Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE: BOOKS OF VERSE
Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with other Poems
Publication History
Preface (1872)
Preface (1913)
LYRICS
1 Spring
2 Rondel
3 Rondel
4 Arbor Amoris
5 Ballad of the Gibbet
6 Hymn to the Winds
7 A Vow to Heavenly Venus
8 To His Friend in Elysium
9 A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty
10 April
11 Roses
12 The Rose
13 To the Moon
14 To His Young Mistress
15 Deadly Kisses
16 Of His Lady’s Old Age
17 On His Lady’s Waking
18 His Lady’s Death
19 His Lady’s Tomb
20 Shadows of His Lady
21 Moonlight
22 Love in May
23 The Grave and the Rose
24 The Genesis of Butterflies
25 More Strong than Time
26 The Old Tune
27 Juana
28 Spring in the Student’s Quarter
29 Old Loves
30 Musette
BALLADS
31 The Three Captains
32 The Bridge of Death
33 Le Pere Severe
34 The Milk White Doe
35 A Lady of High Degree
36 Lost for Rose’s Sake
BALLADS OF MODERN GREECE
37 The Brigand’s Grave
38 The Sudden Bridal
GREEK FOLK SONGS
39 Iannoula
40 The Tell-Tales
AVE
41 Twilight on Tweed
42 One Flower
43 Metempsychosis
44 Lost in Hades
45 A Star in the Night
46 A Sunset on Yarrow
47 Hesperothen
I. The Seekers of Phaacia
II. A Song of Phaacia
III. The Departure from Phaacia
IV. A Ballad of Departure
V. They Hear the Sirens for the Second Time
VI. Circe’s Isle Revisited
VII. The Limit of Land
VERSES ON PICTURES
48 Colinette
49 A Sunset of Watteau
50 A Nativity of Sandro Botticelli
SONGS AND SONNETS
51 Two Homes
52 Summer’s Ending
53 Nightingale Weather
54 Love and Wisdom
55 Good-Bye
56 An Old Prayer
57 Love’s Miracle
58 Dreams
59 Fairy Land
60 Two Sonnets of the Sirens
61 A La Belle Helene
62 Sylvie and Aurelie
63 A Lost Patth
64 The Shade of Helen
SONNETS TO POETS
65 Jacques Tahureau, 1530
66 Francois Villon, 1450
67 Pierre Ronsard, 1560
68 Gerard De Nerval
69 The Death of Mirandola, 1494
Ballades in Blue China
Publication History
BALLADES
70 Ballade to Theocritus in Winter
71 Ballade of Cleopatra’s Needle
72 Ballade of Roulette
73 Ballade of Sleep
74 Ballade of the Midnight Forest
75 Ballade of the Tweed
76 Ballade of the Book-Hunter
77 Ballade of the Voyage To Cythera
78 Ballade of the Summer Term
79 Ballade of the Muse
80 Ballade Against the Jesuits
81 Ballade of Dead Cities
82 Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf
83 Double Ballade of Primitive Man
84 Ballade of Autumn
85 Ballade of True Wisdom
86 Ballade of Worldly Wealth
87 Ballade of Life
88 Ballade of Blue China
89 Ballade of Dead Ladies
90 Villon’s Ballade
91 Ballade of His Choice of a Sepulchre
92 Ballade of Rabbits and Hares
93 Valentine in the Form of a Ballade
94 Ballade of Old Plays
95 Ballade of His Books
96 Ballade of Asthetic Adjectives
97 Ballade of the Pleased Bard
98 Ballade for a Baby
99 Ballade Amoureuse
100 Ballade of Queen Anne
101 Ballade of Blind Love
102 Ballade of the Bookworm
103 Ballade of the Dream
104 Ballade of the Southern Cross
105 Ballade of Aucassin
VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS
106 A Portrait of 1783
107 The Moon’s Minion
108 In Ithaca
109 Homer
110 The Burial of Moliere
111 Bion
112 Spring
113 Before the Snow
114 Villanelle
115 The Mystery of Queen Persephone
116 Ideal
117 Stoker Bill
118 Natural Theology
119 The Odyssey
120 The Fairy’s Gift
121 Benedetta Ramus
122 Partant Pour La Scribie
123 St Andrews Bay
124 Woman and the Weed
Rhymes à la Mode
Publication History
