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Chimneysmoke

by Christopher Morley

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Epigraph — Author’s Note
  3. 3Dedication
  4. 4A Grace Before Writing
  5. 5Dedication for a Fireplace
  6. 6Taking Title
  7. 7The Secret
  8. 8Only a Matter of Time
  9. 9At the Mermaid Cafeteria
  10. 10Our House
  11. 11On Naming a House
  12. 12A Hallowe’en Memory
  13. 13Refusing You Immortality
  14. 14Bayberry Candles
  15. 15Secret Laughter
  16. 16Six Weeks Old
  17. 17A Charm
  18. 18My Pipe
  19. 19The 5:42
  20. 20Peter Pan
  21. 21In Honor of Taffy Topaz
  22. 22The Cedar Chest
  23. 23Reading Aloud
  24. 24Animal Crackers
  25. 25The Milkman
  26. 26Light Verse
  27. 27The Furnace
  28. 28Washing the Dishes
  29. 29The Church of Unbent Knees
  30. 30Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin
  31. 31The Old Swimmer
  32. 32The Moon-Sheep
  33. 33Smells
  34. 34Smells (Junior)
  35. 35Mar Quong, Chinese Laundryman
  36. 36The Fat Little Purse
  37. 37The Reflection — (To N. B. D.)
  38. 38The Balloon Peddler
  39. 39Lines for an Eccentric’s Book Plate
  40. 40To a Post-Office Inkwell
  41. 41The Crib
  42. 42The Poet
  43. 43To a Discarded Mirror
  44. 44To a Child
  45. 45To a Very Young Gentleman
  46. 46To an Old-Fashioned Poet
  47. 47Burning Leaves in Spring
  48. 48Burning Leaves, November
  49. 49A Valentine Game
  50. 50For a Birthday
  51. 51Keats
  52. 52To H. F. M. a Sonnet in Sunlight
  53. 53Quickening
  54. 54At a Window Sill
  55. 55The River of Light
  56. 56Of Her Glorious Madness
  57. 57In an Auction Room
  58. 58Epitaph for a Poet Who Wrote No Poetry
  59. 59Sonnet by a Geometer
  60. 60To a Vaudeville Terrier Seen on a Leash, in the Park
  61. 61To an Old Friend
  62. 62To a Burlesque Soubrette
  63. 63Thoughts While Packing a Trunk
  64. 64Streets
  65. 65To the Only Begetter
  66. 66Pedometer
  67. 67Hostages
  68. 68Ars Dura
  69. 69O. Henry — Apothecary
  70. 70For the Centenary of Keats’s Sonnet
  71. 71Two O’Clock
  72. 72The Commercial Traveller
  73. 73The Wedded Lover
  74. 74To You, Remembering the Past
  75. 75Charles and Mary
  76. 76To a Grandmother
  77. 77Diarists
  78. 78The Last Sonnet
  79. 79The Savage
  80. 80St. Paul’s and Woolworth
  81. 81Advice to a City
  82. 82The Telephone Directory
  83. 83Green Escape
  84. 84Vesper Song for Commuters
  85. 85The Ice Wagon
  86. 86At a Movie Theatre
  87. 87Sonnets in a Lodging House
  88. 88The Man With the Hoe (Press)
  89. 89Do You Ever Feel Like God?
  90. 90Rapid Transit
  91. 91Caught in the Undertow
  92. 92To His Brown-Eyed Mistress
  93. 93Peace
  94. 94Song, in Deprecation of Pulchritude
  95. 95Mounted Police
  96. 96To His Mistress, Deploring That He Is Not an Elizabethan Galaxy
  97. 97The Intruder
  98. 98Tit for Tat
  99. 99Song for a Little House
  100. 100The Plumpuppets
  101. 101Dandy Dandelion
  102. 102The High Chair
  103. 103Love at First Sight
  104. 104Autumn Colors
  105. 105The Last Cricket
  106. 106To Louise
  107. 107Christmas Eve
  108. 108Epitaph on the Proofreader of the Encyclopedia Britannica
  109. 109The Music Box
  110. 110To Luath
  111. 111Thoughts on Reaching Land
  112. 112A Symposium
  113. 113To a Telephone Operator Who Has a Bad Cold
  114. 114Nursery Rhymes for the Tender-Hearted
  115. 115The Twins — A Printer’s Madrigal
  116. 116The Poet on the Hearth
  117. 117O Praise Me Not the Country
  118. 118A Stone in St. Paul’s Graveyard
  119. 119The Madonna of the Curb
  120. 120The Island
  121. 121Sunday Night
  122. 122England, July 1913
  123. 123Casualty
  124. 124A Grub Street Recessional
  125. 125Preliminary Instructions for a Funeral Service: Being a Poem in Fou…

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