Part 16

COLLINS, MORTIMER Comfort 119 A Summer Song 120 My Aunt’s Spectre 121 A Conceit 122 Martial in London 123

CONE, HELEN GRAY The Ballad of Cassandra Brown 278

COOKE, ZITELLA Miss Nancy’s Gown 210

DELAND, MARGARET Words, Words, Words 273 The Bluebell 274

DOBSON, AUSTIN Avice 177 A Song of the Four Seasons 179 In Town 181 When I Saw You Last, Rose 183 To “Lydia Languish” 184 The Old Sedan Chair 186 “Le Roman de la Rose” 188

DODGE, H. C. If 231

DODGE, MARY MAPES The Minuet 168

DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL Larks and Nightingales 242

DONNE, JOHN Send Back My Long-Stray’d Eyes to Me 12

DOWSON, ERNEST Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures 326

DUER, CAROLINE A Vignette 331

DUER, CAROLINE AND ALICE How Like a Woman 330

ELLIS, GEORGE The Races 29

FIELD, EUGENE The Tea-Gown 232 To Mistress Pyrrha 232 A Paraphrase 234 A Leap-Year Episode 236

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS Mabel, in New Hampshire 94

FITZGERALD, EDWARD Because 73

FOSS, SAM WALTER A Modern Martyrdom 275

GALE, NORMAN R. A Song 308

GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE An Invitation 86

GIBNEY, SOMERVILLE In For It 225

GILBERT, WILLIAM SCHWENCK To Phoebe 156 The Family Fool 160

GILDER, RICHARD WATSON White, Pillared Neck 194 Janet 195 For a Fan 196

GRAHAM, ROBERT Oh, Tell Me How to Woo Thee 27

HALL, GERTRUDE Les Papillottes 309

HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM Feminine Arithmetic 127

HAMILTON, EDWIN My Wooing 213

HANSCOM, BEATRICE The Old Collector 285

HARTE, FRANCIS BRET Her Letter 174

HENDERSON, W. J. On a Hymn Book 252

HENLEY, W. E. Ballade of Ladies’ Names 236 Ballade of June 237 Ballade Made in the Hot Weather 238

HERFORD, OLIVER A Modern Dialogue 296 The Poet’s Proposal 299 Truth 299 The Bachelor Girl 300

HERLOZSSOHN, CARL A Love Test 229

HERRICK, ROBERT To the Virgins to Make Much of Time 15 The Bracelet 16

HEYWOOD, THOMAS Pack Clouds Away 13

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Dorothy Q. A Family Portrait 78

HOOD, THOMAS Lines in a Young Lady’s Album 60 The Time of Roses 62 Love 63

HOOD, THOMAS, JR. A Letter of Advice 149

HOOK, THEODORE Clubs 48

HOVEY, RICHARD Her Valentine 311

HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN Caprice 167

HUNT, LEIGH Rondeau 45 Stolen Fruit 45

IRVING, WASHINGTON A Certain Young Lady 37

JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD Before the Blossom 246 “I Journeyed South to Meet the Spring” 246 Love in the Calendar 247

JOHNSON, ROSSITER Ninety-nine in the Shade 190

JONSON, BEN To Celia 3 Cupid 4

KIMBALL, HARRIET MCEWEN Undowered 145

KINGSLEY, CHARLES Sing Heigh-Ho! 99

KIPLING, RUDYARD Amour de Voyage 318 The Lover’s Litany 319

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE Defiance 35 Her Lips 35 Commination 36

LANG, ANDREW Ballade of Summer 196 Colinette 198 Ballade of Dead Ladies (After Villon) 199

LANGBRIDGE, FREDERICK Courtship 292

LEARNED, WALTER An Explanation 209 Marjorie’s Kisses 209

LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD A Ballade of Old Sweethearts 317

LEIGH, HENRY S. My Love and My Heart 157 To a Country Cousin 158

LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY There’s a Time to Be Jolly 114

LEVY, AMY Between the Showers 304

LILLY, JOHN Cupid and Campaspe 8

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK A Terrible Infant 105 Loulou and Her Cat 106 Piccadilly 107 A Word That Makes Us Linger 109 My Mistress’s Boots 110 A Nice Correspondent! 112

LODGE, THOMAS Rosalind’s Madrigal 5

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Beware! 70

LOOMIS, CHARLES BATTELL Grace’s Choice 305

LOVELACE, RICHARD To Althea (From Prison) 19

LOVER, SAMUEL Ask and Have 59

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Scherzo 101 The Protest 101

LOWELL, ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE Love Disposed Of 93

LÜDERS, CHARLES HENRY A Corsage Bouquet 277

MACKAY, CHARLES Fanny; or, The Beauty and the Bee 88

MARKS, JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Dance Time 329

MARTIN, E. S. Epithalamium 270 Infirm 273

MATTHEWS, BRANDER An American Girl 241

MAXWELL, WILLIAM To Anne 51

MEREDITH, OWEN Since We Parted 134

MOORE, THOMAS The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing 39 When I Loved You 40 Reason, Folly and Beauty 41

