* An asterisk is attached to the titles of those not previously published. Names of American Authors are in Italic type.
| BALLADES. | |||
| AUTHOR. | TITLE. | SOURCE. | PAGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams, Oscar Fay | 'Pipes of Pan' | American | [3] |
| Allen, Grant | 'Of Evolution' | Evolutionist at Large | [4] |
| Anonymous | 'Of Bothers' | Cambridge Meteor | [6] |
| Black, William | 'Of Solitude' | Longman's Mag. | [5] |
| Dick, Cotsford | 'Of Belief' | The Model, etc. | [7] |
| " | 'Of Burial' | " | [8] |
| Dobson, Austin | 'Of the Spanish Armada' | Old World Idylls | [9] |
| " | 'On a Fan' | " | [10] |
| " | 'Of Imitation' | " | [11] |
| " | 'Of Prose and Rhyme' | " | [12] |
| Gosse, Edmund | 'Of Dead Cities' | New Poems | [13] |
| Grant, John Cameron | Ballade | Songs of Sunny South | [14] |
| " | 'Lilith' | A Year of Life | [15] |
| Henley, W. E. | 'Of Antique Dances' | Belgravia | [16] |
| " | 'Of Dead Actors' | Magazine of Art | [17] |
| " | 'Of June' | Belgravia | [18] |
| " | 'Of Ladies' Names' | The London | [19] |
| " | 'Of Spring' | " | [20] |
| " | 'Midsummer Days' | " | [21] |
| " | 'Of Youth and Age' | " | [22] |
| " | 'Of Hot Weather' | " | [77] |
| " | 'Of Aspirations' | " | [78] |
| " | 'Of Truisms' | " | [79] |
| " | 'Of Life and Fate' | " | [80] |
| " | 'Of the Nothingness of Things' | " | [82] |
| Jewitt, W. H. | Ballade | Romance of Love | [23] |
| Lang, Andrew | 'Gringoire' | New Quarterly Mag. | [24] |
| " | 'Valentine' | Waifs and Strays | [25] |
| " | 'Of Primitive Man' | Ballades in Blue China | [26] |
| " | 'Of Sleep' | " | [84] |
| " | 'Of Summer' | Rhymes a la mode | [27] |
| " | 'Of Yule' | " | [28] |
| " | 'Of Middle Age' | " | [29] |
| " | 'For the Laureate' | Longman's Mag. | [30] |
| " | 'Of the Southern Cross' | " | [31] |
| Le Gallienne | 'Of Old Sweethearts' | My Ladies' Sonnets | [32] |
| "Love in Idleness" | Ballade | [33] | |
| " | 'Of Dead Thinkers' | [34] | |
| McCarthy, Justin H. | 'Of Roses'* | [35] | |
| MacCulloch, Hunter | 'Of Death' | From Dawn to Dusk | [36] |
| Matthews, Brander | 'Of Tobacco' | American | [37] |
| " | 'Of Adaptation' | " | [38] |
| " | 'Of Midsummer' | " | [39] |
| " | 'Rain and Shine' | The Century | [40] |
| " | 'An American Girl' | " | [41] |
| Moore, George | 'Of Lovelace' | Pagan Poems | [86] |
| Moran, John | 'From Battle, Murder' | American | [42] |
| Moulton, L. C. | 'In Winter' | The Century | [43] |
| Nichols, J. B. B. | 'Of his Lady' | Longman's Magazine | [44] |
| F. S. P. | 'Of Exmoor' | Waifs and Strays | [45] |
| Payne, John | 'Of Past Delights' | New Poems | [46] |
| " | Ballad | " | [87] |
| " | 'Singers of the Time' | " | [88] |
| Peck, S. M. | 'The Pixies' | 'Cap and Bells' | [47] |
| Pfeiffer, E. | 'Of the Thuner-See' | Songs and Sonnets | [48] |
| Probyn, May | 'Grandmother' | Ballad of the Road | [49] |
| Roberts, C. D. G. | 'Philomela' | In Divers Tones | [50] |
| " | 'Calypso' | " | [51] |
| Robinson, A. M. F. | 'Of Forgotten Tunes' | An Italian Garden | [52] |
| " | 'Of Lost Lovers' | Handful of Honeysuckles | [90] |
| " | 'Of Heroes' | " | [91] |
| Ropes, Arthur Reed | 'Of a Garden' | Poems | [53] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'Of the Bard' | Pictures in Song | [54] |
