CONTENTS

OLD-WORLD IDYLLS :-

A Dead Letter

A Gentleman of the Old School

A Gentlewoman of the Old School.

The Ballad of "Beau Brocade "

Une Marquise

The Story of Rosina

PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN :-

Prologue.

The Ballad à-la-Mode

The Metamorphosis

The Song out of Season

The Cap that Fits.

The Secrets of the Heart

"Good-Night, Babette!"

Epilogue.

VIGNETTES IN RHYME :-

The Drama of the Doctor's Window

An Autumn Idyll

A Garden Idyll

Tu Quoque

A Dialogue from Plato

The Romaunt of the Rose

Love in Winter

Pot-Pourri

VIGNETTES IN RHYME (continued) :—

Dorothy.

Avice

The Love-Letter

The Misogynist

A Virtuoso

Laissez Faire

To Q. H. F.

To "Lydia Languish "

A Gage d'Amour

Cupid's Alley.

The Idyll of the Carp

The Sundial

An Unfinished Song

The Child-Musician

The Cradle

Before Sedan.

The Forgotten Grave

My Landlady.

Before the Curtain.

A Nightingale in Kensington Gardens

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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES (continued) :—

Palomydes

The Mosque of the Caliph

In the Belfry

Ars Victrix

AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE:-

The Ladies of St. James's

The Old Sedan Chair

To an Intrusive Butterfly

The Cure's Progress

The Masque of the Months

Two Sermons.

"Au Revoir"

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The Carver and the Caliph

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To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum. 233

Molly Trefusis

At the Convent Gate

The Milkmaid

An Old Fish-Pond.

An Eastern Apologue

To a Missal of the Thirteenth Century

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AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE (continued) :-

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Household Art

A Dialogue (Alexander Pope)

A Familiar Epistle (William Hogarth)

Henry Fielding

†A Postscript to "Retaliation "

Johnson).

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Charles George Gordon .

Victor Hugo.

*Alfred, Lord Tennyson

FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART:-

The Poet and the Critics

The Toyman

The Successful Author

The Dilettant.

The Two Painters.

The Claims of the Muse.

The 'Squire at Vauxhall .

The Climacteric

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The Maltworm's Madrigal

An April Pastoral

A New Song of the Spring Gardens

A Love-Song.

Of his Mistress

The Nameless Charm

To Phidyle

To his Book

For a Copy of Herrick

*With a Volume of Verse

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