On the Face of the Waters and Other Poems. by Slocum, Grace L. (Leila), 1865-

Richard H. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston [c1911]. Hard Cover. Signed. 64 p.; 19.5 cm. Nineteen poems: On the Face of the Waters. On the Wreck of the Larchmont, February 11, 1907; The Song of the Moquer (A Lyric to the Nightingale of the South), The Toilers, Elizabeth's Prayer (from Tannhauser), Sonya Kovalevsky, Woman and Poet, To an Ideal, Uncertainty, The Magdalene (At the Door of Simon's House), Margarethe, Just for You, Life and Love (On a painting by Watts), Galatea, Ada Negri, Songs of Solomon, Night in the South, The Forsaken Nest, In the South. A Serenade, In May; Christmas and Religious Poems: The Adoration of the Virgin, A Christmas Ode, Mary (Loquitur), The Dream of Mary, "The Star and the Magil", A King, Supplication, She Is Not Dead. She But Sleepeth, The Sister, Gethsemane, The Vision of the Madonna (Mary Loquitur). Textured charcoal boards, printed paper spine & front-cover labels; minor wear & spotting, p. 49/50 wrinkled with several small tears in edge; author's inscription to William Ellis; VG. stock#731 [fifi].