| " | 'Of Dead Poets' | " | [55] |
| " | 'To Villon' | " | [56] |
| " | 'The Blithe Ballade' | With Reed and Lyre | [57] |
| " | 'O Lady Mine' | " | [58] |
| " | 'Ships of Tyre' | " | [59] |
| Sharp, William | 'Of Vain Hopes'* | [60] | |
| " | 'Of the Sea-Wind'* | [61] | |
| " | 'Of the Sea-Folk'* | [62] | |
| Sherman, F. D. | 'To Austin Dobson' | Madrigals and Catches | [63] |
| " | 'Of Rhyme' | " | [64] |
| Swinburne, A. C. | 'Of Dreamland' | Poems and Ballads, 2d Ser. | [65] |
| " | 'Of François Villon' | " | [93] |
| " | Villon's Epitaph | " | [94] |
| " | 'Of Bath' | English Ill. Mag. | [95] |
| " | 'Of Sark' | " | [97] |
| Symons, Arthur | 'Of Kings' | Time | [66] |
| Tomson, Graham R. | 'Of Acheron' | Longman's Mag. | [67] |
| " | 'Of Asphodel' | " | [68] |
| " | 'Of the Bourne' | Harper's Mag. | [69] |
| " | 'Of Fairy Gold'* | [70] | |
| " | 'Of Might-be'* | [71] | |
| " | 'Of the Optimist' | St. James' Gazette | [72] |
| Wheeler, Mortimer | 'Of Old Instruments' | Mag. of Music | [73] |
| " | 'Of Sea-Music' | " | [74] |
| Whitney, Ernest | 'Nightingale and Lark' | [75] | |
| Wilton, Richard | 'Grandchildren at Church' | [76] | |
| CHANTS ROYAL. | |||
| Dobson, Austin | 'The Dance of Death' | Old World Idylls | [98] |
| Gosse, Edmund | 'The Praise of Dionysus' | New Poems | [100] |
| Payne, John | 'The God of Love' | New Poems | [102] |
| Pfeiffer, E. | 'Children of the Mist' | Gerard's Monument | [104] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'King Boreas' | Pictures in Song | [106] |
| Waddington, S. | 'The New Epiphany' | Sonnets, etc. | [108] |
| Whitney, E. | 'Glory of the Year' | The Century | [110] |
| KYRIELLES. | |||
| Payne, John | Kyrielle | New Poems | [115] |
| Robinson, A. M. F. | 'The Pavilion' | An Italian Garden | [116] |
| Scollard, Clinton | Kyrielle | Pictures in Song | [116] |
| PANTOUMS. | |||
| Dobson, Austin | 'In Town' | At the Sign of the Lyre | [117] |
| "Love in Idleness" | 'Monologue d'outre Tombe' | [119] | |
| Payne, John | Pantoum Songs of Life and Death | [121] | |
| Matthews, Brander | 'En route' | The Century | [124] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'Sultan's Garden' | Pictures in Song | [126] |
| RONDEAUX REDOUBLES. | |||
| Monkhouse, Cosmo | 'My Soul is Sick' | [128] | |
| Payne, John | 'My Day and Night' | New Poems | [129] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'Prayer of Dryope' | Pictures in Song | [130] |
| Tomson, Graham R. | 'I will go hence'* | [131] | |
| RONDELS. | |||
| Bunner, H. C. | 'O Honey of Hymettus' | Airs from Arcady | [135] |
| " | 'Ready for the Ride' | The Century | [135] |
| Crane, Walter | Two Rondels | [136] | |
| Dabson, Austin | 'The Wanderer' | Old World Idylls | [137] |
| Fay, A. M. | Rondel | [137] | |
| Gosse, Edmund | " | New Poems | [138] |
| Grant, J. C. | " | Songs from the Sunny South | [138] |
| Henley, W. E. | Four Variations | The London | [139] |
| " | 'The Ways of Death' | " | [141] |
| McCarthy, Justin H. | Rondel* | [141] | |
| MacDonald, George | Two Rondels | A Threefold Cord | [142] |
| Moore, George | Two Rondels* | [143] | |
