A Vers de Société Anthology

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CONTENTS

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Introduction		[xix]
To Celia	Ben Jonson	[3]
Cupid	Ben Jonson	[4]
Rosalind’s Madrigal	Thomas Lodge	[5]
All Things Except Myself I Know	François Villon	[6]
Cupid and Campaspe	John Lilly	[8]
A Ditty	Sir Philip Sydney	[8]
Song from “Twelfth Night”	William Shakespeare	[9]
Sigh No More (from “Much Ado About Nothing”)	William Shakespeare	[9]
Phillida and Corydon	Nicholas Breton	[10]
Cherry-Ripe	Richard Allison	[11]
Send Back My Long-Stray’d Eyes to Me	John Donne	[12]
Pack Clouds Away	Thomas Heywood	[13]
Shall I, Wasting in Despair	George Wither	[14]
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time	Robert Herrick	[15]
The Bracelet	Robert Herrick	[16]
An Old Rhyme	Anonymous	[17]
Love Me Not for Comely Grace	Anonymous	[17]
On a Girdle	Edmund Waller	[18]
To My Love	Sir John Suckling	[18]
To Althea (From Prison)	Richard Lovelace	[19]
Song	Sir Charles Sedley	[21]
The Despairing Lover	William Walsh	[22]
Cupid Mistaken	Matthew Prior	[23]
The Contrast	Charles Morris	[24]
Oh, Tell Me How to Woo Thee	Robert Graham	[27]
Song from “The Duenna”	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	[28]
The Races	George Ellis	[29]
To Lady Anne Hamilton	Hon. William R. Spencer	[32]
To Mrs. Leigh Upon Her Wedding Day	George Canning	[33]
Names	Samuel T. Coleridge	[34]
The Exchange	Samuel T. Coleridge	[34]
Defiance	Walter Savage Landor	[35]
Her Lips	Walter Savage Landor	[35]
Commination	Walter Savage Landor	[36]
Margaret and Dora	Thomas Campbell	[36]
A Certain Young Lady	Washington Irving	[37]
Song	John Shaw	[38]
The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing	Thomas Moore	[39]
When I Loved You	Thomas Moore	[40]
Reason, Folly and Beauty	Thomas Moore	[41]
Tiresome Spring!	Béranger	[42]
Rosette	Béranger	[43]
She Is So Pretty	Béranger	[44]
Rondeau	Leigh Hunt	[45]
Stolen Fruit	Leigh Hunt	[45]
Love and Age	Thomas L. Peacock	[46]
Clubs	Theodore Hook	[48]
To Anne	William Maxwell	[51]
Song	William Cullen Bryant	[51]
What Is London’s Last New Lion?	Thomas Haynes Bayly	[53]
I’d Be a Butterfly	Thomas Haynes Bayly	[54]
I Must Come Out Next Spring	Thomas Haynes Bayly	[55]
Why Don’t the Men Propose?	Thomas Haynes Bayly	[57]
Ask and Have	Samuel Lover	[59]
Lines in a Young Lady’s Album	Thomas Hood	[60]
The Time of Roses	Thomas Hood	[62]
Love	Thomas Hood	[63]
To Helen	Winthrop Mackworth Praed	[64]
The Belle of the Ball-Room	Winthrop Mackworth Praed	[64]
Amy’s Cruelty	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	[68]
Beware!	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[70]
Love in a Cottage	Nathaniel Parker Willis	[71]
Because	Edward Fitzgerald	[73]
Lilian	Alfred Tennyson	[75]
The Henchman	John Greenleaf Whittier	[76]
Dorothy Q. A Family Portrait	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[78]
A Reminiscence	James Freeman Clarke	[81]
The Age of Wisdom	William Makepeace Thackeray	[82]
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse	William Makepeace Thackeray	[83]
An Invitation	Théophile Gautier	[86]
Fanny; or, The Beauty and the Bee	Charles Mackay	[88]
Garden Fancies The Flower’s Name	Robert Browning	[89]
A Poem of Every Day Life	Albert Riddle	[91]
Love Disposed Of	Robert Traill Spence Lowell	[93]
Mabel, in New Hampshire	James Thomas Fields	[94]
The Coquette A Portrait	John Godfrey Saxe	[96]
Justine, You Love Me Not!	John Godfrey Saxe	[98]
Sing Heigh-Ho!	Charles Kingsley	[99]
Snowdrop	William Wetmore Story	[100]
The Protest.	James Russell Lowell	[101]
Scherzo	James Russell Lowell	[101]
The Handsomest Man in the Room	William Macquorn Rankine	[102]
The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring	Henry Howard Brownell	[104]
A Terrible Infant	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[105]
