENING IT'S EYES...AIR LIKE SOFT WINE, DECEPTIVE IN IT'S SMOOTH-TASTING STRENGTH...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Sketch - Morning on the Beach"

THE DAY IS A FAMILY OF MANY HOURS, EACH WITH A CHARACTER OF ITS OWN; DAWN IS A CLEAR-EYED ROSY CHILD, NOON IS A YOUTH TO MANHOOD GROWN...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Slumbering Hour"

THE DESERT REDS, THE SANGUINE GLOW ON PEAKS NEAR SANTA FE, RED EARTH BEDAUBED ON SWEATING FLESH WHEN TAOS INDIANS PRAY.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Desert Reds"

THE EARLY CAR CAME IN FROM KAIMUKI, LOADED WITH LABORERS, MEN OF DAILY TOIL...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Apology"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Apology"

THE EMPTY SETTING FOR SOME GREAT JEWEL OF THE SUN, TORN FROM ITS RESTING PLACE CENTURIES BEFORE TIME BEGAN.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Diamond Head"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Diamond Head"

THE EUCALYPTUS TREES' BARE BRANCHES LIFT DARK CLOTS OF LEAFY PATTERN TO THE SKY.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Eucalyptus Trees"

THE FEET ARE A LITTLE WEARY, THE ROAD IS A LITTLE LONG, CLOUDED THE BLUE HORIZON, MUTED THE CARELESS SONG.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Tired Vagabond"

THE FLAGSTONE WALK TO JASMINE HOUSE, IS FULL OF LAZY CASUAL CURVES...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Jasmine House"

THE GHOST-TOWN'S EMPTY WINDOWS STARE LIKE WISTFUL EYES DOWN STREETS WHERE NOTHING MOVES SAVE MEMORIES AND THE WIND.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Ghost-Town"

THE HARSH ASSERTIVE CITY REDS, THE NEON'S LURID GLOW, A LEERING POSTER'S BALLYHOO BEFORE A BURLESQUE SHOW.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "City Reds"

THE LAUGHING REDS THAT CHILDREN LOVE, TOY WAGON WHEELS AND TOPS, THE FIRECRACKERS' SUDDEN RED, AND STICKY LOLLIPOPS...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Childhood Reds"

THE MAN NEXT DOOR CAME INTO THE ROOM WHERE THE BOY IN THE WHEEL CHAIR SAT.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "The Cruise of the Spun-Glass Ship"

THE MELLOW FRIENDLY COUNTRY REDS, OF SILOS AND OF PLOWS, RED CLOVER FIELDS IN BLOSSOM, AND THE GLOSSY HIDES OF COWS.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Country Reds"

THE MIRACLE CAME...AND THEN I KNEW, THAT A DREAM COULD MAKE ITSELF COME TRUE!
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Farewell to Vagabond's House, Part Two: The Dream Comes True"

THE MOON IS A GREAT GOLD COIN TOSSED TO THESE RAGGED VAGABONDS, THE CLOUDS.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Rising Moon"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Rising Moon"

THE MYNAH BIRDS ARE RAISING SUCH A RUMPUS ON THE LAWN, THAT I MUST RISE UNWILLINGLY...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Garden"
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Morning"

"THE NEED OF GODS IS OLD AND EVER NEW."
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "The Awareness of Gods"

THE ORIENT'S EXOTIC REDS, A DRAGON'S BURNISHED SCALES, AN OVAL BOX OF CINNABAR, THE REDS IN MACAW'S TAILS...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Orient Reds"

THE PALE MOON, WEARY OF HER LONELY REIGN O'ER STARK FANTASTIC SPIRES AND ESTATES...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Sunrise on Mount Whitney"

THE PELICANS AND GULLS STAND GUARD ABOUT WHERE ALLIGATOR HEAD JUTS FIERCELY OUT INTO THE SEA.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Bathing Cove, La Jolla"

THE POET SPEAKS. THAT NIGHT BENEATH A WANING MOON A PALLID POOL SLUMBERED IN LOTUS-BURDENED BEAUTY...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "The Poet and the Woman - A Study in Memories"

THE RAINBOW IS A HEAVEN WHERE DEAD FLOWERS GO, TO BLOOM AGAIN AS FRESH AND FRAGRANT AND AS BRIGHT...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Flowers of the Rainbow"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Flowers of the Rainbow"

