Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc.
LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. NEW YORK: 3 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET.
The crowning pleasure in the compilation of this book is the permission to dedicate it to you, and this token of personal admiration is not without special fitness, since you were among the earliest to experiment in these French rhythms, and to introduce Charles d'Orléans and François Villon to the majority of English readers .
Those old French ways of verse making that have been coming into fashion of late. Surely they say a pretty thing more prettily for their quaint old-fashioned liberty! That TRIOLET— how deliciously impertinent it is! is it not?... The variety of dainty modes wherein by shape and sound a very pretty something is carved out of nothing at all. Their fantastic surprises, the ring of their bell-like returns upon themselves, their music of triangle and cymbal. In some of them poetry seems to approach the nearest possible to bird-song—to unconscious seeming through most unconscious art, imitating the carelessness and impromptu of forms as old as the existence of birds, and as new as every fresh individual joy in each new generation, growing their own feathers, and singing their own song, yet always the feathers of their kind, and the song of their kind. —
Home Again. —George Macdonald.
An asterisk is attached to the titles of those not previously published. Names of American Authors are in Italic type.
This anthology is chosen entirely from poems written in the traditional fixed forms of the ballade , chant royal , kyrielle , rondel , rondeau , rondeau redoublé , sestina , triolet , villanelle , and virelai , with the addition of the pantoum . That such a choice is the result of circumstances it is needless to point out, since only those that had found favour with English writers were available for the purpose. So far as I know, this collection is the first of its sort, although Mr. W. Davenport Adams' Latter Day Lyrics included a section chosen on the same lines. Having, in company, no doubt, with many others, a genuine regard for the group Mr. Adams included there, I had long hoped to see a more ample compilation of later work in this school; but notwithstanding the steady increase in the number of poems written in the forms systematically arranged herein, the ground remained unoccupied, until the appearance of this book; which may fairly claim to be the first in the field, since no other volume has devoted its whole space to them, save in the rarer cases, where an author has published a collection of original poems cast in one mould, notably Mr. Swinburne's Century of Roundels and Mr. Andrew Lang's Ballades in Blue China .
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UNG BON RONDEAU
THE DESPONDING SOUL'S WISH.
LAY OU PLUTOST RONDEAU.
Lay, or rather Rondeau.
ROSE.
LAI.
FROM OVERSEA.
WHERE ARE THE PIPES OF PAN?
A BALLADE OF EVOLUTION.
BALLADE OF SOLITUDE.
A BALLADE OF BOTHERS.
BALLADE OF BELIEF.
BALLADE OF BURIAL.
ON A FAN THAT BELONGED TO THE MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR.
THE BALLAD OF IMITATION.
THE BALLADE OF PROSE AND RHYME.
THE BALLAD OF DEAD CITIES.
BALLADE.
BALLADE.—LILITH.
BALLADE OF ANTIQUE DANCES.
BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS.
BALLADE OF JUNE.
BALLADE OF LADIES' NAMES.
BALLADE OF SPRING.
BALLADE OF MIDSUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS.
BALLADE OF YOUTH AND AGE.
BALLADE.
BALLADE DES PENDUS. (GRINGOIRE.)
VALENTINE IN FORM OF BALLADE.
BALLADE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
BALLADE OF SUMMER.
BALLADE OF YULE.
BALLADE OF MIDDLE AGE.
BALLADE FOR THE LAUREATE.
BALLADE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
A BALLADE OF OLD SWEETHEARTS.
BALLADE.
BALLADE OF DEAD THINKERS.
A BALLADE OF ROSES.
A BALLADE OF DEATH.
THE BALLADE OF TOBACCO.
THE BALLADE OF ADAPTATION.
A BALLADE OF MIDSUMMER.
RAIN AND SHINE.
AN AMERICAN GIRL.
"FROM BATTLE, MURDER AND SUDDEN DEATH, GOOD LORD, DELIVER US."
IN WINTER.
BALLADE OF HIS LADY.
BALLADE OF EXMOOR.
BALLAD OF PAST DELIGHT.
THE PIXIES.
A BALLADE OF THE THUNER-SEE.
GRANDMOTHER.
