New Collected Rhymes. E-book. Formato PDF - 9788834197561

New Collected Rhymes. E-book. Formato PDF. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) is famous for his compilations of fairy tales, but this poetry collection seems to be better. Maybe it's the fact that he writes about actual historical events, making the themes less universal.

Contents    
In Augustinum Dobson -- How the Maid Marched from Blois -- Lone Places of the Deer -- An Old Song -- Jacobite "Auld Lang Syne" -- The Prince's Birthday -- The Tenth of June, 1715 -- White Rose Day -- Red and White Roses -- The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond -- Kenmure -- Culloden -- The Last of the Leal -- Jeanne d'Arc -- To Helen -- Ballade of Dead Cricketers -- Brahma -- Gainsborough Ghosts -- A Remonstrance with the Fair -- Rhyme of Rhymes -- Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes -- Rococo -- The Food of Fiction -- "A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts" -- Matrimony -- Piscatori Piscator -- The Contented Angler -- Off my Game -- The Property of a Gentleman who has Given up Collecting -- The Ballade of the Subconscious Self -- Ballade of the Optimist -- Zimbabwe -- Love's Cryptogram -- Tusitala -- Disdainful Diaphenia -- Tall Salmacis -- What Francesco said of the Jubilee -- The Poet and the Jubilee -- On any Beach -- Ode of Jubilee -- Jubilee before Revolution -- French Peasant Songs -- The Young Ruthven -- The Queen o' Spain and the Bauld McLean -- Keith of Craigentolly.