INDEX OF TITLES
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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