THE RED SUN SAW THEM RISE, FEARLESS AND STRONG, INTO THE STILL BLUE SKY, AND ALL DAY LONG...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun"

THE ROBES OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, OF CARDINAL AND KING, YOUNG APRIL'S CHEERFUL TULIPS GIVING WELCOME TO THE SPRING.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Dramatic Reds"

THE ROGUE WIND WITH LAUGHING RUTHLESSNESS DESTROYS A FOREST TO BLOW A FRIGHTENED CATERPILLAR FROM A BENT TWIG.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Rogue Wind"

THE SEA IS A CLOTH OF GOLD. THE SKY ABOVE BLAZES, A FLAMING CURTAIN IN THE WEST...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Sunset From (Kimo's Garden on) Mt. Tantalus"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Tropical Sunset"

THE SEA IS A CLOTH OF SILVER, STIRRED TO UNEASY RIPPLES, BY THE GHOST-WHITE HAND OF THE MOON.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Ala Moana"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Ala Moana"

THE SHOWER TREES LIKE GREEDY THIEVES, STEAL ALL THE TINY GOLDEN MOTES...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Golden Shower Trees"

THE SMILING MASK THAT HEART-BREAK WEARS, IS PITIFUL TO SEE; THE LIPS THAT CURVE TO MIMIC MIRTH...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "The Smiling Mask"

THE WHITE CLOUDS LIFT THEIR PALE FACES AND BLUSH ROSILY TO SEE THE SUN DISROBE.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Sunset Over Waianae Mountains"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Sunset Over Waianae Mountains"

THE WOOD-CARVER WITH HIS BRIGHT SHARP BLADES WILL RELEASE BEAUTY FROM HER DARK CELL OF TEAK, OAK OR EBONY.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Through Different Eyes"

THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE AND HIS SWEETHEART ARE GOING TO BE THERE TO-NIGHT FOR THE GREAT GALA SHOWING...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Hollywood Premiere"

THERE ARE FOUR ROADS THAT CALL TO ME...THE PATH OF THE SUN AND THE WESTERN SEA.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Four Roads"

THERE IS A SOUND OF MUSIC FAINT AND FRAIL. AS THOUGH A RESTLESS FLITTING LUNAR MOTH....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Matu Va"

THERE'S A MISTY MURKY MAGIC IN THE BRIGHT HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHT; IT HAS TRICKY, WIKI-WIKI, SORT OF HULA-HULA GLEAMS...
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "Untitled"
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Advice to Bachelors"

THERE'S A PLACE IN MANOA - WAY UP IN THE HILLS - WHERE THE FOREST COMES DOWN LIKE AN ARMY IN GREEN...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Secret Place"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Secret Place"

THERE'S A TRAFFIC COP YOU'RE BOUND TO MEET, DEATH . . . AT THE END OF A ONE-WAY STREET.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Warning to Motorists"

THESE ISLANDS - BORN OF THE NIGHT, SIRED BY THE SUN, CRADLED IN THE SEA, WITH THE MOON FOR GOD-MOTHER.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Hawaiian Islands"
Hula Moons, 1930 - Chapter Heading: "Rhapsody"

THEY ARE DOOMED WHO ARE BORN TO WEAR THE DARK THORN FLOWER IN THEIR HAIR.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Untitled"

THEY FAILED, THOSE MAN-MADE WINGS! THEN DOWN THE GRAYING SKY, A LIVING METEOR FELL WITH CRUEL SPEED.
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Icarus"

"THIS DRUM," THE OLD CURATOR SAID, "WAS FOUND IN AFRICA. THE HEAD IS HUMAN SKIN, SUPERBLY TANNED."
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Drum"

THIS IS A LYRIC LAND WHERE LIFE'S A SONG, WITH LOVE THE THEME . . . THE NOTES ARE CARELESS HOURS.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Leis From a Lyric Land"

THIS IS THE FIVE-STRINGED HARP, THE SINGING LYRE, TO PLAY THE MAD SWEET SONG I IMPROVISE...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Song of the Senses"

THIS IS THE MARKET. THESE ARE THE FRUIT STALLS, BURDENED WITH TREASURES OF THE FERTILE EARTH...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Market"

