At Parting 100 A Song in Season 101 Two Leaders 107 Victor Hugo in 1877 109 Child's Song 110 Triads 111 Four Songs of Four Seasons:-- I. Winter in Northumberland 113 II. Spring in Tuscany 122 III. Summer in Auvergne 125 IV. Autumn in Cornwall 127 The White Czar 129 Rizpah 131 To Louis Kossuth 132 Translations from the French of Villon:-- The Complaint of the Fair Armouress 133 A Double Ballad of Good Counsel 137 Fragment on Death 139 Ballad of the Lords of Old Time 140 Ballad of the Women of Paris 142 Ballad written for a Bridegroom 144 Ballad against the Enemies of France 146 The Dispute of the Heart and Body of Francois Villon 148 Epistle in form of a Ballad to his Friends 150 The Epitaph in form of a Ballad 152 From Victor Hugo 154 Nocturne 155 Theophile Gautier 157 Ode 158 In Obitom Theophili Poetae 160 Ad Catullum 161 Dedication, 1878 162 POEMS AND BALLADS SECOND SERIES VOL. III. INSCRIBED TO RICHARD F. BURTON IN REDEMPTION OF AN OLD PLEDGE AND IN RECOGNITION OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH I MUST ALWAYS COUNT AMONG THE HIGHEST HONOURS OF MY LIFE THE LAST ORACLE (A.D. 361) [Greek: eipate to basilei, chamai pese daidalos aula; ouketi Phoibos echei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan; apesbeto kai lalon hudor.]