HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME CIRCE'S ISLE REVISITED THE LIMIT of LANDS THE SHADE OF HELEN PISIDICÊ SONNETS: THE ODYSSEY THE SIRENS LOVE'S EASTER TWILIGHT BION SAN TERENZO NATURAL THEOLOGY HOMER RONSARD GÉRARD DE NERVAL IN ITHACA DREAMS HOMERIC UNITY IDEAL TRANSLATIONS: HYMN TO THE WINDS A VOW TO HEAVENLY VENUS APRIL OF HIS LADY'S OLD AGE SHADOWS OF HIS LADY MOONLIGHT THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE THE BIRTH OF BUTTERFLIES AN OLD TUNE SPRING IN THE STUDENT'S QUARTER SPRING. (AFTER MELEAGER.) OLD LOVES IANNOULA THE MILK WHITE DOE A LA BELLE HÉLÈNE BURIAL OF MOLIÈRE BEFORE THE SNOW THE CLOUD CHORUS Laughter and song the poet brings, And lends them form and gives them-wings; Then sets his chirping squadron free To post at will by land or sea, And find their home, if that may be. Laughter and song this poet, too, O Western brothers, sends to you: With doubtful flight the darting train Have crossed the bleak Atlantic main,— Now warm them in your hearts again! A. D. Then sets his chirping squadron free To post at will by land or sea, And find their home, if that may be. With doubtful flight the darting train Have crossed the bleak Atlantic main,— Now warm them in your hearts again! A. D. CONTENTS Mr. Austin Dobson has been so kind as to superintend the making of the following selection from "Ballads and Lyrics of Old France" (1872), "Ballades in Blue China" (1880, 1881, 1883), and from verses previously unprinted or not collected. BALLADES. BALLADE DEDICATORY TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON. The painted Briton built his mound, And left his celts and clay, On yon fair slope of sunlit ground That fronts your garden gay; The Roman came, he bore the sway, He bullied, bought, and sold, Your fountain sweeps his works away Beside your manor old! But still his crumbling urns are found Within the window-bay, Where once he listened to the sound That lulls you day by day;— The sound of summer winds at play, The noise of waters cold To Yarty wandering on their way, Beside your manor old! The Roman fell: his firm-set bound Became the Saxon's stay; The bells made music all
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