| Monkhouse, Cosmo | 'To a Sheet of Paper'* | [144] | |
| Payne, John | 'Kiss me, Sweetheart' | New Poems | [144] |
| Peck, S. M. | 'Before the Dawn' | Cap and Bells | [145] |
| Pfeiffer, Emily | Rondel | [147] | |
| Probyn, May | " | Ballad of the Road | [145] |
| " | Rondelets | " | [151] |
| Ropes, A. Reed | Two Rondels | Poems | [146] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'Come, Love' | With Reed and Lyre | [147] |
| " | 'Upon the Stair' | Pictures in Song | [148] |
| " | 'I Heard a Maid' | " | [148] |
| Sherman, F. D. | 'Valentine' | " | [149] |
| Waring, C. H. | 'Love's Captive' | Fun | [149] |
| " | 'Love' | " | [150] |
| Wilton, Richard | Rondel Sungleams | [150] | |
| " | 'Benedicte' | Sunday at Home | [151] |
| RONDEAUS. | |||
| Bates, Arlo | 'Might Love be Bought'* | [152] | |
| " | 'In Thy Clear Eyes'* | [152] | |
| Bell, C. D. | 'The Sweet Sad Years' | Songs in Many Keys | [153] |
| " | 'A Wish' | " | [153] |
| Bowen, H. C. | 'To a Doleful Poet' | Longman's Magazine | [154] |
| Bridges, Robert | 'His Poisoned Shafts' | Poems | [155] |
| Bulloch, J. M. | 'To Homer'* | [155] | |
| Bunner, H. C. | 'September' | Airs from Arcady | [156] |
| " | 'Les Morts vont vite' | " | [156] |
| Crane, Walter | 'In Love's Disport'* | [157] | |
| " | 'What makes the World?'* | [157] | |
| THE SICILIAN OCTAVE. | |||
| Two Examples by Dr. RICHARD GARNETT | [132] | ||
| Dobson, Austin | 'O fons Bandusiæ' | Old World Idylls | [158] |
| " | 'On London Stones' | " | [158] |
| " | 'To Ethel' | " | [159] |
| " | 'With Pipe and Flute' | " | [160] |
| " | 'To a June Rose' | At the Sign of the Lyre | [159] |
| " | 'In After Days' | " | [160] |
| " | 'In Vain To-day' | " | [161] |
| " | 'When Burbadge Played' | " | [161] |
| Chew, Beverly | 'Old Books' | New York Critic | [162] |
| Grant, J. C. | 'A Coward Still' | Songs of Sunny South | [162] |
| Grant, Robert | 'Rondeaux of Cities' | The Century | [163]-4 |
| Goodale, E. | 'Could She have Guessed' | " | [165] |
| Gosse, Edmund | 'Fortunate Love' | On Viol and Flute | [165]-8 |
| " | 'If Love should Faint' | New Poems | [168] |
| Henley, W. E. | 'My Love to Me' | The London | [169] |
| " | 'With Strawberries' | " | [169] |
| " | 'A Flirted Fan' | " | [170] |
| " | 'In Rotten Row' | " | [170] |
| " | 'The Leaves are Sere' | " | [171] |
| " | 'With a Fan' | " | [171] |
| " | 'If I were King' | " | [172] |
| " | 'The Gods are Dead' | " | [172] |
| " | 'Her Little Feet' | " | [173] |
| " | 'When you are Old'* | " | [173] |
| Levy, Nathan | 'My Books' | American | [174] |
| "Love in Idleness" | 'Most Sweet of All' | [174] | |
| Lüders, C. H. | 'The Redbreast' | Hallo, my fancy | [175] |
| " | 'To Q. H. F.' | " | [175] |
| McCarthy, Justin H. | 'Love in London '* | " | [176] |
| Martin, Ada L. | 'Sleep' | Cassell's Magazine | [176] |
| Marzials, Theo. | 'To Tamaris' | Athenæum | [177] |
| " | 'When I see you' | " | [177] |
| " | 'Carpe Diem' | [178] | |
| Matthews, Brander | 'Old and New' | American | [178] |
| " | 'Sub Rosa' | The Century | [179] |
| Monkhouse, Cosmo | 'Violet' | The Spectator | [179] |
| " | 'O scorn me not'* | [180] | |
| " | 'Ten Thousand Pounds'* | [180] | |
| Payne, John | 'One of these days' | New Poems | [181] |
