SCIENCE 205 The Barbarous Bird-Gods 207 Man and the Ascidian 212 Ballade of the Primitive Jest 215 CAMEOS 217 Cameos 217 Helen on the Walls 220 The Isles of the Blessed 221 Death 223 Nysa 224 Colonus (I.) 225 ,, (II.) 226 The Passing of Œdipous 227 The Taming of Tyro 228 To Artemis 229 Criticism of Life 230 Amaryllis 231 The Cannibal Zeus 232 Invocation of Isis 234 The Coming of Isis 235 THE SPINET 236 NOTES 237 INTRODUCTION THIRTY years have passed, like a watch in the night, since the earlier of the two sets of verses here reprinted, _Ballades in Blue China_, was published. At first there were but twenty-two _Ballades_; ten more were added later. They appeared in a little white vellum wrapper, with a little blue Chinese singer copied from a porcelain jar; and the frontispiece was a little design by an etcher now famous. Thirty years ago blue china was a kind of fetish in some circles, æsthetic circles, of which the balladist was not a member.