ROSE LEAF AND APPLE LEAF

By Rennell Rodd with an

Introduction by Oscar Wilde

PRINTED FOR THOMAS B MOSHER

AND PUBLISHED BY HIM AT

XLV EXCHANGE STREET

PORTLAND MAINE MDCCCCVI

CONTENTS

L'ENVOI
BY OSCAR WILDE

ROSE LEAF AND APPLE LEAF

FROM THE HILL OF GARDENS
IN THE COLISEUM
THE SEA-KING'S GRAVE
A ROMAN MIRROR
BY THE SOUTH SEA
IN A CHURCH
AT LANUVIUM
"IF ANY ONE RETURN"

SONNETS:

"UNE HEURE VIENDRA QUI TOUT PAIERA"
ACTEA
IMPERATOR AUGUSTUS
"ATQUE IN PERPETUUM FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE"
ON THE BORDER HILLS

SONGS:

LONG AFTER
"WHERE THE RHONE GOES DOWN TO THE SEA"
A SONG OF AUTUMN
"Ερωτοϛ" Ανδοϛ

ATALANTA
THE DAISY
"WHEN I AM DEAD"
AFTER HEINE
"THOSE DAYS ARE LONG DEPARTED"
A STAR-DREAM
AFTER HEINE
AFTER HEINE
ENDYMION
DISILLUSION
REQUIESCAT
IN CHARTRES CATHEDRAL
HIC JACET
AT TIBER MOUTH

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

L'ENVOI

Mongst the many young men in England who are seeking along with me to continue and to perfect the English Renaissance—jeunes guerriers du drapeau romantique, as Gautier would have called us—there is none whose love of art is more flawless and fervent, whose artistic sense of beauty is more subtle and more delicate—none, indeed, who is dearer to myself—than the young poet whose verses I have brought with me to America; verses full of sweet sadness, and yet full of joy; for the most joyous poet is not he who sows the desolate highways of this world with the barren seed of laughter, but he who makes his sorrow most musical, this indeed being the meaning of joy in art—that incommunicable element