White Stains

CONTENTS PAGE Preface ................................................................................ 5 Dédicace ............................................................................ 17 Prefatory : Sonnet to the Virgin Mary .................................. 19 A Fragment ........................................................................ 21 The Rainbow ...................................................................... 24 With a Copy of “ Poems and Ballads ” ................................. 27 Ad Lydiam, ut secum a Marito fugeret ................................ 28 Contra Conjugium T. B. B. ................................................. 32 A Ballad of Choosing .......................................................... 40 A Jealous Lover ................................................................. 42 Ballade de la Jolie Marion .................................................. 45 At Stockholm ..................................................................... 49 Mathilde ............................................................................ 50 Yet Time to turn ................................................................ 51 All Night ............................................................................ 53 Ode to Venus Callipyge ...................................................... 58 Volupté .............................................................................. 64 Rondels ............................................................................. 66 Ad Lucium ......................................................................... 68 A Paean in the Springtide ................................................... 71 To J. L. D. ......................................................................... 77 A Ballad of Passive Paederasty ........................................... 78