| " | 'Life lapses by' | " | [181] |
| Peck, S. M. | 'Beyond the Night' | Cap and Bells | [182] |
| " | 'Among my Books' | " | [182] |
| Pfeiffer, E. | 'I go my Gait' | Gerard's Monument | [183] |
| Roberts, C. G. D. | 'Laurels for Song' | In Divers Tones | [183] |
| " | 'Without one Kiss' | Orion | [184] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'Vis Erotis' | With Reed and Lyre | [184] |
| " | 'When Sirius Shines' | " | [185] |
| " | 'At Peep of Dawn' | " | [185] |
| " | 'In Greenwood Glen' | Pictures in Song | [186] |
| Sherman, F. D. | 'Her China Cup' | Madrigals and Catches | [186] |
| " | 'Behind her Fan' | " | [187] |
| " | 'Valentine' | " | [187] |
| " | 'When Twilight comes' | " | [188] |
| " | 'Come, Pan, and Pipe' | " | [188] |
| " | 'An Old Rondo' | " | [189] |
| Sterry, J. Ashby | 'A Street Sketch' | The Lazy Minstrel | [189] |
| " | 'Dover' | " | [190] |
| " | 'Homesick' | " | [190] |
| Tomson, Graham R. | 'In Beechen Shade'* | [191] | |
| " | 'The Gates of Horn'* | [191] | |
| Waddington, S. | 'If Love be True' | Sonnets, etc. | [192] |
| " | 'The Coquette' | " | [192] |
| Weatherly, G. | 'Yes or No' | Cassell's Magazine | [193] |
| Wilton, Rev. R. | 'My Window Birds' | Sungleams | [193] |
| " | 'Snowdrops and Aconites' | " | [194] |
| " | 'Chiff-chaff's Message' | " | [194] |
| Wright, Arthur G. | 'When Summer Dies' | Time | [195] |
| " | 'My Little Sweetheart'* | [195] | |
| ROUNDELS. | |||
| Blomfield, D. F. | Three Roundels | English Ill. Mag. | [196]-7 |
| Swinburne, A. C. | 'A Singing Lesson' | Century of Roundels | [197] |
| " | 'In Guernsey' | " | [198]-9 |
| " | 'The Roundel' | " | [199] |
| Sayle, C. | 'Nothing so Sweet' | Bertha, etc. | [200] |
| " | 'The Trysting-Tree' | " | [200] |
| Symons, Arthur | 'Of Rest'* | [201] | |
| Waddington, S. | 'Mors et Vita'* | [201] | |
| Weller, Bernard | 'Rondels of Childhood' | Home Chimes | [202] |
| SESTINAS. | |||
| Byrne, F. M. | Sestina | American | [205] |
| Coleman, C. W. | 'Love's Going' | Harper's Magazine | [206] |
| Gosse, Edmund | Sestina | New Poems | [207] |
| Robinson, A. M. F. | 'Pulvis et Umbra' | An Italian Song | [209] |
| Scollard, C. | 'Cupid and the Shepherd' | Pictures in Song | [210] |
| Swinburne, A. C. | Sestina | Poems and Ballads (2nd ser.) | [211] |
| TRIOLETS. | |||
| Alexander, Griffith | 'My Sweetheart' | [215] | |
| Bridges, Robert | Two Triolets | Poems | [215] |
| Bates, Arlo | Four Triolets* | American | [216] |
| Bunner, H. C. | Triolet | The Century | [217] |
| Crane, Walter | Triolet* | [217] | |
| Dick, Cotsford | 'Triolets for the Twelfth' | The Model | [218] |
| Dobson, Austin | 'Rose-leaves' | Old World Idylls | [219] |
| " | 'Oh, Love's but a Dance' | " | [220] |
| Gosse, Edmund | 'After Catullus'* | [221] | |
| Henley, W. E. | Triolet | The London | [221] |
| Learned, Walter | " | American | [221] |
| McCarthy, Justin H. | Triolets* | [222] | |
| Lüders, C. H. | " | Hallo, my fancy | [223] |
| "Love in Idleness" | Triolet | [224] | |
| Macdonald, George | Triolets | A Threefold Cord | [224]-6 |
| Peck, S. M. | 'Under the Rose' | Cap and Bells | [227] |
| Pfeiffer, E. | Triolet | Gerard's Monument | [228] |
