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AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE:--
The Ladies of St. James's 3
The Old Sedan Chair 6
To an Intrusive Butterfly 9
The Curé's Progress 11
The Masque of the Months 13
Two Sermons 17
"Au Revoir" 19
The Carver and the Caliph 26
To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum 29
Molly Trefusis 32
At the Convent Gate 36
The Milkmaid 38
An Old Fish-Pond 40
An Eastern Apologue 43
To a Missal of the Thirteenth Century 45
A Revolutionary Relic 48
A Madrigal 54
A Song to the Lute 56
A Garden Song 58
A Chapter of Froissart 60
To the Mammoth Tortoise 64
A Roman "Round-Robin" 66
Verses to Order 68
A Legacy 70
"Little Blue Ribbons" 72
Lines to a Stupid Picture 74
A Fairy Tale 76
To a Child 78
Household Art 80
The Distressed Poet 81
Jocosa Lyra 83
My Books 85
The Book-Plate's Petition 87
Palomydes 89
André le Chapelain 91
The Water of Gold 95
A Fancy from Fontenelle 97
Don Quixote 98
A Broken Sword 99
The Poet's Seat 101
The Lost Elixir 104
MEMORIAL VERSES:--
A Dialogue (Alexander Pope) 107
A Familiar Epistle (William Hogarth) 112
Henry Fielding 115
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 119
Charles George Gordon 120
Victor Hugo 121
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 122
FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART:--
The Poet and the Critics 127
The Toyman 130
The Successful Author 133
The Dilettant 136
The Two Painters 138
The Claims of the Muse 140
The 'Squire at Vauxhall 144
The Climacteric 149
TALES IN RHYME:--
The Virgin with the Bells 155
A Tale of Polypheme 159
A Story from a Dictionary 170
The Water Cure 178
The Noble Patron 184
VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ:--
Incognita 193
Dora _versus_ Rose 197
Ad Rosam 200
Outward Bound 205
In the Royal Academy 208
The Last Despatch 213
"Premiers Amours" 216
The Screen in the Lumber Room 219
Daisy's Valentines 221
In Town 224
A Sonnet in Dialogue 227
Growing Gray 229
VARIA:--
The Maltworm's Madrigal 233
An April Pastoral 236
A New Song of the Spring Gardens 237
A Love Song, 1700 239
Of his Mistress 240
The Nameless Charm 242
To Phidyle 243
To his Book 244
For a Copy of Herrick 246
With a Volume of Verse 247
For the Avery "Knickerbocker" 248
To a Pastoral Poet 250
"Sat est Scripsisse" 251
PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES:--
Prologue and Envoi to Abbey's Edition of
"She Stoops to Conquer" 257
Prologue and Epilogue to Abbey's "Quiet Life" 264