Part 15

I should have guessed you drinking tea With someone whom you loved to madness; I should have thought you cold to me, And revelled in a depth of sadness. But, no! you came without delay— I could not feel myself neglected: You said the things you always say, In ways not wholly unexpected.

If you had let me wait in vain, We should, in my imagination, Have held, what we did not attain, A most dramatic conversation. Had you not come, I should have known At least a vague anticipation, Instead of which, I grieve to own, You did not give me one sensation. _Caroline and Alice Duer._

A VIGNETTE

CUPID, playing blind man’s buff, Seized my Psyche’s floating tresses. Here is silken clue enough To dispense with any guesses. This is Psyche’s golden fleece: She’s my prisoner, past release. But the lookers-on declare Love was caught in Psyche’s hair. _Caroline Duer._

INDEX OF TITLES

PAGE AGE OF WISDOM, THE _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 82 All things Except Myself I Know _François Villon_ 6 American Girl, An _Brander Matthews_ 241 Amour de Voyage _Rudyard Kipling_ 318 Amy’s Cruelty _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 68 Applied Astronomy _Esther B. Tiffany_ 291 Ask and Have _Samuel Lover_ 59 At the Lattice _Alfred Austin_ 151 Avice _Austin Dobson_ 177

BACHELOR GIRL, THE _Oliver Herford_ 300 Bagatelle, A _James G. Burnett_ 228 Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 83 Ballad of Cassandra Brown, The _Helen Gray Cone_ 278 Ballad of Dead Ladies, The _Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 125 Ballade Made in the Hot Weather _W. E. Henley_ 238 Ballade of Dead Ladies (After Villon) _Andrew Lang_ 199 Ballade of Dreams Transposed _Gelett Burgess_ 325 Ballade of June _W. E. Henley_ 237 Ballade of Ladies’ Names _W. E. Henley_ 236 Ballade of Old Sweethearts, A _Richard Le Gallienne_ 317 Ballade of Summer _Andrew Lang_ 196 Ballade of the Devil-May-Care _Gelett Burgess_ 323 Ballade of the Summer-Boarder, The _H. C. Bunner_ 254 Be Ye in Love with April-Tide? _Clinton Scollard_ 289 Because _Edward Fitzgerald_ 73 Before the Blossom _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 246 Belle of the Ball-Room, The _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 64 Best of the Ball, The _William Sawyer_ 123 Best Thing in the World, The _Anonymous_ 223 Between the Showers _Amy Levy_ 304 Beware! _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 70 Biftek aux Champignons _Henry Augustin Beers_ 206 Bluebell, The _Margaret Deland_ 274 Borderland _Herman Knickerbocker Vielé_ 269 Bracelet, The _Robert Herrick_ 16 Brighton Pier _Clement Scott_ 191 Butterfly’s Madrigal, The _Gelett Burgess_ 323

CAELI _Francis William Bourdillon_ 244 Caprice _William Dean Howells_ 167 Certain Young Lady, A _Washington Irving_ 37 Cherry-Ripe _Richard Allison_ 11 Clubs _Theodore Hook_ 48 Colinette _Andrew Lang_ 198 Comfort _Mortimer Collins_ 119 Commination _Walter Savage Landor_ 36 Conceit, A _Mortimer Collins_ 122 Contradiction, A _Clement Scott_ 192 Contrast, The _Charles Morris_ 24 Conversational _Anonymous_ 219 Coquette, The. A Portrait _John Godfrey Saxe_ 96 Corsage Bouquet, A _Charles Henry Lüders_ 277 Courtship _Frederick Langbridge_ 292 Cupid _Ben Jonson_ 4 Cupid and Campaspe _John Lilly_ 8 Cupid Mistaken _Matthew Prior_ 23

DA CAPO _H. C. Bunner_ 260 Dance Time _Josephine Preston Peabody Marks_ 329 Defiance _Walter Savage Landor_ 35 “Dernier Jour d’un Condamné, Le” _George A. Baker_ 212 Despairing Lover, The _William Walsh_ 22 Dictum Sapienti _Charles Henry Webb_ 144 Ditty, A _Sir Philip Sydney_ 8 “Don’t” _James Jeffrey Roche_ 204 Dorothy Q. A Family Portrait _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 78

