Ventures into Verse
by H. L. Mencken
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Title
- Ventures Into Verse Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American poetry
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 52904
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52904
- Release Date
- August 27, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Ventures into Verse Being Various Ballads , Ballades , Rondeaux , Triolets , Songs , Quatrains , Odes and Roundels All rescued from the Potters' Field of Old Files and here Given Decent Burial [Peace to Their Ashes]
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.WARNING
- 4.PRELIMINARY REBUKE
- 5.Ventures into Verse — TO R. K. [1] — THE SONG OF THE OLDEN TIME — THE SPANISH MAIN — THE TRANSPORT GEN'RAL FERGUSON [2] — A WAR SONG — FAITH — THE BALLAD OF SHIPS IN HARBOR — THE ORF'CER BOY — THE FILIPINO MAIDEN — THE VIOLET — THE TIN-CLADS [3] — SEPTEMBER — ARABESQUE
- 6.ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS — A BALLADE OF PROTEST [4] — A FRIVOLOUS RONDEAU — THE RHYMES OF MISTRESS DOROTHY — Roundel — — Triolet — — Roundelay — — A FEW LINES — A RONDEAU OF TWO HOURS — AN ANTE-CHRISTMAS RONDEAU — ROUNDEL — IN VAUDEVILLE — THE RONDEAU OF RICHES — IN EATING SOUP — LOVE AND THE ROSE — A RONDEAU OF STATESMANSHIP
- 7.SONGS of THE CITY — SONGS OF THE CITY — I— Auroral [5] — II— Madrigal — III— Within the City Gates — IV— April — V— The Coming of Winter — VI— The Snow — VII— Nocturne
- 8.OTHER VERSES — A MADRIGAL — A BALLAD OF LOOKING — WHEN THE PIPE GOES OUT — A PARADOX — THE SONG OF THE SLAPSTICK — IL PENSEROSO — FINIS
- 9.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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