POEMS AND BALLADS

TO
MY FRIEND

EDWARD BURNE JONES

THESE POEMS
ARE AFFECTIONATELY AND ADMIRINGLY
DEDICATED

CONTENTS

POEMS AND BALLADS

PAGE
[A Ballad of Life]1
[A Ballad of Death]4
[Laus Veneris]11
[Phædra]27
[The Triumph of Time]34
[Les Noyades]48
[A Leave-Taking]52
[Itylus]54
[Anactoria]57
[Hymn to Proserpine]67
[Ilicet]74
[Hermaphroditus]79
[Fragoletta]82
[Rondel]85
[Satia te Sanguine]87
[A Litany]89
[A Lamentation]95
[Anima Anceps]100
[In the Orchard]102
[A Match]104
[Faustine]106
[A Cameo]113
[Song before Death]114
[Rococo]115
[Stage Love]118
[The Leper]119
[A Ballad of Burdens]125
[Rondel]128
[Before the Mirror]129
[Erotion]132
[In Memory of Walter Savage Landor]134
[A Song in Time of Order. 1852]137
[A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860.]140
[To Victor Hugo]144
[Before Dawn]151
[Dolores]154
[The Garden of Proserpine]169
[Hesperia]173
[Love at Sea]179
[April]181
[Before Parting]184
[The Sundew]186
[Félise]188
[An Interlude]199
[Hendecasyllabics]202
[Sapphics]204
[At Eleusis]208
[August]215
[A Christmas Carol]218
[The Masque of Queen Bersabe]221
[St. Dorothy]237
[The Two Dreams]252
[Aholibah]266
[Love and Sleep]272
[Madonna Mia]273
[The King's Daughter]276
[After Death]279
[May Janet]282
[The Bloody Son]284
[The Sea-Swallows]288
[The Year of Love]291
[Dedication, 1865]293