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Ballades and Rondeaus

by Gleeson White

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Notes on the Early Use of the Various Forms
  4. 4I.-Burden · II — III
  5. 5Ung Bon Rondeau
  6. 6The Desponding Soul’s Wish
  7. 7The Answer
  8. 8Lay Ou Plutost Rondeau
  9. 9Lay, or Rather Rondeau
  10. 10Rose
  11. 11Lai
  12. 12From Oversea
  13. 13The Ballade, the Double Ballade, and the Chant Royal
  14. 14Where Are the Pipes of Pan?
  15. 15A Ballade of Evolution
  16. 16Ballade of Solitude
  17. 17A Ballade of Bothers
  18. 18Ballade of Belief
  19. 19Ballade of Burial
  20. 20A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth — Of the Spanish Armada
  21. 21On a Fan That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour
  22. 22The Ballad of Imitation
  23. 23The Ballade of Prose and Rhyme
  24. 24The Ballad of Dead Cities
  25. 25Ballade
  26. 26Ballade — Lilith
  27. 27Ballade of Antique Dances
  28. 28Ballade of Dead Actors
  29. 29Ballade of June
  30. 30Ballade of Ladies’ Names
  31. 31Ballade of Spring
  32. 32Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights
  33. 33Ballade of Youth and Age
  34. 34Ballade
  35. 35Ballade des Pendus. (Gringoire.)
  36. 36Valentine in Form of Ballade
  37. 37Ballade of Primitive Man
  38. 38Ballade of Summer
  39. 39Ballade of Yule
  40. 40Ballade of Middle Age
  41. 41Ballade for the Laureate
  42. 42Ballade of the Southern Cross
  43. 43A Ballade of Old Sweethearts
  44. 44Ballade
  45. 45Ballade of Dead Thinkers
  46. 46A Ballade of Roses
  47. 47A Ballade of Death
  48. 48The Ballade of Tobacco
  49. 49The Ballade of Adaptation
  50. 50A Ballade of Midsummer
  51. 51Rain and Shine
  52. 52An American Girl
  53. 53“From Battle, Murder and Sudden Death, Good Lord, Deliver Us”
  54. 54In Winter
  55. 55Ballade of His Lady
  56. 56Ballade of Exmoor
  57. 57Ballad of Past Delight
  58. 58The Pixies
  59. 59A Ballade of the Thuner-See
  60. 60Grandmother
  61. 61A Ballade of Philomela
  62. 62A Ballade of Calypso
  63. 63A Ballad of Forgotten Tunes
  64. 64Ballade of a Garden
  65. 65Ballade of the Bard
  66. 66Ballade of Dead Poets
  67. 67Ballade to Villon
  68. 68For Me the Blithe Ballade
  69. 69O Lady Mine
  70. 70Where Are the Ships of Tyre?
  71. 71Ballade of Vain Hopes
  72. 72Ballade of the Song of the Sea-Wind
  73. 73Ballade of the Sea-Folk
  74. 74To Austin Dobson
  75. 75Ballade of Rhyme
  76. 76A Ballad of Dreamland
  77. 77A Ballade of Kings
  78. 78Ballade of Acheron
  79. 79Ballade of Asphodel
  80. 80Ballade of the Bourne
  81. 81Ballade of Fairy Gold
  82. 82Ballade of Might-Be
  83. 83Ballade of the Optimist
  84. 84Ballade of Old Instruments
  85. 85Ballade of Sea-Music
  86. 86The Nightingale and the Lark
  87. 87My Grandchildren at Church
  88. 88Ballade Made in the Hot Weather
  89. 89Ballade of Aspiration
  90. 90Ballade of Truisms
  91. 91Double Ballade of Life and Fate
  92. 92Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things
  93. 93Ballade of Sleep
  94. 94The Ballade of Lovelace
  95. 95Ballad
  96. 96Double Ballad. Of the Singers of the Time