| Radford, Ernest | Six Triolets | Measured Steps | [229]-30 |
| Robertson, Harrison | Two Triolets | The Century | [228] |
| Robinson, A. M. F. | 'From Fiametta' | Handful of Honeysuckles | [231] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'A Snowflake' | With Reed and Lyre | [233] |
| Sterry, J. Ashby | 'A Tiny Trip' | The Lazy Minstrel | [233] |
| Symons, Arthur | 'Vestigia' | Home Chimes | [235] |
| "The Century" | Triolet | [224] | |
| " | 'Apology for gazing' | [233] | |
| " | 'Rejected' | [238] | |
| Tomson, Graham R. | Triolets* | [236]-8 | |
| Waring, C. H. | 'A Pair of Gloves' | Fun | [239] |
| Weatherly, G. | 'In the Orchard' | Cassell's Magazine | [240] |
| VILLANELLES. | |||
| Bevington, L. S. | 'Roses' | Key Notes | [243] |
| Dick, Cotsford | 'A Vacation Villanelle' | The Model | [244] |
| Dobson, Austin | 'Tu ne quaesieris' | Old World Idylls | [245] |
| " | 'When I saw you last, Rose' | " | [246] |
| " | 'Theocritus' | " | [247] |
| " | 'On a Nankin Plate' | " | [248] |
| Gosse, Edmund | Villanelle | New Poems | [249] |
| " | 'Little Mistress mine' | " | [250] |
| Henley, W. E. | 'Where's the use of sighing' | The London | [251] |
| " | 'The Villanelle' | " | [252] |
| " | 'In the Clatter of the Train' | " | [253] |
| Lang, Andrew | 'To M. Boulmier' | Ballades in Blue China | [254] |
| "Love in Idleness" | 'To the Nightingale' | [255] | |
| Monkhouse, Cosmo | 'Hetty'* | [256] | |
| Noble, J. Ashcroft | 'Life' | Verses of a Prose-Writer | [257] |
| Payne, John | 'The Air is White' | New Poems | [258] |
| Peck, S. M. | 'Bonnie Belle' | Cap and Bells | [259] |
| " | 'If some true Maiden's' | " | [260] |
| Pfeiffer, E. | 'When the brow of June' | Sonnets v. Songs | [261] |
| " | 'O Summer-time' | " | [262] |
| Probyn, May | 'In every Sound' | [263] | |
| " | 'The Daffodils' | Ballad of the Road | [264] |
| Scollard, Clinton | 'To Helen' | With Reed and Lyre | [265] |
| " | 'To the Daffodil' | " | [266] |
| " | 'Spring knocks' | Pictures in Song | [267] |
| Sterry, J. Ashby | 'Dot' | [268] | |
| Thomas, Edith W. | 'Across the World'* | " | [270] |
| " | 'Where are the Springs' | The Manhattan | [271] |
| Tomson, Graham R. | 'To Hesperus'* | " | [272] |
| " | 'I did not Dream'* | [273] | |
| Waddington, S. | 'Come, to the Woods' | Sonnets, etc. | [274] |
| Wilde, Oscar | 'Theocritus' | Poems | [275] |
| VIRELAI. | |||
| Payne, John | 'Spring's sadness' | New Poems | [276] |
| VIRELAI NOUVEAU. | |||
| Dobson, Austin | 'July' | Evening Hours | [279] |
| BURLESQUES, ETC. | |||
| Anonymous | 'Ballade of Old Metres' | The Century | [285] |
| " | 'Ballade of the Prodigals' | " | [287] |
| Bunner, H. C. | 'On Newport Beach' (Rondeau) | " | [290] |
| " | 'Ballade of Summer Boarder' | " | [283] |
| " | Chant Royal, 'Mrs. Jones' | " | [294] |
| Cranch, C. P. | 'Young Poet's Advice' | New York Critic | [284] |
| Dobson, Austin | Villanelle | Walnuts and Wine | [293] |
| G. H. | 'Malapropos' | The Lute | [294] |
| Henley, W. E. | 'Villon's Straight Tip'* | [288] | |
| " | 'Culture in the Slums' | [290] | |
| Lang, Andrew | 'Ballade of Cricket' | Rhymes a la mode | [286] |
| Moore, A. M. | 'Ballade of Ballade-mongers' | Hood's Annual | [289] |
[PREFACE.]
