XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885]

by Andrew Lang

A. LANG

XXXII Ballades
in Blue China

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“Rondeaux, Ballades,
Chansons dizains, propos menus,
Compte moy qu’ilz sont devenuz:
Se faict il plus rien de nouveau?”

Clement Marot,
Dialogue de deux Amoureux.

“I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably.”

A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. sc. 3.

to
AUSTIN DOBSON.

CONTENTS.

	Page
Ballade of Theocritus	[15]
Ballade of Cleopatra’s Needle	[17]
Ballade of Roulette	[19]
Ballade of Sleep	[21]
Ballade of the Midnight Forest	[24]
Ballade of the Tweed	[27]
Ballade of the Book-hunter	[29]
Ballade of the Voyage to Cythera	[31]
Ballade of the Summer Term	[34]
Ballade of the Muse	[36]
Ballade against the Jesuits	[38]
Ballade of Dead Cities	[40]
Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf	[42]
Double Ballade of Primitive Man	[44]
Ballade of Autumn	[47]
Ballade of True Wisdom	[49]
Ballade of Worldly Wealth	[51]
Ballade of Life	[53]
Ballade of Blue China	[55]
Ballade of Dead Ladies	[57]
Villon’s Ballade of Good Counsel	[59]
Ballade of Rabbits and Hares	[61]
Valentine in form of Ballade	[63]
Ballade of Old Plays	[65]
Ballade of his Books	[67]
Ballade of Æsthetic Adjectives	[69]
Ballade of the Pleased Bard	[72]
Ballade for a Baby	[74]
Ballade Amoureuse	[76]
Ballade of Queen Anne	[78]
Ballade of Blind Love	[80]
Ballade of his Choice of a Sepulchre	[82]
Dizain	[84]
VERSES ANDTRANSLATIONS.
A Portrait of 1783	[87]
The Moon’s Minion	[90]
In Ithaca	[92]
Homer	[93]
The Burial of Molière	[94]
Bion	[95]
Spring	[96]
Before the Snow	[97]
Villanelle	[98]
The Mystery of Queen Persephone	[100]
Stoker Bill	[105]
Natural Theology	[108]
The Odyssey	[110]
Ideal	[111]