[12] Probably Botticelli.
[13] Wagner (?)
[14] This seems to be a reference to The Corsican Brothers.
[15] Richard III. (?)
THE STREET SINGER.
(Villanelle from my window.)
He stands at the kerb and sings.
'Tis a doleful tune and slow,
Ah me, if I had but wings!
He bends to the coin one flings,
But he never attempts to go,-
He stands at the kerb and sings.
The conjurer comes with his rings,
And the Punch-and-Judy show.
Ah me, if I had but wings!
They pass like all fugitive things—
They fade and they pass, but lo!
He stands at the kerb and sings.