EDGED TOOLS _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 140 Educational Courtship _Anonymous_ 221 Epithalamium _E. S. Martin_ 270 Exchange, The _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 34 Explanation, An _Walter Learned_ 209 Eyes of Black and Eyes of Blue (from “The Viceroy”) _Harry B. Smith_ 293

FAMILY FOOL, THE _William Schwenck Gilbert_ 160 Fanny; or, The Beauty and the Bee _Charles Mackay_ 88 Feminine Arithmetic _Charles Graham Halpine_ 127 Flight _Charles S. Calverley_ 129 Flower of Love Lies Bleeding, The _Richard Henry Stoddard_ 116 For a Fan _Richard Watson Gilder_ 196 Forfeits _H. C. Bunner_ 265 French with a Master _Theodore Tilton_ 152 From Three Fly Leaves _J. K. Stephen_ 280

GAME OF FIVES, A _Lewis Carroll_ 135 Garden Fancies. The Flower’s Name _Robert Browning_ 89 Gold Room, The. An Idyl _Bayard Taylor_ 118 Grace’s Choice _Charles Battell Loomis_ 305

HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE ROOM, THE _William Macquorn Rankine_ 102 Helen’s Face a Book _Gelett Burgess_ 322 Heliotrope _Harry Thurston Peck_ 266 Henchman, The _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 76 Her Bonnet _Mary E. Wilkins_ 307 Her Faults (from “The Mandarin”) _Harry B. Smith_ 295 Her Letter _Francis Bret Harte_ 174 Her Lips _Walter Savage Landor_ 35 Her Neighbors _Anonymous_ 224 Her Valentine _Richard Hovey_ 311 How Like a Woman _Caroline and Alice Duer_ 330

“I JOURNEYED SOUTH TO MEET THE SPRING” _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 246 I Must Come Out Next Spring _Thomas Haynes Bayley_ 55 I Remember, I Remember _Phœbe Cary_ 115 I’d Be a Butterfly _Thomas Haynes Bayley_ 54 If _James Jeffrey Roche_ 203 If _H. C. Dodge_ 231 If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It _Anonymous_ 220 Il Bacio _Paul Verlaine_ 200 In For It _Somerville Gibney_ 225 In Philistia _Bliss Carman_ 302 In Town _Austin Dobson_ 181 Indecision _Anonymous_ 217 Infirm _E. S. Martin_ 273 Interesting _H. C. Bunner_ 256 Interlude, An _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 162 Invitation, An _Théophile Gautier_ 86

JANET _Richard Watson Gilder_ 195 Justine, You Love Me Not! _John Godfrey Saxe_ 98

KIRTLE RED _W. H. Bellemy_ 227 Kiss, A—By Mistake _Joel Benton_ 134 Kissing’s No Sin _Anonymous_ 223 Kitty’s Summering _H. C. Bunner_ 264

LADY MINE _Herbert Edwin Clarke_ 244 Larks and Nightingales _Nathan Haskell Dole_ 242 Last Ditch, The _E. Nesbit_ 288 Love Me Not for Comely Grace _Anonymous_ 17 Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring, The _Henry Howard Brownell_ 104 Leap-Year Episode, A _Eugene Field_ 236 Lenten Call, A _Hilda Johnson Wise_ 321 L’Envoi _E. B. Reed_ 327 Letter of Advice, A _Thomas Hood, Jr._ 149 Lilian _Alfred Tennyson_ 75 Lines in a Young Lady’s Album _Thomas Hood_ 60 Logic _Anonymous_ 218 Loulou and Her Cat _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 106 Love _Thomas Hood_ 63 Love _Charles S. Calverley_ 132 Love and Age _Thomas L. Peacock_ 46 Love Disposed Of _Robert Traill Spence Lowell_ 93 Love in a Cottage _Nathaniel Parker Willis_ 71 Love in the Calendar _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 247 Love-Knot, The _Nora Perry_ 146 Love Test, A _Carl Herlozssohn_ 229 Lover’s Litany, The _Rudyard Kipling_ 319 Lunch, The _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 155

