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The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang

Edited by Mrs. Lang

Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)

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I OXFORD AND ST. ANDREWS

Freshman's Term

Ballade of the Summer Term

‘Oh, what should I do there’

The Singing Rose

St. Andrews Bay

The End of the Term

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Ballade of his own Country

Grass of Parnassus

A Galloway Garland

A Sunset on Yarrow

Ballade of the Tweed

Twilight on Tweed

Ballant o' Ballantrae

Ballade of his Choice of a Sepulchre

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III LOYAL LYRICS AND DEEDS OF MEN

The Tenth of June, 1715

The Prince's Birthday

How they Held the Bass for King

The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond

Lone Places of the Deer

Red and White Roses

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Three Portraits of Prince Charles

Jacobite ‘Auld Lang Syne’

The Last of the Leal

A Scot to Jeanne d'Arc

How the Maid marched from Blois

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Seekers for a City

The White Pacha

Midnight, January 25, 1886

Advance, Australia

Colonel Burnaby

Melville and Coghill

To Colonel Ian Hamilton

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The Seekers for Phæacia

A Song of Phæacia

The Departure from Phæacia

A Ballade of Departure

They Hear the Sirens for the Second Time

Circe's Isle Revisited

The Limit of Lands

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To the Gentle Reader

Ballade of the Book-hunter

Ballade of the Bookman's Paradise

The Rowfant Books

Verses inscribed in the Supplement to the Rowfant Catalogue

Ode on the Distant Prospect of a New Novel

Ballade of Railway Novels

The Property of a Gentleman who has given up Collecting.

Beauty and the Beast

Ballade of his Books

Ballade of the Unattainable

Ballade of the Bookworm

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VI HIS FRIENDS OLD AND YOUNG

Clevedon Church

To Robert Louis Stevenson

Ballade Dedicatory

L'Envoi

In Augustinum Dobson

Ballade of Summer

Ode to Mr. Saintsbury

To Louisa Viscountess Wolseley

Introductory Verses

For Mark Twain's Jubilee

With a Fairy Book

To Master Frederick Longman

To Francis McCunn

To Joan, Toddles, and Tiny: otherwise Meg and Maisie

To Miss Sybil Corbet

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At the Sign of the Ship

Ballade of Literary Fame

Ballade of the Primitive Jest

Ballade of Sleep

Ballade of the Girton Girl

Ballade of the Penitents

Ballade to Theocritus, in Winter

Ballade of Difficult Rhymes

Ballade of Blue China

Ballade of Middle Age

Ballade of the Voyage to Cythera

Ballade of Aucassin

Ballade of a Friar

Ballade of Neglected Merit

Ballade of Autumn

Ballade of True Wisdom

Valentine in Form of Ballade

Ballade of Old Plays

Ballade of Life

Ballade of the Southern Cross

Double Ballade of Primitive Man

Ballade of the Dream

Ballade of Queen Anne

Ballade of the Real and Ideal

Ballade of Yule

Ballade against the Jesuits

Ballade of Dead Cities

Ballade of the Wicked Earl

Ballade for the Laureate

Ballade of the Midnight Forest

Ballade of Cleopatra's Needle

Ballade of Æsthetic Adjectives

Ballade for a Baby

Ballade of the Muse

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A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty

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Two Sonnets of the Sirens

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Herodotus in Egypt

A Star in the Night

Natural Theology

To Izaak Walton

Lines after Wordsworth

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Helen on the Walls

The Isles of the Blessed

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The Passing of Œdipus

The Taming of Tyro

Criticism of Life

The Cannibal Zeus

Invocation of Isis

The Coming of Isis

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I Jacques Tahureau

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II François Villon

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III Pierre Ronsard

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IV Gérard de Nerval

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V The Death of Mirandola

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IX GAMES AND SPORT

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Ballade of the Three Graces

A Ballade of Mourning

The Old Cricketer's Lament

Ballade of Dead Cricketers

Ballade of Cricket

[A hope for the hopeless lips to frame]

