Chapter I: Front Matter

BY JOHN HALL WHEELOCK

THE BRIGHT DOOM.
THE BLACK PANTHER.
DUST AND LIGHT.
LOVE AND LIBERATION.
THE BELOVÈD ADVENTURE.
THE HUMAN FANTASY.

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

THE BRIGHT DOOM

THE BRIGHT DOOM

A BOOK OF POEMS

BY

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
1927

COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

TO MY MOTHER

Thanks are due to the editors of _The Bookman_,
_The Boston Transcript_, _The Century Magazine_, _College
Humor_, _The Forum_, _Harper’s Magazine_, _The Harvard
Graduates’ Magazine_, _New Orleans Life_, _The
North American Review_, _The Outlook_, _Poetry_, _The
Saturday Review of Literature_, _Scribner’s Magazine_,
_Southwest Review_, _The Virginia Quarterly Review_,
_The Yale Review_, and other publications, for their
permission to reprint certain of the following poems.

CONTENTS

I. _Earth_ PAGE

NOON: AMAGANSETT BEACH 5

THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY 9

THE HOLY EARTH 10

LONELINESS WITHOUT END 14

THIS QUIET DUST 15

LONE BEAUTY 16

SEA-VOYAGE 17

STONE AND IRON 20

THE LOWLAND COUNTRY 21

AUTUMN ALONG THE BEACHES 23

SUNDOWN 27

THE HEART GROWS OLD 28

RETURN TO EARTH 30

II. _Tumult_

SOLITUDES 33

THOSE TWO 34

ONCE IN A LONELY HOUR 35

COMPASSION 36

TRUCE 37

THE DARK MEMORY 38

HUSHED MIDNIGHT 42

“I SOUGHT YOU” 43

UNREST 44

STORM-WIND 45

REVERBERATION 46

III. _Songs and Meditations_

THE MULTITUDINOUS ONE 51

MEDITATION 52

THE MASQUE OF BEING 57

COMMUNION 58

THE VICTORY 61

THE YEARS 62

GOLGOTHA 63

AFFIRMATION 65

THE WOVEN DOOM 77

SALUTATION 79

THE BRIGHT DOOM

_Spirit of Life,_ _How great a lover of yourself you made_ _In fashioning this spirit! I have walked_ _The earth in ecstasy and adoration._ _Live in me now--stretch out my heart, while here_ _On one of your innumerable worlds_ _I stand, and lift my face into the night._