This anthology is chosen entirely from poems written in the traditional fixed forms of the ballade, chant royal, kyrielle, rondel, rondeau, rondeau redoublé, sestina, triolet, villanelle, and virelai, with the addition of the pantoum. That such a choice is the result of circumstances it is needless to point out, since only those that had found favour with English writers were available for the purpose. So far as I know, this collection is the first of its sort, although Mr. W. Davenport Adams' Latter Day Lyrics included a section chosen on the same lines. Having, in company, no doubt, with many others, a genuine regard for the group Mr. Adams included there, I had long hoped to see a more ample compilation of later work in this school; but notwithstanding the steady increase in the number of poems written in the forms systematically arranged herein, the ground remained unoccupied, until the appearance of this book; which may fairly claim to be the first in the field, since no other volume has devoted its whole space to them, save in the rarer cases, where an author has published a collection of original poems cast in one mould, notably Mr. Swinburne's Century of Roundels and Mr. Andrew Lang's Ballades in Blue China.
In Mr. Adams' volume another valuable feature was the Note on some Foreign forms of Verse by Mr. Austin Dobson, which many years since introduced to me the laws of the various forms and created my special interest in them. It is no derogation to the charming group in the former volume to say of the present collection, that it far exceeds its predecessor in number and variety, for now there is a wide field to choose from, whereas Mr. Adams was then limited to a selection from the small number extant.
The rules which Mr. Austin Dobson was the first to formulate in English are made the basis (side by side with the treatises of M. de Gramont, M. de Banville, and other authorities) of the following chapter on the rules of the various forms. Lest a name so intimately associated with the introduction of the old French metrical shapes in English poetry should appear to be brought in to add weight to my own attempt, and the reputation of a master invoked for the work of one who at furthest can but style himself an apprentice, I must ask that this necessary tribute to Mr. Dobson's labours be taken only as an apology for so freely using his material, and that his ready help is by no means to be regarded in the faintest way as an imprimatur of any statements in this prefatory matter, save those quoted avowedly and directly from his writings.
It may be best to name at once the authorities who have been consulted in the preparation of the introductory chapter. These include the French treatises of De Banville, De Gramont, and Jullienne, Mr. Saintsbury's Short History of French Literature, Mr. Hueffers' Troubadours, an article by Mr. Gosse in the Cornhill Magazine, July 1877, Les Villanelles by M. Joseph Boulmier, The Rhymester of Mr. Brander Matthews, and many occasional papers on the various forms that have appeared in English and American periodicals. To arrange in one chapter the materials gathered from these and other sources is all that I have attempted. If at times the need to crowd enough matter for a volume into the limits of a few pages results in a want of lucidity, I must plead the necessity imposed by limited space. To those who, by their kindly permission, have allowed their poems to be quoted here, the thanks that I can offer are as hearty as the expression of my gratitude is brief. The somewhat onerous task of obtaining consent from about two hundred authors has been turned to a pleasure, by the evidence of interest taken in this, the first collection of the later growth of this branch of poetic art. Nor did the help cease with the loan of the poems; in many instances a correspondence followed that brought to light fresh material, both for the body of the book and the introductory chapter, and rendered assistance not easy to overvalue. If any writer is quoted without direct permission, it was through no want of effort to trace him, excepting in the case of a very few that reached me in the shape of newspaper cuttings, wholly devoid of any clue to the locality of the writer. To Mr. Austin Dobson my best thanks are due. From Mr. Andrew Lang and Mr. Edmund Gosse I have also appropriated material, acknowledged as often as practicable; also to my friend, Mr. A. G. Wright, for invaluable help during the rather monotonous task of hunting up and copying at the reading-room of the British Museum; and to Mr. William Sharp, whose critical advice and generous encouragement throughout have left a debt of gratitude beyond payment.