DON BLANDING
"Songs of the Seven Senses"
Including Farewell to Vagabond's House
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1931
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 121 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
To the Rowdy Duchess I Dedicate This book
(Lorraine T. Stevens)
Acknowledgement is made to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for the
use of some of my verses
D.B.
Contents:
| Fabric (preface) Song of the Seven Senses Quest and Request The Last Toast Challenge to Fate SONGS OF THE FIRST SENSE Sight Why do I Return... Hawaii... Moon Rainbow Star-Gazer Farewell to Vagabond's House Part One: Following the Dream Part Two: The Dream Comes True When Friendship Fails... Tropical Sunset Beauty The Smiling Mask SONGS OF THE SECOND SENSE Sounds Ylang-Ylang Flowers While I was Blind... Happiness Lei Sellers Souvenir Black Point |
SONGS OF THE THIRD SENSE Fragrances Roses Night Flowers of the Tropics White Ginger Lei Desert Flowers At St. Clements' Church on Wilder Avenue SONGS OF THE FOURTH SENSE Taste Regarding the Apple... Song of the Kitchen SONGS OF THE FIFTH SENSE Touch The Right Touch Portrait of a Charming Cheat Song of the Vagabond Tragedy in a Garden SONGS OF THE SIXTH SENSE The Awareness of Gods Reply When... If Ever... The Artist To One Who Chose the Nearest Exit... Idol |
MIXED-BOUQUET September Fifteenth Hearts-on-a-String Last Night Regarding an Affair... White Night Vagabond's Heart Kapu! Keep Out! Rebellion Reward of Virtue TROPICALIA Flowers of the Rainbow Hawaiian June Apology Hawaii Hawaiian Year SONGS OF THE SEVEN SENSE Nonsense Poetic Justice Photograph of an Old Love The Defense of the Goose |
Notes:
Tropical Sunset was written from Kimo Wilder's house on Tantalus.
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