STORIES IN VERSE.

BY HENRY ABBEY.

NEW YORK: A. D. F. RANDOLPH & CO., PUBLISHERS, Cor. Broadway and Ninth Street. 1869.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by Henry L. Abbey, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

TO RICHARD GRANT WHITE, WITH GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, AND WITH ADMIRATION FOR HIS ELEGANT SCHOLARSHIP.

BLANCHE: AN EXHALATION FROM WITHERED VIOLETS.

I. THE VENDER OF VIOLETS.

II. A FLOWER FOUND IN THE STREET.

[Pg 5] III. ODYLE.

IV. WHAT ONE FINDS IN THE COUNTRY.

V. AN AUNT AND AN UNCLE.

[Pg 9] VI. MY AUNT INVITES HER IN TO DINE.

VII. THE PROPHECY.

VIII. HOW A POOR GIRL WAS MADE RICH.

[Pg 14] IX. THE MISER.

X. SHE PASSED ME BY.

XI. MIND WITHOUT SOUL.

XII. A BROKEN SWORD.

XIII. A CHANCE FOR GAIN.

XIV. THE LIGHT-HOUSE.

XV. DARKNESS.

XVI. IN THE CHURCH-YARD.

XVII. COMPARISONS.

XVIII. AN INQUIRY OF THE SEXTON.

XIX. A RIVAL.

XX. KISSES AND A RING.

XXI. AN ENEMY MAY BE SERVED, EVEN THROUGH MISTAKE, WITH PROFIT.

XXII. HELIOTROPE.

PART FIRST.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

[Pg 34] V.

VI.

[Pg 36] VII.

VIII.

IX.

[Pg 38] X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

[Pg 43] XV.

XVI.

XVII.

[Pg 45] PART SECOND.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

[Pg 53] X.

XI.

[Pg 54] XII.

[Pg 55] DEMETRIUS.

I. THE SUCCESS OF THE BEGGAR.

[Pg 58] II. THE MAIDEN OF THE GOLDEN KIOSK.

[Pg 62] III. THE VISIT OF DEMETRIUS AND HIS TEN FRIENDS.

IV. DEMETRIUS FOR EUDOCIA BETRAYS CONSTANTINE.

V. THE MASKED SPY IN THE PALACE.

VI. THE MEETING IN THE GARDEN, AND THE FLIGHT OF THE SPY.

[Pg 76] VII. THE BATTLE.

[Pg 79] VIII. THE WEDDING AND THE FALSE FRIEND.

[Pg 82] THE STRONG SPIDER.

I. THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER.

II. THE SPIDER.

[Pg 94] GRACE BERNARD.

I.

II.

III.

THE PREMONITION.

I.

II.

III.

[Pg 101] IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

[Pg 108] XI.

XII.

XIII.

AFTER BURIAL.

[Pg 112] VEERA.

I. THE KING'S SEAL.

II. THE NIGHT OF THE ESCAPE.

III. TWO PROBLEMS.

IV. THE DOOR.

V. THE KEY.

VI. NEWS FROM MESCHED.

VII. THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR.

[Pg 122] VIII. THE PALIMPSEST.

[Pg 123] IX. GIHON.

X. GOLD!

XI. THE MESSAGE OF THE THREE MEN.

XII. THE GARDEN.

XIII. CAST OUT.

XIV. "LONG LIVE THE KING."