THOSE WERE EXCITING DAYS, STORMY AND TURBULENT.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Prairie Days"

"THOU SHALT NOT TASTE." SHE KNEW SHE'D RUE IT. AND YET...SHE'S NOT THE LAST TO DO IT.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Taste"

THREE CHINESE SHAWLS OF SILK ARE SPREAD, ACROSS A CHEST OF LACQUER RED.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Chinese Shawls"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Chinese Shawls"

TINSEL'S GLINT IS BRIGHT AND GAY. TINSEL'S GLINT IS BOLD.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Tinsel"

TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SOUVENIRS HOWEVER FRAIL...
Memory Room, 1935 - Dedication

TO ONE HOUR OF ONE NIGHT BETWEEN THE SETTING OF A TIRED MOON AND THE RISING OF A JOYOUS SUN...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Dedication
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Dedication to a poem: "To One Hour of One Night"

TO ONE WHO, HAVING THAT SWEET GIFT...THE GROWING TOUCH, MADE FLOWERS BLOOM...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Dedication

TO THE EAGLE, GOD GAVE WINGS FOR STRONG EXALTED FLIGHT, AND TO EACH NORTHWARD-FLYING SWAN A SECOND SIGHT...
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "Flyers"

TO THE RESTLESS ONES, TO ALL THE GALLANT FRANTIC FOOLS WHO FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE SUN...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Dedication

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO MADE THIS DREAMER'S DREAM COME TRUE....GAVE ME MY YEAR OF GREAT ADVENTURE...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Dedication

TODAY I PASSED A TINY FLORIST SHOP, WITH HURRIED STEP...A FRAGRANCE MADE ME STOP...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Homesick for the Islands - In New York"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Homesick for the Fair Islands - In New York"

TO-DAY SHE PLAYS OLD GALS WITH SHADY PASTS, TOUGH IRISH BIDDIES, LANDLADIES.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Character Woman"

TONG! TONG! TONG-A . . . TONG-A . . . TONG. THAT IS THE RHYTHM OF THE ELEPHANT SONG.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Elephant Song"

TONIGHT THE STREETS ARE WET WITH RAIN. THE MOON ATTEMPTS TO SHINE, IN VAIN.
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "When it Rains"

TWO THINGS I SHALL ALWAYS DESIRE...CANDLES FOR LIGHT...AND A WOOD FIRE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Untitled"

WALKING IN BEAUTY AS WE DO...SUN-GOLD, MOON-SILVER EVER IN YOUR EYES, TREADING ON FLOWERS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "We Who Live Here...."
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Dwellers in Far Islands"

WE ARE THE RESTLESS ONES...WHO WALK ALONE. DOWN A LONG BYWAY THROUGH THE DARK UNKNOWN.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "The Restless Ones"

WE HAVE NO SPRINGTIME HERE....BUT WE HAVE JUNE! FLAME-FLOWERED, YELLOW-PETALED JUNE...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Hawaiian June".
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Hawaiian June"

WE KNEW THE DESOLATION OF GREAT HEIGHTS, AND THE CONTENTMENT OF DEEP VALLEYS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "To Don May"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "To Don May"

WE SAW A FIREFLY FLOAT THROUGH THE NIGHT, GLIMMERING FITFULLY, TRAILING ITS LIGHT....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Firefly"

WE STARE, AND THINK MIRAGE HAS TRICKED OUR EYES WHEN IN DEATH VALLEY, FLOWER-ARMIES RISE...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Death Valley"

WEST OF THE SUNSET STANDS MY HOUSE, THERE - AND EAST OF THE DAWN...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1st edition, 1923 - Title: "Some Lines Scratched on the Door of Vagabond's House"
Leaves from a Grass-House, 2nd edition, 1923 - Title: "Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of Aloha House"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of Vagabond's House"

WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR, BABY FACE? WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SELL?.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Extra Girl"

WHAT DID THEY SAY...THOSE TWO...ON THAT FIRST NIGHT? THEY WERE NOT WISE IN WORDS AND WAYS OF LOVE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "First Night in Eden"

WHAT IS THE LURE OF THE SOUTH SEAS' SONG, THAT SINGS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN SO LONG?
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "Song of the South Seas"

