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A Vers de Société Anthology

A Vers de Société Anthology

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A VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ ANTHOLOGY


A VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ
ANTHOLOGY
I’M a florist in verse, and what would people say
If I came to a banquet without my bouquet?
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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A
Vers de Société
Anthology


Collected by
Carolyn Wells



New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons
1907

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NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGMENT is hereby gratefully made to the publishers for permission to use poems by the following authors:

To Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company for poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Bret Harte, John G. Saxe, Norah Perry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James T. Field, Edith Thomas, Edmund Clarence Stedman and Charles Henry Webb.

To Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Company for poems by Austin Dobson.

To the Macmillan Company for poems by Lewis Carroll.

To Messrs. D. Appleton and Company for “Song,” by William Cullen Bryant.

To The Century Company for poems by Robert Underwood Johnson and Mary Mapes Dodge.

To Messrs. Little, Brown and Company for “A Valentine,” by Mrs. Laura E. Richards, and “Shadows” and “Les Papillottes,” by Gertrude Hall.

To Messrs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “The Debutante,” by Guy Wetmore Carryl.

To The Frederick A. Stokes Company for poems by Frank Dempster Sherman and Samuel Minturn Peck.

To The Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company for poems by Sam Walter Foss.

To Messrs. E. H. Bacon and Company for poems by James Jeffrey Roche.


CONTENTS

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Introduction xix
To Celia Ben Jonson 3
Cupid Ben Jonson 4
Rosalind’s Madrigal Thomas Lodge 5
All Things Except Myself I Know François Villon 6
Cupid and Campaspe John Lilly 8
A Ditty Sir Philip Sydney 8
Song from “Twelfth Night” William Shakespeare 9
Sigh No More
     (from “Much Ado About Nothing”)
William Shakespeare 9
Phillida and Corydon Nicholas Breton 10
Cherry-Ripe Richard Allison 11
Send Back My Long-Stray’d Eyes to Me John Donne 12
Pack Clouds Away Thomas Heywood 13
Shall I, Wasting in Despair George Wither 14
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 15
The Bracelet Robert Herrick 16
An Old Rhyme Anonymous 17
Love Me Not for Comely Grace Anonymous

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