Loulou and Her Cat	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[106]
Piccadilly	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[107]
A Word that Makes Us Linger	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[109]
My Mistress’s Boots	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[110]
A Nice Correspondent!	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[112]
There’s a Time to Be Jolly	Charles Godfrey Leland	[114]
I Remember, I Remember	Phoebe Cary	[115]
The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding	Richard Henry Stoddard	[116]
The Gold Room. An Idyl	Bayard Taylor	[118]
Comfort	Mortimer Collins	[119]
A Summer Song	Mortimer Collins	[120]
My Aunt’s Spectre	Mortimer Collins	[121]
A Conceit	Mortimer Collins	[122]
Martial in London	Mortimer Collins	[123]
The Best of the Ball	William Sawyer	[123]
The Ballad of Dead Ladies (Translation from François Villon, 1450)	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	[125]
Feminine Arithmetic	Charles Graham Halpine	[127]
A Trifle	Henry Timrod	[128]
Flight	Charles S. Calverley	[129]
Love	Charles S. Calverley	[132]
Since We Parted	Owen Meredith	[134]
A Kiss—By Mistake	Joel Benton	[134]
A Game of Fives	Lewis Carroll	[135]
A Valentine	Lewis Carroll	[137]
The Wedding Day	Edmund Clarence Stedman	[139]
Edged Tools	Edmund Clarence Stedman	[140]
Witchcraft	Edmund Clarence Stedman	[142]
Toujours Amour	Edmund Clarence Stedman	[143]
Dictum Sapienti	Charles Henry Webb	[144]
Undowered	Harriet McEwen Kimball	[145]
The Love-Knot	Nora Perry	[146]
Vers de Société	H. D. Traill	[147]
A Letter of Advice	Thomas Hood, Jr.	[149]
At the Lattice	Alfred Austin	[151]
French with a Master	Theodore Tilton	[152]
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[154]
The Lunch	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[155]
The Witch in the Glass	Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt	[156]
To Phoebe	William Schwenck Gilbert	[156]
My Love and My Heart	Henry S. Leigh	[157]
To a Country Cousin	Henry S. Leigh	[158]
The Family Fool	William Schwenck Gilbert	[160]
An Interlude	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[162]
A Match	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[165]
Caprice	William Dean Howells	[167]
The Minuet	Mary Mapes Dodge	[168]
A Street Sketch	J. Ashby-Sterry	[170]
Saint May: A City Lyric	J. Ashby-Sterry	[171]
Pet’s Punishment	J. Ashby-Sterry	[173]
Her Letter	Francis Bret Harte	[174]
Avice	Austin Dobson	[177]
A Song of the Four Seasons	Austin Dobson	[179]
In Town	Austin Dobson	[181]
When I Saw You Last, Rose	Austin Dobson	[183]
To “Lydia Languish”	Austin Dobson	[184]
The Old Sedan Chair	Austin Dobson	[186]
“Le Roman de la Rose”	Austin Dobson	[188]
Ninety-nine in the Shade	Rossiter Johnson	[190]
Brighton Pier	Clement Scott	[191]
A Contradiction	Clement Scott	[192]
Rondel	John Payne	[194]
White, Pillared Neck	Richard Watson Gilder	[194]
Janet	Richard Watson Gilder	[195]
For a Fan	Richard Watson Gilder	[196]
Ballade of Summer	Andrew Lang	[196]
Colinette	Andrew Lang	[198]
Ballade of Dead Ladies (After Villon)	Andrew Lang	[199]
Il Bacio	Paul Verlaine	[200]
Sur l’Herbe	Paul Verlaine	[201]
The Romance of a Glove	H. Savile Clarke	[202]
If	James Jeffrey Roche	[203]
“Don’t”	James Jeffrey Roche	[204]
On Rereading Télémaque	James Jeffrey Roche	[205]
Valentine	James Jeffrey Roche	[206]
Biftek aux Champignons	Henry Augustin Beers	[206]
An Explanation	Walter Learned	[209]
Marjorie’s Kisses	Walter Learned	[209]
Miss Nancy’s Gown	Zitella Cocke	[210]
“Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné”	George A. Baker	[212]
My Wooing	Edwin Hamilton	[213]
Wintry Paris	Anonymous	[215]
The Rose	Anonymous	[216]
Indecision	Anonymous	[217]
Logic	Anonymous	[218]
Conversational	Anonymous	[219]
If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It	Anonymous	[220]
Educational Courtship	Anonymous	[221]