  97. 97A Ballad of Lost Lovers
  98. 98A Ballad of Heroes
  99. 99A Ballad of François Villon
  100. 100The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad
  101. 101A Ballad of Bath
  102. 102A Ballad of Sark
  103. 103The Dance of Death
  104. 104The Praise of Dionysus
  105. 105The God of Love
  106. 106The Chant of the Children of the Mist
  107. 107King Boreas
  108. 108The New Epiphany
  109. 109The Glory of the Year
  110. 110The Kyrielle, Pantoum, and Rondeau Redouble
  111. 111Kyrielle
  112. 112The Pavilion
  113. 113Kyrielle
  114. 114In Town
  115. 115Monologue D’Outre Tombe
  116. 116Pantoum
  117. 117En Route
  118. 118In the Sultan’s Garden
  119. 119Rondeau Redoublé
  120. 120Rondeau Redoublé
  121. 121The Prayer of Dryope
  122. 122Rondeau Redoublé
  123. 123The Sicilian Octave Described and Exemplified
  124. 124The Rondel, Rondeau, and Roundel
  125. 125Rondeau
  126. 126O Honey of Hymettus Hill
  127. 127Ready for the Ride — 1795
  128. 128Rondel
  129. 129Rondel
  130. 130The Wanderer
  131. 131Rondel
  132. 132Rondel
  133. 133Rondel
  134. 134Variations
  135. 135Rondel
  136. 136Rondel
  137. 137Two Rondels
  138. 138Rondels
  139. 139To a Blank Sheet of Paper
  140. 140Rondel
  141. 141“Before the Dawn”
  142. 142Rondel
  143. 143From Theodore de Banville
  144. 144Rondel
  145. 145Come, Love, Across the Sunlit Land
  146. 146Upon the Stair I See My Lady Stand
  147. 147I Heard a Maid With Her Guitar
  148. 148Valentine
  149. 149Love’s Captive
  150. 150Love
  151. 151Rondel
  152. 152Benedicite
  153. 153Rondelets
  154. 154Might Love Be Bought
  155. 155In Thy Clear Eyes
  156. 156The Sweet, Sad Years
  157. 157A Wish
  158. 158To a Doleful Poet
  159. 159“His Poisoned Shafts”
  160. 160To Homer
  161. 161September
  162. 162Les Morts Vont Vite
  163. 163“In Love’s Disport”
  164. 164“What Makes the World?”
  165. 165“O Fons Bandusiæ.”
  166. 166“On London Stones”
  167. 167A Rondeau to Ethel
  168. 168To a June Rose
  169. 169“With Pipe and Flute”
  170. 170“In After Days”
  171. 171“In Vain To-Day”
  172. 172“When Burbadge Played”
  173. 173Old Books Are Best
  174. 174A Coward Still
  175. 175Rondeaux of Cities
  176. 176Could She Have Guessed
  177. 177First Sight
  178. 178Expectation
  179. 179In the Grass
  180. 180By the Well
  181. 181A Garden Piece
  182. 182Lovers’ Quarrel
  183. 183If Love Should Faint
  184. 184My Love to Me
  185. 185With Strawberries
  186. 186A Flirted Fan
  187. 187In Rotten Row
  188. 188The Leaves Are Sere
  189. 189With a Fan From Rimmel’s
  190. 190If I Were King
  191. 191The Gods Are Dead
  192. 192Her Little Feet
  193. 193When You Are Old
  194. 194My Books
  195. 195Most Sweet of All
  196. 196The Redbreast
  197. 197To Q(uintus) H(oratius) F(laccus)
  198. 198Love in London
  199. 199Sleep
  200. 200To Tamaris
  201. 201When I See You
  202. 202Carpe Diem
  203. 203The Old and the New
  204. 204Sub Rosa
  205. 205“Violet”
  206. 206O Scorn Me Not
  207. 207Ten Thousand Pounds
  208. 208One of These Days
  209. 209Life Lapses by
  210. 210Beyond the Night
  211. 211Among My Books
  212. 212I Go My Gait
  213. 213(To Louis Honore Fréchette.)
