Chapter I: WANTED you to come to-day

Or so I told you in my letter—
And yet, if you had stayed away,
I should have liked you so much better.
I should have sipped my tea unseen,
And thrilled at every door-bell’s pealing,
And thought how nice I could have been
Had you evinced a little feeling.

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

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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This book, the fifth in Miss Wells’ popular series of anthologies, contains the cream of that department of verse which can be described adequately only by the French term, “Vers de Société.” From François Villon to the present time almost all the great writers are represented. Miss Wells shows again her anthological discretion in her unerring sense for the interesting and significant.

A Whimsey Anthology

“It is a book for a blue novel—being certain to counteract it—and it is a book of value to those who get up entertainments or like the fantastic in literature.”—From the Rochester _Democrat and Chronicle_.

A Satire Anthology

“The cream of rhymed satire from Aristophanes to Oliver Herford. Shows the same intelligence and good taste as her preceding volumes.”—N. Y. _Globe_.

A Parody Anthology

“Constructed on an excellent plan and with good discretion, rendering it an excellent work of reference, as well as one of entertainment.”—Boston _Herald_.

A Nonsense Anthology

“Few could be better fitted for the task than one whose precept and verse assure her attitude towards this important department of literature.”—New York _Evening Post_.

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers

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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.