125 Ballade Dedicatory: To Mrs Elton of White Staunton
126 The Fortunate Islands
127 The New Millennium
128 Almae Matres
129 Desiderium
RHYMES A LA MODE
130 Ballade of Middle Age
131 The Last Cast
132 Twilight
133 Ballade of Summer
134 Ballade of Christmas Ghosts
135 Love’s Easter
136 Ballade of the Girton Girl
137 Ronsard’s Grave
138 San Terenzo
139 Romance
140 Ballade of His Own Country
141 Villanelle
142 Triolets After Moschus
143 Ballade of Cricket
144 The Last Maying
145 Homeric Unity
146 In Tintagel
147 Pisidice
148 From the East to the West
149 Love the Vampire
150 Ballade of the Book-Man’s Paradise
151 Ballade of a Friar
152 Ballade of Neglected Merit
153 Ballade of Railway Novels
154 The Cloud Chorus
155 Ballade of Literary Fame
156 Νήνεμος Ἀἰών
ART
157 A Very Woeful Ballade of the Art Critic
158 Art’s Martyr
159 The Palace of Bric-a-Brac
160 Rondeaux of the Galleries
SCIENCE
161 The Barbarous Bird-Gods: A Savage
Parabasis
162 Man and the Ascidian
163 Ballade of the Primitive Jest
CAMEOS: SONNETS FROM THE ANTIQUE
164 Cameos
165 Helen on the Walls
166 The Isles of the Blest
167 Death
168 Nysa
169 Colonus
170 The Passing of OEdipus
171 The Taming of Tyro
172 To Artemis
173 Criticism of Life
174 Amaryllis
175 The Cannibal of Zeus
176 Invocation of Isis
177 The Coming of Isis
178 The Spinet
Grass of Parnassus
Publication History
179 Vale
180 To E. M. S.
AVE
181 Clevedon Church
182 An Old Garden
183 Another Way
OLD RHYMES
184 With a Fairy Book
185 A Dialogue
186 Martial in Town
187 April on Tweed
188 Tired of Towns
189 Scythe Song
190 Pen and Ink
191 A Dream
192 The Singing Rose
193 A Review in Rhyme
194 The Grave of Orpheus
195 The Banks of Wye
196 The End of Term
DEEDS OF MEN
197 Seekers for a City
198 The White Pacha
199 Midnight, January 25, 1886
200 England
201 Advance, Australia
202 Colonel Burnaby
203 Melville and Coghill
204 To Colonel Ian Hamilton
SONNETS
205 Grass of Parnassus
206 She
207 Herodotus In Egypt
‘IN SILLY SOOTH’
208 The Melancholy Muses
209 An Aspiration
210 Ballade of the Penitents
211 To Isaack Walton
212 Shameful Death
213 The Salmo Irritans
214 A Song of Life and Golf
215 The Old Love and the New
216 Tout Finit Par Des Chansons
217 To Daniel Elzivir
218 The Last Chance
THE LITTLE GARLAND
219 Sea Dirge
220 The Age of Wisdom
221 Cleophantis
222 Nicarete
223 The Spinning Woman
224 From Diotimus or Leonidas
225 Heraclitus
226 Gifts
227 Changeful Beauty
228 Rhodanthe
229 The Prophet
230 Lais
231 Clearista
232 The Fisherman’s Tomb
233 Of His Death
234 Rhodope
235 To a Girl
236 To the Ships
237 Sappho
238 Erinna
239 A Late Convert
240 The Limit of Life
241 Winter Roses
242 The Wayside Well
243 To the Nymphs
244 The Talisman
245 To Pan and the Nymphs
246 To Demeter and the Hours
247 To Aphrodite of the Fair Voyage
248 To the Sea
249 Telling the Bees
250 Dewy Garlands
251 Heliodore
252 A Good-Night
253 Heliodore Dead
RHODOCLEIA
254 To Rhodocleia
Ban and Arrière Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
Publication History
255 To Eleanor Charlotte Sellar
256 A Scot to Jeanne D’arc
257 How they Held the Bass for King James –1691–1693
258 Three Portraits of Prince Charles
259 From Omar Khayyam
260 Asop
261 Les Roses De Sadi
262 The Haunted Tower
263 Boat Song
264 Lost Love
265 The Promise of Helen
266 The Restoration of Romance
267 Central American Antiquities
268 On Calais Sands
269 Ballade of Yule
270 Poscimur
271 On His Dead Sea-Mew
