DEDICATORY
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IN AUGUSTINUM DOBSON 3
LOYAL LYRICS
HOW THE MAID MARCHED FROM BLOIS 7
LONE PLACES OF THE DEER 9
AN OLD SONG 10
JACOBITE “AULD LANG SYNE” 12
THE PRINCE’S BIRTHDAY 14
THE TENTH OF JUNE, 1715 15
WHITE ROSE DAY 17
RED AND WHITE ROSES 18
THE BONNIE BANKS O’ LOCH LOMOND 19
KENMURE 21
CULLODEN 23
THE LAST OF THE LEAL 25
JEANNE D’ARC 27
CRICKET RHYMES
TO HELEN 31
BALLADE OF DEAD CRICKETERS 32
BRAHMA 34
CRITICAL OF LIFE, ART, AND LITERATURE
GAINSBOROUGH GHOSTS 37
A REMONSTRANCE WITH THE FAIR 39
RHYME OF RHYMES 42
RHYME OF OXFORD COCKNEY RHYMES 44
ROCOCO 47
THE NEW ORPHEUS TO HIS EURYDICE 47
THE FOOD OF FICTION 59
“A HIGHLY VALUABLE CHAIN OF THOUGHTS” 51
MATRIMONY 53
PISCATORI PISCATOR 55
THE CONTENTED ANGLER 56
OFF MY GAME 58
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS GIVEN UP COLLECTING 60
THE BALLADE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS SELF 62
BALLADE OF THE OPTIMIST 64
ZIMBABWE 66
LOVE’S CRYPTOGRAM 68
TUSITALA 70
DISDAINFUL DIAPHENIA 72
TALL SALMACIS 73
JUBILEE POEMS
WHAT FRANCESCO SAID OF THE JUBILEE 72
THE POET AND THE JUBILEE 79
ON ANY BEACH 81
ODE OF JUBILEE 82
JUBILEE BEFORE REVOLUTION 84
FOLK SONGS
FRENCH PEASANT SONGS 89
BALLADS
THE YOUNG RUTHVEN 93
THE QUEEN O’ SPAIN AND THE BAULD MCLEAN 97
KEITH OF CRAIGENTOLLY 101