Ventures Into Verse / Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial
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The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Henry Louis Mencken
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS & OTHER THINGS
By CHARLES S. GORDON & JOHN SIEGEL
MARSHALL, BEEK & GORDON :: NEW
YORK :: LONDON :: TORONTO :: SYDNEY
BALTIMORE
First ( and Last ) Edition
M C M I I I
Copyright, 1903, by Henry L. Mencken
VENTURES INTO VERSE
H. L. Mencken
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CONTENTS
PRELIMINARY REBUKE
THE SONG OF THE OLDEN TIME
THE SPANISH MAIN
A WAR SONG
FAITH
THE BALLAD OF SHIPS IN HARBOR
THE ORF'CER BOY
THE FILIPINO MAIDEN
THE VIOLET
SEPTEMBER
ARABESQUE
ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS
A FRIVOLOUS RONDEAU
THE RHYMES OF MISTRESS DOROTHY
A FEW LINES
A RONDEAU OF TWO HOURS
AN ANTE-CHRISTMAS RONDEAU
ROUNDEL
IN VAUDEVILLE
THE RONDEAU OF RICHES
IN EATING SOUP
LOVE AND THE ROSE
A RONDEAU OF STATESMANSHIP
SONGS OF THE CITY
OTHER VERSES
A MADRIGAL
A BALLAD OF LOOKING
WHEN THE PIPE GOES OUT
A PARADOX
THE SONG OF THE SLAPSTICK
IL PENSEROSO
FINIS
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