Page Ballade of Theocritus 15 Ballade of Cleopatra’s Needle 17 Ballade of Roulette 19 Ballade of Sleep 21 Ballade of the Midnight Forest 24 Ballade of the Tweed 27 Ballade of the Book-hunter 29 Ballade of the Voyage to Cythera 31 Ballade of the Summer Term 34 Ballade of the Muse 36 Ballade against the Jesuits 38 Ballade of Dead Cities 40 Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf 42 Double Ballade of Primitive Man 44 Ballade of Autumn 47 Ballade of True Wisdom 49 Ballade of Worldly Wealth 51 Ballade of Life 53 Ballade of Blue China 55 Ballade of Dead Ladies 57 Villon’s Ballade of Good Counsel 59 Ballade of Rabbits and Hares 61 Valentine in form of Ballade 63 Ballade of Old Plays 65 Ballade of his Books 67 Ballade of Æsthetic Adjectives 69 Ballade of the Pleased Bard 72 Ballade for a Baby 74 Ballade Amoureuse 76 Ballade of Queen Anne 78 Ballade of Blind Love 80 Ballade of his Choice of a Sepulchre 82 Dizain 84 VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS. A Portrait of 1783 87 The Moon’s Minion 90 In Ithaca 92 Homer 93 The Burial of Molière 94 Bion 95 Spring 96 Before the Snow 97 Villanelle 98 The Mystery of Queen Persephone 100 Stoker Bill 105 Natural Theology 108 The Odyssey 110 Ideal 111 BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS, IN WINTER. ἐσορῶν τὰν Σικελὰν ἐς ἅλα. Id. viii. 56. Ah! leave the smoke, the wealth, the roar Of London, and the bustling street, For still, by the Sicilian shore, The murmur of the Muse is sweet. Still, still, the suns of summer greet The mountain-grave of Helikê, And shepherds still their songs repeat Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea.