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
Andre 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