Selected Poems

CONTENTS

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AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE:

The Ladies of St. James's

The Old Sedan Chair

To an Intrusive Butterfly

The Curé's Progress

To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum

Molly Trefusis

The Milkmaid

An Eastern Apologue

A Legacy

A Fancy from Fontenelle

The Poet's Seat

FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART:

To One who Bids me Sing

"Sat est Scripsisse

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ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS:

Rose-Leaves (Triolets).

The Wanderer (Rondel)

To Daffodils (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:

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.

The Passionate Printer to his Love

A Song of the Greenaway Child

223

K. G. (Kate Greenaway)

"Two Maids Uprose in the Shimmering Light" 224

Elim

225

LATER ADDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:

In Memoriam

To Hugh Thomson

To Time, the Tyrant

RONDEAUS OF THE GREAT WAR AND OTHER POEMS:

For the Blinded Soldiers

To Belgium.

An Arctic Epitaph

On the Future of Poetry

The Ballad of the Beggar

Toyo

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 you, O Sad, who still endure
Some wound that only Time can cure,—
To 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!

Knygos