The Verse in this Second Book.
| Page | |
| Father's Way | [1] |
| To my Mother | [5] |
| Körner's Battle Prayer | [7] |
| Gosling Stew | [9] |
| Catullus to Lesbia | [12] |
| John Smith | [13] |
| St. Martin's Lane | [22] |
| The Singing in God's-Acre | [25] |
| Dear Old London | [28] |
| Corsican Lullaby (Folk-Song) | [33] |
| The Clink of the Ice | [35] |
| Bells of Notre Dame | [39] |
| Lover's Lane, St. Jo | [41] |
| Crumpets and Tea | [44] |
| An Imitation of Dr. Watts | [47] |
| Intry-Mintry | [48] |
| Modjesky as Cameel | [51] |
| Telling the Bees | [60] |
| The Tea-Gown | [62] |
| Doctors | [64] |
| Barbara | [69] |
| The Café Molineau | [72] |
| Holly and Ivy | [75] |
| The Boltons, 22 | [77] |
| Dibdin's Ghost | [83] |
| The Hawthorne Children | [87] |
| The Bottle and the Bird | [91] |
| An Eclogue from Virgil | [96] |
| Pittypat and Tippytoe | [103] |
| Ashes on the Slide | [106] |
| The Lost Cupid of Moschus | [110] |
| Christmas Eve | [113] |
| Carlsbad | [115] |
| The Sugar-Plum Tree | [120] |
| Red | [122] |
| Jewish Lullaby | [124] |
| At Cheyenne | [126] |
| The Naughty Doll | [128] |
| The Pneumogastric Nerve | [131] |
| Teeny-Weeny | [134] |
| Telka | [137] |
| Plaint of a Missouri 'Coon | [146] |
| Armenian Lullaby | [151] |
| The Partridge | [153] |
| Corinthian Hall | [156] |
| The Red, Red West | [162] |
| The Three Kings of Cologne | [165] |
| Ipswich | [167] |
| Bill's Tenor and my Bass | [170] |
| Fiducit (from the German) | [175] |
| The "St. Jo Gazette" | [177] |
| In Amsterdam | [183] |
| To the Passing Saint | [186] |
| The Fisherman's Feast | [188] |
| Nightfall in Dordrecht (Slumber Song) | [191] |
| The Onion Tart | [193] |
| Grandma's Bombazine | [197] |
| Rare Roast Beef | [203] |
| Ganderfeather's Gift | [208] |
| Old Times, Old Friends, Old Love | [211] |
| Our Whippings | [213] |
| Bion's Song of Eros | [218] |
| Mr. Billings of Louisville | [220] |
| Poet and King | [222] |
| Lydia Dick | [225] |
| Lizzie | [229] |
| Little Homer's Slate | [231] |
| Always Right | [233] |
| "Trot, my good Steed" (Volkslied) | [235] |
| Providence and the Dog | [237] |
| Gettin' on | [242] |
| The Schnellest Zug | [245] |
| Bethlehem-Town | [250] |
| The Peace of Christmas-Time | [252] |
| Doings of Delsarte | [254] |
| Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not | [259] |
Second Book of Verse.
FATHER'S WAY.
MY father was no pessimist; he loved the things of earth,—
Its cheerfulness and sunshine, its music and its mirth.
He never sighed or moped around whenever things went wrong,—
I warrant me he'd mocked at fate with some defiant song;
But, being he warn't much on tune, when times looked sort o' blue,
He'd whistle softly to himself this only tune he knew,—