My Lady's hair is sometimes black To match her sable dresses, At others falls about her back In glorious auburn tresses, Yet do not take me to imply She's given to the use of dye.
I like her when she's sweet and small, The daintiest of flowers, I love her when, divinely tall, Above the rest she towers; And yet, as second thoughts suggest, Perhaps a golden mean were best.
Sometimes, a simple rustic maid, She strays through meadows green, Sometimes her beauty is displayed In glittering ball-room scene; More recently I've thought upon Creating her a lady-Don.
This peerless girl of whom I speak I ever worship blindly And sing her praises once a week, If editors are kindly; Alas, this paragon, I own, Exists within my verse alone!
A CHILLING WINTER "DRAFT."--That of The Home-Rule Bill.
[Illustration: 1892 GOING OUT IN A BLIZZARD.]
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Autumn Afternoon at Nazareth House (An), 213
Be-Littler-ing Mr. Gladstone's Majority, 39
"Best Evidence "--how not to get it (The), 257
Bewildered Tourist and the Rival Sirens (The), 50
Conversational Hints for Young Shooters, 159, 180, 190, 204, 205, 220, 240, 245, 261, 265
Diary of an Explorer à la Russe (The), 61
Examination Paper for a Press Candidate, 155
Good Old (Sunday) Times Revived (The), 207
Lady Gay's Selections, 10, 16, 29, 41, 57, 61, 84, 118, 142, 146, 165, 178, 192, 197
Lays of Modern Home, 36, 49, 77, 147, 293
Letters to Abstractions, 120, 124, 137, 168, 241
MAN who Would (The), 225, 229, 253, 285, 304
More Contributions to the Alcoholic Question, 17
New Broom and the Black Peerage (The), 209
New Regulations for the English Police, 186
Our Booking-Office, 34, 48, 58, 77, 106, 178, 214, 219, 234, 249, 257, 269, 281, 300, 305
Sir Carlos Euan Smithez; or, The Insulting Sultan and the High-toned Christian Knight, 38
"Small by Degrees, and beautifully less," 286
Suggestions for New Musical Publications, 282
"To Pay or not to Pay, that is the Bisleyness," 21
"Knocked 'em in the Westmin-is-ter Road," 55