272 I Love not the Wine Cup
273 On the Garland Sent to Rhodocleia
274 A Galloway Garland
275 Celia’s Eyes
276 Britannia
277 Gallia
278 The Fairy Minister
279 To Robert Louis Stevenson
280 For Mark Twain’s Jubilee
281 Poem Written Under the Influence of Wordsworth
282 Ode to Golf
283 Freshman’s Term
284 A Toast
285 Death in June
286 To Correspondents
287 Ballade of Difficult Rhymes
288 Ballant O’ Ballantrae
289 Song by the Sub-Conscious Self
290 The Haunted Homes of England
291 The Disappointment
292 To the Gentle Reader
293 The Sonnet
294 The Tournay of the Heroes
295 Ballad of the Philanthropist
296 The Poet’s Apology
New Collected Rhymes
Publication History
Preface
DEDICATORY
297 In Augustinum Dobson
LOYAL LYRICS
298 How the Maid Marched from Blois
299 Lone Places of the Deer
300 An Old Song
301 Jacobite ‘Auld Lang Syne’
302 The Prince’s Birthday
303 The Tenth of June, 1715
304 White Rose Day
305 Red and White Roses
306 The Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond
307 Kenmure
308 Culloden
309 The Last of the Leal
310 Jeanne D’arc
CRICKET RHYMES
311 To Helen
312 Ballade of Dead Cricketers
313 Brahma
CRITICAL OF LIFE, ART AND LITERATURE
314 Gainsborough Ghosts
315 A Remonstrance with the Fair
316 Rhyme on Rhymes
317 Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes
318 Rococo: The New Orpheus to His Euridice
319 ‘A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts’
320 Matrimony
321 Piscatori Piscator
322 The Contented Angler
323 Off My Game
324 The Property of a Gentleman who has Given Up Collecting
325 The Ballade of the Subconscious Self
326 Zimbabwe
327 Love’s Cryptogram
328 Tusitala
329 Disdainful Diaphenia
330 Tall Salmacis
JUBILEE POEMS
331 What Francesco Said of the Jubilee
332 The Poet and the Jubilee
333 On any Beach
334 Ode of Jubilee
335 Jubilee Before Revolution
FRENCH PEASANT SONGS
336 Oh, Fair Apple-Tree
337 I Send My Love Letters
338 And if they ask for me, Brother
BALLADS
339 The Young Ruthven
340 The Queen O’ Spain and the Bauld Mclean
341 Keith of Craigentolly
PART TWO: ADDITIONAL POEMS
EARLY VERSE 1863–1871
342 Sir Launcelot
343 Letter from a Bird-of-Freedom Sawin
344 Dei Otiosi
345 The Lay of the Bookselling Elder
346 Reasons why they Don’t Stand for the Poetry Chair
347 Piscatrix
348 Spent Golden Hair
349 In College Gardens
350 Love Disguised as Golf
POEMS, SONGS AND VERSES 1878–910
351 Ballade of the Three Graces
352 A Ballade of Mourning
353 The Nemesis of Art
354 Idylls of the Dado
I. The Private View
II. The Disappointing Deep
III. The Press View
355 Our Eskimo Constitution
356 Drinks all Round
357 The Plumber and the Publisher
359 The New Pygmalion, or the Statue’s Choice
359 Ballade of the Wicked Earl
360 Beauty and the Beast
361 The Temple of Bosh
362 The Unconscious Self
363 November
364 Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope
365 To Lord Byron
366 At the Sign of the Ship: Ballade Introductory
367 Ballade for the Laureate
368 Omar Khayyam
369 The Daughters of Cecrops
370 To a Penitent
371 The Rowfant Books
372 Lines on the Inaugural Meeting of the Shelley Society
373 Ballade of Truisms
374 The Baffled Magician
375 The Member for Crete
376 Ballade of the Real and Ideal
377 Ballade of the Unattainable
378 Ghosts in the Library
379 The Mythologist and The Psyche
380 A Pious Opinion
381 Lines to a Cold Beauty
382 Strange Tale of Marot
383 Mariana in Kensington
384 Poetry for the Music Halls
