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Introduction xix
To Celia _Ben Jonson_ 3
Cupid _Ben Jonson_ 4
Rosalind’s Madrigal _Thomas Lodge_ 5
All Things Except Myself I Know _François Villon_ 6
Cupid and Campaspe _John Lilly_ 8
A Ditty _Sir Philip Sydney_ 8
Song from “Twelfth Night” _William Shakespeare_ 9
Sigh No More (from “Much Ado About
Nothing”) _William Shakespeare_ 9
Phillida and Corydon _Nicholas Breton_ 10
Cherry-Ripe _Richard Allison_ 11
Send Back My Long-Stray’d Eyes to Me _John Donne_ 12
Pack Clouds Away _Thomas Heywood_ 13
Shall I, Wasting in Despair _George Wither_ 14
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time _Robert Herrick_ 15
The Bracelet _Robert Herrick_ 16
An Old Rhyme _Anonymous_ 17
Love Me Not for Comely Grace _Anonymous_ 17
On a Girdle _Edmund Waller_ 18
To My Love _Sir John Suckling_ 18
To Althea (From Prison) _Richard Lovelace_ 19
Song _Sir Charles Sedley_ 21
The Despairing Lover _William Walsh_ 22
Cupid Mistaken _Matthew Prior_ 23
The Contrast _Charles Morris_ 24
Oh, Tell Me How to Woo Thee _Robert Graham_ 27
Song from “The Duenna” _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ 28
The Races _George Ellis_ 29
To Lady Anne Hamilton _Hon. William R. Spencer_ 32
To Mrs. Leigh Upon Her Wedding Day _George Canning_ 33
Names _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 34
The Exchange _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 34
Defiance _Walter Savage Landor_ 35
Her Lips _Walter Savage Landor_ 35
Commination _Walter Savage Landor_ 36
Margaret and Dora _Thomas Campbell_ 36
A Certain Young Lady _Washington Irving_ 37
Song _John Shaw_ 38
The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing _Thomas Moore_ 39
When I Loved You _Thomas Moore_ 40
Reason, Folly and Beauty _Thomas Moore_ 41
Tiresome Spring! _Béranger_ 42
Rosette _Béranger_ 43
She Is So Pretty _Béranger_ 44
Rondeau _Leigh Hunt_ 45
Stolen Fruit _Leigh Hunt_ 45
Love and Age _Thomas L. Peacock_ 46
Clubs _Theodore Hook_ 48
To Anne _William Maxwell_ 51
Song _William Cullen Bryant_ 51
What Is London’s Last New Lion? _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 53
I’d Be a Butterfly _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 54
I Must Come Out Next Spring _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 55
Why Don’t the Men Propose? _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 57
Ask and Have _Samuel Lover_ 59
Lines in a Young Lady’s Album _Thomas Hood_ 60
The Time of Roses _Thomas Hood_ 62
Love _Thomas Hood_ 63
To Helen _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 64
The Belle of the Ball-Room _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 64
Amy’s Cruelty _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 68
Beware! _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 70
Love in a Cottage _Nathaniel Parker Willis_ 71
Because _Edward Fitzgerald_ 73
Lilian _Alfred Tennyson_ 75
The Henchman _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 76
Dorothy Q. A Family Portrait _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 78
A Reminiscence _James Freeman Clarke_ 81
The Age of Wisdom _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 82
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 83
An Invitation _Théophile Gautier_ 86
Fanny; or, The Beauty and the Bee _Charles Mackay_ 88
Garden Fancies The Flower’s Name _Robert Browning_ 89
A Poem of Every Day Life _Albert Riddle_ 91
Love Disposed Of _Robert Traill Spence Lowell_ 93
Mabel, in New Hampshire _James Thomas Fields_ 94
The Coquette A Portrait _John Godfrey Saxe_ 96
Justine, You Love Me Not! _John Godfrey Saxe_ 98
Sing Heigh-Ho! _Charles Kingsley_ 99
Snowdrop _William Wetmore Story_ 100
The Protest. _James Russell Lowell_ 101
Scherzo _James Russell Lowell_ 101
The Handsomest Man in the Room _William Macquorn Rankine_ 102
The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring _Henry Howard Brownell_ 104
A Terrible Infant _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 105