WHAT IS THE ROAD OF THE VAGABOND? THE WILD-GOOSE TRAIL THAT LEADS BEYOND...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Song of the Vagabond"

WHAT IS THE ROAD OF THE VAGABOND'S LOVE? SHE AND THE STARS IN THE SKY ABOVE.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Reply"

WHAT IS THE PATTERN AND FABRIC OF OUR LOVE? MOONLIGHT, DRAWN THROUGH SILVER MISTS...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Brocade"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Brocade"

WHAT JESTING GODS HAVE LET YOU END YOUR DAYS BESIDE A TEA SHOPPE DOOR WHERE TOURISTS GAZE AND GAWP....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Figurehead from an Old Ship"

WHAT THIN AND TEPID BLOOD MUST FLOW IN VEINS OF YOU WHO SAY THE GLAMOUR'S GONE...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Glamour's Gone"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Glamour's Gone".
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "Glamour's Gone"

WHATEVER GOES FROM HERE TO THERE, AND CARRIES PEOPLE . . . ANYWHERE...
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Title: "From Here to There"

WHEN BLOOD IS WATER; WHEN THE CALL OF SPRING FALLS DULLY ON MY EARS...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "When...If Ever..."

WHEN DEATH DECIDES THAT LIFE HAS HAD YOU LONG ENOUGH, AND SEEKS A FLAME TO RIVAL THAT GOLD-TAWNY TORCH....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Mary Garden"

WHEN EVE WAS BUT A LISSOME LASS, SO FANCIFUL AND FLIGHTY, HER DRESS WAS BUT A LEAF OF GRASS...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Tragedy in a Garden"

WHEN FRIENDSHIP FAILS, AND LOVE REMOVES THE MASK, REVEALING LUST; WHEN LOYALTY'S A TASK...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "When Friendship Fails..."

WHEN I HAVE A HOUSE - AS I SOMETIME MAY - I'LL SUIT MY FANCY IN EVERY WAY.
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1st edition, 1923 - Title: "Vagabond's House"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Vagabond's House"

WHEN I SEE BLACK LEOPARDS IN THE ZOO, I SEEM TO KNOW THE JUNGLE REEK.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Black Leopards"

WHEN I WAS YOUNG...AND NOT SO LONG AGO...I LOVED ALL STORMY FERVENT RUSHING THINGS...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Rebellion"

WHEN JEALOUSY INVADES YOUR MIND YOU WEAR MEDUSA'S MASK. THE GORGON SERPENTS TWISTING THERE ARE ONLY BITTER PANGS....
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Jealousy"

WHEN ONE LONE WOLF MEETS ANOTHER LONE WOLF, AND ONE SAYS TO THE OTHER...
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Dedication to book

WHEN YOU DECIDE TO GO AWAY, YOU MUST NOT SAY THAT WE ARE COLD, OR SCOLD BECAUSE WE ACT SO GAY...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Bon Voyage"
Hula Moons, 1930 - Title: "Aloha Oe"

WHERE HAS IT GONE . . . THAT SHINING ECSTASY WE KNEW? AN HOUR WHEN WE WERE ONE...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Bright Ecstasy"

WHERE THE MOON IS SINGING SILVER, AND THE SUN IS LAUGHING GOLD.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Untitled

"WHERE THE SURF MAKES THUNDER ALONG THE BEACH, AND THE RAINBOW'S END IS WITHIN MY REACH."
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Section Heading: "Tropicalia"

WHO CAN READ THE MESSAGE THAT THE TORREY PINES WEAVE WITH THEIR TWISTED BRANCHES...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Torrey Pines"

WHY BEGIN...WE KNOW THE ENDING...WIND IN THE NIGHT AND FLAMES BLENDING...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Regarding An Affair..."

WHY DO I RETURN? MAN, HAVE YOU SEEN HIGH TANTALUS...A THOUSAND SHADES OF GREEN...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Why"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Why Do I Return...Hawaii..."

