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p. vCONTENTS.

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Ballade Dedicatory

vii

The Fortunate Islands

3

The New Millenium

13

Almae Matres

23

Desiderium

27

Rhymes a la Mode

29

Ballade of Middle Age

31

The Last Cast

33

Twilight

37

Ballade of Summer

39

Ballade of Christmas Ghosts

41

Love’s Easter

42

Ballade of the Girton Girl

43

Ronsard’s Grave

45

San Terenzo

48

Romance

50

Ballade of his own Country

52

p. viVillanelle

55

Triolets after Moschus

57

Ballade of Cricket

59

The Last Maying

61

Homeric Unity

65

In Tintagel

66

Pisidicê

68

From the East to the West

71

Love the Vampire

72

Ballade of the Book-man’s Paradise

74

Ballade of a Friar

76

Ballade of Neglected Merit

78

Ballade of Railway Novels

80

The Cloud Chorus

82

Ballade of Literary Fame

85

Νήνεμος Αἰών

87

Art

89

A very woful Ballade of the Art Critic

91

Art’s Martyr

94

The Palace of Bric-à-brac

97

Rondeaux of the Galleries

100

Science

103

The Barbarous Bird-Gods

105

Man and the Ascidian

110

Ballade of the Primitive Jest

113

Cameos

115

Cameos

117

Helen on the walls

118

p. viiThe Isles of the Blessed

119

Death

121

Nysa

122

Colonus (I.)

123

,, (II.)

124

The Passing of Œdipous

125

The Taming of Tyro

126

To Artemis

127

Criticism of Life

128

Amaryllis

129

The Cannibal Zeus

130

Invocation of Isis

132

The Coming of Isis

133

The Spinet

134

Notes

135