A BALLADE OF PHILOMELA.
A BALLADE OF CALYPSO.
A BALLAD OF FORGOTTEN TUNES.
BALLADE OF A GARDEN.
BALLADE OF THE BARD.
BALLADE OF DEAD POETS.
BALLADE TO VILLON.
FOR ME THE BLITHE BALLADE.
O LADY MINE.
WHERE ARE THE SHIPS OF TYRE?
BALLADE OF VAIN HOPES.
BALLADE OF THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND.
BALLADE OF THE SEA-FOLK.
TO AUSTIN DOBSON.
BALLADE OF RHYME.
A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND.
A BALLADE OF KINGS.
BALLADE OF ACHERON.
BALLADE OF ASPHODEL.
BALLADE OF THE BOURNE.
BALLADE OF FAIRY GOLD.
BALLADE OF MIGHT-BE.
BALLADE OF THE OPTIMIST.
BALLADE OF OLD INSTRUMENTS.
BALLADE OF SEA-MUSIC.
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE LARK.
MY GRANDCHILDREN AT CHURCH.
BALLADE MADE IN THE HOT WEATHER.
BALLADE OF ASPIRATION.
BALLADE OF TRUISMS.
DOUBLE BALLADE OF LIFE AND FATE.
DOUBLE BALLADE OF THE NOTHINGNESS OF THINGS.
BALLADE OF SLEEP.
THE BALLADE OF LOVELACE.
BALLAD.
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DOUBLE BALLAD. OF THE SINGERS OF THE TIME.
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A BALLAD OF LOST LOVERS.
A BALLAD OF HEROES.
A BALLAD OF FRANÇOIS VILLON,
THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD
A BALLAD OF BATH.
A BALLAD OF SARK.
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
THE PRAISE OF DIONYSUS.
THE GOD OF LOVE.
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THE CHANT OF THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST.
KING BOREAS.
THE NEW EPIPHANY.
THE GLORY OF THE YEAR.
KYRIELLE.
THE PAVILION.
KYRIELLE.
IN TOWN.
MONOLOGUE D'OUTRE TOMBE.
PANTOUM.
EN ROUTE.
IN THE SULTAN'S GARDEN.
RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ.
RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ.
THE PRAYER OF DRYOPE.
RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ.
THE SICILIAN OCTAVE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED.
O HONEY OF HYMETTUS HILL.
READY FOR THE RIDE—1795.
RONDEL.
RONDEL.
THE WANDERER.
RONDEL.
RONDEL.
RONDEL.
VARIATIONS.
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RONDEL.
RONDEL.
TWO RONDELS.
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RONDELS.
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TO A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER.
RONDEL.
"BEFORE THE DAWN."
RONDEL.
FROM THEODORE DE BANVILLE.
RONDEL.
COME, LOVE, ACROSS THE SUNLIT LAND.
UPON THE STAIR I SEE MY LADY STAND.
I HEARD A MAID WITH HER GUITAR.
VALENTINE.
LOVE'S CAPTIVE.
LOVE.
RONDEL.
BENEDICITE.
RONDELETS.
MIGHT LOVE BE BOUGHT.
IN THY CLEAR EYES.
THE SWEET, SAD YEARS.
A WISH.
TO A DOLEFUL POET.
"HIS POISONED SHAFTS."
TO HOMER.
SEPTEMBER.
LES MORTS VONT VITE.
"IN LOVE'S DISPORT."
"WHAT MAKES THE WORLD?"
"O FONS BANDUSIÆ."
"ON LONDON STONES."
A RONDEAU TO ETHEL.
TO A JUNE ROSE.
"WITH PIPE AND FLUTE."
"IN AFTER DAYS."
"IN VAIN TO-DAY."
"WHEN BURBADGE PLAYED."
OLD BOOKS ARE BEST.
A COWARD STILL.
RONDEAUX OF CITIES.
COULD SHE HAVE GUESSED.
FIRST SIGHT.
EXPECTATION.
IN THE GRASS.
A GARDEN PIECE.
LOVERS' QUARREL.
IF LOVE SHOULD FAINT.
MY LOVE TO ME.
