New Collected Rhymes

CONTENTS

DEDICATORY
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In Augustinum Dobson	3
LOYAL LYRICS
How the Maid Marched from Blois	7
Lone Places of the Deer	9
An Old Song	10
Jacobite “Auld Lang Syne”	12
The Prince’s Birthday	14
The Tenth of June, 1715	15
White Rose Day	17
Red and White Roses	18
The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond	19
Kenmure	21
Culloden	23
The Last of the Leal	25
Jeanne d’Arc	27
CRICKET RHYMES
To Helen	31
Ballade of Dead Cricketers	32
Brahma	34
CRITICAL OF LIFE, ART, AND LITERATURE
Gainsborough Ghosts	37
A Remonstrance with the Fair	39
Rhyme of Rhymes	42
Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes	44
Rococo	47
The New Orpheus to his Eurydice	47
The Food of Fiction	59
“A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts”	51
Matrimony	53
Piscatori Piscator	55
The Contented Angler	56
Off my Game	58
The Property of a Gentleman who has Given up Collecting	60
The Ballade of the Subconscious Self	62
Ballade of the Optimist	64
Zimbabwe	66
Love’s Cryptogram	68
Tusitala	70
Disdainful Diaphenia	72
Tall Salmacis	73
JUBILEE POEMS
What Francesco said of the Jubilee	72
The Poet and the Jubilee	79
On any Beach	81
Ode of Jubilee	82
Jubilee before Revolution	84
FOLK SONGS
French Peasant Songs	89
BALLADS
The Young Ruthven	93
The Queen o’ Spain and the Bauld McLean	97
Keith of Craigentolly	101

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