Category: Poetry
Page 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 Trefusi...
Young Love's for us a farce that's played; Light canzonet and serenade No more may tempt us; Gray hairs but ill accord with dreams; From aught but sour didactic themes Our years...
5. Chapter 5A Painter, now by Fame forgot, Had painted--'tis no matter what; Enough that he resolved to try The Verdict of a critic Eye. The Friend he sought made no Pretence To more than c...
6. Chapter 6Middy, I think,--he'd "_Acis_" on his box:-- A black-eyed, sun-burnt, mischief-making imp, Pet of the mess,--a Puck with curling locks, Who straightway travestied the Cyclops' l...
3. Chapter 3How weary 'twas to wait! The year Went dragging slowly on; The red leaf to the running brook Dropped sadly, and was gone; December came, and locked in ice The plashing of the mi...
4. Chapter 4It was an elm-tree root of yore, With lordly trunk, before they lopped it, And weighty, said those five who bore Its bulk across the lawn, and dropped it Not once or twice, befo...
2. Chapter 2And now for long none bought at all, So lay he sullen in his stall. Him thus withdrawn the Caliph found, And smote his staff upon the ground-- "Ho, there, within! Hast wares to...
7. Chapter 7Then we trifled with concerts and croquêt, Then she daintily dusted her face; Then she sprinkled herself with "Ess Bouquet," Fished out from the foregoing case; And we chattered...
1. Chapter 1Page 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 "...
9. Chapter 9"373. St. Pierre (Bernardin de), _Paul et Virginie_, 12mo, old calf. Paris, 1787. This copy is pierced throughout by a bullet-hole, and bears on one of the covers the words: '_à...