WITH STRAWBERRIES.
A FLIRTED FAN.
IN ROTTEN ROW.
THE LEAVES ARE SERE.
WITH A FAN FROM RIMMEL'S.
IF I WERE KING.
THE GODS ARE DEAD.
HER LITTLE FEET.
WHEN YOU ARE OLD.
MY BOOKS.
MOST SWEET OF ALL.
THE REDBREAST.
TO Q(uintus) H(oratius) F(laccus).
LOVE IN LONDON.
SLEEP.
TO TAMARIS.
WHEN I SEE YOU.
CARPE DIEM.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
SUB ROSA.
"VIOLET."
O SCORN ME NOT.
TEN THOUSAND POUNDS.
ONE OF THESE DAYS.
LIFE LAPSES BY.
BEYOND THE NIGHT.
AMONG MY BOOKS.
I GO MY GAIT.
(TO LOUIS HONORE FRÉCHETTE.)
"WITHOUT ONE KISS."
VIS EROTIS.
WHEN SIRIUS SHINES.
AT PEEP OF DAWN.
IN GREENWOOD GLEN.
HER CHINA CUP.
BEHIND HER FAN.
AN ACROSTICAL VALENTINE.
WHEN TWILIGHT COMES.
COME, PAN, AND PIPE.
AN OLD RONDO.
A STREET SKETCH.
DOVER.
HOMESICK.
IN BEECHEN SHADE.
THE GATES OF HORN.
IF LOVE BE TRUE.
THE COQUETTE.
YES OR NO?
MY WINDOW BIRDS.
SNOWDROPS AND ACONITES.
THE CHIFF-CHAFF'S MESSAGE, HEARD IN MARCH.
"WHEN SUMMER DIES."
MY LITTLE SWEETHEART.
THREE ROUNDELS.
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A SINGING LESSON.
IN GUERNSEY.
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THE ROUNDEL.
NOTHING SO SWEET.
THE TRYSTING-TREE.
A ROUNDEL OF REST.
MORS ET VITA.
RONDELS OF CHILDHOOD.
SESTINA.
LOVE'S GOING.
SESTINA.
PULVIS ET UMBRA.
CUPID AND THE SHEPHERD.
SESTINA.
MY SWEETHEART.
A ROSE.
TRIOLETS FOR "THE TWELFTH."
ROSE-LEAVES.
TRIOLET, AFTER CATULLUS.
TRIOLETS.
TRIOLETS.
TRIOLETS.
SONG.
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UNDER THE ROSE.
TWO TRIOLETS.
SIX TRIOLETS.
FROM "FIAMETTA".
A SNOWFLAKE IN MAY.
APOLOGY FOR GAZING AT A YOUNG LADY IN CHURCH.
A TINY TRIP.
VESTIGIA.
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THREE TRIOLETS.
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TRIOLET.
REJECTED.
A PAIR OF GLOVES.
IN THE ORCHARD.
ROSES.
A VACATION VILLANELLE.
"TU NE QUAESIERIS."
WHEN I SAW YOU LAST, ROSE.
FOR A COPY OF THEOCRITUS.
ON A NANKIN PLATE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
BONNIE BELLE.
IF SOME TRUE MAIDEN'S LOVE WERE MINE.
WHEN THE BROW OF JUNE.
O SUMMER-TIME SO PASSING SWEET.
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
TO HELEN.
TO THE DAFFODIL.
SPRING KNOCKS AT WINTER'S FROSTY DOOR.
DOT.
ACROSS THE WORLD I SPEAK TO THEE.
WHERE ARE THE SPRINGS OF LONG AGO?
VILLANELLE.
VILLANELLE.
THEOCRITUS.
SPRING SADNESS.
JULY.
THE BALLADE OF THE SUMMER-BOARDER.
A YOUNG POET'S ADVICE.
A BALLAD OF OLD METRES.
BALLADE OF CRICKET.
THE PRODIGALS.
VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES.
A BALLADE OF BALLADE-MONGERS.
ON NEWPORT BEACH.
CULTURE IN THE SLUMS.
THE STREET SINGER.
MALAPROPOS.
BEHOLD THE DEEDS!
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