Collected Poems

BY

AUSTIN DOBSON

IN TWO VOLUMES

Vol. II.

Majores majora sonent

NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY Publishers

Copyright, 1895,

By Dodd, Mead and Company

All rights reserved.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.

AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE.

THE LADIES OF ST. JAMES'S.

A PROPER NEW BALLAD OF THE COUNTRY AND THE TOWN.

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THE OLD SEDAN CHAIR.

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TO AN INTRUSIVE BUTTERFLY.

THE CURÉ'S PROGRESS.

THE MASQUE OF THE MONTHS.

(FOR A FRESCO.)

TWO SERMONS.

"AU REVOIR."

A Dramatic Vignette.

Scene.—The Fountain in the Garden of the Luxembourg. It is surrounded by Promenaders.

THE CARVER AND THE CALIPH.

TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

"Sermons in stones."

MOLLY TREFUSIS.

AT THE CONVENT GATE.

THE MILKMAID.

A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE.

AN OLD FISH POND.

AN EASTERN APOLOGUE.

(To E. H. P.)

TO A MISSAL OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.

A MADRIGAL.

A SONG TO THE LUTE.

A GARDEN SONG.

(To W. E. H.)

A CHAPTER OF FROISSART.

(GRANDPAPA LOQUITUR.)

TO THE MAMMOTH-TORTOISE

OF THE MASCARENE ISLANDS.

A ROMAN "ROUND-ROBIN."

("HIS FRIENDS" TO QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS.)

"Hæc decies repetita [non] placebit."—Ars Poetica.

VERSES TO ORDER.

(FOR A DRAWING BY E. A. ABBEY.)

A LEGACY.

"LITTLE BLUE-RIBBONS."

LINES TO A STUPID PICTURE.

A FAIRY TALE.

TO A CHILD.

(FROM THE "GARLAND OF RACHEL.")

HOUSEHOLD ART.

THE DISTRESSED POET.

A SUGGESTION FROM HOGARTH.

JOCOSA LYRA.

MY BOOKS.

THE BOOK-PLATE'S PETITION.

BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE.

PALOMYDES.

ANDRÉ LE CHAPELAIN.

(Clerk of Love, 1170.)

HIS PLAINT TO VENUS OF THE COMING YEARS.

THE WATER OF GOLD.

A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE.

"De mémoires de Roses on n'a point vu mourir le Jardinier."

DON QUIXOTE.

A BROKEN SWORD.

(To A. L.)

THE POET'S SEAT.

AN IDYLL OF THE SUBURBS.

THE LOST ELIXIR.

"One drop of ruddy human blood puts more life into the veins of a poem than all the delusive 'aurum potabile' that can be distilled out of the choicest library."—Lowell.

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MEMORIAL VERSES.

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A DIALOGUE

TO THE MEMORY OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE.

A FAMILIAR EPISTLE

To * * Esq. of * * with a Life of the late Ingenious Mr. Wm. Hogarth.

Novr. 1, 1879.[Pg 115]

HENRY FIELDING.

(To James Russell Lowell.)

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

CHARLES GEORGE GORDON.

VICTOR HUGO.

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.

EMIGRAVIT, OCTOBER VI., MDCCCXCII.

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FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART.

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THE POET AND THE CRITICS.

THE TOYMAN.

THE SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR.

THE DILETTANT.

THE TWO PAINTERS.

THE CLAIMS OF THE MUSE.

THE 'SQUIRE AT VAUXHALL.

THE CLIMACTERIC.

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TALES IN RHYME.

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THE VIRGIN WITH THE BELLS.

A TALE OF POLYPHEME.

A STORY FROM A DICTIONARY.

[1]

THE WATER-CURE.

A TALE: IN THE MANNER OF PRIOR.

THE NOBLE PATRON.

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VERS DE SOCIETE.

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INCOGNITA.

DORA VERSUS ROSE.

"The Case is proceeding."

AD ROSAM.

OUTWARD BOUND.

(HORACE, iii. 7.)

IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

THE LAST DESPATCH.

"PREMIERS AMOURS."

THE SCREEN IN THE LUMBER ROOM.

DAISY'S VALENTINES.

IN TOWN.

A SONNET IN DIALOGUE.

GROWING GRAY.

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VARIA.

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THE MALTWORM'S MADRIGAL.

AN APRIL PASTORAL.

A NEW SONG OF THE SPRING GARDENS.

A LOVE-SONG.

(XVIII. CENT.)

OF HIS MISTRESS.

(After Anthony Hamilton.)

To G. S.

THE NAMELESS CHARM.

(Expanded from an Epigram of Piron.)

TO PHIDYLE.

(HOR. III., 23.)

TO HIS BOOK.

(HOR. EP. I., 20.)

FOR A COPY OF HERRICK.

WITH A VOLUME OF VERSE.

FOR THE AVERY "KNICKERBOCKER."

(WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY G. H. BOUGHTON.)

TO A PASTORAL POET.

(H. E. B.)

"SAT EST SCRIPSISSE."

(TO E. G., WITH A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS.)

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PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.

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PROLOGUE TO ABBEY'S EDITION OF "SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER."

[Thereupon enters Mr. Woodward in black, with a handkerchief to his eyes, to speak Garrick's Prologue, after which comes the play. In the volume for which the foregoing additional Prologue was written the following Envoi was added.][Pg 263]

L'ENVOI.

PROLOGUE TO ABBEY'S "QUIET LIFE."

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