Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode
by Andrew Lang
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Chapters (461)
- BALLADES & RHYMES
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION
- BALLADES IN BLUE CHINA
- A BALLADE OF XXXII BALLADES.
- BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS, IN WINTER.
- BALLADE OF CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.
- BALLADE OF ROULETTE.
- BALLADE OF SLEEP.
- BALLADE OF THE MIDNIGHT FOREST.
- BALLADE OF THE TWEED.
- BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER.
- BALLADE OF THE VOYAGE TO CYTHERA.
- BALLADE OF THE SUMMER TERM.
- BALLADE OF THE MUSE.
- BALLADE AGAINST THE JESUITS.
- BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES.
- BALLADE OF THE ROYAL GAME OF GOLF.
- DOUBLE BALLADE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
- BALLADE OF AUTUMN.
- BALLADE OF TRUE WISDOM.
- BALLADE OF WORLDLY WEALTH.
- BALLADE OF LIFE.
- BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA.
- BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES.
- VILLON’S BALLADE OF GOOD COUNSEL, TO HIS FRIENDS OF EVIL LIFE.
- BALLADE OF THE BOOKWORM.
- VALENTINE IN FORM OF BALLADE.
- BALLADE OF OLD PLAYS.
- BALLADE OF HIS BOOKS.
- BALLADE OF THE DREAM.
- BALLADE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
- BALLADE OF AUCASSIN
- BALLADE AMOUREUSE.
- BALLADE OF QUEEN ANNE.
- BALLADE OF BLIND LOVE.
- BALLADE OF HIS CHOICE OF A SEPULCHRE.
- DIZAIN.
- VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS.
- A PORTRAIT OF 1783.
- THE MOON’S MINION.
- IN ITHACA.
- HOMER.
- THE BURIAL OF MOLIÈRE.
- BION.
- SPRING.
- BEFORE THE SNOW.
- VILLANELLE.
- NATURAL THEOLOGY.
- THE ODYSSEY.
- IDEAL.
- THE FAIRY’S GIFT.
- BENEDETTA RAMUS.
- PARTANT POUR LA SCRIBIE.
- ST. ANDREW’S BAY.
- WOMAN AND THE WEED.
- RHYMES À LA MODE
- BALLADE DEDICATORY, TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON.
- THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS.
- THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS.
- ALMAE MATRES.
- ALMAE MATRES.
- DESIDERIUM.
- RHYMES À LA MODE.
- BALLADE OF MIDDLE AGE.
- THE LAST CAST.
- TWILIGHT.
- BALLADE OF SUMMER.
- BALLADE OF CHRISTMAS GHOSTS.
- LOVE’S EASTER.
- BALLADE OF THE GIRTON GIRL.
- RONSARD’S GRAVE.
- SAN TERENZO.
- ROMANCE.
- BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY.
- VILLANELLE.
- TRIOLETS AFTER MOSCHUS.
- BALLADE OF CRICKET.
- THE LAST MAYING.
- HOMERIC UNITY.
- IN TINTAGEL.
- PISIDICÊ.
- FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST.
- LOVE THE VAMPIRE.
- BALLADE OF THE BOOK-MAN’S PARADISE
- BALLADE OF A FRIAR.
- BALLADE OF NEGLECTED MERIT. [194]
- BALLADE OF RAILWAY NOVELS.
- THE CLOUD CHORUS.
- BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME.
- Νήνεμος Αἰών.
- SCIENCE.
- THE BARBAROUS BIRD-GODS: A SAVAGE PARABASIS.
- MAN AND THE ASCIDIAN.
- BALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST.
- CAMEOS. SONNETS FROM THE ANTIQUE.
- CAMEOS.
- HELEN ON THE WALLS.
- THE ISLES OF THE BLESSED.
- DEATH.
- NYSA.
- COLONUS.
- THE PASSING OF ŒDIPOUS.
- THE TAMING OF TYRO.
- TO ARTEMIS.
- CRITICISM OF LIFE.
- AMARYLLIS.
- THE CANNIBAL ZEUS.
- INVOCATION OF ISIS.
- THE COMING OF ISIS.
- THE SPINET.
- NOTES.
- FOOTNOTES.
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