Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean Alfred Tennyson 213 Terrace and lawn are white with frost Mortimer Collins 50 Thank Heaven, Ianthe, once again Walter Savage Landor 132 The fault is not mine if I love you too much Walter Savage Landor 129 The ladies of St. James's Austin Dobson 77 The night has a thousand eyes F. W. Bourdillon 44 The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 184 The splendour falls on castle walls Alfred Tennyson 210 The stars are with the voyager Thomas Hood 110 The streams that wind amid the hills George Darley 63 The Sun came through the frosty mist Lord Houghton 115 The Violet invited my kiss Joseph Skipsey 200 There is no summer ere the swallows come. F. W. Bourdillon 43 Three fishers went sailing away to the West Charles Kingsley 124 To sea, to sea! the calm is o'er Thomas Lovell Beddoes 33 Touch us gently, Time! B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) 167 Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud! Alfred Tennyson 216 Two doves upon the selfsame branch Christina G. Rossetti 189

Under the lindens lately sat Walter Savage Landor 130

Wait but a little while Norman Gale 99 We have loiter'd and laugh'd in the flowery croft Frederick Locker-Lampson 134 We heard it calling, clear and low Frederick Locker-Lampson 137 What is the meaning of the song Charles Mackay 145 "What will you do, love, when I am going" Samuel Lover 143 When a warm and scented steam George Walter Thornbury 228 When along the light ripple the far serenade Lord Houghton 113 When another's voice thou hearest Lady Dufferin 88 When I am dead, my dearest Christina G. Rossetti 186 When I was young, I said to Sorrow Aubrey de Vere 74 When Spring casts all her swallows forth George Walter Thornbury 223 When the snow begins to feather Lord de Tabley 66 Where winds abound Michael Field 97 Who is the baby, that doth lie Thomas Lovell Beddoes 36 Winds to-day are large and free Michael Field 94 With deep affection Francis Mahoney 149 Woo thy lass while May is here Lord de Tabley 69

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Their songs wake singing echoes in my land.

Christina Rossetti.

Sweet and low, sweet and low Frontispiece "Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by" 6 Across the Sea 16 "My love on a fair May morning" 24 Song in the Garden 38 The night has a thousand eyes 44 A Game of Chess 50 "I 've been roaming, I 've been roaming" 62 "A maid I know,--and March winds blow" 82 "That bright May morning long ago" 90 "I remember, I remember" 106 I wandered by the brook-side 112 "Three fishers went sailing away to the West" 124 Ianthe 132 Gertrude's Necklace 140 "She turned back at the last to wait" 158 King Death 176 "I looked and saw your eyes" 194 Break, Break, Break 212 "When Spring casts all her swallows forth" 224

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