Loulou and Her Cat _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 106
Piccadilly _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 107
A Word that Makes Us Linger _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 109
My Mistress’s Boots _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 110
A Nice Correspondent! _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 112
There’s a Time to Be Jolly _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 114
I Remember, I Remember _Phoebe Cary_ 115
The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding _Richard Henry Stoddard_ 116
The Gold Room. An Idyl _Bayard Taylor_ 118
Comfort _Mortimer Collins_ 119
A Summer Song _Mortimer Collins_ 120
My Aunt’s Spectre _Mortimer Collins_ 121
A Conceit _Mortimer Collins_ 122
Martial in London _Mortimer Collins_ 123
The Best of the Ball _William Sawyer_ 123
The Ballad of Dead Ladies
(Translation from François
Villon, 1450) _Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 125
Feminine Arithmetic _Charles Graham Halpine_ 127
A Trifle _Henry Timrod_ 128
Flight _Charles S. Calverley_ 129
Love _Charles S. Calverley_ 132
Since We Parted _Owen Meredith_ 134
A Kiss—By Mistake _Joel Benton_ 134
A Game of Fives _Lewis Carroll_ 135
A Valentine _Lewis Carroll_ 137
The Wedding Day _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 139
Edged Tools _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 140
Witchcraft _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 142
Toujours Amour _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 143
Dictum Sapienti _Charles Henry Webb_ 144
Undowered _Harriet McEwen Kimball_ 145
The Love-Knot _Nora Perry_ 146
Vers de Société _H. D. Traill_ 147
A Letter of Advice _Thomas Hood, Jr._ 149
At the Lattice _Alfred Austin_ 151
French with a Master _Theodore Tilton_ 152
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 154
The Lunch _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 155
The Witch in the Glass _Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt_ 156
To Phoebe _William Schwenck Gilbert_ 156
My Love and My Heart _Henry S. Leigh_ 157
To a Country Cousin _Henry S. Leigh_ 158
The Family Fool _William Schwenck Gilbert_ 160
An Interlude _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 162
A Match _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 165
Caprice _William Dean Howells_ 167
The Minuet _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 168
A Street Sketch _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 170
Saint May: A City Lyric _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 171
Pet’s Punishment _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 173
Her Letter _Francis Bret Harte_ 174
Avice _Austin Dobson_ 177
A Song of the Four Seasons _Austin Dobson_ 179
In Town _Austin Dobson_ 181
When I Saw You Last, Rose _Austin Dobson_ 183
To “Lydia Languish” _Austin Dobson_ 184
The Old Sedan Chair _Austin Dobson_ 186
“Le Roman de la Rose” _Austin Dobson_ 188
Ninety-nine in the Shade _Rossiter Johnson_ 190
Brighton Pier _Clement Scott_ 191
A Contradiction _Clement Scott_ 192
Rondel _John Payne_ 194
White, Pillared Neck _Richard Watson Gilder_ 194
Janet _Richard Watson Gilder_ 195
For a Fan _Richard Watson Gilder_ 196
Ballade of Summer _Andrew Lang_ 196
Colinette _Andrew Lang_ 198
Ballade of Dead Ladies (After
Villon) _Andrew Lang_ 199
Il Bacio _Paul Verlaine_ 200
Sur l’Herbe _Paul Verlaine_ 201
The Romance of a Glove _H. Savile Clarke_ 202
If _James Jeffrey Roche_ 203
“Don’t” _James Jeffrey Roche_ 204
On Rereading Télémaque _James Jeffrey Roche_ 205
Valentine _James Jeffrey Roche_ 206
Biftek aux Champignons _Henry Augustin Beers_ 206
An Explanation _Walter Learned_ 209
Marjorie’s Kisses _Walter Learned_ 209
Miss Nancy’s Gown _Zitella Cocke_ 210
“Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné” _George A. Baker_ 212
My Wooing _Edwin Hamilton_ 213
Wintry Paris _Anonymous_ 215
The Rose _Anonymous_ 216
Indecision _Anonymous_ 217
Logic _Anonymous_ 218
