Certain of these poems have appeared in Poetry, Blast, Poetry
and Drama, Smart Set, and Others, to the editors of which
magazines the author wishes to make due acknowledgment.

E. P.

V. L.
Cui dono lepidum novum libellum.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Tenzone][9]
[The Condolence][10]
[The Garret][11]
[The Garden][12]
[Ortus][13]
[Salutation][14]
[The Spring][15]
[Albâtre][16]
[Causa][16]
[A Pact][17]
[Surgit Fama][18]
[Preference][19]
[Dance Figure][20]
[April][22]
[Gentildonna][22]
[The Rest][23]
[Les Millwin][24]
[Further Instructions][25]
[A Song of the Degrees][26]
[Ite][27]
[Dum Capitolium Scandet][27]
[καλὀν][27]
[The Study in Aesthetics][28]
[The Bellaires][29]
[Salvationists][32]
[Arides][33]
[The Bath Tub][33]
[Amitiés][34]
[To Dives][35]
[Ladies][36]
[Coda][37]
[Ancora][38]
[“Dompna pois de me no’us cal”][39]
[The Coming of War: Actaeon][42]
[After Ch’u Yuan][43]
[Liu Ch’e][43]
[Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord][44]
[Ts’ai Chi’h][44]
[In a Station of the Metro][45]
[Alba][45]
[Heather][45]
[The Faun][46]
[Pervigilium][46]
[The Encounter][47]
[Tempora][47]
[Black Slippers: Bellotti][48]
[Society][48]
[Image from D’Orleans][49]
[Papyrus][49]
[“Ione, Dead the Long Year”][50]
[Shop Girl][50]
[To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend][51]
[Tame Cat][52]
[L’Art, 1910][52]
[Simulacra][53]
[Women before a Shop][53]
[Epilogue][54]
[The Social Order][55]
[The Tea Shop][56]
[Epitaphs][57]
[Our Contemporaries][57]
[Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic][58]
[The Three Poets][58]
[The Gipsy][59]
[The Game of Chess][60]
[Provincia Deserta][61]
Cathay
[Song of the Bowmen of Shu][67]
[The Beautiful Toilet][69]
[The River Song][70]
[The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter][73]
[The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance][75]
[Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin][76]
[Lament of the Frontier Guard][78]
[Exile’s Letter][80]
Four Poems of Departure
[Separation on the River Kiang][85]
[Taking Leave of a Friend][85]
[Leave-taking near Shoku][86]
[The City of Choan][87]
[South Folk in Cold Country][88]
[Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku][89]
[A Ballad of the Mulberry Road][90]
[Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu][91]
[To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”][93]
[Near Perigord][95]
[Villanelle: The Psychological Hour][104]
[Dans un Omnibus de Londres][107]
[To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers][109]
[Homage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus][113]
[Fish and the Shadow][115]