WHY DID I SEND YOU ROSES LAST DECEMBER? I KNEW, OF COURSE, A LOVE LIKE OURS WOULD DIE.
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Roses"

WHY DOES A LITTLE FLOWER, BLUE AND GAY, GO BY SUCH A GHASTLY NAME AS THIS..PLUMBAGO?
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Query"

WILL YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU GO AWAY, THE FRAGRANCE OF GINGER BLOOMS IN A WHITE LEI?
Leaves from a Grass-House, 2nd edition, 1923 - Title: "Leis - For Remembrance".
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Leis...For Remembrance"

WITH ALL THE THINGS IN ALL THIS WORLD, TO SEE AND DO AND HAVE AND KNOW....
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Quest and Request"

WITH SEVEN FLOWERY CHAINS WE TWO ARE HELD, WITH SEVEN STRANDS OF SENSUOUS DELIGHT...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Song of the Seven Senses"

WITH THE MOON IMPALED ON A TALL LONE PINE.
The Rest of the Road, 1937 - Untitled

WORTHLESS TREASURES AND PRICELESS TRASH, SILVER THAT GLEAMS IN THE LIGHTNING'S FLASH...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "Paradise Loot"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Vagabond's Loot"

YLANG-YLANG...YLANG...YLANG...HEAR THE BELLS OF CHINA CLANG.
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "Ylang-Ylang Flowers"
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "Ylang-Ylang Flowers"

YOU AND I TOGETHER THERE, WATCHED THE LEAVES DRIFT BY, HEEDED AUTUMN'S WARNING FLARE...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "September Fifteenth"

YOU ARE A SILVER THREAD ACROSS A WEB OF MAUVE AND ROSE. A FLECK OF FOAM RIDING TRIUMPHANT ON THE MALESTROM...
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Fire in Ice"

YOU ARE AN UNLOVELY LOT, YOU SCATTERERS OF PAPER BAGS AND CRACKER BOXES, CLUMPING WITH LOUD, STUPID FEET...
Paradise Loot, 1925 - Title: "At the Ruins of an Ancient Heiau"

YOU ARE JUST A SMALL BLACK SHAGGY HEART, WITH STANDARD DOG EQUIPMENT, TAIL AND LEGS....
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Kiltie, a Scottish Terrier"

YOU CHILDREN OF ETERNAL SUMMER'S SUNS, CAN NEVER KNOW THE JOYOUS GLOW...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "From a Malihini"

YOU FOUND THE PLAY A FARCE AND MUCH TOO LONG, WITH ALL THE LINES AWRY, THE LIGHTS TOO STRONG...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "To One Who Chose the Nearest Exit..."

YOU MUST NOT SAY "THE SILLY GOOSE", OR YOU WILL BE ABSURD, FOR IF YOU STOP TO THINK, YOU'LL SEE...
Songs of the Seven Senses, 1931 - Title: "The Defense of the Goose"

YOU SAW ME WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN QUIET GRAY, SUBDUED AND NEAT...
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "A Dreamer Walks"

YOU TALKED WITH SUCH A NIMBLE WIT, YOUR VOICE MADE SUCH A PRETTY SOUND, AS YOU DISCOURSED ON THINGS PROFOUND.
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Conversationalist"

YOUR HEART IS BREAKING . . . YET YOU COMPLAIN? VOICE YOUR SORROW AND CRY YOUR PAIN!
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Heartache"

YOUR WAY IS YOUR WAY AND MY WAY IS MINE. MINE IS THE FOOLOSH WAY, AND YOUR WAY IS FINE.
Let Us Dream, 1933 - Title: "Reply to the Advice of a Pompous Ass"

YOU'VE WAITED IMPATIENTLY DAY AFTER DAY, YOU'RE THROUGH WITH HAWAII...AND GOING AWAY...
Flowers of the Rainbow, 1926 - Title: "At the End of Your Visit"
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "At the End of Your Visit"

ZI-ZI, ZA-ZA, ANTOINETTE, FLUFFY BLONDE OR CHIC BRUNETTE, EYES OF BROWN OR VIOLET...
Memory Room, 1935 - Title: "Gigolette"

..ZOOM....ZOOM....ZOOM...THAT IS THE SOUND OF THE SURF, AS THE GREAT GREEN WAVES RUSH UP THE SHORE...
Leaves from a Grass-House, 1923 - Title: "Foreboding - For Musical Accompaniment"
Vagabond's House, 1928 - Title: "Foreboding - For Drum Accompaniment"