The Lazy Minstrel - Poetry by Joseph Ashby-Sterry

Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1838-1917) was an English poet and novelist.

CONTENTS

Lazy Lays
Hambleden Lock
Spring's Delights
A Modern Syren
Regrets
Hammockuity
My Country Cousin
A Common-Sense Carol
Saint May
A Canoe Canzonet
A Lover's Lullaby
The Tam O' Shanter Cap
A Street Sketch
A Tiny Trip
A Study
Doctor Brighton
Lizzie
A Marlow Madrigal
In Rotten Row
A Portrait
Symphonies in Fur
Drifting Down
Toujours Tennis
Tarpauline
The Kitten
In the Temple
An Unfinished Sketch
On Board the "Gladys"
Cigarette Rings
At Charing Cross
The Music of Leaves

Casual Carols
In a Bellagio Balcony
A Riverain Rhyme
The Little Rebel
Canoebial Bliss
Rosie
Skindle's in October
In My Easy Chair
Blankton Weir
Different Views
Two Naughty Girls
Couleur de Rose
In Strawberry Time
Number One
After Breakfast
In an Old City Church
A Little Love-Letter
Stray Sunbeams
Pearl
A Nutshell Novel
The Pink of Perfection
The Impartial
A Traveller's Tarantella
In a Minor Key
A Shower-Song

The Social Zodiac
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Idle Songs
Mother o' Pearl
A Lay of the "Lion"
Jennie
A Favourite Lounge
Spring Cleaning
Taken in Tow
Thrown!
Baggage on the Brain
Haytime
Pet's Punishment
The Baby in the Train
Miss Sailor-Boy
A Private Note
L'Inconnue
Fallacies of the Fog
The Merry Young Water-Girl
A Secular Sermon
On the French Coast
At the "Lord Warden"
Bolney Ferry
Dot
A Riverside Luncheon
Love-Locks
A Streatley Sonata
The Midshipmaid
A Pantile Poem
Henley in July
The Minstrel's Return

A Singer's Sketch-Book
Dover
Chamouni
Baveno
At Table d'Hôte
At Etretât
Homesick
Skreeliesporran
A Christmas Carol
Sound without Sense
The Merry Month of May
Two and Two
A Shorthand Sonnet
In a Gondola
The Last Leaf