MABEL, IN NEW HAMPSHIRE _James Thomas Fields_ 94 Maid of Murray Hill, The _H. C. Bunner_ 262 Margaret and Dora _Thomas Campbell_ 36 Marjorie’s Kisses _Walter Learned_ 209 Match, A _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 165 Martial in London _Mortimer Collins_ 123 Merry, Blue-Eyed Laddie, A _Juliet Wilbur Tompkins_ 328 Minuet, The _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 168 Miss Nancy’s Gown _Zitella Cooke_ 210 Mistaken Moth, The _Translated from Wegener_ 229 Modern Dialogue, A _Oliver Herford_ 296 Modern Martyrdom, A _Sam Walter Foss_ 275 My Aunt’s Spectre _Mortimer Collins_ 121 My Grandmother’s Turkey-Tail Fan _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 249 My Love and My Heart _Henry S. Leigh_ 157 My Mistress’s Boots _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 110 My Pretty Neighbor _Translated from Wegener_ 230 My Wooing _Edwin Hamilton_ 213

NAMES _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 34 Nice Correspondent! A _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 112 Ninety-nine in the Shade _Rossiter Johnson_ 190

OH, TELL ME HOW TO WOO THEE _Robert Graham_ 27 Old Collector, The _Beatrice Hanscom_ 285 Old Rhyme, An _Anonymous_ 17 Old Sedan Chair, The _Austin Dobson_ 186 On a Girdle _Edmund Waller_ 18 On a Hymn Book _W. J. Henderson_ 252 On an Intaglio Head of Minerva _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 154 On Rereading Télémaque _James Jeffrey Roche_ 205

PACK CLOUDS AWAY _Thomas Heywood_ 13 Papillottes, Les _Gertrude Hall_ 309 Paraphrase, A _Eugene Field_ 234 Pet’s Punishment _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 173 Phillida and Corydon _Nicholas Breton_ 10 Piccadilly _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 107 Poem of Every Day Life, A _Albert Riddle_ 91 Poet’s Proposal, The _Oliver Herford_ 299 Protest, The _James Russell Lowell_ 101

QUESTION AND ANSWER _J. K. Stephen_ 281

RACES, THE _George Ellis_ 29 Reason, Folly and Beauty _Thomas Moore_ 41 Reminiscence, A _James Freeman Clarke_ 81 Rhyme for Priscilla, A _Frank Dempster Sherman_ 283 Ripest Peach, The _James Whitcomb Riley_ 245 “Roman de la Rose, Le” _Austin Dobson_ 188 Romance of a Glove, The _H. Savile Clarke_ 202 Rondeau _Leigh Hunt_ 45 Rondel _John Payne_ 194 Rosalind’s Madrigal _Thomas Lodge_ 5 Rose, A _Arlo Bates_ 240 Rose, The _Anonymous_ 216 Rosette _Béranger_ 43

SAINT MAY: A CITY LYRIC _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 171 Scherzo _James Russell Lowell_ 101 Sea, The _Eva L. Ogden_ 301 Send Back My Long-Stray’d Eyes to Me _John Donne_ 12 Shall I, Wasting in Despair _George Wither_ 14 She Is So Pretty _Béranger_ 44 Sigh No More (from “Much Ado About Nothing”) _William Shakespeare_ 9 Since We Parted _Owen Meredith_ 134 Sing Heigh-Ho! _Charles Kingsley_ 99 Snowdrop _William Wetmore Story_ 100 Song _Sir Charles Sedley_ 21 Song _John Shaw_ 38 Song _William Cullen Bryant_ 51 Song, A _Norman R. Gale_ 308 Song from “The Duenna” _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ 28 Song from “Twelfth Night” _William Shakespeare_ 9 Song of the Four Seasons, A _Austin Dobson_ 179 Stolen Fruit _Leigh Hunt_ 45 Story of the Gate _Harrison Robertson_ 314 Strawberries _Clinton Scollard_ 290 Street Sketch, A _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 170 Summer Song, A _Mortimer Collins_ 120 Sur l’Herbe _Paul Verlaine_ 201

