CONTENTS

OLD-WORLD IDYLLS:

To you I sing

A Dead Letter

A Gentleman of the Old School

A Gentlewoman of the Old School

The Ballad of “ Beau Brocade"

Une Marquise

9

14

19

31

PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN:

Good-Night, Babette !"

37

41

50

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VIGNETTES IN RHYME:

The Drama of the Doctor's Window

An Autumn Idyll .

Tu Quoque

A Dialogue from Plato.

Love in Winter

Pot-Pourri

Dorothy

Avice

The Love-Letter

249

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70

73

77

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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES :

A Song of the Four Seasons

To a Greek Girl .

The Sick Man and the Birds .

A Flower Song of Angiola

The Dying of Tanneguy du Bois.

The Mosque of the Caliph

In the Belfry

AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE:

The Ladies of St. James's

132

The Old Sedan Chair

135

To an Intrusive Butterfly

139

The Cure's Progress

141

To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum. 143

Molly Trefusis

146

The Milkmaid

151

An Eastern Apologue

153

A Revolutionary Relic .

155

A Garden Song

161

A Legacy

163

A Fancy from Fontenelle

165

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ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS :

Rose-Leaves (Triolets) .

The Wanderer (Rondel)

To Daffod (Rondeau)

On a Nankin Plate (Villanelle)

On a Fan (Ballade)

A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth (Ballade)

The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme (Ballade)

The Dance of Death (Chant Royal)

CARMINA VOTIVA:

201

202

A Madrigal .

Rank and File

For a Charity Annual (Angel Court)

The Song of the Sea Wind

To F. M. D..

To George H. Boughton, R.A.

“ Rose, in the Hedgerow grown”.

R. L. S. In Memoriam.

210

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LUDIBRIA VENTIS :

PAGE

Surge et Ambula

The Simple Life.

The Passionate Printer to his Love

214

To Myrtalé

216

A Proem

217

An Epitaph .

218

A Miltonic Exercise

A Song of the Greenaway Child

K. G. (Kate Greenaway)

223

“Two Maids Uprose in the Shimmering Light” 224

Elim

225

220

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LATER ADDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:

In Memoriam

226

To Hugh Thomson

228

To Time, the Tyrant

229

RONDEAUS OF THE GREAT WAR AND OTHER POEMS:

For the Blinded Soldiers

230

To Belgium .

231

An Arctic Epitaph

232

On the Future of Poetry

233

The Ballad of the Beggar

235

Alter Ego

237

For a Closing Page

239

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То у

"O you I sing, whom towns immure,
And bonds of toil hold fast and sure ; -
To you across whose aching sight

Come woodlands bathed in April light,
And dreams of pastime premature.

And d you, O Sad, who still endure
Some wound that only Time can cure, -
Το
you, in watches of the night,-

To you I sing!

But most to you with eyelids pure,
Scarce witting yet of love or lure ; -

To you, with bird-like glances bright,

Half-paused to speak, half-poised in flight; O English Girl, divine, demure,

To you I sing!!