385 Ye Ministers of England
386 The Lover in Hades
387 Chinook and Chinok
388 A Bric-a-Brac Lyre
389 The Friend of Man
390 William Nye’s Experiment
391 The New Blondel
392 A Short History Ballade of St Andrews University
393 The New Shakespeare. Richard III
394 The Log-Rolliad
395 Thomas Haynes Bayly
396 The Old Year and the New
397 Alma Quies
398 To W. D. Howells
399 The Avengers of Romance
400 A Jubilee Ode
401 To a Little Warbler
402 Love’s Ritual
403 On the Death of Lord Tennyson
404 Memnon
405 The Automatic Age
406 To Omar’s Friends at Burford Bridge
407 Scots Wha’
408 Africa
409 On a Distant Memory of Jane Eyre
410 Lord Rosebery Loquitur
411 Persicos Odi 527
412 Ode to the Philadelphians
413 Waitin’ on the Glesca’ Train
414 Our Fathers
415 A Song of Patents
416 Mafeking
417 Elegy on Little Nell
419 Ode on the Distant Prospect of a New Novel
420 Legion
421 To Fiona
422 Lines on Reading a Puff Preliminary
423 The Philosophy of Fly-Fishing
424 To Mary Queen of Scots
425 Simmy O’ Whythaugh
426 The Dead Man’s Dance
427 Bablock Hythe Revisited
428 A Moving Incident
429 Over the Wall
DEDICATIONS, INSCRIPTIONS AND POEMS TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY
430 Lines, in a Copy of XXII Ballades in Blue China (1880)
431 To all Old Friends: Dedication to Helen of Troy
432 Introductory Verses: Songs and Rhymes by Walter Herries Pollock (1882)
433 Ballade of Dedication: The Princess Nobody
434 Lines, in a Copy of Ballads and Verses Vain
435 Clytemnestra in Argos, Lines in a Copy Of Songs Unsung, by Lewis Morris
436 To Brander Matthews
437 Doris’s Books
438 To F. L.-L.
439 To Louisa Viscountess Wolseley
440 To D. R. T.
441 Twosh
442 An Epitaph for Umslopogaas
443 A Northern Garland
444 Ah, Fortune Thy Wheel
445 To R. L. S.
446 To Oliver Wendell Holmes
447 Krab: To Dorothea
448 Once Again: To L
449 To Francis Maccunn
450 To Joan, Toddles, and Tiny: Otherwise Meg and Maisie
451 Ode to Mr. Saintsbury
452 To Master Frederick Longman
453 To Miss Sybil Corbet
454 Lines Inscribed in the Supplement tothe Rowfant Catalogue, 1902
455 Lines in a Copy of Ballads and Lyrics of Old France
456 On an Expensive Volume of Verse
POEMS FROM FICTIONAL TALES
457 Gwendoline’s Song
458 Erant Olim Rex Quidam Et Regina
459 Whuppity Stoorie’s Song
460 Songs from Cleopatra
461 The Firedrake: Enrico’s Song
462 Danae’s Song: From ‘The Terrible Head’
463 The Song of the Western Fairies
464 Songs from The World’s Desire
465 The Song of Orpheus
466 Princess Jacqueline’s Song
TRANSLATIONS
From the French
467 My Poetry, a Child of Childlike Grace
468 Letrilla
469 Pastel
470 Oh Where be all the Gallants Young?
471 Untold Love
472 Ballade Des Pendus
473 Triolets to Her Husband
474 A Mes Livres
475 A Traitor
476 A Domestic Event
477 El Desdichado
From the Latin
478 Nuga Catullina
479 To His Book
480 My Books, My Quintian
481 The Stingy Friend
482 His Books’ Patron
483 His Bookseller’s Address
484 Erotion Epitaph
485 Classics for the Clubman
486 On Chloe
487 In Praise of Frugality
From the Greek
488 Epigram
489 From the Iliad
490 From Athenaus
Index
Biography
John Sloan received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. He was C. U. F. Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, where he is now an Emeritus Fellow. His previous books include Oscar Wilde: Authors in Context (2003; reissued 2009) and the biography Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect (2023).
