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TO

NINA, MARY, AND FLORENCE,

THIS VOLUME IS
INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

[Lazy Lays]:—Page
[Hambleden Lock]3
[Spring's Delights]6
[A Modern Syren]9
[Regrets]12
[Hammockuity]13
[My Country Cousin]15
[A Common-Sense Carol]18
[Saint May]20
[A Canoe Canzonet]23
[A Lover's Lullaby]25
[The Tam O' Shanter Cap]26
[A Street Sketch]28
[A Tiny Trip]29
[A Study]31
[Doctor Brighton]33
[Lizzie]37
[A Marlow Madrigal]38
[In Rotten Row]41
[A Portrait]43
[Symphonies in Fur]45
[Drifting Down]48
[Toujours Tennis]50
[Tarpauline]52
[The Kitten]54
[In the Temple]56
[An Unfinished Sketch]59
[On Board the "Gladys"] 62
[Cigarette Rings]65
[At Charing Cross]67
[The Music of Leaves]70
[Casual Carols]:—
[In a Bellagio Balcony]75
[A Riverain Rhyme]78
[The Little Rebel]80
[Canoebial Bliss]83
[Rosie]85
[Skindle's in October]86
[In My Easy Chair]88
[Blankton Weir]90
[Different Views]95
[Two Naughty Girls]97
[Couleur de Rose]99
[In Strawberry Time]102
[Number One]104
[After Breakfast]107
[In an Old City Church]110
[A Little Love-Letter]112
[Stray Sunbeams]114
[Pearl]116
[A Nutshell Novel]118
[The Pink of Perfection]119
[The Impartial]121
[A Traveller's Tarantella]122
[In a Minor Key]124
[A Shower-Song]126
[The Social Zodiac]:—
[January]131
[February]132
[March]133
[April] 134
[May]135
[June]136
[July]137
[August]138
[September]139
[October]140
[November]141
[December]142
[Idle Songs]:—
[Mother o' Pearl]145
[A Lay of the "Lion"]147
[Jennie]150
[A Favourite Lounge]151
[Spring Cleaning]153
[Taken in Tow]155
[Thrown!]157
[Baggage on the Brain]160
[Haytime]163
[Pet's Punishment]165
[The Baby in the Train]167
[Miss Sailor-Boy]170
[A Private Note]171
[L'Inconnue]173
[Fallacies of the Fog]175
[The Merry Young Water-Girl]177
[A Secular Sermon]179
[On the French Coast]181
[At the "Lord Warden"]183
[Bolney Ferry]185
[Dot]188
[A Riverside Luncheon]190
[Love-Locks]192
[A Streatley Sonata]196
[The Midshipmaid]199
[A Pantile Poem]201
[Henley in July]204
[The Minstrel's Return]207
[A Singer's Sketch-Book]:—
[Dover]213
[Chamouni]214
[Baveno]215
[At Table d'Hôte]216
[At Etretât]217
[Homesick]218
[Skreeliesporran]219
[A Christmas Carol]220
[Sound without Sense]222
[The Merry Month of May]227
[Two and Two]229
[A Shorthand Sonnet]232
[In a Gondola]233
[The Last Leaf]236