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LAYS AND LEGENDS
(SECOND SERIES)
BY
E. NESBIT
(Mrs. Hubert Bland)
AUTHOR OF "LAYS AND LEGENDS," "LEAVES OF LIFE,"
ETC.
WITH PORTRAIT
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1892
[All Rights reserved]
My thanks are due to the Editors and Publishers who
have kindly allowed me to use here verses written
for them.
TO
ALICE HOATSON,
HELEN MACKLIN,
AND
CHARLOTTE WILSON,
In token of indebtment.
ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
BRIDAL BALLAD.
THE GHOST.
THE MODERN JUDAS.
THE SOUL TO THE IDEAL.
A DEATH-BED.
A man of like passions with ourselves.
THE LOST SOUL AND THE SAVED.
I.
II.
AT THE PRISON GATE.
And underneath us are the everlasting arms.
THE DEVIL'S DUE.
A priest tells how, in his youth, a church was built by the free labour of love—as was men's wont in those days; and how the stone and wood were paid for by one who had grown rich on usury and the pillage of the poor—and of what chanced thereafter.
LOVE IN JUNE.
THE GARDEN.
PRAYER UNDER GRAY SKIES.
A GREAT INDUSTRIAL CENTRE.
LONDON'S VOICES
SPEAK TO TWO SOULS—WHO THUS REPLY:
I.
II.
THE SICK JOURNALIST.
TWO LULLABIES.
I.
II.
BABY SONG.
I.
II.
LULLABY.
AN EAST-END TRAGEDY.
HERE AND THERE.
MOTHER.
A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY.
MORNING.
THE PRAYER.
THE RIVER MAIDENS.
ON THE MEDWAY.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
THE BETROTHAL.
A TRAGEDY.
I.
II.
LOVE.
I.
THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STAR.
II.
WORSHIP.
III.
SPLENDIDE MENDAX.
LOVE SONG.
THE QUARREL.
CHANGE.
THE MILL.
RONDEAU.
A MÉSALLIANCE.
THE LAST THOUGHT.
APOLLO AND THE MEN OF CYMÉ.
(Herodotus, I. 157-160.)
AT THE PRIVATE VIEW.
A DIRGE IN GRAY.
THE WOMAN'S WORLD.
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
TO A YOUNG POET.
THE TEMPTATION.
THE BALLAD OF SIR HUGH.
FEBRUARY.
APRIL.
JUNE.
JULY.
NOVEMBER.
ROCHESTER CASTLE.
RUCKINGE CHURCH.
"And we said how dreary and desolate and forlorn the church was, and how long it was since any music but that of the moth-eaten harmonium and the heartless mixed choir had sounded there. And we said: 'Poor old church! it will never hear any true music any more'. Then she turned to us from the door of the Lady Chapel, which was plastered and whitewashed, and had a stove and the Evangelical Almanac in it, and her eyes were full of tears. And, standing there, she sang 'Ave Maria'—it was Gounod's music, I think—with her voice and her face like an angel's. And while she sang a stranger came to the church door and stood listening, but he did not see us. Only we saw that he loved her singing. And he went away as soon as the hymn was ended, we also soon following, and the church was left lonely as before."—Extract from our Diary.
should have been
RYE.
THE BALLAD OF THE TWO SPELLS.
IN MEMORIAM
Philip Bourke Marston.
RONDEAU.
To Austin Dobson.
RONDEAU.
To W. E. Henley.
TO WALTER SICKERT.
(In return for a sight of his picture "Red Clover".)
OLD AGE.
INDEX.
PAGE | |
Apollo and the Men of Cymé, | 98 |
April, | 123 |
Baby Song, | 49 |
Ballad of Canterbury, | 58 |
Ballad of Sir Hugh, | 114 |
Ballad of Two Spells, | 145 |
Betrothal, The, | 80 |
Bridal Ballad, | 1 |
Change, | 92 |
Death-Bed, A, | 12 |
Devil's Due, The, | 20 |
Dirge in Gray, A, | 106 |
East-End Tragedy, An, | 53 |
February, | 121 |
Garden, The, | 33 |
Ghost, The, | 5 |
Great Industrial Centre, A, | 38 |
Here and There, | 55 |
In Memoriam Philip Bourke Marston, | 151 |
June, | 125 |
July, | 127 |
Last Thought, The, | 97 |
Lighthouse, The, | 110 |
London's Voices, | 40 |
Lost Soul and the Saved, The, | 14 |
Love:— | > |
The Desire of the Moth for the Star, | 84 |
Worship, | 85 |
Splendide Mendax, | 87160 |
Love in June, | 30 |
Love Song, | 89 |
Lullaby, | 51 |
Mésalliance, A, | 96 |
Mill, The, | 93 |
Modern Judas, The, | 7 |
Morning, | 67 |
Mother, | 57 |
November, | 129 |
Old Age, | 157 |
On the Medway, | 73 |
Prayer, The, | 68 |
Prayer under Gray Skies, | 36 |
Prison Gate, At the, | 18 |
Private View, At the, | 103 |
Quarrel, The, | 90 |
River Maidens, The, | 70 |
Rochester Castle, | 131 |
Rondeau, A, | 95 |
Rondeau. To Austin Dobson, | 153 |
Rondeau. To W. E. Henley, | 154 |
Ruckinge Church, | 133 |
Rye, | 144 |
Soul to the Ideal, The, | 10 |
Sick Journalist, The, | 42 |
Temptation, The, | 112 |
To Walter Sickert, | 155 |
To a Young Poet, | 111 |
Tragedy, A, | 81 |
Two Lullabies, | 45 |
Woman's World, The, | 108 |