Conversational _Anonymous_ 219
If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It _Anonymous_ 220
Educational Courtship _Anonymous_ 221
Kissing’s No Sin _Anonymous_ 223
The Best Thing in the World _Anonymous_ 223
Her Neighbours _Anonymous_ 224
To Celia _E. H. Lacon Watson_ 225
In For It _Somerville Gibney_ 225
Kirtle Red _W. H. Bellamy_ 227
A Bagatelle _James G. Burnett_ 228
A Love Test _Carl Herlozssohn_ 229
The Mistaken Moth _Translated from Wegener_ 229
My Pretty Neighbor _Translated from Wegener_ 230
If _H. C. Dodge_ 231
To Mistress Pyrrha _Eugene Field_ 232
The Tea-Gown _Eugene Field_ 232
A Paraphrase _Eugene Field_ 234
A Leap-Year Episode _Eugene Field_ 236
Ballade of Ladies’ Names _W. E. Henley_ 236
Ballade of June _W. E. Henley_ 237
Ballade Made in the Hot Weather _W. E. Henley_ 238
A Rose _Arlo Bates_ 240
To Minnie (With a Hand Glass) _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 241
An American Girl _Brander Matthews_ 241
Larks and Nightingales _Nathan Haskell Dole_ 242
Caeli _Francis William Bourdillon_ 244
Lady Mine _Herbert Edwin Clarke_ 244
The Ripest Peach _James Whitcomb Riley_ 245
“I Journeyed South to Meet the
Spring” _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 246
Before the Blossom _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 246
Love in the Calendar _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 247
My Grandmother’s Turkey-Tail Fan _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 249
Valentine _Edith Matilda Thomas_ 250
A Valentine _Laura Elizabeth Richards_ 251
On a Hymn Book _W. J. Henderson_ 252
The Ballade of the Summer-Boarder _H. C. Bunner_ 254
Interesting _H. C. Bunner_ 256
The Way to Arcady _H. C. Bunner_ 257
Da Capo _H. C. Bunner_ 260
The Maid of Murray Hill _H. C. Bunner_ 262
Kitty’s Summering _H. C. Bunner_ 264
Forfeits _H. C. Bunner_ 265
When Will Love Come? _Pakenham Beatty_ 266
Heliotrope _Harry Thurston Peck_ 266
Borderland _Herman Knickerbocker Vielé_ 269
Epithalamium _E. S. Martin_ 270
Infirm _E. S. Martin_ 273
Words, Words, Words _Margaret Deland_ 273
The Bluebell _Margaret Deland_ 274
A Modern Martyrdom _Sam Walter Foss_ 275
A Corsage Bouquet _Charles Henry Lüders_ 277
The Ballad of Cassandra Brown _Helen Gray Cone_ 278
From Three Fly Leaves _J. K. Stephen_ 280
Question and Answer _J. K. Stephen_ 281
A Rhyme for Priscilla _Frank Dempster Sherman_ 283
The Old Collector _Beatrice Hanscom_ 285
The Last Ditch _E. Nesbit_ 288
Be Ye in Love with April-Tide _Clinton Scollard_ 289
Strawberries _Clinton Scollard_ 290
Applied Astronomy _Esther B. Tiffany_ 291
Courtship _Frederick Langbridge_ 292
Eyes of Black and Eyes of Blue
(from the Viceroy) _Harry B. Smith_ 293
Her Faults (from The Mandarin) _Harry B. Smith_ 295
A Modern Dialogue _Oliver Herford_ 296
The Poet’s Proposal _Oliver Herford_ 299
Truth _Oliver Herford_ 299
The Bachelor Girl _Oliver Herford_ 300
The Sea _Eva L. Ogden_ 301
In Philistia _Bliss Carman_ 302
Between the Showers _Amy Levy_ 304
Grace’s Choice _Charles Battell Loomis_ 305
To Violet. With a Bunch of
Namesakes _Robert Cameron Rogers_ 306
Her Bonnet _Mary E. Wilkins_ 307
A Song _Norman R. Gale_ 308
Les Papillottes _Gertrude Hall_ 309
Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking _A. T. Quiller-Couch_ 311
Her Valentine _Richard Hovey_ 311
Story of the Gate _Harrison Robertson_ 314
Two Triolets _Harrison Robertson_ 316
A Ballade of Old Sweethearts _Richard Le Gallienne_ 317
Amour de Voyage _Rudyard Kipling_ 318
The Lover’s Litany _Rudyard Kipling_ 319
A Lenten Call _Hilda Johnson Wise_ 321
Helen’s Face a Book _Gelett Burgess_ 322
The Butterfly’s Madrigal _Gelett Burgess_ 323
Ballade of the Devil-May-Care _Gelett Burgess_ 323
Ballade of Dreams Transposed _Gelett Burgess_ 325
Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures _Ernest Dowson_ 326
L’Envoi _E. B. Reed_ 327
A Merry, Blue-Eyed Laddie _Juliet Wilbur Tompkins_ 328
Dance Time _Josephine Preston Peabody
Marks_ 329
How Like a Woman _Caroline and Alice Duer_ 330
A Vignette _Caroline Duer_ 331