Collected Poems in Two Volumes, Vol. II

by Austin Dobson

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CONTENTS.

• Page
• [At the Sign of the Lyre]:—
• The Ladies of St. James's [3]
• The Old Sedan Chair [6]
• To an Intrusive Butterfly [9]
• The Curé's Progress [11]
• The Masque of the Months [13]
• Two Sermons [17]
• "Au Revoir" [19]
• The Carver and the Caliph [26]
• To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum [29]
• Molly Trefusis [32]
• At the Convent Gate [36]
• The Milkmaid [38]
• An Old Fish-Pond [40]
• An Eastern Apologue [43]
• To a Missal of the Thirteenth Century [45]
• A Revolutionary Relic [48]
• A Madrigal [54]
• A Song to the Lute [56]
• A Garden Song [58]
• A Chapter of Froissart [60]
• To the Mammoth Tortoise [64]
• A Roman "Round-Robin" [66]
• Verses to Order [68]
• A Legacy [70]
• "Little Blue Ribbons" [72]
• Lines to a Stupid Picture [74]
• A Fairy Tale [76]
• To a Child [78]
• Household Art [80]
• The Distressed Poet [81]
• Jocosa Lyra [83]
• My Books [85]
• The Book-Plate's Petition [87]
• Palomydes [89]
• André le Chapelain [91]
• The Water of Gold [95]
• A Fancy from Fontenelle [97]
• Don Quixote [98]
• A Broken Sword [99]
• The Poet's Seat [101]
• The Lost Elixir [104]

• [Memorial Verses]:—
• A Dialogue (Alexander Pope) [107]
• A Familiar Epistle (William Hogarth) [112]
• Henry Fielding [115]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [119]
• Charles George Gordon [120]
• Victor Hugo [121]
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson [122]

• [Fables of Literature and Art]:—
• The Poet and the Critics [127]
• The Toyman [130]
• The Successful Author [133]
• The Dilettant [136]
• The Two Painters [138]
• The Claims of the Muse [140]
• The 'Squire at Vauxhall [144]
• The Climacteric [149]

• [Tales in Rhyme]:—
• The Virgin with the Bells [155]
• A Tale of Polypheme [159]
• A Story from a Dictionary [170]
• The Water Cure [178]
• The Noble Patron [184]

• [Vers de Société]:—
• Incognita [193]
• Dora versus Rose [197]
• Ad Rosam [200]
• Outward Bound [205]
• In the Royal Academy [208]
• The Last Despatch [213]
• "Premiers Amours" [216]
• The Screen in the Lumber Room [219]
• Daisy's Valentines [221]
• In Town [224]
• A Sonnet in Dialogue [227]
• Growing Gray [229]

• [Varia]:—
• The Maltworm's Madrigal [233]
• An April Pastoral [236]
• A New Song of the Spring Gardens [237]
• A Love Song, 1700 [239]
• Of his Mistress [240]
• The Nameless Charm [242]
• To Phidyle [243]
• To his Book [244]
• For a Copy of Herrick [246]
• With a Volume of Verse [247]
• For the Avery "Knickerbocker" [248]
• To a Pastoral Poet [250]
• "Sat est Scripsisse" [251]

• [Prologues and Epilogues]:—
• Prologue and Envoi to Abbey's Edition of "She Stoops to Conquer" [257]
• Prologue and Epilogue to Abbey's "Quiet Life" [264]
• [Notes] [271]

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