A Vers de Société Anthology

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INDEX OF TITLES

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

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