MORRIS, CHARLES The Contrast 24

NESBIT, E. The Last Ditch 288

OGDEN, EVA L. The Sea 301

PAYNE, JOHN Rondel 194

PEACOCK, THOMAS L. Love and Age 46

PECK, HARRY THURSTON Heliotrope 266

PECK, SAMUEL MINTURN My Grandmother’s Turkey-Tail Fan 249

PERRY, NORA The Love-Knot 146

PIATT, SARAH MORGAN BRYAN The Witch in the Glass 156

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH The Belle of the Ball-Room 64 To Helen 64

PRIOR, MATTHEW Cupid Mistaken 23

QUILLER-COUCH, A. T. Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking 311

RANKINE, WILLIAM MACQUORN The Handsomest Man in the Room 102

REED, E. B. L’Envoi 327

RICHARDS, LAURA ELIZABETH A Valentine 251

RIDDLE, ALBERT A Poem of Every-day Life 91

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB The Ripest Peach 245

ROBERTSON, HARRISON Story of the Gate 314 Two Triolets 316

ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY If 203 “Don’t” 204 On Rereading Télémaque 205 Valentine 206

ROGERS, ROBERT CAMERON To Violet. With a Bunch of Namesakes 306

ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL The Ballad of Dead Ladies 125

SAWYER, WILLIAM The Best of the Ball 123

SAXE, JOHN GODFREY The Coquette. A Portrait 96 Justine, You Love Me Not! 98

SCOLLARD, CLINTON Be Ye in Love with April-Tide 289 Strawberries 290

SCOTT, CLEMENT Brighton Pier 191 A Contradiction 192

SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES Song 21

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Sigh No More (from “Much Ado About Nothing”) 9 Song from “Twelfth Night” 9

SHAW, JOHN Song 38

SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY Song from “The Duenna” 28

SHERMAN, FRANK DEMPSTER A Rhyme for Priscilla 283

SMITH, HARRY B. Eyes of Black and Eyes of Blue (from “The Viceroy”) 293 Her Faults (from “the Mandarin”) 293

SPENCER, HON. WILLIAM R. To Lady Anne Hamilton 32

STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE The Wedding Day 139 Edged Tools 140 Witchcraft 142 Toujours Amour 143

STEPHEN, J. K. From Three Fly Leaves 280 Question and Answer 281

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS To Minnie (With a Hand Glass) 241

STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding 116

STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE Snowdrop 100

SUCKLING, SIR JOHN To My Love 18

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES An Interlude 162 A Match 165

SYDNEY, SIR PHILIP A Ditty 8

TAYLOR, BAYARD The Gold Room. An Idyl 118

TENNYSON, ALFRED Lilian 75

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE The Age of Wisdom 82 The Ballad of Bouillabaisse 83

THOMAS, EDITH MATILDA Valentine 250

TIFFANY, ESTHER B. Applied Astronomy 291

TILTON, THEODORE French with a Master 152

TIMROD, HENRY A Trifle 128

TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBUR A Merry Blue-Eyed Laddie 328

TRAILL, H. D. Vers de Société 147

VERLAINE, PAUL Il Bacio 200 Sur l’Herbe 201

VIELÉ, HERMAN KNICKERBOCKER Borderland 269

VILLON, FRANÇOIS All Things Except Myself I Know 6

WALLER, EDMUND On a Girdle 18

WALSH, WILLIAM The Despairing Lover 22

WATSON, E. H. LACON To Celia 225

WEBB, CHARLES HENRY Dictum Sapienti 144

WEGENER, Translated from The Mistaken Moth 229 My Pretty Neighbor 230

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF The Henchman 76

WILKINS, MARY E. Her Bonnet 307

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER Love in a Cottage 71

WISE, HILDA JOHNSON A Lenten Call 321

WITHER, GEORGE Shall I, Wasting in Despair 14

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. In the notes below, where changes in indentation have been noted, the transcriber checked other resources in an attempt to be as faithful as possible to the original author’s intent.

Page xiv, Table of Contents, “Luders” changed to “Lüders” (A Corsage Bouquet _Charles Henry Lüders_)

Page 41, “reason” changed to “Reason” (While Reason took)

Page 71, “Beware”, fourth stanza, “She is fooling thee!”, moved to match alignment of rest of poem. Originally it was lined up with the indented lines above it.

Page 161, “Wish” changed to “With” (With a scowl on)

Page 166, line “And tears of night and morrow,” moved to be flush with left margin to match layout of rest of poem’s stanza. Original was lined up with indented verses.

Page 192, stanza break added above final stanza of “Brighton Pier.”

Page 310, “on” changed to “one” (Said one, “Thou are the loveliest)

Page 341, page reference for “Sea, The” added.

Page 347, “Cæli” changed to “Caeli” in Index of Authors to match text usage.

Page 348, Indexes, “Theophile” changed to “Théophile” to match usage in text. Also on page 350.

Page 350, “Beranger” changed to “Béranger” in Indexes to match usage in text. Also twice on 341 and once on 347.