The Love That is Requited With Disdain 45 Cupid Relieved 46 Love Banished Heaven 47 The Begging Cupid 48 Love! If a God Thou Art 50 Love’s Going 51 Cupid’s Arrows 53 The Growth of Love 54 Love’s Qualities 56 Ballade of the Rose 57 An Awakening 58 Love and a Compass 59 Love is Dead 60 Wily Cupid 62 The Burial of Love 63 Cupid Swallowed 65 The Fillet 66 The Archery Match 68 The Burial of Love 69 Song 70 Love and Mischief 71 Damon and Cupid 72 Cupid and Campaspe 74 Love for Love 75 A Kiss 76 The Dilemma 77 Love Penitent 79 [Illustration: PREFACE] It will be readily apparent that the aim of this volume is to collect the choicest poems on Cupid scattered throughout English literature. A large harvest has been gleaned, and what my judgment counts excellent, so far as practicable, is represented. The attitude towards Cupid has mostly been one of obstinate resistance, but he has the element that wins,—sometimes fantastically, sometimes pathetically. The beleaguering little rogue never quits the field defeated,—to him no suit is hopeless. If some of the verses are not of high value as compositions they are all-important when considered relative to the subject, and a majority of the poems are of unquestionable literary merit. I beg to acknowledge the gracious favor of The Century Co., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Life Publishing Co., Frederick A. Stokes Co., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Cassell Publishing Co., and D. Appleton & Co., for the use of copyright poems. I also gratefully acknowledge the eminent courtesy of individual authors for permission to reprint. I. R. W. IN CUPID’S COURT [Illustration] CHANT ROYAL OF THE GOD OF LOVE