The Little Book of Society Verse

Compiled by Claude Moore Fuess and Harold Crawford Stearns

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

Acknowledgments

BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Co., 1922
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

Vanity Fair by Frederick Locker-Lampson

To a Child by Austin Dobson

To Mabel by Edward Sandford Martin

To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old by Matthew Prior

Feminine Arithmetic by Charles Graham Halpine

To Critics by Walter Learned

The Prime of Life by Walter Learned

Upon His Gray Haires by Robert Herrick

Jenny Kiss’d Me When We Met by James Henry Leigh Hunt

Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Art above Nature by Robert Herrick

Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck

To Minnie by Robert Louis Stevenson

My Mistress’s Boots by Frederick Locker-Lampson

Ianthe by Walter Savage Landor

To Miss Creuze, on Her Birthday by William Cowper

Dirce by Walter Savage Landor

Truth by Oliver Herford

Senex’s Soliloquy on His Youthful Idol by Thomas Campbell

To Fanny by Thomas Moore

Ad Chloen, M.A. by Mortimer Collins

Oh, See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers by A. E. Housman

To No One in Particular by Witter Bynner

Coming out by Owen Seaman

Good-night to the Season by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

My Rival by Rudyard Kipling

The Female Phaeton by Matthew Prior

Answer to Chloe Jealous by Matthew Prior

Why Don’t the Men Propose by Thomas Haynes Bayly

The Ladies of St. James’s by Austin Dobson

To Phyllis by Thomas Moore

To Sapho by Robert Herrick

In Explanation by Walter Learned

Snowdrop by William Wetmore Story

Atalanta in Camden-town by Lewis Carroll

No Longer Jealous by Walter Savage Landor

Upon a Venerable Rival by William Cowper

Verse by Walter Savage Landor

Rose’s Birthday by Walter Savage Landor

Love by Charles Stuart Calverley

Our Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Imitation by Henry Cuyler Bunner

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

The White Flag by John Hay

A Dialogue from Plato by Austin Dobson

Avice by Austin Dobson

At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray

To a Lady by Lord Byron

A Lesson in Mythology by Eliza C. Hall

Because by Edward Fitzgerald

A Rhyme for Priscilla by Frank Dempster Sherman

The Spelling Lesson by Carolyn Wells

A Nice Correspondent by Frederick Locker-Lampson

Dictum Sapienti by Charles Henry Webb

What She Said about It by Charles Henry Webb

Dora versus Rose by Austin Dobson

Soli Cantare Periti Arcades by Ernest Dowson

Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot

To Celia by Sir Charles Sedley

The Merchant by Matthew Prior

A Man’s Requirements by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She Is Not Fair by Franklin P. Adams

Song of Thyrsis by Philip Freneau

Out upon It, I Have Loved by Sir John Suckling

The Peremptory Lover by Unknown

To Phœbe by William Schwenck Gilbert

Epithalamium by Edward Sandford Martin

When Love Is Kind by Thomas Moore

Thalia by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To Chloe by Thomas Moore

Da Capo by Henry Cuyler Bunner

An Interlude by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ballade of the Devil-May-Care by Gelett Burgess

The Bachelor’s Dream by Thomas Hood

Shall I, Wasting in Despair by George Wither

If by James Jeffrey Roche

Mrs. Smith by Frederick Locker-Lampson

An Old Rondo by Frank Dempster Sherman

When I Loved You by Thomas Moore

Sigh No More, Ladies by William Shakespeare

The Superfluous Man by John Godfrey Saxe

Companions by Charles Stuart Calverley

On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley

“Magdalena” by Henry Cuyler Bunner

Good-night by Edward Fitzgerald

The Modern Belle by Anonymous

Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere

The Romaunt of the Rose by Austin Dobson

The Look by Sara Teasdale

Catharina by William Cowper

We Two Learned the Lesson Together by Rudyard Kipling

When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman

Florine by Thomas Campbell

Proud Word You Never Spoke by Walter Savage Landor

The Rose by William Cowper

The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing by Thomas Moore

Cupid Mistaken by Matthew Prior

Song by John Donne

The Gift by Oliver Goldsmith

Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling

Changed by Charles Stuart Calverley

Her Letter by Francis Bret Harte

Please to Ring the Belle by Thomas Hood

Plays by Walter Savage Landor

Fashion by Arthur Guiterman

My Fancy by Lewis Carroll

The Ideal Husband to His Wife by Sam Walter Foss

To Minerva by Thomas Hood

A Fashionable Novel by Thomas Haynes Bayly

My Familiar by John Godfrey Saxe

Without and Within by James Russell Lowell

A Little Brother of the Rich by Edward Sandford Martin

To Correspondents by Andrew Lang

A Terrible Infant by Frederick Locker-Lampson

To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes

On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Eight-Day Clock by Alfred Cochrane

The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray

My Boy by James Whitcomb Riley

An Old Man to an Old Madeira by Silas Weir Mitchell

The Portrait of “A Gentleman” by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene

The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Vicar by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

The Effects of Age by Walter Savage Landor

A Chapter of Froissart by Austin Dobson

School and School Fellows by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Five O’Clock by David Morton

Love and Age by Thomas Love Peacock

The Belle of the Ball-room by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Chivalry at a Discount by Edward Fitzgerald

“She Was a Beauty” by Henry Cuyler Bunner

To a Soubrette by Eugene Field

Dolly Varden by Francis Bret Harte

Pot-pourri by Austin Dobson

Lydia Dick by Eugene Field

The Romance of a Glove by H. Saville Clarke

A Gage D’Amour by Austin Dobson

Old Letters by Frederick Locker-Lampson

The Quaker Lady by Silas Weir Mitchell

Dorothy Q. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson

The Minuet by Mary Mapes Dodge

My Aunt’s Spectre by Mortimer Collins

My Aunt by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Ballad of Dead Ladies by Justin Huntly McCarthy

Vanitas Vanitatum by William Makepeace Thackeray