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A Song of Life and Golf

Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf

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Ballade of Roulette

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Piscatori Piscator

The Contented Angler

The Salmo Irritans

The Last Chance

The Philosophy of Fly-fishing

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X GHOSTS AND KINDRED SUBJECTS

The Haunted Homes of England

Ghosts in the Library

Gainsborough Ghosts

Ballade of a Choice of Ghosts

The Disappointment

The Haunted Tower

The Ballade of the Subconscious Self

Song by the Subconscious Self

Ballade of Christmas Ghosts

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XI PICTURES and BUSTS

A Nativity of Sandro Botticelli

A Portrait of 1783

Benedetta Ramus

A Sunset of Watteau

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XIII BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS

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The Three Captains

The Bridge of Death

Le Père Sévère

A Lady of High Degree

For a Rose's Sake

The Fragment of the Fause Lover and the Dead Leman

The Brigand's Grave

The Sudden Bridal

The Milk-White Doe

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French Peasant Songs

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XIV MISCELLANEOUS

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On the Death of Lord Tennyson

Disillusions of Astronomy

A Review in Rhyme

The Banks of Wye

Tout finit par des Chansons

The Grave of Orpheus

The Melancholy Muses

Νηνεμος Αιων

The Old Love and the New

A Remonstrance with the Fair

The Lover in Hades

Lord Rosebery loquitur

A Song of Patents

Waitin' on the Glesca' Train

The Shade of Helen

Love and Wisdom

Christmas Violets

The Nemesis of Art

Sylvie et Aurélie

The Tournay of the Heroes

The Fairy Minister

To Correspondents

Partant pour la Scribie

The Fairy's Gift

Woman and the Weed

Lines on the Inaugural meeting of The Shelley Society

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A New Shakespere

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SCENE I London: a Street.

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SCENE II. The Same.

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Ronsard's Grave

The Barbarous Bird-gods: A Savage Parabasis

Man and the Ascidian

‘A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts.’

Love the Vampire

The Last Maying

The Fortunate Islands

William Nye's Experiment

From the East to the West

Love's Cryptogram

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The New Orpheus to his Eurydice

The Mythologist and Psyche

A Bric-à-Brac Lyre

The Friend of Man

The Temple of Bosh

The Member for Crete

Chinook and Chinok

Summer's Ending

Ye Ministers of England

On Calais Sands

From Omar Khayyám

Disdainful Diaphenia

The Daughters of Cecrops

The Restoration of Romance

Les Roses de Sâdi

Central American Antiquities

The New Blondel

The Promise of Helen

Rhyme of Rhymes

Ballad of the (School-Board) Fleet

The Philanthropist

On an Expensive Volume of Verse

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What Francesco said of the Jubilee

The Poet and the Jubilee

Jubilee before Revolution

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XV HELEN OF TROY

[To all old friends; to all who dwell]

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THE COMING OF PARIS

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THE SPELL OF APHRODITE

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THE FLIGHT OF HELEN

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THE DEATH OF CORYTHUS

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THE SACK OF TROY. THE RETURN OF HELEN

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XVI SONGS FROM ‘THE WORLD'S DESIRE’ AND ‘CLEOPATRA’

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From ‘THE WORLD'S DESIRE’

The Song of the Bow

‘Though the light of the sun be bidden’

‘The Lord our God’

A lamp for our feet

‘Endure my Heart’

‘O Joy of love's renewing’

‘Will ye bring Flame’

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FROM ‘CLEOPATRA’

Lament for Osiris

The Awaking of Osiris

‘Night on the Sea’

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The Poet's Apology

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L'Envoi

To E. W. G.

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(Who also had rhymed on the Fortunate Islands of Lucian).

Each in the self-same field we glean
The field of the Samosatene;
Each something takes and something leaves,
And this must choose, and that forgo
In Lucian's visionary sheaves,
To twine a modern posy so;
But all my gleanings, truth to tell,
Are mixed with mournful asphodel,
While yours are wreathed with poppies red,
With flowers that Helen's feet have kissed,
With leaves of vine that garlanded
The Syrian Pantagruelist,
The sage who laughed the world away,
Who mocked at gods, and men, and care,
More sweet of voice than Rabelais,
And lighter-hearted than Voltaire.