CONTENTS.
To the Reader — Austin Dobson
[XXXVI.—BALLADES]:
[BALLADE DEDICATORY]
[BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME]
[BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA]
[BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER]
[BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS]
[VALENTINE IN FORM OF BALLADE]
[BALLADE OF SUMMER]
[BALLADE OF AUTUMN]
[BALLADE OF OLD PLAYS]
[BALLADE OF ROULETTE]
[BALLADE OF FRÈRE LUBIN]
[BALLADE OF QUEEN ANNE]
[BALLADE OF PRIMITIVE MAN]
[BALLADE OF SLEEP]
[BALLADE OF CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE]
[BALLADE OF TRUE WISDOM]
[BALLADE OF THE MUSE]
[BALLADE FOR A BABY]
[BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY]
[BALLADE OF THE TWEED]
[BALLADE OF THE ROYAL GAME OF GOLF]
[BALLADE OF THE MIDNIGHT FOREST]
[BALLADE OF CRICKET]
[BALLADE OF THE BOOK-MAN'S PARADISE]
[BALLADE OF WORLDLY WEALTH]
[BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM]
[BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES]
[BALLADE OF THE VOYAGE TO CYTHERA]
[BALLADE OF LIFE]
[BALLADE OF ÆSTHETIC ADJECTIVES]
[BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES]
[BALLADE OF GOOD COUNSEL]
[BALLADE AMOUREUSE]
[BALLADE AGAINST THE JESUITS]
[BALLADE OF BLIND LOVE]
[BALLADE OF HIS CHOICE OF A SEPULCHRE]
[Dizain] — by Austin Dobson
[VERSES VAIN:]
[ALMAE MATRES]
[NIGHTINGALE WEATHER]
[COLINETTE]
[FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST]
[A DREAM]
[TWILIGHT ON TWEED]
[A SUNSET OF WATTEAU]
[ROMANCE]
[A SUNSET ON YARROW]
[A PORTRAIT OF 1783]
[THE BARBAROUS BIRDS]
[POST HOMERICA:]
[HESPEROTHEN]
[THE SEEKERS FOR PHÆACIA]
[THE DEPARTURE FROM PHÆACIA]
[A BALLAD OF DEPARTURE]
[THEY HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME]
[CIRCE'S ISLE REVISITED]
[THE LIMIT of LANDS]
[THE SHADE OF HELEN]
[PISIDICÊ]
[SONNETS]:
[THE ODYSSEY]
[THE SIRENS]
[LOVE'S EASTER]
[TWILIGHT]
[BION]
[SAN TERENZO]
[NATURAL THEOLOGY]
[HOMER]
[RONSARD]
[GÉRARD DE NERVAL]
[IN ITHACA]
[DREAMS]
[HOMERIC UNITY]
[IDEAL]
[TRANSLATIONS]:
[HYMN TO THE WINDS]
[A VOW TO HEAVENLY VENUS]
[APRIL]
[OF HIS LADY'S OLD AGE]
[SHADOWS OF HIS LADY]
[MOONLIGHT]
[THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE]
[THE BIRTH OF BUTTERFLIES]
[AN OLD TUNE]
[SPRING IN THE STUDENT'S QUARTER]
[SPRING. (AFTER MELEAGER.)]
[OLD LOVES]
[IANNOULA]
[THE MILK WHITE DOE]
[A LA BELLE HÉLÈNE]
[BURIAL OF MOLIÈRE]
[BEFORE THE SNOW]
[THE CLOUD CHORUS]
Laughter and song the poet brings,
And lends them form and gives them-wings;
Then sets his chirping squadron free
To post at will by land or sea,
And find their home, if that may be.
Laughter and song this poet, too,
O Western brothers, sends to you:
With doubtful flight the darting train
Have crossed the bleak Atlantic main,—
Now warm them in your hearts again!
A. D.
Mr. Austin Dobson has been so kind as to superintend the making of the following selection from "Ballads and Lyrics of Old France" (1872), "Ballades in Blue China" (1880, 1881, 1883), and from verses previously unprinted or not collected.