Kissing’s No Sin	Anonymous	[223]
The Best Thing in the World	Anonymous	[223]
Her Neighbours	Anonymous	[224]
To Celia	E. H. Lacon Watson	[225]
In For It	Somerville Gibney	[225]
Kirtle Red	W. H. Bellamy	[227]
A Bagatelle	James G. Burnett	[228]
A Love Test	Carl Herlozssohn	[229]
The Mistaken Moth	Translated from Wegener	[229]
My Pretty Neighbor	Translated from Wegener	[230]
If	H. C. Dodge	[231]
To Mistress Pyrrha	Eugene Field	[232]
The Tea-Gown	Eugene Field	[232]
A Paraphrase	Eugene Field	[234]
A Leap-Year Episode	Eugene Field	[236]
Ballade of Ladies’ Names	W. E. Henley	[236]
Ballade of June	W. E. Henley	[237]
Ballade Made in the Hot Weather	W. E. Henley	[238]
A Rose	Arlo Bates	[240]
To Minnie (With a Hand Glass)	Robert Louis Stevenson	[241]
An American Girl	Brander Matthews	[241]
Larks and Nightingales	Nathan Haskell Dole	[242]
Caeli	Francis William Bourdillon	[244]
Lady Mine	Herbert Edwin Clarke	[244]
The Ripest Peach	James Whitcomb Riley	[245]
“I Journeyed South to Meet the Spring”	Robert Underwood Johnson	[246]
Before the Blossom	Robert Underwood Johnson	[246]
Love in the Calendar	Robert Underwood Johnson	[247]
My Grandmother’s Turkey-Tail Fan	Samuel Minturn Peck	[249]
Valentine	Edith Matilda Thomas	[250]
A Valentine	Laura Elizabeth Richards	[251]
On a Hymn Book	W. J. Henderson	[252]
The Ballade of the Summer-Boarder	H. C. Bunner	[254]
Interesting	H. C. Bunner	[256]
The Way to Arcady	H. C. Bunner	[257]
Da Capo	H. C. Bunner	[260]
The Maid of Murray Hill	H. C. Bunner	[262]
Kitty’s Summering	H. C. Bunner	[264]
Forfeits	H. C. Bunner	[265]
When Will Love Come?	Pakenham Beatty	[266]
Heliotrope	Harry Thurston Peck	[266]
Borderland	Herman Knickerbocker Vielé	[269]
Epithalamium	E. S. Martin	[270]
Infirm	E. S. Martin	[273]
Words, Words, Words	Margaret Deland	[273]
The Bluebell	Margaret Deland	[274]
A Modern Martyrdom	Sam Walter Foss	[275]
A Corsage Bouquet	Charles Henry Lüders	[277]
The Ballad of Cassandra Brown	Helen Gray Cone	[278]
From Three Fly Leaves	J. K. Stephen	[280]
Question and Answer	J. K. Stephen	[281]
A Rhyme for Priscilla	Frank Dempster Sherman	[283]
The Old Collector	Beatrice Hanscom	[285]
The Last Ditch	E. Nesbit	[288]
Be Ye in Love with April-Tide	Clinton Scollard	[289]
Strawberries	Clinton Scollard	[290]
Applied Astronomy	Esther B. Tiffany	[291]
Courtship	Frederick Langbridge	[292]
Eyes of Black and Eyes of Blue (from the Viceroy)	Harry B. Smith	[293]
Her Faults (from The Mandarin)	Harry B. Smith	[295]
A Modern Dialogue	Oliver Herford	[296]
The Poet’s Proposal	Oliver Herford	[299]
Truth	Oliver Herford	[299]
The Bachelor Girl	Oliver Herford	[300]
The Sea	Eva L. Ogden	[301]
In Philistia	Bliss Carman	[302]
Between the Showers	Amy Levy	[304]
Grace’s Choice	Charles Battell Loomis	[305]
To Violet. With a Bunch of Namesakes	Robert Cameron Rogers	[306]
Her Bonnet	Mary E. Wilkins	[307]
A Song	Norman R. Gale	[308]
Les Papillottes	Gertrude Hall	[309]
Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking	A. T. Quiller-Couch	[311]
Her Valentine	Richard Hovey	[311]
Story of the Gate	Harrison Robertson	[314]
Two Triolets	Harrison Robertson	[316]
A Ballade of Old Sweethearts	Richard Le Gallienne	[317]
Amour de Voyage	Rudyard Kipling	[318]
The Lover’s Litany	Rudyard Kipling	[319]
A Lenten Call	Hilda Johnson Wise	[321]
Helen’s Face a Book	Gelett Burgess	[322]
The Butterfly’s Madrigal	Gelett Burgess	[323]
Ballade of the Devil-May-Care	Gelett Burgess	[323]
Ballade of Dreams Transposed	Gelett Burgess	[325]
Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures	Ernest Dowson	[326]
L’Envoi	E. B. Reed	[327]
A Merry, Blue-Eyed Laddie	Juliet Wilbur Tompkins	[328]
Dance Time	Josephine Preston Peabody Marks	[329]
How Like a Woman	Caroline and Alice Duer	[330]
A Vignette	Caroline Duer	[331]
Index of Titles		[335]
Index of Authors		[347]

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