Ballades and Verses Vain

CONTENTS.
To the Reader — Austin Dobson
XXXVI.—BALLADES:

BALLADE DEDICATORY
BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME
BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA
BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER
BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS
VALENTINE IN FORM OF BALLADE
BALLADE OF SUMMER
BALLADE OF AUTUMN
BALLADE OF OLD PLAYS
BALLADE OF ROULETTE
BALLADE OF FRÈRE LUBIN
BALLADE OF QUEEN ANNE
BALLADE OF PRIMITIVE MAN
BALLADE OF SLEEP
BALLADE OF CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE
BALLADE OF TRUE WISDOM
BALLADE OF THE MUSE
BALLADE FOR A BABY
BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY
BALLADE OF THE TWEED
BALLADE OF THE ROYAL GAME OF GOLF
BALLADE OF THE MIDNIGHT FOREST
BALLADE OF CRICKET
BALLADE OF THE BOOK-MAN'S PARADISE
BALLADE OF WORLDLY WEALTH
BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM
BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES
BALLADE OF THE VOYAGE TO CYTHERA
BALLADE OF LIFE
BALLADE OF ÆSTHETIC ADJECTIVES
BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES
BALLADE OF GOOD COUNSEL
BALLADE AMOUREUSE
BALLADE AGAINST THE JESUITS
BALLADE OF BLIND LOVE
BALLADE OF HIS CHOICE OF A SEPULCHRE
Dizain — by Austin Dobson
VERSES VAIN:

ALMAE MATRES
NIGHTINGALE WEATHER
COLINETTE
FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST
A DREAM
TWILIGHT ON TWEED
A SUNSET OF WATTEAU
ROMANCE
A SUNSET ON YARROW
A PORTRAIT OF 1783
THE BARBAROUS BIRDS

POST HOMERICA:

HESPEROTHEN
THE SEEKERS FOR PHÆACIA
THE DEPARTURE FROM PHÆACIA
A BALLAD OF DEPARTURE
THEY HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME
CIRCE'S ISLE REVISITED
THE LIMIT of LANDS
THE SHADE OF HELEN
PISIDICÊ

SONNETS:

THE ODYSSEY
THE SIRENS
LOVE'S EASTER
TWILIGHT
BION
SAN TERENZO
NATURAL THEOLOGY
HOMER
RONSARD
GÉRARD DE NERVAL
IN ITHACA
DREAMS
HOMERIC UNITY
IDEAL

TRANSLATIONS:

HYMN TO THE WINDS
A VOW TO HEAVENLY VENUS
APRIL
OF HIS LADY'S OLD AGE
SHADOWS OF HIS LADY
MOONLIGHT
THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE
THE BIRTH OF BUTTERFLIES
AN OLD TUNE
SPRING IN THE STUDENT'S QUARTER
SPRING. (AFTER MELEAGER.)
OLD LOVES
IANNOULA
THE MILK WHITE DOE
A LA BELLE HÉLÈNE
BURIAL OF MOLIÈRE
BEFORE THE SNOW
THE CLOUD CHORUS