The Book-Plate's Petition 87 Palomydes 89 Andre le Chapelain 91 The Water of Gold 95 A Fancy from Fontenelle 97 Don Quixote 98 A Broken Sword 99 The Poet's Seat 101 The Lost Elixir 104 MEMORIAL VERSES:-- A Dialogue (Alexander Pope) 107 A Familiar Epistle (William Hogarth) 112 Henry Fielding 115 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 119 Charles George Gordon 120 Victor Hugo 121 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 122 FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART:-- The Poet and the Critics 127 The Toyman 130 The Successful Author 133 The Dilettant 136 The Two Painters 138 The Claims of the Muse 140 The 'Squire at Vauxhall 144 The Climacteric 149 TALES IN RHYME:-- The Virgin with the Bells 155 A Tale of Polypheme 159 A Story from a Dictionary 170 The Water Cure 178 The Noble Patron 184 VERS DE SOCIETE:-- Incognita 193 Dora _versus_ Rose 197 Ad Rosam 200 Outward Bound 205 In the Royal Academy 208 The Last Despatch 213 "Premiers Amours" 216 The Screen in the Lumber Room 219 Daisy's Valentines 221 In Town 224 A Sonnet in Dialogue 227 Growing Gray 229 VARIA:-- The Maltworm's Madrigal 233 An April Pastoral 236 A New Song of the Spring Gardens 237 A Love Song, 1700 239 Of his Mistress 240 The Nameless Charm 242 To Phidyle 243 To his Book 244 For a Copy of Herrick 246 With a Volume of Verse 247 For the Avery "Knickerbocker" 248 To a Pastoral Poet 250 "Sat est Scripsisse" 251