CONTENTS

VENTURES INTO VERSE

[TO R. K.]

[THE SONG OF THE OLDEN TIME]

[THE SPANISH MAIN]

[THE TRANSPORT GEN'RAL FERGUSON]

[A WAR SONG]

[FAITH]

[THE BALLAD OF SHIPS IN HARBOR]

[THE ORF'CER BOY]

[THE FILIPINO MAIDEN]

[THE VIOLET]

[THE TIN-CLADS]

[SEPTEMBER]

[ARABESQUE]

ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS

[A BALLADE OF PROTEST]

[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

[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]

WARNING

Most of the verses that follow have been printed before and the author wishes to acknowledge his thanks for permission to reproduce them, to the editors and publishers of The Bookman, Life, The New England Magazine, The National Magazine and the Baltimore Morning Herald. Some are imitations—necessarily weak—of the verse of several men in whose writings he has found a good deal of innocent pleasure. The others, he fears, are more or less original.