VENTURES INTO VERSE
TO R. K.
THE SONG OF THE OLDEN TIME
THE SPANISH MAIN
THE TRANSPORT GEN'RAL FERGUSON
A WAR SONG
FAITH
THE BALLAD OF SHIPS IN HARBOR
THE ORF'CER BOY
THE FILIPINO MAIDEN
THE VIOLET
THE TIN-CLADS
SEPTEMBER
ARABESQUE
ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS
A BALLADE OF PROTEST
A FRIVOLOUS RONDEAU
THE RHYMES OF MISTRESS DOROTHY
A FEW LINES
A RONDEAU OF TWO HOURS
AN ANTE-CHRISTMAS RONDEAU
ROUNDEL
IN VAUDEVILLE
THE RONDEAU OF RICHES
IN EATING SOUP
LOVE AND THE ROSE
A RONDEAU OF STATESMANSHIP
SONGS of THE CITY
SONGS OF THE CITY
OTHER VERSES
A MADRIGAL
A BALLAD OF LOOKING
WHEN THE PIPE GOES OUT
A PARADOX
THE SONG OF THE SLAPSTICK
IL PENSEROSO
FINIS
_WARNING_
Most of the verses that follow have been printed before and the author
wishes to acknowledge his thanks for permission to reproduce them, to
the editors and publishers of _The Bookman_, _Life_, _The New England
Magazine_, _The National Magazine_ and the _Baltimore Morning Herald_.
Some are imitations—necessarily weak—of the verse of several men in
whose writings he has found a good deal of innocent pleasure. The
others, he fears, are more or less original.