L’ENVOI.

“Go, little book,” as Poet Southey said;
You might be better and you might be worse.
With just one word of warning you are sped:
Remember, you’re not Poetry—you’re Verse.

Index

Always[82]
Autumn Revery[104]
Ballad of Misfits[63]
Ballade of a Bore[97]
Ballade of the Cannery[86]
Ballade of Cap and Bells[76]
Ballade of Death and Time[28]
Ballade of Irresolution[68]
Ballade of the Pipesmoke Carry[110]
Ballade of Spring’s Unrest[22]
Ballade of Wool-Gathering[48]
Bards We Quote, The[113]
Bread Puddynge[42]
Breakfast Food Family, The[19]
Coronation, The[107]
Day of the Comet, The[66]
Dinosaur, The[75]
Dornröschen[34]
“Farewell”[36]
Gentle Doctor Brown[78]
Hence These Rimes[115]
Horace: A Note from Mr. Flaccus[54]
I. To Aristius Fuscus[56]
II. Duetto[57]
III. To Pyrrha[59]
IV. To Aristius Fuscus[60]
V. To Sylvia[62]
How They Might Have Brought the Good News[73]
In the Gallery[80]
In the Lamplight[17]
Kaiser’s Farewell, The[30]
Land of Rainbow’s-End, The[95]
Laundry of Life, The[93]
Lay of St. Ambrose[9]
Miss Legion[27]
Modern Mariner, The[84]
Morning After, The[67]
Musca Domestica[45]
My Lady New York[109]
Old Roller Towel, The[116]
Oriental Apology, An[65]
Pandean Pipedreams[88]
Passional Note, The[119]
Passionate Professor, The[47]
Persistent Poet, The[114]
Pole, The[99]
Post-Vacational[112]
Recoil, The[105]
Reform in Our Town[38]
Rime of the Clark Street Cable[25]
Sh-h-h-h![101]
Simple, Heartfelt Lay, The[53]
Sons of Battle[108]
To a Tall Spruce[14]
To Lillian Russell[32]
To the Sun[50]
To What Base Uses[70]
“Treasure Island”[21]
Up Culture’s Hill[117]
Vanished Fay, The[102]
When It Is Hot[51]
When the Sirup’s on the Flapjack[41]
Why?[24]
Wisdom in a Capsule[94]