48 unnumbered pages including color frontispiece : 32 cm

With poems by various authors

The illustrations are mounted on leaves which have text on verso

Line borders; title within ornamental border; decorated lining-papers

Cupid's failure / Carolyn Wells -- To sigh, yet feel no pain / Thomas Moore -- The débutante / Carolyn Wells -- The petition / James Russell Lowell -- A patient lover / Carolyn Wells -- An explanation / Carolyn Wells -- A possibility / Carolyn Wells -- No! / Tom Masson -- When stars are in the quiet skies / Edward, Lord Lytton -- Love's young dream / Thomas Moore -- Sylvia / Clinton Scollard -- Supreme at that -- Set free / Henry Chapman -- After the play / Tom Masson -- Omens and oracles / Robert, Lord Lytton

The triflers / William Young -- The devout lover / Walter Herries Pollock -- To Jessie's dancing feet / W.D. Ellwanger -- Song from the Persian / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Applied astronomy / Esther B. Tiffany -- The witch in the glass / Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt -- An old tune / Andrew Lang -- Song from "Twelfth night" / William Shakespeare -- Shall I, wasting in despair / George Wither -- Palabras cariñosas / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- ? / Tom Masson -- Song / Sir Charles Sedley -- The reflections of a mirror / Tom Masson

cat Rare 20120328

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