  214. 214“Without One Kiss”
  215. 215Vis Erotis
  216. 216When Sirius Shines
  217. 217At Peep of Dawn
  218. 218In Greenwood Glen
  219. 219Her China Cup
  220. 220Behind Her Fan
  221. 221An Acrostical Valentine
  222. 222When Twilight Comes
  223. 223Come, Pan, and Pipe
  224. 224An Old Rondo
  225. 225A Street Sketch
  226. 226Dover
  227. 227Homesick
  228. 228In Beechen Shade
  229. 229The Gates of Horn
  230. 230If Love Be True
  231. 231The Coquette
  232. 232Yes or No?
  233. 233My Window Birds
  234. 234Snowdrops and Aconites
  235. 235The Chiff-Chaff’s Message, Heard in March
  236. 236“When Summer Dies”
  237. 237My Little Sweetheart
  238. 238Three Roundels
  239. 239A Singing Lesson
  240. 240In Guernsey
  241. 241The Roundel
  242. 242Nothing So Sweet
  243. 243The Trysting-Tree
  244. 244A Roundel of Rest
  245. 245Mors et Vita
  246. 246Rondels of Childhood
  247. 247The Sestina
  248. 248Sestina
  249. 249Love’s Going
  250. 250Sestina
  251. 251Pulvis et Umbra
  252. 252Cupid and the Shepherd
  253. 253Sestina
  254. 254The Triolet
  255. 255Lecon de Chant
  256. 256My Sweetheart
  257. 257A Rose
  258. 258Triolets for “The Twelfth”
  259. 259Rose-Leaves
  260. 260Triolet, After Catullus
  261. 261Triolets
  262. 262Triolets
  263. 263Triolets
  264. 264Song
  265. 265Under the Rose
  266. 266Two Triolets
  267. 267Six Triolets
  268. 268From “Fiametta”
  269. 269A Snowflake in May
  270. 270Apology for Gazing at a Young Lady in Church
  271. 271A Tiny Trip
  272. 272Vestigia
  273. 273Three Triolets
  274. 274Triolet
  275. 275Rejected
  276. 276A Pair of Gloves
  277. 277In the Orchard
  278. 278The Villanelle, Virelai, and Virelai Nouveau
  279. 279Roses
  280. 280A Vacation Villanelle
  281. 281“Tu Ne Quaesieris”
  282. 282When I Saw You Last, Rose
  283. 283For a Copy of Theocritus
  284. 284On a Nankin Plate
  285. 285Villanelle
  286. 286Villanelle
  287. 287Villanelle
  288. 288Villanelle
  289. 289Villanelle
  290. 290Villanelle — (To M. Joseph Boulmier, Author of “Les Villanelles.”)
  291. 291Villanelle — (To the Nightingale in September.)
  292. 292Villanelle
  293. 293Villanelle
  294. 294Villanelle
  295. 295Bonnie Belle
  296. 296If Some True Maiden’s Love Were Mine
  297. 297When the Brow of June
  298. 298O Summer-Time So Passing Sweet
  299. 299Villanelle
  300. 300Villanelle
  301. 301To Helen
  302. 302To the Daffodil
  303. 303Spring Knocks at Winter’s Frosty Door
  304. 304Dot
  305. 305Across the World I Speak to Thee
  306. 306Where Are the Springs of Long Ago?
  307. 307Villanelle — (To Hesperus, After Bion.)
  308. 308Villanelle
  309. 309Villanelle
  310. 310Theocritus
  311. 311Spring Sadness
  312. 312July
  313. 313Burlesques, Pasquinades, etc., in Ballade, Chant Royal, Rondeau, an…
  314. 314The Ballade of the Summer-Boarder
  315. 315A Young Poet’s Advice
  316. 316A Ballad of Old Metres
  317. 317Ballade of Cricket
  318. 318The Prodigals
  319. 319Villon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
  320. 320A Ballade of Ballade-Mongers
  321. 321On Newport Beach
  322. 322Culture in the Slums
  323. 323The Street Singer
  324. 324Malapropos
  325. 325Behold the Deeds!

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