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PREFACE,

v

L’ENVOY,

xxxiii

Spanish Ballads

THE BROKEN PITCHER,

3

DON FERNANDO GOMERSALEZ: from the spanish of astley’s,

7

THE COURTSHIP OF OUR CID,

24

American Ballads

THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST GEORGE:—

fytte first,

35

fytte second,

39

THE LAY OF MR COLT:

streak the first,

45

streak the second,

47

THE DEATH OF JABEZ DOLLAR,

53

THE ALABAMA DUEL,

59

THE AMERICAN’S APOSTROPHE TO “BOZ”,

66

Miscellaneous Ballads

THE STUDENT OF JENA,

75

THE LAY OF THE LEVITE,

80

BURSCH GROGGENBURG,

82

NIGHT AND MORNING,

87

THE BITER BIT,

89

THE CONVICT AND THE AUSTRALIAN LADY,

92

THE DOLEFUL LAY OF THE HONOURABLE I. O. UWINS,

96

THE KNYGHTE AND THE TAYLZEOUR’S DAUGHTER,

103

THE MIDNIGHT VISIT,

110

THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN,

116

MY WIFE’S COUSIN,

130

THE QUEEN IN FRANCE: AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH BALLAD:

Part I.,

135

Part II.,

143

THE MASSACRE OF THE MACPHERSON: from the gaelic,

150

THE LAUREATES’ TOURNEY:—

fytte the first,

156

fytte the second,

161

THE ROYAL BANQUET,

166

THE BARD OF ERIN’S LAMENT,

171

THE LAUREATE,

173

A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION,

177

MONTGOMERY: A Poem,

182

LITTLE JOHN AND THE RED FRIAR: A Lay of Sherwood:—

fytte the first,

186

fytte the second,

192

THE RHYME OF SIR LAUNCELOT BOGLE : A Legend of Glasgow,

201

Illustrations of the Puff Poetical

THE DEATH OF ISHMAEL,

221

PARR’S LIFE PILLS,

223

TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR,

226

LA MORT D’ARTHUR,

228

JUPITER AND THE INDIAN ALE,

229

THE LAY OF THE DOUDNEY BROTHERS,

232

PARIS AND HELEN,

235

A WARNING,

238

TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY,

239

WANT PLACES,

241

Miscellaneous Poems

THE LAY OF THE LOVER’S FRIEND,

245

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI,

249

THE CADI’S DAUGHTER: A Legend of the Bosphorus,

253

THE DIRGE OF THE DRINKER,

258

THE DEATH OF DUVAL,

261

EASTERN SERENADE,

267

DAME FREDEGONDE,

271

SONG OF THE ENNUYÉ,

276

THE DEATH OF SPACE,

279

CAROLINE,

281

TO A FORGET-ME-NOT,

284

THE MEETING,

286

THE MISHAP,

288

COMFORT IN AFFLICTION,

291

THE INVOCATION,

293

THE HUSBAND’S PETITION,

297

SONNET TO BRITAIN,

301