TEA-GOWN, THE _Eugene Field_ 232 Terrible Infant, A _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 105 There’s a Time to Be Jolly _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 114 Time I’ve Lost in Wooing, The _Thomas Moore_ 39 Time of Roses, The _Thomas Hood_ 62 Tiresome Spring! _Béranger_ 42 To a Country Cousin _Henry S. Leigh_ 158 To Althea (from Prison) _Richard Lovelace_ 19 To Anne _William Maxwell_ 51 To Celia _Ben Jonson_ 3 To Celia _E. H. Lacon Watson_ 225 To Helen _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 64 To Lady Anne Hamilton _Hon. William R. Spencer_ 32 To “Lydia Languish” _Austin Dobson_ 184 To Minnie (With a Hand Glass) _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 241 To Mistress Pyrrha _Eugene Field_ 232 To Mrs. Leigh Upon Her Wedding Day _George Canning_ 33 To My Love _Sir John Suckling_ 18 To Phœbe _William Schwenck Gilbert_ 156 To the Virgins to Make Much of Time _Robert Herrick_ 15 To Violet. With a Bunch of Namesakes _Robert Cameron Rogers_ 306 Toujours Amour _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 143 Trifle, A _Henry Timrod_ 128 Truth _Oliver Herford_ 299 Two Triolets _Harrison Robertson_ 316

UNDOWERED _Harriet McEwen Kimball_ 145 Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking _A. T. Quiller-Couch_ 311

VALENTINE _James Jeffrey Roche_ 206 Valentine _Edith Matilda Thomas_ 250 Valentine, A _Lewis Carroll_ 137 Valentine, A _Laura Elizabeth Richards_ 251 Vers de Société _H. D. Traill_ 147 Vignette, A _Caroline Duer_ 331 Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures _Ernest Dowson_ 326

WAY TO ARCADY, THE _H. C. Bunner_ 257 Wedding Day, The _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 139 What Is London’s Last New Lion? _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 53 When I Loved You _Thomas Moore_ 40 When I Saw You Last, Rose _Austin Dobson_ 183 When Will Love Come? _Pakenham Beatty_ 266 White, Pillared Neck _Richard Watson Gilder_ 194 Why Don’t the Men Propose? _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 57 Wintry Paris _Anonymous_ 215 Witch in the Glass, The _Sarah Morgan Bryant Piatt_ 156 Witchcraft _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 142 Word That Makes Us Linger, A _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 109 Words, Words, Words _Margaret Deland_ 273

INDEX OF AUTHORS

ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY PAGE On an Intaglio Head of Minerva 154 The Lunch 155

ALLISON, RICHARD Cherry-Ripe 11

ASHBY-STERRY, J. A Street Sketch 170 Saint May: A City Lyric 171 Pet’s Punishment 173

AUSTIN, ALFRED At the Lattice 151

BAKER, GEORGE A. “Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné” 212

BATES, ARLO A Rose 240

BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES What Is London’s Last New Lion? 53 I’d Be a Butterfly 54 I Must Come Out Next Spring 55 Why Don’t the Men Propose? 57

BEATTY, PAKENHAM When Will Love Come? 266

BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTIN Biftek aux Champignons 206

BELLAMY, W. H. Kirtle Red 227

BENTON, JOEL A Kiss—By Mistake 134

BÉRANGER Tiresome Spring! 42 Rosette 43 She Is So Pretty 44

BOURDILLON, FRANCIS WILLIAM Caeli 244

BRETON, NICHOLAS Phillida and Corydon 10

BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring 104

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT Amy’s Cruelty 68

BROWNING, ROBERT Garden Fancies. The Flower’s Name 89

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN Song 51

BUNNER, H. C. The Ballade of the Summer-Boarder 254 Interesting 256 The Way to Arcady 257 Da Capo 260 The Maid of Murray Hill 262 Kitty’s Summering 264 Forfeits 265

BURGESS, GELETT Helen’s Face a Book 322 Ballade of the Devil-May-Care 323 The Butterfly’s Madrigal 323 Ballade of Dreams Transposed 325

BURNETT, JAMES G. A Bagatelle 228

CALVERLEY, CHARLES S. Flight 129 Love 132

CAMPBELL, THOMAS Margaret and Dora 36

CANNING, GEORGE To Mrs. Leigh Upon Her Wedding Day 33

CARMAN, BLISS In Philistia 302

CARROLL, LEWIS A Game of Fives 135 A Valentine 137

CARY, PHŒBE I Remember, I Remember 115

CLARKE, HERBERT EDWIN Lady Mine 244

CLARKE, H. SAVILE The Romance of a Glove 202

CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN A Reminiscence 81

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T. The Exchange 34 Names 34