Pictures in Rhyme

by Arthur Clark Kennedy

PICTURES IN RHYME

BY

ARTHUR CLARK KENNEDY

ILLUSTRATED BY MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16th STREET

1891

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CONTENTS

	PAGE
La Marquise de Pompadour (illust. Frontispiece)	1
The Witches' Warning	3
Will He Forgive?	4
Sisera	6
Upon the Sands	8
Under the Snowy Steppes	10
An Assignation	13
At Kassassin	14
Vivienique (illust.)	18
The Poet's Prophecy	19
In the Night	21
The Sale of the World	23
Death and Dives (illust.)	26
Street Music	29
Sir Alexander's Desk	31
On the Stair (illust.)	36
One Little Year To-day	40
'He was a Prince of Power and Might'	43
Lament of Boabdil	46
'In my Dreams I see a Castle'	48
The Song	50
'When Dead is Day'	52
'Young Love unfurled his Silken Sail'	54
A Queen	56
'They tell me you have Married'	57
On a Portrait of Napoleon I by David	59
Why?	61
The Broken Glass	62
Nor is Love Sold	63
How Strange our Lives!	65
Flower of the Flowers	67
A Desert Night	69
Two Friends I knew	70
The Icicle Queen	71
Flower and Fruit	73
'Cinderella' by Millais	74
The Morning Mist	75
At Malvern Wells	76
The Summons of Spring	78
Street Arabs	79
'The Patter of Tiny Feet'	81
Illusions Perdues	82

ILLUSTRATIONS

SHE WAS MADAME DE POMPADOUR	Frontispiece
OUR NOBLEST AIMS ARE WRECKED BY FINGERS FAIR, AMBITION'S SHROUD, A WEB OF WOMAN'S HAIR	To face page 18
'BEHOLD! HOW MUCH I GIVE TO THEE IN PLACE OF ALL THOU LEAV'ST FOR ME'	To face page„28
IN HIS HAND A GLITTERING RAPIER SHONE	To face page„36