E-text prepared by David Garcia, Carla Foust, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) Transcriber's note Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without notice. One printer's error was changed, and it is indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. SHIPS IN HARBOUR BY DAVID MORTON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 Copyright, 1921 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Printed in the United States of America Copyright, 1921 To T. B. M. AND M. W. M. This Book is Affectionately Dedicated AND This Book is Affectionately Dedicated [v] [v] For the privilege of reprinting some of the poems included in this book, the author's thanks are due to The Bookman, The Century, The New York Evening Post, Harper's Magazine, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Designer, The Nation, The New York Sun, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping, The Bellman, Contemporary Verse, Everybody's Magazine, The Smart Set, Ainslee's, The Sonnet, McCall's Magazine, The Touchstone Magazine, The Forum, and The Lyric. [vi] [vi] [vii] [vii] CONTENTS Wooden Ships